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Menno Pradhan is a Full Professor of Project and Program Evaluation for International Development at the Department of Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) and Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA). He has held this position since 2007. Additionally, he serves as a co-academic director of the Amsterdam Institute for International Development and a research fellow at the Tinbergen Institute. His research focuses on basic education, early childhood development, community empowerment, and health, employing empirical methods such as household surveys and impact evaluations.
Teaching includes courses on International Trade and Development Economics (BSc) and Microeconomics for Development (MSc). He has supervised 5 PhD theses, though student names are not listed here.
Professional Contributions include roles at the World Bank in Indonesia and Washington, and prior academic positions at Cornell University and the VU. He has led projects such as the Innovative Partnership for Universal Sustainable Health and contributed to policy research via datasets like the Health Insurance in Kenya study (2019-2021).
Awards & Grants: Received the MFS II Evaluations at Country Level - Indonesia grant (2012).
Research Themes: Over 100 publications span topics like education quality, health equity, and poverty measurement. Recent work addresses pandemic impacts, digital health interventions, and rural infrastructure effects.
