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Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Tufts University
314 Braker Hall
Medford, MA
kelsey.jack at tufts dot edu
Kelsey Jack is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Tufts University and a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER. Prior to joining the faculty at Tufts, Kelsey was a Post-doctoral Associate at MIT, with the Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative at J-PAL. She holds a PhD from Harvard and a BA from Princeton.
Kelsey’s research explores incentive based approaches to encourage the private provision of public goods with a focus on the environment. She combines environmental economics, contract theory, development economics and behavioral economics to examine individual decision-making in settings where decisions create social externalities. Her research uses field experiments to test economic theory in developing countries including Malawi, Zambia, Bolivia and Indonesia.