Oeindrila Dube

Dube received her BA in Public Policy from Stanford University, MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, and PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University. At Harvard, she was a student of Sendhil Mullainathan, Rohini Pande, Lawrence Katz, and Dani Rodrik.{{Cite web |last=Dube |first=Oeindrila |title=Oeindrila Dube |url=http://odube.net/ |access-date=2023-10-03}} In 2002, she received a Rhodes Scholarship.

After completing her PhD, Dube joined the Center for Global Development as a post-doctoral fellow, followed by New York University as an assistant professor. From 2013 to 2014, she was a National Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.{{Cite web |title=Oeindrila Dube |url=https://www.hoover.org/profiles/oeindrila-dube |access-date=2023-10-17 |website=Hoover Institution |language=en}}

In 2016, she moved to the University of Chicago, where she now occupies the Philip K. Pearson Professorship of Global Conflict Studies.

Dube is affiliated with several research institutes, including the National Bureau of Economic Research and Centre for Economic Policy Research. She has held editorial positions at the Review of Economics and Statistics and Journal of Development Economics, and co-directs the J-PAL Crime, Violence, and Conflict Initiative with Chris Blattman.{{Cite web |title=Board Members |url=https://www.povertyactionlab.org/board-members |access-date=2023-10-02 |website=The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) |language=en}} In 2021, she joined the advisory board of the United Nations Human Development Report.{{Cite report |url=https://hdr.undp.org/towards-hdr-2022 |title=Towards 2021/2022 Human Development Report |last=Nations |first=United |publisher=United Nations |language=en}}

Dube is the sister of labor economist Arindrajit Dube.{{Cite web |last=Dube |first=Arindrajit |date=2019-01-30 |title="My brilliant sister Oeindrila Dube (at @HarrisSchool) has a totally fascinating paper that finds Queens in Europe were more likely to engage in wars than kings, perhaps counterintuively" |url=https://twitter.com/arindube/status/1090784128289726466 |access-date=2023-10-02 |website=X}} She is married to Dan Godsel, former commander of the Chicago Police Department Training Academy.{{Cite web |last=Cashin |first=Elle |date=2023-02-28 |title=Real Wedding: Oeindrila & Dan |url=https://mlchicagosocial.com/real-wedding-oeindrila-and-dan |access-date=2023-10-02 |website=CS Modern Luxury}}

Dube's research examines the political economy of conflict and development, particularly in Africa and Latin America. Her work leverages both experimental and quasi-experimental research designs.

Dube's early work examined the causes and consequences of gang and paramilitary violence in Latin America. In a paper in the American Political Science Review,{{Cite journal |last1=Dube |first1=Arindrajit |last2=Dube |first2=Oeindrila |last3=García-Ponce |first3=Omar |date=2013 |title=Cross-Border Spillover: U.S. Gun Laws and Violence in Mexico |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43654914 |journal=The American Political Science Review |volume=107 |issue=3 |pages=397–417 |doi=10.1017/S0003055413000178 |issn=0003-0554 |jstor=43654914 |s2cid=9252246|hdl=10419/69479 |hdl-access=free }} Dube shows that the expiration of the U.S. Federal Assault Weapons Ban in 2004 increased homicides{{Cite news |last=Keating |first=Joshua |date=2013-09-05 |title=Study Claims Lifting the U.S. Assault Weapons Ban Led to Hundreds of Homicides in Mexico |language=en-US |work=Slate |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/09/gun-control-study-finds-lifting-assault-weapons-ban-increased-homicides-60-percent-in-nearby-mexican-areas.html |access-date=2023-10-17 |issn=1091-2339}} and gun seizures in Mexican municipalities close to border states without strong state gun laws.{{Cite news |last=Farrell |first=Henry |date=2021-12-07 |title=How America Exports Its Gun Problems |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2013/09/25/how-america-exports-its-gun-problems/ |access-date=2023-10-02 |issn=0190-8286}}{{Cite web |date=2012-12-19 |title=Study: US Gun Policy Felt In Mexico |url=https://www.kpbs.org/news/politics/2012/12/19/study-us-gun-policy-felt-mexico |access-date=2023-10-02 |website=KPBS Public Media |language=en}} Her work has been cited in Congressional testimony on the effects of federal assault weapons bans.{{Cite web |date=2019-02-06 |title=Executive Director of Giffords Law Center Testifies in First House Gun Violence Prevention Hearing in Over a Decade, Urging Swift Action on Bipartisan Background Checks Bill to Save Lives |url=https://giffords.org/press-release/2019/02/robyn-thomas-testimony-statement/ |access-date=2023-10-17 |website=Giffords |language=en-US}}

