No one actually cares about how immigration impacts the economy

Spooky season is here—and so is the launch of Talk at the Top, with a pilot episode on the real horror of finishing an economics PhD: writing your job market paper.

Abstract. This paper develops a novel method to estimate inequality within a country based on what the country imports. If preferences are non-homothetic,

Africa’s startup ecosystem is small but growing fast. We built a new dataset to study who starts these firms, what capital they want, and who finances them. Startups want equity and investors with local knowledge, yet most capital comes from abroad and disproportionately reaches founders with foreign exposure. The same forces that make the ecosystem foreign also appear to keep it small.

Wars and the growth of the shadow fleet are causing a ‘structural shift’ in global trade, according to 18 maritime authorities

Whether a new mine raises or lowers a country's risk of violence depends not only on the mine itself, but on the country's entire ethnic and mining geography. Results for Sierra Leone and sub-Saharan ...

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

Abstract. We study the feasibility of opening new mines in ethnically diverse countries without escalating the risk of conflict. We propose a theoretical m

Nestory Irankunda was born as a refugee in Tanzania before becoming Australian record breaker with goal in victory over Turkey.

Geopolitical tensions are increasingly influencing where companies choose to invest, according to new research co-authored by a King’s academic that suggests firms are becoming more likely to favour p...

Drawing on his own family’s experience, the Real Madrid and Germany defender tells Sam Cunningham why he is advocating for refugees

This paper examines the relationship between geopolitical distance and foreign investments over time, countries, and sectors. The analysis uses compre…

The research finds that Jordan's 2016 policy granting Syrian refugees work authorization increased overall output by 10.9% and raised Jordanians' average wages by nearly 1%.

The city has been hit by successive shocks and diminishing growth. But the rest of the UK needs it

New research finds that ICE raids and deportation fears disrupted local economies, reduced work among undocumented immigrants, and may have hurt some U.S.-born workers too.

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