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Dev Patel

Incoming Assistant Professor of Economics & Environment and Society, Fall 2026
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Research Interests Development and environmental economics, Climate change adaptation, Gender, Economics of Education

Biography

Dev Patel was a Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics at the Center for History and Economics at Harvard, where he received his PhD in 2024, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at J-PAL at MIT. In 2026, he will start as an Assistant Professor of Economics & Environment and Society in Brown's Department of Economics and Institute at Brown for Environment and Society.