Edward Miguel

Edward Miguel is the Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 2000. He is also Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Effective Global Action and co-founded BITSS, WGAPE, PacDev, and the Berkeley Opportunity Lab.

His research spans African economic development, focusing on the economic causes of violence, ethnic divisions, health-environment-productivity linkages, and social science research transparency. He has conducted fieldwork in Kenya, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and India, with over 120 publications cited 45,000+ times.

• 2024 Frisch Medal (Econometric Society)
• 2005 Sloan Fellowship
• 2021 ASA Outstanding Publication Award

Recent work includes meta-analyses of deworming, climate-conflict links, and open science practices. He has advised over 140 doctoral committees and co-authored three books, including Economic Gangsters and Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research.