Alan de Brauw is a Senior Research Fellow in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division. He has a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California at Davis; prior to joining IFPRI, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Williams College. His research has focused on understanding the evolution of rural labor markets in a developing economy and the effects of migration on source households; he has also conducted randomized and non-randomized evaluations of conditional cash transfer programs and agricultural interventions. His work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Development Economics, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, the British Journal of Nutrition, and Economic Development and Cultural Change.