Marlous van Waijenburg

Dr. Marlous van Waijenburg serves as Assistant Professor in Harvard Business School's Business, Government, and International Economy Unit, teaching in the MBA required curriculum. Her research focuses on African economies' long-term development patterns, examining material living standards, fiscal capacity, labor market institutions, skill accumulation, and inequality. She recently expanded her research to include the business history of the transatlantic slave trade, supported by National Science Foundation funding. After earning her Ph.D. in History from Northwestern University, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Michigan and served as Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan.

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