Tereza Varejkova
Tereza Varejkova is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics, Governance & Economics at American University’s School of International Service. She is a development economist and uses microeconometric methods to study how people respond to environmental, technological, and institutional change, and how those responses shape its effects on economic development in low- and middle-income countries.
Current projects examine who gains from large-scale irrigation infrastructure in South Africa, how the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami affected children’s education in Indonesia, how extreme weather in the United States shapes Mexican migration, what drives adoption of improved soil fertility technologies by farmers in Burkina Faso, and what keeps young job seekers in Egypt from following through on job opportunities. Her work draws on large-scale population censuses and remote-sensing data.
Varejkova holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland and an M.A. in Economics and a B.A. in Social Sciences from Sciences Po Paris. Prior research experience includes the Center for Evaluation and Development (C4ED) at the University of Mannheim and J-PAL Europe.
Current Projects
- Large-Scale Irrigation and Water Use Inequality in South Africa
- Investing in the Future After a Disaster: Human Capital Accumulation after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
- The Cross-Border Transmission of Climate Risk: U.S. Extreme Weather and Mexican Migration
- Interoperability Between Mobile Money Providers in Tanzania
- Moral Suasion in the Field: Leveraging the Language of Promising for Job Search in Egypt
- Adoption of Capital- and Labor-Intensive Technologies to Improve Agricultural Outcomes: Evidence from a Dissemination Program in Burkina Faso
- Water Allocation Under Farmer Heterogeneity
