Oeindrila Dube is an economist and political scientist serving as the Philip K. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at the University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy.
[2] Her research examines the political economy of conflict and development, with a regional focus on Africa and Latin America.
[1] After completing her PhD, Dube joined the Center for Global Development as a post-doctoral fellow, followed by New York University as an assistant professor.
In a paper in the American Political Science Review,[10] Dube shows that the expiration of the U.S. Federal Assault Weapons Ban in 2004 increased homicides[11] and gun seizures in Mexican municipalities close to border states without strong state gun laws.
Through a randomized controlled trial in Sierra Leone,[17] Dube and co-authors show that health clinics exposed to a community monitoring scheme before the onset of the 2014 West African Ebola crisis saw more positive cases but fewer deaths in response to the disease.
[18] Based on her work on Ebola, Dube published several New York Times pieces[19][20] on optimal individual responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, including an article leveraging anonymized cellphone location data to assess the relative risks of visiting particular retail establishments.