Rate My Professor Brooke Krause

Krause’s key publications include “Age and Agency: Evidence from a Women’s Empowerment Program in Tanzania” (World Development, 2024, with Aine McCarthy), “Networks and Knowledge: Women’s Empowerment, Networks, and Health Information-Seeking Behavior in Rural Guatemala” (Journal of Rural Studies, 2024), “Multiplying and Mixing: Livelihood Strategies among Out-of-School Youth in Tanzania” (Exploring Entrepreneurship, 2024, with Emily Markovich Morris), “Preferences for Perceived Attractiveness in Modern Dance” (Journal of Cultural Economics, 2022, with Rachel Lau), “Risk Aversion and Diversification Strategies in Guatemala” (Journal of International Development, 2019), and “School Infrastructure and Educational Outcomes: A Literature Review, with Special Reference to Latin America” (Economía, 2016, with Ana Cuesta and Paul Glewwe). She has received significant funding, including a $1.5 million USAID Development Innovation Venture Grant (2022) for cost-effective vision programs in Sierra Leone schools, the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (IFPRI, Gates Foundation, USAID, 2015-2020), and Henry Luce III Fund for Distinguished Scholarship Awards (2018, 2021). Krause teaches courses such as Econometrics, International Economic Development, Economics of Global Health, and Intermediate Macroeconomics. She has advised Independent Study projects presented at conferences including the Eastern Economic Association and Cleveland Federal Reserve’s Economic Scholars Program. Her service includes the Presidential Search Committee (2022-2023), Global & International Studies Curriculum Committee (2017-2024), Faculty Research & Development Committee (2023-2024), and Faculty Advisory Board for the Cleveland Federal Reserve Economics Scholars Program.