Scale of Harm: Estimating child exploitation trafficking in the Philippines
I worked with the International Justice Mission (IJM) on their Scale of Harm project, which aimed to estimate how many children in the Philippines are being trafficked to produce child sexual exploitation material. Using survey data and statistical models, we estimated how common this crime is across different parts of the country. The results helped IJM and the Philippine government understand the true size of the problem and plan where to focus their efforts to protect children. The law in the Philippines and the US was changed as a result of this work.