Jacob Patterson-Stein

Jacob Patterson-Stein is a second year Master of International Development Policy student. Prior to attending McCourt, Jacob worked for Thomson Reuters in Washington D.C., the More than Me Foundation in Liberia, and in a rural public school in South Korea. He spent summer 2013 working for the Support for Economic Analysis Development in Indonesia (SEADI) project in Jakarta.

Podcast: Elizabeth Warren, Drones, and 2016

In the newest episode of the Georgetown Public Policy Review podcast, Review staff Kristin Blagg, Nora Gregory, and Jacob Patterson-Stein discuss Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren’s recent speech on reforming the US military to better account for civilian casualties. Senator Warren gave her speech on Georgetown’s campus as part of the McCourt School of Public Policy’s annual Whittington Lecture. […]

The Historical Burden of Malaria: New Evidence, New Questions

By Jacob Patterson-Stein Why are some countries rich and other countries poor? From Plato to Adam Smith to the Simpsons, the best and brightest have wrestled with this question. In a new working paper, “Malaria and Early African Development: Evidence from the Sickle Cell Trait,” presented at the Georgetown Initiative on Innovation, Development, and Evaluation (gui2de) seminar […]

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