Anja Benshaul-Tolonen
Anja Benshaul-Tolonen is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Barnard College, Columbia University. She works on economic development. Her recent work focuses on the local welfare effects of natural resource extraction in Africa, including employment, women’s empowerment, health and criminality. She teaches Development Economics, and Women in Development Economics at Barnard College. Prof. Tolonen is an external research member at Oxford Center for Analysis of Resource Rich Economies (OxCarre), UNESCO has funded her research and she has consultancy experience from the World Bank. She received her Ph.D. from University of Gothenburg in 2015 and has been a visiting researcher at University of Oxford and University of California at Berkeley.
Additional information can be found on her web site.
CDEP projects:
Assymetric Information in the Household: Fathers and Child Welfare
Schooling, Stigma and Periods Among Adolescent Girls in Eastern Africa