Economic Development

Fostering sustained global economic development requires that we understand what factors play key roles in the economic and political success of populations around the world.  We study how the environment, political institutions, culture, and history affect the progress of economies around the world.

 
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Machine Learning and Mobile Phone Data Can Improve the Targeting of Humanitarian Assistance
Machine Learning and Mobile Phone Data Can Improve the Targeting of Humanitarian Assistance
Micro-estimates of wealth for all low- and middle-income countries
Micro-estimates of wealth for all low- and middle-income countries
Violence and Financial Decisions: Evidence from Mobile Money in Afghanistan
Violence and Financial Decisions: Evidence from Mobile Money in Afghanistan
Public mobility data enables COVID-19 forecasting and management at local and global scales
Public mobility data enables COVID-19 forecasting and management at local and global scales
Machine learning can help get COVID-19 aid to those who need it most
Machine learning can help get COVID-19 aid to those who need it most
The Distribution of Environmental Damages
The Distribution of Environmental Damages
Spatial Correlation, Trade, and Inequality: Evidence from the Global Climate
Spatial Correlation, Trade, and Inequality: Evidence from the Global Climate
Accounting for Unobservable Heterogeneity in Cross Section Using Spatial First Differences
Accounting for Unobservable Heterogeneity in Cross Section Using Spatial First Differences
Estimating global agricultural effects of geoengineering using volcanic eruptions
Estimating global agricultural effects of geoengineering using volcanic eruptions
Higher temperatures increase suicide rates in the United States and Mexico
Higher temperatures increase suicide rates in the United States and Mexico
Letter - Ivory crisis: Growing no-trade consensus
Letter - Ivory crisis: Growing no-trade consensus
Correspondence - Climate and conflict: no stigma
Correspondence - Climate and conflict: no stigma
Ground Control to Major Tom: the importance of field surveys in remotely sensed data analysis
Ground Control to Major Tom: the importance of field surveys in remotely sensed data analysis
Crop-damaging temperatures increase suicide rates in India
Crop-damaging temperatures increase suicide rates in India
The Marginal Product of Climate
The Marginal Product of Climate
Collective Action in Networks: Evidence from the Chilean Student Movement
Collective Action in Networks: Evidence from the Chilean Student Movement
Social and economic impacts of climate
Social and economic impacts of climate
Does Legalization Reduce Black Market Activity? Evidence from a Global Ivory Experiment and Elephant Poaching Data
Does Legalization Reduce Black Market Activity? Evidence from a Global Ivory Experiment and Elephant Poaching Data
Conflict in a changing climate
Conflict in a changing climate
Climate Econometrics
Climate Econometrics
Distorted Quality Signals in School Markets
Distorted Quality Signals in School Markets
Losing Your Dictator: Firms During Political Transition
Losing Your Dictator: Firms During Political Transition
Start-Up Nation? Slave Wealth and Entrepreneurship in Civil War Maryland
Start-Up Nation? Slave Wealth and Entrepreneurship in Civil War Maryland
Global Non-linear Effect of Temperature on Economic Production
Global Non-linear Effect of Temperature on Economic Production
Geography, Depreciation, and Growth
Geography, Depreciation, and Growth
War and local collective action in Sierra Leone: A comment on the use of coefficient stability approaches
War and local collective action in Sierra Leone: A comment on the use of coefficient stability approaches
The Causal Effect of Environmental Catastrophe on Long-Run Economic Growth: Evidence From 6,700 Cyclones
The Causal Effect of Environmental Catastrophe on Long-Run Economic Growth: Evidence From 6,700 Cyclones
Drug Trafficking Organizations and Local Economic Activity in Mexico
Drug Trafficking Organizations and Local Economic Activity in Mexico
Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict
Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict
Destruction, Disinvestment, and Death: Economic and Human Losses Following Environmental Disaster
Destruction, Disinvestment, and Death: Economic and Human Losses Following Environmental Disaster