Carol Nkesa

Carol Nkesa is the Busia-born researcher in Piles of cash and a town of solutions in Kenya, Nigeria (Summer School) whose career shows how field research can create local capacity as well as academic evidence. The source says she first returned to [[BusiaKenya|Busia]] for computer-related survey data work and later contributed research ideas after years of running randomized trials.

Her most important contribution in the episode is practical knowledge. She described girls’ relationships with older men and HIV risk to an economist, helping shape Pascaline Dupas’s curriculum study. She later earned a master’s degree at Harvard and founded a Kenyan research organization supporting Randomized Controlled Trials.

Connections

• Kenya and Busia, Kenya - place context.
• Michael Kremer, Ted Miguel, and Pascaline Dupas - research network.
• Development Research Ethics and Evidence-Based Development Policy - local-benefit and policy-translation frame.