Raymond Guiteras received his PhD from the Massachusetts Insitute of Technology in 2008 and joined the faculty at the University of Maryland in the same year. His research interests include environmental economics, development economics and applied microeconometrics. His research papers to date have studied the impact of climate change on Indian agriculture, the benefits of a sanitation program in India, and the distributional effects of a compulsory schooling in the United Kingdom. Current research projects include a study of the effects of climate change-induced uncertainty on insurance markets and a series of randomized trials designed to measure the willingness to pay for clean water in northern Ghana. He teaches graduate microeconometrics and undergraduate development economics.
