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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 ....
Profit vs. Revenue tax: How to make corporations pay their fair share? Guest post by Thiago Scot. This is the 21st and final post in our series of posts by PhD students on the job market “In life, two things are certain: death and taxes, the saying goes. Unless you are a large multinational corporation, in which case, maybe not.” This may sound like political banter to you, but it is not: it is a quote from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Multilateral institutions are heavily involved in improving tax enforcement: the World Bank recognizes that “mobilizing tax revenue is key” for developing countries to end extreme poverty by 2030. ....