Dr. Mushfiq Mobarak

Biography

Mushfiq Mobarak is the Jerome Kasoff '54 Professor of Management Economics at Yale University, with concurrent appointments in the School of Management and the Department of Economics. He is the faculty director of the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE). Mobarak's ongoing research projects span Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sierra Leone, focusing on field experiments that explore ways to encourage technology adoption and welfare-improving behaviors in developing countries. His work also examines the complexities of scaling development interventions that have shown effectiveness in trials, such as migration subsidies to address seasonal poverty. His research findings have been published in numerous prestigious journals, including Econometrica and Science, and featured in major media outlets like the New York Times, NPR, and BBC. He received the Carnegie Fellowship in 2017 and has collaborated with the government of Bangladesh and local institutions on evidence-based COVID-19 response strategies. His teaching includes a Ph.D. course in development economics and a core MBA course that explores the interactions between business, government, and societal issues like race and public health.

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