{"id":4822,"date":"2022-08-01T09:06:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T13:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/samuel-s-bird\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T12:55:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:55:52","slug":"samuel-s-bird","status":"publish","type":"faculty-profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/samuel-s-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel S. Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Sam Bird is a development economist with research in sub-Saharan Africa on agricultural development and political economy.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In his research, he conducts field experiments, collects primary data, and analyzes primary and secondary data in collaboration with partners in Kenya, Uganda, and the US.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In his teaching, he enjoys helping students develop their economic research skills and introducing students to new economic topics, including development economics and data analysis.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sam earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis in Agricultural &amp; Resource Economics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1534,"featured_media":5259,"template":"","class_list":["post-4822","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","expertise-development-economics","expertise-econometrics","expertise-political-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/4822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/4822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7265,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/4822\/revisions\/7265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}