Vivian Hoffmann

– BA in Geography (University of British Columbia, Canada)
– PhD in Applied Economics (Cornell University, USA)

Vivian Hoffmann is jointly appointed with the Department of Economics at Carleton University. Her research addresses how citizens and firms interact with government efforts to correct market failures through regulation and the provision of public goods. Her work to date has focused on the impact of interventions to improve health and reduce poverty in low- and middle-income countries. She uses quantitative methods, and much of her research is based on field experiments and randomized controlled trials. Hoffmann enjoys working across disciplines and has collaborated with microbiologists, agronomists, chemists and epidemiologists.

Before joining Carleton, Hoffmann was a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), where she retains a part-time appointment and serves as deputy lead of the One Health Initiative, a research program on the intersections of animal, human and environmental health in food systems. Other research interests include environmental determinants of mental health, cognitive ability and executive function; the economic consequences of these abilities; and strategies for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions in Canada.