Dev Patel, a Prize Fellow at Harvard and incoming IBES professor, spoke on this podcast about his research measuring floods, their impacts, and the adaptation decisions of households.
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Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
Dev Patel
Assistant Professor of Economics & Environment and Society
Biography
Dev Patel is a Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics at Harvard's Center for History and Economics and a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). He will join IBES as Assistant Professor of Economics & Environment and Society in July 2026.