Oeindrila Dube

Oeindrila Dube is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development, and an assistant professor in politics and economics at New York University. She holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University, a M.Phil in Economics from the University of Oxford, and a B.A. in Public Policy from Stanford University. She also received the Rhodes Scholarship in 2002. 

Dube’s research focuses on the political economy of conflict and development. One strand seeks to understand the economic causes and consequences of civil war. Focusing on Colombia, she has analyzed how international price shocks to agricultural and natural resource exports have affected civil war dynamics and assessed how U.S. military aid affects political violence and electoral outcomes. She has also investigated how armed conflict, in turn, affects economic activity such as firm investment. Her current work in this area also seeks to understand how changes in U.S. gun legislation have affected drug-war violence in Mexico, and how local-level reconciliation efforts affect poverty and violence in West Africa. A second strand of her research focuses on access to basic services in post-conflict nations. In this area, her current work uses randomized evaluation to examine how institutions and incentives, financial and non-financial, affect access to health services in Sierra Leone. 

More information about Dube’s work can be found at: http://politics.as.nyu.edu/object/oeindriladube.html