Raymond Guiteras

Assistant Professor

Biography

Assistant Professor Raymond Guiteras received his PhD from the Massachusetts Insitute of Technology in 2008 and joined the faculty at the University of Maryland in the same year. His research interests include environmental economics, development economics and applied microeconometrics. His research papers to date have studied the impact of climate change on Indian agriculture, the benefits of a sanitation program in India, and the distributional effects of a compulsory schooling in the United Kingdom. Current research projects include a study of the impacts of climate change-induced changes in flood patterns in Bangladesh and a series of randomized trials designed to measure the willingness to pay for clean water in northern Ghana.

Areas of Interest:
environmental economics, development economics and applied microeconometrics

Working Papers

Date	Title
September 1, 2009	The Impact of Climate Change on Indian Agriculture mimeo
July 1, 2008	Estimating quantile treatment effects in a regression discontinuity design mimeo

Teaching - Fall 2009

Course	Syllabus	WWW
ECON 416: Theory of Economic Development
ECON 626: Empirical Microeconomics
ECON 848: Workshop in International Development, and Comparative Economics

Teaching - Spring 2009

Course	Syllabus	WWW
ECON 416: Theory of Economic Development

Teaching - Fall 2008

Course	Syllabus	WWW
ECON 626: Empirical Microeconomics

Tydings Hall 3147C

3105 Tydings Hall
Department of Economics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Phone: 301-405-3480

Office Hours:
Tuesday
2:00 pm-3:00 pm

Thursday
11:30 am-12:30 pm

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