Christopher Udry

Christopher Udry is the Robert E. and Emily King Professor at Northwestern University. He studies a variety of topics in development economics, like technological change, risk and financial markets, gender and households, property rights, psychological well-being and economic decision-making, and a range of other aspects of rural development. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Board Member of Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is the co-founder and co-director of the Global Poverty Research Lab.