Tamara McGavock

Visitor in Residence

:  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.