Applied Microeconomics Seminar with Anton Heil (LSE)

Anton Heil is a PhD candidate in economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Prior to undertaking his doctoral dissertation he worked as a research manager at the LSE and as a consultant at the World Bank in the Latin America and Carbbean Office of the Chief Economist. He is currently on the job market.

His research is in Development and Environmental Economics. In particular, he studies social protection in low-and middle-income countries and the role of occupational variety in economic development.

Anton Heil's website

He will present a paper, joint with Clare Balboni, Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Clement Mazet-Sonilhac, Munshi Sulaiman, and Yifan Wang, at the next Applied Microeconomics Seminar on the topic:

Weathering Poverty (read abstract, PDF 42 KB)