Sanjaya DeSilva is assistant professor of economics at Bard College. He specializes in development microeconomics. His current research is on the impact of education and employment policies on household-level decisionmaking. When he was a visiting fellow at the Department of Economics, University of Colombo in 2004, he started a book-length research project on the free education and public sector employment programs in Sri Lanka. He is also working on a theoretical paper that uses signaling and principal-agent models to explain how equity-based education and employment policies may encourage students to over-invest in unproductive forms of learning. Previously, DeSilva studied incentive problems in land and labor contracts in rice farms. A forthcoming paper will appear in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics on labor supervision and institutional conditions in rice farms in the Philippines. DeSilva received a B.A. from Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, and a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University.