Valerie Mueller joined DSG in September 2008 to study the roles of various rural-urban linkages on investment and growth. Prior to joining IFPRI, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Earth Institute at Columbia University and the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami. She is interested in research topics covering the long-term consequences of climate variability on household welfare and the role of behavior in mitigating environmental health risks in developing countries.
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Dr. Mueller earned her B.S. in Environmental Economics and Policy from the University of California, Berkeley (1998), and both her M.S. and Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park (2001 and 2005, respectively).
