Jeffrey Pagel
Jeffrey Pagel is a Research Officer at the Department of Geography at LSE. His research uses applied microeconometrics with geospatial data to understand the dynamics between development and natural resources.
Background
Jeffrey holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Barcelona and a MSc in Applied Economics from Marquette University. During the Fall 2019, he was a visiting PhD student at the Oxford Department of International Development and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative. Additionally, Jeffrey has worked as an ethical and project evaluation consultant for Health Media Labs in Washington, D.C., which focuses on social & behavioral research in public health, HIV/AIDS, children, education, refugee & migration, WASH, agriculture and M&E.
Research interests
- Development Economics
- Environmental and Resource Economics
- Policy Evaluation
Research
Research - 2024
This study examines the National Greening Program (NGP) in the Philippines, a major tree planting initiative involving more than 80,500 localised projects that have directly or indirectly generated hundreds of thousands of jobs. Read more
Research - 2022
In investigating how national development policy might have negative effects on human health through altering local ecology, this paper assesses how a policy change in the Philippines that favoured the gold mining sector has impacted on cases of malaria. Read more
