Assistant Professor of Economics

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Assistant Professor of Economics

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Arrival of Young Talent: The Send-Down Movement and Rural Education in China

By Yi Chen, Ziying Fan, Xiaomin Gu, and Li-An Zhou

American Economic Review, November 2020

This paper estimates the effects on rural education of the send-down movement during the Cultural Revolution, when about 16 million urban youth were mandated to resettle in the countryside. Using a county-level dataset compiled from local gazetteers and p...

Rural education and the send-down movement

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December 10, 2020

A chaotic episode in China’s past paved the way for better schooling in the countryside.

Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor

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Competition and Entry in Agricultural Markets: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

By Lauren Falcao Bergquist and Michael Dinerstein

American Economic Review, December 2020

African agricultural markets are characterized by low farmer revenues and high consumer food prices. Many have worried that this wedge is partially driven by imperfect competition among intermediaries. This paper provides experimental evidence from Kenya ...

Upgrading Education with Technology: Insights from Experimental Research

By Maya Escueta, Andre Joshua Nickow, Philip Oreopoulos, and Vincent Quan

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2020

In recent years, there has been widespread interest around the potential for technology to transform learning. As investment in education technology continues to grow, students, parents, and teachers face a seemingly endless array of education technolog...

Assistant Professor of Econometrics

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Assistant/Associate Professor

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Hidden genius

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How does a successful research career relate to where someone was born?

Research Economists & Senior Research Economists

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Call for Papers on Financial Distress and Bankrupcy

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December 17, 2020

The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2021.

The American Statistical Association invites nominations and application for the position of editor for Statistics and Public Policy

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December 18, 2020

Nominations are due by January 5, 2021 and applications are due by February 8, 2021.

Wholesale collusion?

[Research Highlight]

December 10, 2020

Reforms to African agriculture markets didn’t help farmers or consumers as intended. The reason seems to be with how intermediary traders set prices.

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor - Howard University

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Testing the welfare magnet hypothesis

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Do generous public benefits attract more immigrants?

Information for ASSA 2021 Participants

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International conference on gender economics: "Rethinking gender: Economic and social costs of gender inequality”

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December 04, 2020

The deadline for submissions is January 5, 2021.

The promise of conditional cash transfers

[Research Highlight]

December 22, 2020

Rema Hanna discusses how giving families money affects child development in the long run.

Cumulative Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia

By Nur Cahyadi, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, Rizal Adi Prima, Elan Satriawan, and Ekki Syamsulhakim

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, November 2020

Conditional cash transfers provide income and promote human capital investments. Yet evaluating their longitudinal impacts is hard, as most experimental evaluations treat control locations after a few years. We examine such impacts in Indonesia after six ...