Edward Miguel

Edward Miguel
Edward Miguel
Born	1974 (age 49–50)
Nationality	American
Academic career
Field	Development economics; Environmental economics; Health economics; Political economy
Institution	UC Berkeley (2000–present); NBER (2002–present);
Alma mater	Harvard University ; (MA 1998, PhD 2000); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SB 1996);
Doctoral; advisor	Michael Kremer • Abhijit Banerjee • Alberto Alesina
Doctoral; students	Chris Blattman • Manisha Shah • Eva Vivalt • Solomon Hsiang • Suresh Naidu
Awards	Frisch Medal (2024) ; Sloan Fellowship (2005-2007)
	Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Edward "Ted" Andrew Miguel (born 1974) is an American development economist currently serving as the Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the founder and faculty director of the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), a Berkeley-based hub for research on development economics.

Miguel's research focuses on economic development, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. He has pursued projects on the causes and consequences of conflict, the effects of early life health and educational interventions, and research transparency in the social sciences. Alongside Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Dean Karlan, and Michael Kremer, Miguel has pioneered the use of randomized controlled trials and other forms of impact evaluation to test the effects of social interventions in the developing world. In 2019, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer for "their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty", citing Miguel and CEGA as additional actors linking "experimental research to policy change and advice."^[1]