Jessica Goldberg

I have moved to the University of Maryland. You can find my new website here.

Jessica is a job market candidate in the joint PhD program in Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research interests are in development and labor economics.

Curriculum Vitae

Dissertation

• Kwacha Gonna Do? Experimental Evidence about Labor Supply in Rural Malawi - current draft (Job Market Paper)
• The Lesser of Two Evils: The Roles of Self-Interest and Impatience in Consumption Decisions - current draft
• Identification Strategy: A Field Experiment on Dynamic Incentives in Rural Credit Markets (With Dean Yang and Xavier Gine) - current draft

In Progress

• The Costs of Isolation: A Transportation Experiment in Rural Malawi - overview
• Sources of Time Preferences and Time-Inconsistency: Evidence from the Field - overview

Publications

The Effects of Education on Labour Market Outcomes. Goldberg, Jessica and Jeffrey Smith. In Edward Fiske and Helen Ladds, eds. Handbook of Education Finance and Policy. Routledge. 2008.