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Sarah Baird
Sarah Baird is an Associate Professor of Global Health and Economics in the Department of Global Health in the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. Dr Baird is a development economist whose research focuses on the microeconomics of health and education in developing countries with an emphasis on Sub-Saharan Africa. Her research has been featured in a variety of media outlets including The Economist and the New York Times. She received her Ph.D. in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California Berkeley in 2007.
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Long term recovery of the Indian economy depends on reforms
The Indian economy has been facing challenges in the form of sluggish growth, high inflation, and rising fiscal and current account deficits. This column highlights trends in the economic conditions, and outlines policy actions and reforms needed to put the economy back on track.
Cash transfers and adult labour outcomes in developing countries
The basic economic model of labour supply predicts that when an adult receives an unexpected cash windfall they should work less and earn less. This underlies concerns that cash transfers will undermine work ethics and make recipients lazy. In this post, Baird et al. discuss how missing markets, price effects, and dynamic and general equilibrium effects can make this intuition misleading in low- and middle-income countries.