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Introducing our newly hired researchers: part 2 of 3 We continue our series of highlighting our recently recruited researchers. Today we cover researchers who work on the environment, infrastructure and sustainability, and on poverty and public economics – noting again that these labels do not cover the full range of topics being studied. Environment, Infrastructure and Sustainability Gabriel Englander studies how policy and illegal behavior affect wildlife conservation. He hopes to provide cross-support in the areas of marine fisheries, terrestrial wildlife conservation, forests, and land use. He shows in his job market paper that when regulators in Peru try to protect juvenile fish by temporarily closing specific areas of ocean, they inadvertently provide information about the location of schools of fish, resulting in large spillovers that cause the policy to backfire. Gabriel will earn his PhD from UC Berkeley’s Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics ....
Some of our favorite development papers of 2020 Development Impact will now be on break over the next couple of weeks for the holidays, resuming in early January. As we have done previously (2018,2017), we will turn to the holidays with a gift to you of some of our favorite development papers that we came across this year. This year we thought we’d focus on papers related to impact evaluation or measurement produced by some of our colleagues at the World Bank. · (Jules Gazeaud, Eric Mvukiyehe and Olivier Sterck): This paper is important for the debate of whether fostering more employment opportunities at home will deter migration, or whether it will help people overcome liquidity and risk constraints and instead enable more migration to take place. One of the challenges in identifying impacts on international migration is that it is usually such a rare event that it is hard to get enough action to see treatment effects. Here the authors use a sample of ....