About me

How do we sustain evidence-backed policymaking if a major national household survey that provides critical outcome variables is discontinued or disrupted due to funding cuts, rising nonresponse, or political instability? Driven by this question, I am examining new approaches for combining information from multiple data sources for finite population inference. My broader goal is to ensure that we have carefully-validated alternatives for producing the information we need to sustain evidence-driven development, especially in contexts where national household surveys are discontinued. At the World Bank and the Overseas Development Institute, and through my PhD studies, I have co-authored national poverty assessments, national development plans, and statistical publications, and helped build the policy analysis capacity of more than 750 government officials. DM for research collaborations if you are excited about combining data from multiple sources to draw some conclusions about a finite population.