Amanda Dahlstrand

PhD Student

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v.a.dahlstrand-rudin@lse.ac.uk

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Biography

Amanda is a PhD candidate in Economics, focusing on labor economics. She has research interests also in development, organizational and health economics. She has co-authored papers on the long-run effects of infrastructure and property rights in urban Africa, and on how performance pay interacts with national culture using firm experiments in different countries. Prior to the PhD, she worked as a Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. Amanda holds a MA in Development Economics from Yale University and a BA in PPE from Oxford University.

Amanda Dahlstrand's current research interests are:

Development Economics
Labour Economics
Health Economics
Public Policy

Latest

Journal article

Planning Ahead for Better Neighborhoods: Long-Run Evidence from Tanzania

01 July 2021

Neeraj Baruah, Amanda Dahlstrand-Rudin, Guy Michaels, Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, Ferdinand Rauch and Tanner Regan

Africa’s demand for urban housing is soaring, even as it faces a proliferation of slums. In this setting, can modest infrastructure investments in greenfield areas where people subsequently build their own houses facilit... Read more...

STICERD Work in Progress Seminars

What Makes a Good Doctor? Evidence from Random Patient-Physician Matching in Sweden

24 January 2020

Amanda Dahlstrand-Rudin (Department of Economics, LSE)

STICERD Work in Progress Seminars

Productivity of digital doctors: Evidence from quasi-random allocation in Sweden

22 February 2019

Amanda Dahlstrand-Rudin (Department of Economics, LSE)

SERC Discussion Papers

Planning Ahead for Better Neighborhoods: Long Run Evidence from Tanzania

27 September 2017

Neeraj Baruah, Amanda Dahlstrand-Rudin, Guy Michaels, Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, Ferdinand Rauch and Tanner Regan

What are the long run consequences of planning and providing basic infrastructure in neighborhoods, where people build their own homes? We study "Sites and Services" projects implemented in seven Tanzanian cities during ... Read more...