Dube has also pursued research on drug trafficking. In work with Suresh Naidu on Colombia,{{Cite journal |last1=Dube |first1=Oeindrila |last2=Naidu |first2=Suresh |date=January 2015 |title=Bases, Bullets, and Ballots: The Effect of US Military Aid on Political Conflict in Colombia |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/679021 |journal=The Journal of Politics |language=en |volume=77 |issue=1 |pages=249–267 |doi=10.1086/679021 |s2cid=220454361 |issn=0022-3816}} Dube shows that increases in U.S. military aid decreased anti-narcotics operations by Colombian operatives, increased the prevalence of paramilitary attacks near U.S. military bases, and had no effect on the production of coca.{{Cite news |last=Fisman |first=Ray |date=2010-02-03 |title=We're Blowing It |language=en-US |work=Slate |url=https://slate.com/business/2010/02/a-new-paper-suggests-u-s-military-aid-does-nothing-to-reduce-drug-production-in-colombia.html |access-date=2023-10-17 |issn=1091-2339}}

Another line of Dube's work concerns pandemic response, particularly as it pertains to trust in medicine. Through a randomized controlled trial in Sierra Leone,{{Cite journal |last1=Christensen |first1=Darin |last2=Dube |first2=Oeindrila |last3=Haushofer |first3=Johannes |last4=Siddiqi |first4=Bilal |last5=Voors |first5=Maarten |date=2020-11-20 |title=Building Resilient Health Systems: Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone and The 2014 Ebola Outbreak* |journal=The Quarterly Journal of Economics |volume=136 |issue=2 |pages=1145–1198 |doi=10.1093/qje/qjaa039 |issn=0033-5533|doi-access=free |hdl=10986/33667 |hdl-access=free }} Dube and co-authors show that health clinics exposed to a community monitoring scheme before the onset of the 2014 West African Ebola crisis saw more positive cases but fewer deaths in response to the disease. The results suggest that the intervention improved trust in medical institutions, encouraging and de-stigmatizing testing.{{Cite news |last=Vedantam |first=Shankar |date=2020-03-26 |title=Hidden Brain: How Trust May Help to Limit a Disease Outbreak |work=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/2020/03/26/821811787/hidden-brain-how-trust-may-help-to-limit-a-disease-outbreak |access-date=2023-10-03}}

Based on her work on Ebola, Dube published several New York Times pieces{{Cite news |last1=Dube |first1=Oeindrila |last2=Baicker |first2=Katherine |date=2020-03-26 |title=How You Can Protect Your Community, Not Just Your Own Health |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/business/coronavirus-community-support-social-changes.html |access-date=2023-10-03 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news |last1=Baicker |first1=Katherine |last2=Dube |first2=Oeindrila |last3=Mullainathan |first3=Sendhil |last4=Pope |first4=Devin |last5=Wezerek |first5=Gus |date=2020-05-06 |title=Opinion {{!}} Is It Safer to Visit a Coffee Shop or a Gym? |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/06/opinion/coronavirus-us-reopen.html |access-date=2023-10-03 |issn=0362-4331}} on optimal individual responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, including an article leveraging anonymized cellphone location data to assess the relative risks of visiting particular retail establishments.{{Cite web |last=Lloyd |first=Robin |title=Coronavirus Roundup for May 9–May 15 |url=https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/coronavirus-roundup-for-may-9-may-15/ |access-date=2023-10-17 |website=Scientific American Blog Network |language=en}}

Dube has also pursued research on conflict in historical perspective. In a paper co-authored with S.P. Harish,{{Cite journal |last1=Dube |first1=Oeindrila |last2=Harish |first2=S. P. |date=July 2020 |title=Queens |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/707011 |journal=Journal of Political Economy |language=en |volume=128 |issue=7 |pages=2579–2652 |doi=10.1086/707011 |s2cid=219356541 |issn=0022-3808}} Dube shows that European states ruled by queens between 1480 and 1913 were 27% more likely to go to war than their male counterparts,{{Cite web |last=Sjursen |first=Katrin E. |date=2016-02-08 |title=What the Middle Ages Show About Women Leaders |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/02/are-women-leaders-hawks-or-doves-a-lesson-on-gender-equality-from-the-middle-ages/460386/ |access-date=2023-10-02 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}} with results especially strong for leaders without husbands, or whose husbands did not hold a position of coregency.{{Cite web |last=Guilford |first=Gwynn |date=2017-04-26 |title=Throughout history, queens were more likely to wage war than kings |url=https://qz.com/967895/throughout-history-women-rulers-were-more-likely-to-wage-war-than-men |access-date=2023-10-02 |website=Quartz |language=en}} She also finds that women are more likely to gain new territory.{{Cite news |title=Who gets into more wars, kings or queens? |newspaper=The Economist |url=https://www.economist.com/europe/2017/06/01/who-gets-into-more-wars-kings-or-queens |access-date=2023-10-02 |issn=0013-0613}}

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