Research

Working Papers

"The Geography of Opportunity: Education, Work, and Intergenerational Mobility Across US Counties," with Fabian Eckert, 2024. 

Revise & Resubmit at Journal of Political Economy.

[previously circulated under the title: "Saving the American Dream? Education Policies in Spatial General Equilibrium"]

"A Division of Laborers: Identity and Efficiency in India," with Guilhem Cassan and Daniel Keniston, 2025. [updated]

Revise & Resubmit, 2nd round resubmitted to Econometrica.

"Gender Barriers, Structural Transformation and Economic Development," with Gaurav Chiplunkar, 2025. (Submitted.) [updated]

"Benchmarking Global Optimizers," with Antoine Arnoud and Fatih Guvenen, 2023. (Submitted.)

Selected Work in Progress

"Unequal Global Convergence," with Shoumitro Chatterjee, Elisa Giannone, and Kan Kuno [new version coming soon]

"The Distribution of Economic Activity across Cities: A Global Perspective," with Mathilde Lebrand

"Does Labor Reallocate to Higher-Productivity Regions?" with Ying Feng, Tommaso Porzio, and Radine Rafols  [first version coming soon]

Publications

“Growth Still Is Good for the Poor,” with David Dollar and Aart Kraay, European Economic Review, 2016.

[Research covered in: VoxEU.org, the Economist, LeMonde, and others]

“Growth, Inequality, and Social Welfare: Cross-Country Evidence,” with David Dollar and Aart Kraay, Economic Policy, 2015.

[Research covered in: VoxEU.org]

Policy Work Publications

"2024 World Development Report: Growth in Middle-Income Countries", with WDR director Somik Lall and academic lead Ufuk Akcigit, 2024.

"The Welfare and Productivity Effects of Transit Improvements in Amman," with Sally Murray, Yulu Tang, and Jon Kher Kaw, 2024.