Tamara McGavock

Associate Professor

Offices, Departments, or Centers: Economics , Education Studies , Global Development Studies (GDS) ,

On leave 2024 - 2025 academic year. Tamara McGavock, Assistant Professor, received her B.A. in Economics from Wellesley College and her Ph.D. and M.A. from Cornell University. Her teaching and research areas are development economics, economics of gender and the family, and microeconomic theory. She has done field and survey work in China, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, and Liberia, and has consulted for the World Bank and Catholic Relief Services. Before graduate school, she was a Senior Analyst for an economic consulting firm in Boston specializing in economic research for large legal cases. See personal website for her curriculum vitae and for more information about her research and teaching.

Education and Degrees

Ph.D. Economics, Cornell University, 2016

M.A. Economics, Cornell University, 2015

B.A. Economics, Wellesley College, 2008