Linh Dinh

Linh Dinh is a student from Hanoi, Vietnam, and is currently pursuing an MA in International and Development Economics at Yale University. She graduated from Colby College with double distinction in Economics and Government. Throughout her undergraduate studies, Linh worked as a research assistant in several roles, most notably with Professor Nicholas Jacobs on the political allocation of discretionary federal funding.

Her research interests include development economics, environmental policy, and the political economy of energy transitions. She is particularly interested in how air pollution and other environmental harms can be mitigated through community-based and market-based mechanisms, with attention to cost-effectiveness and distributional impacts in developing contexts.

She is a recipient of the Davis Projects for Peace award, through which she designed a community initiative focused on sustainable waste management in her hometown. At Yale, Linh hopes to deepen her training in empirical methods and economic theory while gaining more hands-on experience in applied economics research.