Natalia Rigol holds a doctorate in economics from MIT. Her work explores how the design, targeting, and delivery of financial products can be optimized to empower women, specifically in India. Natalia’s academic background in development economics and gender issues is supplemented by her extensive experience in designing and leading field studies in India. As a Bell Fellow, she continued to integrate insights from social and medical sciences with economic theory to better understand the constraints that women face in improving their livelihoods, and to produce implementable solutions to these barriers.
