University of California, Santa Barbara
B. Kelsey Jack is an Associate Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of Santa Barbara, California. Her research is at the intersection of environmental and development economics, with a focus on how individuals, households, and communities decide to use natural resources and provide public goods. Much of her research uses field experiments to test theory and new policy innovations. She has done research in numerous countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and have ongoing work in South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Niger. She is co-chair the Environment and Energy sector at J-PAL and directs the Poverty Alleviation group at emLab. She joined the Bren School after seven years as an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Tufts University and a postdoc position at MIT, with the Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative (ATAI) at J-PAL. She holds a bachelors degree in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University and a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University. Before graduate school, she spent two years in Lao PDR working for IUCN.
