Jess Rudder

Jess Rudder is an Assistant Professor in the Applied Economics Department at Oregon State University. Her main areas of research are agriculture, small firms, digital services, and input markets. She often collaborates with NGOs and uses a combination of administrative data and surveys from randomized evaluations to study economic behavior. She has a PhD from the University of California Davis, and a master’s in public administration from the University of Washington. Prior to starting at Oregon State, she was a postdoctoral scholar in the Development Innovation Lab at the University of Chicago.