Contact Information
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Biography
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.
Research Interests
Development
Education
Economics, Ph.D., Yale University
Courses Taught
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Center for Global Studies
Associate Professor, Global Studies Programs and Courses
External Links
Recent Publications
Akresh, R., Caruso, G. D., & Thirumurthy, H. (2022). Detailed geographic information, conflict exposure, and health impacts. World Development, 155, [105890]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105890
Akresh, R., Halim, D., & Kleemans, M. (2018). Long-term and Intergenerational Effects of Education: Evidence from School Construction in Indonesia. (NBER Working Paper Series; No. 25265). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w25265
Akresh, R., Bhalotra, S. R., Leone, M., & Osili, U. O. (2017). First and Second Generation Impacts of the Biafran War. (IZA Discussion Paper; No. 10938). https://ssrn.com/abstract=3029809
Akresh, R., Bhalotra, S., Leone, M., & Osili, U. (2017). Hunger Games: First and Second Generation Impacts of the Biafran War. (HiCN Working Papers; No. 254). Households in Conflict Network. https://ideas.repec.org/p/hic/wpaper/254.html
Akresh, R. S., Walque, D. D., & Kazianga, H. (2016). Alternative Cash Transfer Delivery Mechanisms: Impacts on Routine Preventative Health Clinic Visits in Burkina Faso. In S. Edwards, S. Johnson, & D. N. Weil (Eds.), African Successes: Human Capital (Vol. 2, pp. 113-135). University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.3386/w17785