Michelle Rao

PhD Student

Expertise: development economics, political economy

Email:

m.rao3@lse.ac.uk

Room:

SAL 3.12 A

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Website

Links:

Economics of Environment and Energy
Development
Department of Economics

Biography

Michelle is a PhD candidate in Economics at the London School of Economics, with research interests in development economics, political economy and gender. Before starting the PhD, she completed an MSc in Economics for Development from the University of Oxford and a BSc in Economics from LSE. She has held research and policy positions at the World Bank and the UN.

Latest

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Program evaluations and Policy Spending: Evidence from Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America

11 July 2024

Michelle Rao (LSE)

This paper studies the relationship between causal estimates of program impact and subsequent spending on the evaluated programs. I construct dataset of 128 program evaluations of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin Amer... Read more...

Journal article

Men are from Mars, and women too: a Bayesian meta-analysis of overconfidence experiments

01 June 2022

Oriana Bandiera, Nidhi Parekh, Barbara Petrongolo and Michelle Rao

Gender differences in self-confidence could explain women's under-representation in high-income occupations and glass-ceiling effects. We draw lessons from the economic literature via a survey of experts and a Bayesian h... Read more...

CEP discussion papers

Men are from Mars, and women too: a Bayesian meta-analysis of overconfidence experiments

17 December 2021

Oriana Bandiera, Nidhi Parekh, Barbara Petrongolo and Michelle Rao

Gender differences in self-confidence could explain women's under representation in high-income occupations and glass-ceiling effects. We draw lessons from the economic literature via a survey of experts and a Bayesian h... Read more...