Andrew Morrison is a Senior Economist at the World Bank. Prior to joining the Bank, he worked at the Inter-American Development Bank, where he specialized on issues of violence prevention and labor market participation of disadvantaged groups. In the area of violence prevention, he published several articles and books, including estimates of the social costs of violence in Mexico City, a Foreign Policy article on trends in violence in the world, technical notes to guide the design of project interventions, and a book on the socioeconomic costs associated with intra-family violence against women. He has also worked on project teams designing violence reduction operations in Chile, Colombia, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Peru, Uruguay, as well as on a host of technical cooperation operations in the areas of child labor and intra-family violence against women.
Before joining the IDB, Mr. Morrison was an associate professor of economics and Latin American Studies at Tulane University and the University of New Mexico. He has written numerous journal articles on the issues of labor markets, migration and urbanization in Latin America, with research support from the National Science Foundation, the Tinker Foundation, and the Fulbright Scholarship program. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Vanderbilt University in 1989.