Daniel Egel is an economist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His research uses qualitative and quantitative methods to understand the effectiveness of development and stability programs, and the institutions that mediate their success in fragile and instability-prone countries. His work at RAND has focused on programs implemented by the military, particularly the Special Operations Forces (SOF) community. Dr. Egel deployed with the Special Operations Joint Task Force-Afghanistan (SOJTF-A) and Combined Forces Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan (CFSOCC-A). He was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation, a consultant for the Middle East Youth Initiative at the Brookings Institution, and has worked with the Yemeni Social Fund for Development since 2009. Dr. Egel's most recent article called "Tribal Heterogeneity and the Allocation of Publicly Provided Goods: Evidence from Yemen" was published in Journal of Development Economics. He is co-author of several other articles that appeared in Review of Economic Studies and Middle East Development Journal, among other publications. Dr. Egel holds a B.A. in biology from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.