Jason is a health and labor economist who uses randomized experiments to gain insights into how people in the developing world make decisions, and the implications of their decision making behavior for economic and public health policy. His completed papers include a re-evaluation of the role of risk compensation in HIV epidemics, and a study of how the temporal composition of income affects people's ability to achieve their savings goals. In ongoing work, he is studying the effects of an early childhood literacy program on educational outcomes and on the way people make investments in education.
