Daniel Hicks is an applied economist at RAND. With over fifteen years of experience specializing in labor and international development, Hicks is currently leading multiple projects including several on personnel and health issues for the U.S. Army. At RAND, he has studied forced labor in supply chains; educational interventions for at-risk youth; how new technologies and approaches can provide early insights into emerging global disease epidemics; and political polarization. His published research addresses topics in gender inequality, health, environmental economics, education, crime, conflict, and public policy. In addition to studies on the United States, he has undertaken research projects on Bolivia, China, India, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Mexico, South Korea, and Uzbekistan. Hicks was a tenured associate professor at the University of Oklahoma. His studies have been published in American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Economic Inquiry, the European Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economics of the Household, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Oxford Economic Papers. His research has been featured in the Economist, the Atlantic, the Boston Globe, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and VoxEU.
Ph.D. in economics, University of California - Berkeley; BA in economics, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
