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Leigh Linden
International Affairs Building, Room 1306
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics
Phone: 212-854-1674
leigh.linden@sipa.columbia.edu
ll2240@columbia.edu
Biography:
Leigh Linden is an assistant professor in both the School of International and Public Affairs and the Department of Economics.
A development and labor economist with an interest in poverty and income inequality in both developing and developed economies, his current research focuses on the welfare of children and the functioning of democratic institutions. Methodologically, he specializes in evaluation research and in particular, randomized evaluations. His current projects include evaluations of a number of education programs in India, Colombia, and the United States as well as ongoing research in the Indian political system.
Professor Linden received a BA in economics and a BS in mathematics from the University of Texas, Austin (1997) and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2004). He joined Columbia in the summer of 2004.
Research Interests: Applied Microeconomics, Child Labor, Risk, Development, Development Economics, Education