Kathleen Beegle is a Lead Economist in the Poverty, Inequality and Human Development Team of the World Bank's Development Research Group. Her research experience includes the study of poverty, labor, economic shocks, and methodological studies on household survey data collection in developing countries. She is co-leading the new World Bank Center for Research on Women and Jobs. She has widely in refereed journals, as well as co-leading flagship World Bank reports and co-authoring chapters in books. She is a regular blogger for the World Bank¡¯s . While at the World Bank, she was the Human Development Program Leader for Ghana, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, based in Accra, Ghana (2014-2018) and a Lead Economist with the Gender Group (2018-2021). She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Michigan State University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at RAND. She is an IZA Research Fellow and on the IZA . She has taught at Georgetown University.
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