Dean Jolliffe is a senior adviser in the Data Group (DECDG) at the World Bank. He works in both the Global Poverty team of the Indicators and Data Services unit and in the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) team of the Data Production and Methods unit. Previously, he worked in the research group and the South Asia region of the Bank, and prior to that he was with the Economic Research Service (ERS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He holds positions of adjunct lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Research Fellow with the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, and as a Fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO).