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RECENT RESEARCH: EDUCATION&FAMILY

“It Takes a Village: The Economics of Parenting
with Neighborhood and Peer Effects .” With Francesco Agostinelli, Matthias Doepke and Giuseppe Sorrenti. Accepted for publication in the Journal of Political Economy. Earlier version NBER Working Paper no. 27050. The mutually reinforcing effects of parenting and peer effects. What a move-to-opportunity policy can and cannot achieve (and why). What plain regressions can’t tell you…

When the Great Equalizer Shuts Down: Schools, Peers, and Parents in Pandemic Times” NBER Working Paper 28264, December 2020. With Francesco Agostinelli, Matthias Doepke and Giuseppe Sorrenti. Journal of Public Economics 206, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104574. The devastating effects of COVID on future income inequality. Learn it from the data, not from narratives.

“Parenting with Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission .” With Matthias Doepke. Econometrica, 85(5), 1331–1371, 2017. Lead Article. Do Family and Parenting matter? Yes. How much? A lot. Isn’t it all about genes? Not at all. The seed idea of our book is here…

RECENT RESEARCH: INDIA&CHINA&THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

“Growing Like India: the Unequal Effects of Service-Led Growth.” With Tianyu Fan and Michael Peters. Econometrica 91, 4 (July, 2023), 1457–1494. Including an unpublished Web Appendix. The welfare effects of service-led growth on poverty and inequality in India. A new portable structural methodology to estimate productivity in the service sector. A new approach that bridges economic growth and economic development. Nontechnical summary in VoxDev.

“Creative Destruction, Distance to Frontier, and Economic Development .” With Michael Peters. NBER Working Paper w29333. Creative destruction and catch-up growth in India. Nontechnical summary in VoxDev.

“From Imitation to Innovation:
Where Is all that Chinese R&D Going?” Econometrica 90(4), pp. 1615–1654, July 2022. With Michael Koenig, Zheng Song, and Kjetil Storesletten Webpage Appendix. Is China on path to become a world innovation powerhouse? Nontechnical summary produced by the Yale Economic Growth Center.

“Tertiarization Like China.” NBER Working Paper 30272, July 2022. With Xilu Chen, Guangyu Pei, and Zheng Song. Is China becoming a service economy? Accepted for publication in the Annual Review of Economics 15, 2023.

“Aggregate Fluctuations in Adaptive Production Networks” (with Michael Koenig, Andrei Levchenko, and Tim Rogers). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2203730119 (September 2022).

BOOK

“Love, Money, and Parenting
How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids.”
With Matthias Doepke. Princeton University Press. February 2019.

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