Melissa Dell (born 1983 or 1984)[citation needed] is an American economist who is the Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics at Harvard University.
economics), where she competed on the track team, and attended Trinity College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar, receiving an M.Phil.
[9][10] One of her most cited research papers, “The Persistent Effects of Peru’s Mining Mita,” published in the scholarly journal Econometrica in 2010, discusses Peru's Mining Mita and the long-term effects of colonial-era forced labor on the local populations centuries later.
[11] For example, in her paper on the long-term effects of Peru's Mining Mita, she showed that current development outcomes were influenced by whether regions were included in forced labor policies that ended in the early 1800s.
[5] Dell has also investigated the effect of conflict on labor market and political outcomes and vice versa.