Rebecca Dizon-Ross is a development economist with an interest in human capital, and is currently a Visiting Associate Professor of Economics at UCSB whilst on leave from the University of Chicago. Much of her current work is on the demand-side, aiming to understand the determinants of households’ investments in health and education.Â
Before joining Booth, Dizon-Ross was a Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics at Harvard University and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University and a B.A. (summa cum laude) from Harvard University. Prior to graduate school, she worked as an analyst at McKinsey & Co.