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Margaret MacLeod

Margaret MacLeod is a third-year student in the Ph.D. program in Sustainable Development. Her research focuses on human capital formation and transfer in developing economies, specifically, education as well as maternal and infant health. Drawing from the field of Labor Economics, her methodological focus has been on randomized and quasi- experiments.

Margaret holds a B.S. from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and has studied at Nanzan University and the Delhi School of Economics. She speaks French, Japanese, Hindi, and Gujarati.

Personal webpage: www.columbia.edu/~mgm2115