received her PhD in economics from Yale University in 2007. Her fields of interest include labor and development economics. Dr. Beaman's research has looked at the role of social networks in providing job information to refugees resettled in the U.S., and the impact of female political leadership on gender bias in rural India. As a Scholar, her interests are in the causes and consequences of health disparities among the foreign born in the U.S., and how economic shocks in immigrants’ home countries affect their health and health care usage in the U.S. In January 2009, Dr. Beaman joined the Department of Economics at Northwestern University as an Assistant Professor.