On March 27, 2023, Professor Seema Jayachandran delivered the Economics Department’s “Department-Wide Lecture.” Jayachandran discussed recent research initiatives that study how conditional cash transfers and other tools can protect the environment without exacerbating poverty.
Jayachandran is a Professor of Economics and Public Affairs with Princeton’s Economics Department and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA). She is also the director of Princeton’s Research Program in Development Economics.