Associate Professor of Economics
Grinnell College
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Tamara McGavock is a labor and development economist. She is an Associate Professor at Grinnell College and an Invited Researcher with J-PAL. She does both experimental and quasi-experimental work on intra-household allocation and traditional social norms around gender and caretaking. She is especially interested in combining high-quality quantitative methods with insights from ethnography and other qualitative work, in addition to experimenting with survey methodologies such as high-frequency phone surveys on time use and information/behavioral nudges to promote men’s involvement in childcare and unpaid work.
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