Jie Bai

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I am an Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. My research is in development economics and industrial organization, with a focus on firms and markets in developing countries and emerging economies. I combine field experiments, quasi-experimental methods, and structural analysis to understand what constrains firm growth, and which policies actually work. 

I have conducted research in China, East Africa and Southeast Asia, where I have collaborated with governments and non-governmental organizations to design, implement and evaluate industrial, trade and development policies. 

I am a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER and a Research Fellow at CEPR, with affiliations at BREAD, J-PAL, and the IGC. I am also the Faculty Co-Chair of the China and the Global Economy initiative at Harvard's Center for International Development, and Director of Operations at the China Econ Lab. 

I received my Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 2016 and spent a year at Microsoft Research New England before joining HKS in 2017.

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Contact: jie_bai [at] hks.harvard.edu 

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