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Lisandra Rickards
Lisandra Rickards was a Research Pofessional in the 2006-07 academic year. Rickards’ research for the Becker Center includes projects on randomized experiments, the Klu Klux Klan, and the game theory implications of poker. Prior to her term she had done work on the economic effects of non-fatal illnesses, the impact of microfinance on the informal sector, and on the effects of political advertising on election outcomes.
Rickards received an AB in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2006, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and was a Student Marshall and Rhodes Scholar finalist. Her senior paper in economics (with Hoyt Bleakley) was on the impact of childhood infectious disease on late-life morbidity and mortality.
After her year at the Becker Center, Rickards returned to Jamaica, where she worked with the government to enhance the business environment through competitiveness analysis, trade policy evaluation, and credit and microcredit proposals. She plans to attend graduate school in 2008.
