Berk Özler is Lead Economist of the Poverty and Inequality Research Progam in the Development Research Group. He received his B.Sc. in Mathematics from Boğaziçi University in 1991 and his Ph.D in Economics from Cornell University in 2001, immediately after which he started working at the World Bank'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 an adaptive experiment in Cameroon. He is also interested in the economics of animal welfare. He is a co-founder of and a contributor to the Development Impact blog.
The World Bank and Oxford University Press, 2005. (with Francisco H.G. Ferreira and Michael Walton, and comprising Tamar Manuelyan Atinc, Abhijit Banerjee, Peter Lanjouw, Marta Menéndez, Giovanna Prennushi,Vijayendra Rao, James Robinson, and Michael Woolcock)
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