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Economist
International Monetary Fund, Western Hemisphere Department
MChin2 [at] IMF [dot] org
I am an Economist in the Western Hemisphere Department at the IMF. I received my PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 2020. My research lies at the intersection of development economics and political economy. My research seeks to better understand how variation in political institutions affects governance, inclusiveness, and development policy. I have a broad range of other research interests including labor economics and public economics.
The views expressed here are personal and should not be attributed to the IMF, its Executive Board, or its management.
When Do Politicians Appeal Broadly? The Economic Consequences of Electoral Rules in Brazil [pdf] [appendix] [replication files] [IMF WP 21/227]
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, 15(3), 183-209
Coverage: World Bank; GlobalDev; VoxDev
Persuading Judges or Voters? The Role of Lawsuits in Elections with Guilherme Lambais and Henrik Sigstad, Submitted
The Pass-through of Wages to Consumer Prices in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Sectoral Data with Li Lin, IMF Working Paper No. 23/233
Policy Papers and Reports
What Can Artificial Intelligence Do for Stagnant Productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean? with Bas B. Bakker, Sophia Chen, Dmitry Vasilyev, Olga Bespalova, Daria Kolpakova, Archit Singhal, and Yuanchen Yang, IMF Working Paper No. 24/219
What are Global Public Goods? Finance and Development, Winter 2021
Country Experience
Bhutan, Guyana, Maldives, Peru, United States
International Monetary Fund
Financial Programming and Policies (IMF-JVI)
Macroeconomic Diagnostics (IMF-CEF, IMF-JVI)
Fiscal Policy Analysis (IMF-JVI)
Inclusive Growth (IMF-ATI, IMF-JVI)
Harvard University
The Political Economy of Development (Melissa Dell)
The Behavioral Economics of Poverty and Development (Gautam Rao)
A Libertarian Perspective on Economic and Social Policy (Jeffrey Miron)
Development Economics (Michael Kremer)
The Historical Origins of Middle Eastern Development (Eric Chaney)
Introduction to Econometrics (James Stock)