Richard Akresh is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on children's health and education. He has explored the impact of conflict on human capital and health for young children as well as the long-term and intergenerational consequences of exposure to war as a child. He has conducted randomized control trials of alternative ways to deliver cash transfers and early childhood development interventions to poor households in Africa to improve children's health and education. He is also interested in questions about the intergenerational transmission of shocks, household structure, and intra-household bargaining. He is a Research Associate of the NBER, a BREAD Research Affiliate, a Research Fellow at IZA, and a Senior Affiliate at HiCN.

Richard received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 2004. He joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in January 2004 and became a Research Fellow in October 2006.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10938
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (2), 488 - 531
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10330
Richard Akresh, German Daniel Caruso, Harsha Thirumurthy
published in: World Development, 2022, 155, 105890
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6321
published in: NBER African Successes: Human Capital, volume 2. 2016. Editors, S. Edwards, S. Johnson, D. Weil, University of Chicago Press.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6265
Richard Akresh, Joyce J Chen, Charity Moore
published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2016, 64(4), 661-696
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6194
published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (3), 273-277
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5558
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99 (2), 330-340.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5326
published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2012, 61 (1), 157-186
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3532
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2011, 46(3), 647-667
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2951
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44(2), 536-563
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2359
published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2011, 59(4), 777-810
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1471
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44(4), 976-997
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