Manisha Shah
Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy
Manisha Shah is a Chancellor’s Professor in Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California Berkeley. She is an economist who works in low and middle income settings to better understand which policies and interventions increase human capital investment in children and adolescents.
She has also written several papers on the economics of sex markets in order to learn how more effective policies and programs can be deployed to slow the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections.
Shah is currently leading various impact evaluations and randomized controlled trials in Tanzania, Uganda, and India. She has also worked extensively in Indonesia, Ecuador and Mexico. Her research has been supported by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the World Bank, and the National Science Foundation, among others. She is an editor at Journal of Health Economics, an Associate Editor at The Review of Economics and Statistics, and serves on the Editorial Board for the American Economic Review.
Dr. Shah received her PhD from UC Berkeley in 2006, her MSc in Development Economics from the London School of Economics in 1997, and her undergraduate degree in Economics and Development Studies from UC Berkeley in 1995.
