I am a doctoral candidate studying health economics in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard School of Public Health.
My research is on behavioral responses to public policy interventions and draws on the fields of labor, health, and development economics, as well as social epidemiology. My current research stream is focused on economic aspects of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, with projects on: labor supply responses to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in settings with slack labor markets; economic spillover effects of ART on households and communities; and the impact of unconditional cash grants on reproductive health and HIV risk. More broadly, I am interested in understanding behaviors at the nexus of health, work, and human capital development.
I am a research assistant to David Cutler at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a graduate student fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and Harvard Global Health Institute. I have an A.B. in Social Studies from Harvard College (2005). I can be reached at jbor@hsph.harvard.edu.
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