Adrienne Lucas

Adrienne Lucas is a Professor and Department Chair of the economics department in the Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Faculty Affiliate of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), Non-resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development (CGD) and a Research Network Member of Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA). She is a development economist specialising in the economics of education and disease. Her current research focuses on the importance of information in school choice decisions, using existing school system personnel and resources to increase student learning, and external validity across contexts. She has published research on malaria, free primary education, HIV/AIDS, secondary school choice, the return to school quality, teacher incentives and improving early primary school literacy.

Prior to joining the University of Delaware, she was an assistant professor of economics at Wellesley College. She received her PhD and AM in Economics from Brown University and her BA in Economics from Wesleyan University