The Basics:

For the past five years, I’ve served as a researcher at Innovations for Poverty Action, working with research and policy partners to develop rigorous empirical evidence on a range of subjects. I also serve as director of the Poverty Measurement initiative, which develops and supports rigorous, cost-effective ways for researchers, businesses, and non-profits understand the economic lives of their clients including the PPI.

Before that, I was Senior Research & Evaluation Manager at Kiva.org, focusing on how or when access to subsidized credit can help to alleviate poverty. Before that I finished the PhD in Agriculture & Resource Economics at UC Berkeley. My research has focused on various approaches to measuring individual and community welfare, and how that informs survey design and impact evaluation.

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Publications:

• Egger, D., et al. "Falling living standards during the COVID-19 crisis: Quantitative evidence from nine developing countries". Science Advances 7.6 (2021): eabe0997.

• Solís Arce, J.S., Warren, S.S., Meriggi, N.F. et al. “COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in low- and middle-income countries”. Nature Medicine 27, 1385–1394 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01454-y

Working Papers:

• Can Remote Survey Methods Yield Nationally Representative Samples in LMICs? A cross-national analysis of pandemic-era studies

• Assessing survey methods for measuring vaccine acceptance anduptake in 14 African countries

• Do Asset Transfers Reduce Vulnerability? Experimental Evidence in a Frisch Demand System
  (Job Market Paper)

• Modeling the Welfare Effect of Asset Transfers: An Experiment in South Sudan
  (with Ethan Ligon)

• Randomized Comparisons of Cash & Asset Transfers in South Sudan
  (with Reajul Chowdhury, Munshi Sulaiman, & Ethan Ligon)

Contact Me:

email: elliottmcollins@gmail.com OR elliottc@kiva.org

Twitter: @elliottmcollins