Welcome
I am a PhD candidate at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.
Welcome to my personal website. My research focuses on structural change in developing countries, with particular interest in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. More broadly, my work relates to Macro Development, Labor Economics, and International Trade. I am a research affiliate of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
Address: Nettelbosje 2, 9747 AE Groningen, The Netherlands
Room: 5411-0509
Email: h.kruse@rug.nl
Curriculum Vitae: CV
Research
Publications
“A Manufacturing (Re)Naissance? Industrialization in the Developing World” (with Emmanuel Mensah, Kunal Sen, & Gaaitzen de Vries), IMF Economic Review , 71, 2023, 439-473.
Presented at: World Bank/IZA/UNU-WIDER Jobs and Development Conference, CEPR STEG Annual Conference, IARIW 36th Annual Conference, SOM PhD Conference (all 2021)
Featured in an editorial in The Economist, in The World Bank’s EAP Economic Update 2023, by D. Rodrik on Project Syndicate, by X. Diao, M. Ellis, M. McMillan, & D. Rodrik on VoxEU and UNIDO as well as in own pieces for The Conversation and UNIDO’s Industrial Analytics Platform
Working papers
“Export Diversification from an Activity Perspective: An Exploration Using Occupation Data” (with Marcel Timmer, Gaaitzen de Vries, & Xianjia Ye), World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 10463. Under review.
Presented at (selected): Harvard Growth Lab seminar (2023), World Bank ‘Leveraging trade for more and better job opportunities in developing countries’ workshops, ICDE in Paris, AEDC in Tokyo, ETSG in Groningen, Conference ‘Economics of Global Interactions’ in Bari (2022), University of Barcelona (2021)
Featured on the World Bank's 'Let's Talk Development' blog, on the Faculty of Economics and Business blog, and UNIDO's Industrial Analytics Platform
Included a short-term consultancy at The World Bank's headquarters in Washington D.C.
“Linking Trade to Jobs, Incomes, and Activities: New Stylized Facts for Low- and Middle-Income Countries” (with Deborah Winkler, Luis Aguilar Luna, & Maryla Maliszewska), World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 10635.
“The Economic Transformation Database (ETD): Content, Sources, and Methods” (with Gaaitzen de Vries, Linda Arfelt, Thea Drees, Mareike Godemann, Calumn Hamilton, Bente Jessen-Thiesen, Ahmet Kaya, Emmanuel Mensah, & Jop Woltjer), WIDER Technical Note 2021/2.
UNU-WIDER funded research project
Presented at: UNU-WIDER Annual Conference (2021), UNU-WIDER virtual seminar (2020)
“Industrialization and Global Value Chain Participation: The Importance of an Enabling Environment”, mimeo.
Presented at: ETSG in Ghent, UNIDO Conference on ‘Sustainability in Global Value Chains’ (both 2021), FIW International Economics Conference, SOM PhD Conference (both 2022), GGDC PhD seminar (2023)
Work in progress
“Structural Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Open Economy Perspective” (with Emmanuel Mensah, Yabo Vidogbena, Gaaitzen de Vries, & Kei-Mu Yi).
CEPR - Structural Transformation and Economic Growth (STEG) funded research project
Included two research visits at the University of Houston (February & November 2023)