Eoin McGuirk is the J.C. Keogh and Family Assistant Professor of Economics at Tufts University, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and an Affiliate at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD). His research interests are in development and political economics, with a particular focus on the causes and consequences of political violence and social divisions. In his research, he has examined how variation in world food prices can shape conflict events in Africa; how politicians are more likely to perpetuate conflict when they are sheltered from its costs; and how climate change is aggravating conflict between pastoral and agricultural ethnic groups. In most of his work, he employs natural experiments to identify causal relationships. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Trinity College Dublin and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.