<p>Andrew Foster came to Brown in 1998 and served as the PSTC director from 2011-2016.&nbsp;He is an empirical microeconomist working in the areas of population, development, and environmental economics. He has particular interest in sources of long economic and social mobility in low income rural areas.</p> <p>In Bangladesh, Foster has been working with collaborators from the University of Colorado and the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research to collect the most recent round of a 40-year panel data set. His recent work has focused on the implications of household dissolution and recombination for evaluating long-term effects of access to health and family planning services.</p> <p>In India, along with collaborators from Yale University and the Institute for Rural Management in Anand, Foster is examining barriers to long-term growth and labor force transition in rural India.&nbsp;He also has worked on the consequences of voluntary environmental certification in Mexico and on nursing home segregation in the U.S. &nbsp;</p> <div id="profile-interests" class="content p"><h3>Interests</h3> <div>Bangladesh, China, Demography, Development, Education, Empirical microeconomics, Environment, Fertility, Health, Households, Human capital, India, Institutions, Labor economics, Marriage, Mexico, United States</div></div>