Sophie Mitra, Ph.D is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Fordham University with research interests in applied microeconomics, including in the following fields: development, employment, disability and health, and agricultural commodity markets. Dr Mitra is also the director of the Social Justice and Policy Research Unit of CIPS (the Center of International Policy Studies) at Fordham. Dr Mitra earned her doctorate in Economics from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne in France in 2001. Before doing her doctorate, Dr Mitra was a development practitioner and worked for the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), London. Dr Mitra has been published in many peer-reviewed journals including the American Economic Review, World Development, Applied Economics Letters and the South African Journal of Economics. For mode details on two of Dr Mitra's recent projects, click here.