#  Melissa Dell 

HEEP Faculty Fellow

Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at Harvard University

 

 

 



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 email <melissadell@fas.harvard.edu> 

 laptop\_windows [Bio Site](http://scholar.harvard.edu/dell/) 

 

 



 

 Melissa Dell is a professor in the Economics Department and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research focuses on long-run economic development, primarily in Latin America and Asia. She has examined the impacts of weather on economic growth and is currently conducting research about the long-run effects of agrarian reform and agricultural technology investments in Mexico and East Asia. She received a PhD in Economics from MIT, a masters degree in Economics from Oxford, and a BA from Harvard College.



 

 

 





 

 

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