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Reflecting on the 2023 Firms, Trade, and Development Conference

… the objectives of South Korean export policies. Using data from the late 1960s to the early 2000s, Barteska found … Donaldson discussed how identifying misallocation from data without strong functional form assumptions is usually … weaker assumptions. He implements the framework using data from procurement lotteries in Ecuador that provide …

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Vestal McIntyre
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Neilson et al., 2024: "The Welfare Effects of including Household Preferences in School Assignment Systems: Evidence from Ecuador"

… inclusion and coordinated assignments. Household survey data on beliefs and satisfaction support these findings, …

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Mayara Felix explains the labor market effects of domestic outsourcing

… in their analysis, using highly detailed administrative data. Once outsourcing was legalized, a significant … Felix and Wong compared wage and employment data across three distinct dimensions: before versus after … labor market challenges is the lack of comprehensive data, particularly on workers' experiences and preferences – …

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To use financial incentives or not? Insights from experiments in encouraging sanitation investments in four countries

… and estimands across studies. We then re-analyze their data to report metrics that are consistently defined and …

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Aftermarket Frictions and the Cost of Off-Platform Options in Centralized Assignment Mechanisms

… higher-education platform, leveraging administrative data and two policy changes: the introduction of a large …

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Did women have an impact on social mobility in pre-modern economies?

… José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez and co-authors analyzed data comprising all 18th century marriage records from … marriage and could be gained regardless of gender; from a data set containing more than 18,000 marriages, the … in pre-modern economies, given the scarcity of economic data. What data do exist typically overlook women, who often …

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Harnessing Human Capital for Growth and Development in Kenya

… effectively scaled - including the integration of time use data in policymaking and processes to assess fiscal … discuss policies and programs at scale, including time use data in policymaking and assessing fiscal investments and … Public Preschool: Insights from Research and Policy Data, Programs, Policies and Implementation - Enabling …

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Deanna Ford
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Fieler & coauthors: The power of firm networks in trade and economic development

… Economics MA Program, and an EGC affiliate.Combining data from Turkey with an innovative model of firm-to-firm … that complement and amplify these effects.In Turkish data, manufacturing firms that experience an increase in … from Turkey on firm-to-firm transactions (value-added tax data), firms’ exporting activities (customs data), and …

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Mobarak et al., 2025: "Daughters Left Behind: How Trade Liberalization Harms Girls in China when Government Restricts Migration"

… migrated in and advanced economically. Longitudinal panel data on children reveals that their sons benefit, but …

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Ana Cecília Fieler on how international trade influences growth and development

… in the field of international trade, studying firm-level data to explore how trade affects economic development. “I … framework for applying Ricardian trade theory to complex data, offering new tools and methods for conducting … a 2015 paper with Marcela Eslava and Daniel Yi Xu. Using data from Colombia, the researchers built an economic model …

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Detecting urban markets with satellite imagery: An application to India

… of economic activity. We conclude that daytime satellite data are a promising source for the study of urban forms. …

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Presidential Address: Economics and Measurement: New Measures to Model Decision Making

… with a model of parental behavior estimated on pilot data that combines conventional measures with novel ones. …

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The Economic Impacts of the US-China Trade War

… billion of US exports. Economists have used a diversity of data and methods to assess the impacts of the trade war on …

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Strengthening Female Representation in Nepal’s Local Governments

… For the fourteen districts where our research team has data on nominations, only 3.2% of nominees for mayors and … in important positions. Our research using extensive data from the 2017 local elections highlights the extreme …

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How Marsha Goldfarb established a place for women in economics at Yale

… because she enjoyed the field’s application of numbers and data, her strengths, to real world problems. She was the only … to the optimal economic growth path for Chile, using data she had collected on a research trip to Santiago. It was …

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