Visitors - Center for the Economics of Human Development

Current & Upcoming Visitors

CEHD is an anchor to UChicago’s culture of rigorous scholarly discourse. Hosted visits form new collaborations that broaden the local research landscape, expose researchers to new methods of study, and stimulate new ideas that make CEHD a destination of innovation.

Visitor in Residence

2026 - 2027

Hyun Soo Suh
Washington University in St. Louis
hyunsoo@wustl.edu
www.hyunsoosuh.com

Hyun Soo Suh is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at Washington University in St. Louis. She is a labor economist studying human capital formation across early childhood, education, and health over the life cycle. Her dissertation examines how parental work arrangements, especially the mother’s, affect child skills, with effects that differ by education and substitutability of their time. Her research combines structural, experimental, and quasi-experimental methods to model and estimate the effects of parental investment, school quality, and health on human capital formation and to draw policy implications. She holds an M.A. in Economics from Boston University and B.A. in Economics and French Language and Literature from Korea University. In her free time, she enjoys yoga and learning new languages.

Visitor in Residence

2024 - 2026

Tamara McGavock
Grinnell College
mcgavock@grinnell.edu
www.tamaramcgavock.com

Tamara McGavock is a labor and development economist visiting the CEHD for 2024-25. She is also an Associate Professor at Grinnell College and an Invited Researcher with J-PAL. She does both experimental and quasi-experimental work on intra-household allocation and traditional social norms around gender and caretaking. She is especially interested in combining high-quality quantitative methods with insights from ethnography and other qualitative work, in addition to experimenting with survey methodologies such as high-frequency phone surveys on time use and information/behavioral nudges to promote men's involvement in childcare and unpaid work.