Research

Working Papers

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

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, 2024. [new version]

Revise & Resubmit at Econometrica.

"Gender Barriers, Structural Transformation and Economic Development," with Gaurav Chiplunkar, 2024. [new version]

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

Selected Work in Progress

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