EA Talks

An introduction to global priorities research | Rossa O'Keeffe-O'Donovan

June 29, 2021
EA Talks
An introduction to global priorities research | Rossa O'Keeffe-O'Donovan
Show Notes

Rossa gives a high-level introduction to global priorities research (GPR). He discusses GPI's research plans, and which other organisations are doing GPR. He also offers some thoughts about what students could do to find out more about GPR.

Rossa O'Keeffe-O'Donovan is a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Economics at Nuffield College and the Assistant Director of the Global Priorities Institute at the University of Oxford. He completed my PhD in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania in May 2017. Before Penn, Rossa completed the M.Sc. in Economics for Development at the University of Oxford.

His main research interests are in empirical microeconomics:

  • Development economics
  • Networks and peer effects
  • Public goods
  • Structural estimation

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