Research Summaries Recent papers by EGC affiliates on global development, explained. Title Country / Region - Any -AfghanistanBangladeshBrazilChinaColombiaCosta RicaEgyptGhanaIndiaInternationalKenyaMexicoNepalNicaraguaRwandaTurkeyRegion: East AsiaRegion: EuropeRegion: Latin AmericaRegion: MENARegion: North AmericaRegion: South AsiaRegion: Sub-Saharan Africa Topics - Any -AgricultureBehavioral EconomicsEconomic HistoryEducation & SkillsEnergy, Environment, and Climate ChangeFinanceFirmsGenderHealthLabor, Demography, and MigrationMacroeconomicsPolitical EconomyPovertyTrade and Spatial Economics Research Summary Air pollution in India: New findings on how to reduce crop burning American Economic Review: Insights (Mar 2025) Kelsey Jack, Seema Jayachandran, Namrata Kala & Rohini Pande Makh, Shutterstock Research Summary How does pollution affect the migration and productivity of workers in China? American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (Nov 2024) Mushfiq Mobarak, Gaurav Khanna, Ran Song & Wenquan Liang chinahbzyg, Shutterstock Research Summary Empowering women entrepreneurs can have a “multiplier effect” on India’s economy Econometrica (Nov 2024) Gaurav Chiplunkar & Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg Oscar Espinosa, Shutterstock Research Summary Did Colombia’s nationwide preschool expansion benefit students? Journal of Political Economy (Sep 2024) Orazio Attanasio, Alison Andrew, Raquel Bernal, Lina Cardona Sosa, Sonya Krutikova & Marta Rubio-Codina Research Summary In the US-China trade war, how did some “bystander” countries come out ahead? American Economic Review: Insights (Jun 2024) Pablo Fajgelbaum, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Patrick Kennedy, Amit Khandelwal & Daria Taglioni Tieu Bao Truong, Shutterstock Research Summary Evidence on Saudi women’s take-up of unemployment assistance Economics Letters (May 2024) Rohini Pande, Yazan Al-Karablieh & Rema Hanna Jaka Suryanta, Shutterstock Research Summary Fieler & coauthors: The power of firm networks in trade and economic development Journal of Political Economy (Jan 2024) Ana Cecilia Fieler, Banu Demir, Daniel Xu & Kelly Kaili Yang Thomas Koch, Shutterstock Research Summary The welfare implications of lobbying on international regulatory agreements American Economic Review (Aug 2023) Giovanni Maggi & Ralph Ossa Shutterstock Research Summary The importance of relationships in global trade Quarterly Journal of Economics (Jun 2023) Julia Cajal-Grossi, Rocco Macchiavello & Guillermo Noguera Research Summary A review of new findings on the links between US-China trade and inequality Lorenzo Caliendo & Fernando Parro Research Summary Migration Subsidies: Does encouraging relocation increase welfare and productivity? David Lagakos, Mushfiq Mobarak & Michael E. Waugh Research Summary Lauren Falcao Bergquist and coauthors in VoxEU: Quantifying the Effects of Local Agricultural Policy Interventions Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Benjamin Faber, Thibault Fally, Matthias Hoelzlein, Edward Miguel & Andres Rodríguez-Clare Research Summary In India's "invisible workforce" women face a slower economic recovery from Covid-19 EClinicalMedicine (Nov 2022) Jenna Allard, Maulik Jagnani, Yusuf Neggers, Rohini Pande, Simone Schaner & Charity Troyer Moore Manoej Paateel, Shutterstock Research Summary New research on why authoritarian regimes have local leadership elections Monica Martinez-Bravo, Gerard Padró i Miquel, Nancy Qian & Yang Yao Research Summary Does China’s research and development funding reach the right firms? Michael König, Zheng Song, Kjetil Storesletten & Fabrizio Zilibotti Research Summary Are There Too Many Farms in the World? New research on agricultural productivity in developing countries Mark Rosenzweig & Andrew D. Foster Pagination Page 1 Next page Next
Research Summary Air pollution in India: New findings on how to reduce crop burning American Economic Review: Insights (Mar 2025) Kelsey Jack, Seema Jayachandran, Namrata Kala & Rohini Pande Makh, Shutterstock
Research Summary How does pollution affect the migration and productivity of workers in China? American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (Nov 2024) Mushfiq Mobarak, Gaurav Khanna, Ran Song & Wenquan Liang chinahbzyg, Shutterstock
Research Summary Empowering women entrepreneurs can have a “multiplier effect” on India’s economy Econometrica (Nov 2024) Gaurav Chiplunkar & Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg Oscar Espinosa, Shutterstock
Research Summary Did Colombia’s nationwide preschool expansion benefit students? Journal of Political Economy (Sep 2024) Orazio Attanasio, Alison Andrew, Raquel Bernal, Lina Cardona Sosa, Sonya Krutikova & Marta Rubio-Codina
Research Summary In the US-China trade war, how did some “bystander” countries come out ahead? American Economic Review: Insights (Jun 2024) Pablo Fajgelbaum, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Patrick Kennedy, Amit Khandelwal & Daria Taglioni Tieu Bao Truong, Shutterstock
Research Summary Evidence on Saudi women’s take-up of unemployment assistance Economics Letters (May 2024) Rohini Pande, Yazan Al-Karablieh & Rema Hanna Jaka Suryanta, Shutterstock
Research Summary Fieler & coauthors: The power of firm networks in trade and economic development Journal of Political Economy (Jan 2024) Ana Cecilia Fieler, Banu Demir, Daniel Xu & Kelly Kaili Yang Thomas Koch, Shutterstock
Research Summary The welfare implications of lobbying on international regulatory agreements American Economic Review (Aug 2023) Giovanni Maggi & Ralph Ossa Shutterstock
Research Summary The importance of relationships in global trade Quarterly Journal of Economics (Jun 2023) Julia Cajal-Grossi, Rocco Macchiavello & Guillermo Noguera
Research Summary A review of new findings on the links between US-China trade and inequality Lorenzo Caliendo & Fernando Parro
Research Summary Migration Subsidies: Does encouraging relocation increase welfare and productivity? David Lagakos, Mushfiq Mobarak & Michael E. Waugh
Research Summary Lauren Falcao Bergquist and coauthors in VoxEU: Quantifying the Effects of Local Agricultural Policy Interventions Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Benjamin Faber, Thibault Fally, Matthias Hoelzlein, Edward Miguel & Andres Rodríguez-Clare
Research Summary In India's "invisible workforce" women face a slower economic recovery from Covid-19 EClinicalMedicine (Nov 2022) Jenna Allard, Maulik Jagnani, Yusuf Neggers, Rohini Pande, Simone Schaner & Charity Troyer Moore Manoej Paateel, Shutterstock
Research Summary New research on why authoritarian regimes have local leadership elections Monica Martinez-Bravo, Gerard Padró i Miquel, Nancy Qian & Yang Yao
Research Summary Does China’s research and development funding reach the right firms? Michael König, Zheng Song, Kjetil Storesletten & Fabrizio Zilibotti
Research Summary Are There Too Many Farms in the World? New research on agricultural productivity in developing countries Mark Rosenzweig & Andrew D. Foster
