Scholars / UChicago Scholar
Oeindrila Dube
Philip K. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies, Harris Public Policy; Director of BFI Initiative for the Study of Gender in the Economy
Oeindrila Dube is the Philip K. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies, and a faculty member in the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts. Professor Dube studies poverty and conflict in societies around the world, with a focus on Africa and Latin America. Drawing on tools from economics and political science, she has examined how economic shocks shape incentives to engage in violence, and how societies can reconcile in the aftermath...