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Garrison Schlauch
Garrison is a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at EPIC working for Harris Assistant Professor Fiona Burlig and her colleagues on a variety of energy and development economics projects. He earned Bachelors in Economics and Mathematics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2018. While at Santa Barbara, Garrison co-authored The Path to an Economics PhD with Dick Startz and worked on several research teams studying health incentives, gender disparities in hiring, and educational inequality. After graduating, he taught secondary mathematics in an underserved community in his native Sacramento. During this time, he became deeply interested in addressing inequality on a large scale through economic research, especially as it relates to energy and environmental policy.
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Examining Covid-19 travel restrictions in developing countries
At the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the developing world took many of the same policy steps as developed nations to contain the spread, including lockdowns. This article uses evidence from India to show that domestic travel bans may actually have increased Covid-19 cases in developing countries with large urban-rural migrant populations. While travel bans are in place, spread is temporarily stopped, but when travel is finally permitted, migrants return home possibly carrying many more infections than if they had been allowed to leave early.
