Dr. Garance Genicot
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Georgetown University, Washington DC
Dr. Garance Genicot is an associate professor in the Department of Economics, at Georgetown University. Dr. Genicot's academic focus is on development economics and contract theory. Her research covers topics related to inequality, social networks, gender, labor and credit contacts, and informal insurance. She teaches development economics at the graduate and undergraduate levels.
Prior to joining Georgetown University in 2003, she was an assistant professor of Economics at the University of California at Irvine (1999-2003). She received her B.A. in Economics from the University of Liege, Belgium in 1995 and her Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University in 1999. She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER), a Fellow at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD, a board member of the Theoretical
Research in Development Economics (ThReD), a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and an associate editor of the Journal of Development Economics