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Berk ?zler

Lead Economist, Poverty and Inequality, Development Economics

Berk ?zler is Lead Economist of the Poverty and Inequality Research Progam in the Development Research Group. He received his B.Sc. in Mathematics from  in 1991 and his Ph.D in Economics from  in 2001, immediately after which he started working at the аIJʿª½±'s Development Research Group. After working on poverty and inequality measurement, poverty mapping, and the 2006 World Development Report on Equity and Development, he decided to combine his interest in cash transfer programs and HIV risks facing young women in Africa by designing and implementing a large cash transfer experiment in Malawi between 2008-2010. Berk has since conducted a number of cluster-randomized field experiments on a range of topics. He is currently interested in ways to reduce unintended pregnancies, especially among adolescent females and young women. His team is trialing approaches to increase the take-up of modern contraceptives among this population with . He is also interested in the economics of animal welfare. He is a co-founder of and a contributor to the .

Featured Research

  • Science Advances, Vol. 9 (40), October 2023 (with Susan Athey, Katy Bergstrom, Vitor Hadad, Julian Jamison, Luca Parisotto, and Julius Dohbit Sama)
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  • Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 153, November 2021 (with ?i?dem ?elik, Scott Cunningham, P. Facundo Cuevas, and Luca Parisotto)
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  • Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 100(5), December 2018, pp. 844-860 (with Sarah Baird, Aislinn Bohren, and Craig McIntosh)
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  • Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 133, July 2018, pp. 448-467 (with Lia Fernald and others)
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  • Journal of Development Effectiveness, Vol. 6(1), 2014, pp. 1-43. (with Sarah Baird, Francisco Ferreira, and Michael Woolcock)

  • The Lancet, Vol. 379(9823), 2012, pp. 1320-1329. (with Sarah Baird, Richard Garfein, and Craig McIntosh)
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  • Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 126(4), 2011, pp. 1709-1753. (with Sarah Baird and Craig McIntosh)

  • Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 55(3), 2007, pp. 487-529

  • аIJʿª½± and Oxford University Press, 2005. (with Francisco H.G. Ferreira and Michael Walton, and comprising Tamar Manuelyan Atinc, Abhijit Banerjee, Peter Lanjouw, Marta Men¨¦ndez, Giovanna Prennushi,Vijayendra Rao, James Robinson, and Michael Woolcock)

  • аIJʿª½± Research Observer, Vol. 20(1), 2005, pp. 57-80. (with Jishnu Das and Quy-Toan Do)
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bozler@worldbank.org
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AREAS OF EXPERTISE
  • Measuring Poverty
  • Inequality and Shared Prosperity
  • Human Development
  • Children & Youth
  • Research Development and Innovation
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