Bryce Steinberg

IJC Assistant Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs, Brown University

Bryce Millett Steinberg received her PhD in economics from Harvard in 2015, and her AB from Brown in 2009. Her work focuses on health and education in the developing world, particularly the effect of market forces and government programs on families’ decisions to invest in human capital.

Recent work by Bryce Steinberg

Unintended consequences: How workfare programmes may fuel school dropouts in India

Despite evidence of increasing household wages, anti-poverty schemes in India can have an adverse effect by lowering human capital investment

Labour Markets

Manisha Shah Bryce Steinberg

Published 13.01.21

The effect of workfare programmes on educational attainment: Evidence from India

A better understanding of ‘price effects’ is needed to improve targeting and reduce trade-offs to education

Public Economics

Manisha Shah Bryce Steinberg

Published 05.11.15