CV

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Education

Ph.D. in Applied Economics and Management, Cornell Univeristy, 2019 - Present 

M.S. in Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 2022 

B.A. in Economics and French & Francophone Studies, 2019


Publications

Rohr, J. R., Sack, A., Bakhoum, S., Barrett, C. B., Lopez-Carr D., Chamberlin, A. J., Civitello, D. J., Diatta, C., Doruska, M. J., De Leo, G., Haggerty, C. J. E., J Jones, I. J., Jouanard, N., Lund, A. J., Ly, A. T., Ndione, R. A., Remais, J. V., Riveau, G., Schacht, A., Seck, M., Senghor, S., Sokolow, S. H., and Wolfe, C. (2023). A planetary health innovation for disease, food, and water challenges in Africa. Nature 619, 782-787. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06313-z.

Doruska, M. J., Barrett, C. B., and Rohr, J. R. (2024). Modeling how and why aquatic vegetation removal can free rural households from poverty-disease traps. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 121 (52), e2411838121, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2411838121.


Working Papers

Molly J. Doruska, Christopher B. Barrett, Samba Mbaye, and Jason R. Rohr. “Estimating Demand When Turning a Public Bad into an Impure Public Good”

 

Kira Lanker, Laksmi Iyer, Faraz Usmani, James Allen IV, Molly J. Doruska, Samba Mbaye, Amina Sylla, Binta Sow, Jason R. Rohr, and Christopher B. Barrett. “Do private incentives crowd out public good donations? Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment”  



Works in Progress

Molly J. Doruska and Brian Dillon. “Changes in Surface Water Availability and Adaptation by Herders in Sub-Saharan Africa”

 

Molly J. Doruska. “Flood Risk and Differential Firm Investment: Evidence from Dakar, Senegal”

 

Christopher B. Barrett, Jason R. Rohr, Laksmi Iyer, Faraz Usmani, Molly J. Doruska, Nicolas Jouanard, Gilles Riveau, Samba Mbaye, Doudou Sow, Bruno Senghor, Tidjani Ly, Sidy Bakhoum, James Allen IV, and Kira Lanker. “Integrating Socio-Economic and Environmental Interventions to Improve Well-Being in Vulnerable Communities”


Other Writing

Doruska, M. and Hoddinott, J. (2020) What works to reduce extreme poverty? A selective review. DEEP Working Paper 01. Data and Evidence to end Extreme Poverty Research Programme: Oxford. Available at: https://doi.org/10.55158/DEEPWP1


Teaching

Gratduate Teaching Assistant at Cornell University

Teaching Assistant at Lawrence University


Grants

PEDL Exploratory Research Grant "Flood Risk and Differential Firm Investment: Evidence from Dakar, Senegal" [£31,678], 2024 

STEG PhD Reserach Grant "Flood Risk and Differential Firm Investment: Evidence from Dakar, Senegal" [£14,161], 2024 

Einaudi Center for International Studies Graduate Travel Grant [$1700], 2024 

Cornell University Graduate School Research Travel Grant [$1,550], 2024

J-PAL King Climate Action Iniative "Adaptation to Long-Term Changes in Surface Water Availability by Herders in West Africa" [$9,600], 2023


Honors and Awards

William A. McConagha Prize, Lawrence University, 2019 

Iden Charles Champion Award in Commerce & Industry, Lawrence University, 2019 

Philip and Rosemary Wiley Bradley Achievement Scholarship in Economics, Lawrence University, 2018


Service

Referee, Food Policy

Peer Mentor, STAARS program 

Reviewer, STAARS and STAAARS+ program 

President, Applied Economics and Management Graduate Student Association 

Founder and Co-Chair, Dyson Diversity Council 

President, Diversity in Cornell Economics

Chair, Graduate Students for Gender Equity in Economics 

Vice President, Diversity in Cornell Economics 

Co-Founder, Development Tea


Miscellaneous

Languages: English (native), French (advanced), Wolof (beginning) 

Software: Stata, R, Julia, QGIS, Google Earth Engine, LaTex, Microsoft Office Suite 

Athletic: marathoner; Competed in varsity cross country, indoor, and outdoor track for Lawrence University, 2015-2019; MVP of Women’s Track & Field 2019; Breakthrough female athlete of the year, Lawrence University Athletics Department, 2019