Tanveet Suri is a Research Fellow at CERP. She is the Louis E. Seley Professor of Applied Economics and Associate Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is a development economist, with a regional focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Her research focuses on a variety of applied economics issues in sub-Saharan Africa. She uses microeconomic and econometric models to examine the efficiency of household behavior and to understand subsequent policy implications. In the field, she often spends time collecting her own survey data. Her research includes analysing the costs and benefits that households face when deciding whether to use rural seed technologies in Kenya, the extent of risk-pooling insurance mechanisms in rural Kenya, and the trade-offs between child labour and schooling in Ghana. Her ongoing projects investigate the adoption of water technologies in rural Kenya and the role of credit contracts in these decisions. Dr Tavneet is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an affiliate of BREAD, J-PAL, and CEPR; and co-director of the Agriculture Research Program at the International Growth Center. Dr Tavneet holds a PhD from Yale University, and a MA in International and Development Economics, a MPhil in Economics, and a BA in Economics from Trinity College, Cambridge University.