Stephanie Bonds

Stephanie Bonds is an economist at RAND and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. As an applied microeconomist, she studies education, health, and human capital in low-income settings. In her research, Bonds utilizes experimental and quasi-experimental methods to study how households make human capital investment decisions across the life cycle, ranging from early childhood education and health to post-secondary school training. She has experience working with administrative datasets and has collaborated with local stakeholders to design and implement field experiments across a number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, and Rwanda.

Bonds has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C. Prior to her Ph.D., Bonds worked as a research assistant in the applied microeconomics group at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and completed a B.A. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.