Chris Heitzig is a final-year economics PhD student at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). His research focuses on labour, trade, and structural transformation. He also explores how computational methods can be used to answer questions in these sub-fields.
Before starting his PhD at IDS, he spent more than three years at the Brookings Institution, where he managed a $1.5 million grant funding research into youth employment and structural transformation in Africa. He also spent two years at the World Bank, where he implemented social protection programs and designed impact evaluations to measure their effects. He has lived and worked on four continents, and has consulted for the United Nations, the FCDO, Stanford University, Dartmouth College, the International Finance Corporation, Oxfam, ActionAid, and MarketShare Associates. He holds an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford and a BA in Economics from Saint John’s University. Chris is supervised by Amrita Saha, Jing Gu, and Sambit Bhattacharyya.
Recent Publications:
Labour Market Effects of India’s Termination from the United States’ GSP – Institute of Development Studies
