Samuel Marshall
I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick. I will be visiting Sciences Po in the Spring of 2024. My main research interests are in macro development, labor, and urban economics. When I was younger, I worked in health economics.
Advisors: Clement Imbert, David Lagakos, and Federico Rossi
Work in Progress:
Labor Market Power in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Small Firms, Self-Employment, and Migration [JOB MARKET PAPER]
Minimum Wage Compliance and Migration: The Labor Market Effects of Tanzania's Sectoral Minimum Wage Bill
[draft]
Deforestation and Structural Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa
with Kenneth Houngbedji, Clement Imbert, Liam Wren-Lewis, and Julien Wolfersberger
[draft coming soon!]
A Line of Opportunity: The Labor Market Effects of Mexico City's Cablebus
[draft coming soon!]
Publications:
Migration Costs and Observational Returns to Migration in the Developing World
(with David Lagakos, Mushfiq Mobarak, Michael Waugh, and Corey Vernot) Journal of Monetary Economics, 2020 113, 138-154
Association between Having a Highly Educated Spouse and Physician Practice in Rural Underserved Areas
(with Douglas Staiger, David Goodman, David Auerbach, and Peter Buerhaus) JAMA, 2016 315(9), 939-941
[paper]
Out-of-Pocket Spending in the Last Five Years of Life
(with Amy S. Kelley, Kathleen McGarry, Sean Fahle, Qingling Du, and Jonathan Skinner) Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2013, 28(2), 304-309
[paper]
The Risk of Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenditures at the End of Life
(with Kathleen McGarry and Jonathan Skinner) in D. Wise (ed.) Explorations in the Economics of Aging, University of Chicago Press, 2011
[paper]