Jill E. Luoto

Biography

Jill Luoto is an associate economist at the RAND Corporation. Her main research interests are economic development and behavioral and health economics. She has consulted for the World Bank's Research Department on expanding applications of the small area estimation (poverty mapping) methodology. At the University of California, Berkeley, she worked on a United States Agency for International Development–funded project on the impacts of the introduction of credit information sharing systems in the competitive microfinance markets of Latin America. She has field work experience in Kenya, Bangladesh, Guatemala, and Serbia.

Luoto received her Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Berkeley; her dissertation presented results from a field experiment she conducted in Kenya that studied poor household decisionmaking with respect to the adoption of safe drinking water technologies.