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Economist Dudley Seers used time at Yale in the 1960s to reimagine international development

… economists, seeking to better understand and analyze the US and UK economies. The problem, Seers writes, is that … still vividly remembers the visiting scholar. “A lot of us were seeking to make sense of the development process,” …

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EGC Quarterly Newsletter, June 2020

… research from their homes around the world, helping us provide insights to policymakers who are meeting the crisis head-on. They are also helping us create longer term data archives. I invite you to keep …

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Pande & coauthors in Ideas for India: What Happens When Investments Targeting Women’s Microbusinesses go to Men?

… to be offered either cash or in-kind grants, worth either US$100 or US$200, or to a comparison group that receives nothing. The … them to be offered either cash or in-kind grants worth US$120, or to a comparison group. The authors find that …

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Pande and coauthors in myRepublica: We Recommend a New Funding Model to Address Covid-19 and Floods

Nepal's new federal structure delegates many administrative decisions to the local level. A large-scale survey of provincial and local government officials suggests that a data-driven approach to funding allocations can help address challenges posed by …

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Pietro Buri, Princeton University

Pietro Buri, Princeton University … Pietro Buri, Princeton University …

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Internal migration and spatial reorganisation of agriculture

… at home during the baseline period. Interacting these lets us compare households with similar migration potential but …

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The Return to Protectionism

The Return to Protectionism … Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg … Pablo Fajgelbaum … Patrick Kennedy … Amit Khandelwal … The Return to Protectionism …

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New research shows the role outside managers play in firm dynamics in India

New research shows the role outside managers play in firm dynamics in India … Ufuk Akcigit … Harun Alp … Michael Peters … New research shows the role outside managers play in firm dynamics in …

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Professor Naomi Lamoreaux on antitrust regulation, and how economic history speaks to development

Professor Naomi Lamoreaux on antitrust regulation, and how economic history speaks to development … Naomi Lamoreaux … Professor Naomi Lamoreaux on antitrust regulation, and how economic history speaks to …

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What is new in the research on Firms, Trade, and Development?

… Daniel Osuna-Gomez and a coauthor study the effects of US deportees to Mexico on firm behavior. They find that firms … rates and average revenue. Firm benefits increase in the US tenure of the deportees point towards the benefits of …

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A history of the International and Development Economics (IDE) program

… as my colleagues can attest. But more importantly, all of us here have benefited from the entrepreneurial spirit that …

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Improving Microfinance for the Poor: Investigating Repayment Flexibility

Improving Microfinance for the Poor: Investigating Repayment Flexibility … Improving Microfinance for the Poor: Investigating Repayment Flexibility Research suggests microfinance is not as transformative as originally thought. Can adaptations to …

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Faculty Research Support

… unequal since the early 1980s. This is true both in the US and in most other countries around the globe. While most … laying off workers or closing. William English See more “US bank business loan rates, 1939–2017” The cyclical behavior … Lee See more “A Big-data approach to the growth of the US economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth …

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Sorting with Teams

Sorting with Teams … Job Boerma … Aleh Tsyvinski … Alexander P. Zimin … Sorting with Teams …

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Resilience Through History

… 24 1:00pm – 1:50pm Session 5 | "Working Their Way Up? US Immigrants’ Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the Age …

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