Growth Lab Working Papers

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217: The Impact of a Rise in Expected Income on Child Labor: Evidence From Coca Production in Colombia

Diego A. Martin

216: Eight Decades of Changes in Occupational Tasks, Computerization and the Gender Pay Gap

Ljubica Nedelkoska, Shreyas Gadgin Matha, James McNerney, Andre Assumpcao, Dario Diodato and Frank Neffke

215: What is South Africa’s Crop Production Potential?

Federico Sturzenegger, Bailey Klinger and Ivan Ordonez

214: Scaling Partnerships to Activate Idle Community Land in South Africa

Bailey Klinger, Ivan Ordonez and Federico Sturzenegger

213: Housing in Wyoming: Constraints and Solutions

Sarah Bui, Timothy Freeman, Ricardo Hausmann, Farah Kaddah, Lucas Lamby, Tim O'Brien and Eric S. M. Protzer

212: A Growth Perspective on Wyoming

Sarah Bui, Timothy Freeman, Farah Kaddah, Lucas Lamby, Yang Li, Tim O'Brien, Eric S. M. Protzer, Alejandro Rueda-Sanz, Ricardo Villasmil and Ricardo Hausmann

211: Evaluating the Principle of Relatedness: Estimation, Drivers and Implications for Policy

Frank Neffke and Yang Li

210: The Connectivity Trap: Stuck Between the Forest and Shared Prosperity in the Colombian Amazon

Patricio Goldstein, Timothy Freeman, Alejandro Rueda-Sanz, Shreyas Gadgin Matha, Sarah Bui, Nidhi Rao, Timothy Cheston and Sebastian Bustos

209: The Economic Tale of Two Amazons: Lessons in Generating Shared Prosperity While Protecting the Forest in the Peruvian and Colombian Amazon

Alejandro Rueda-Sanz and Timothy Cheston

208: The Missing Economic Diversity of the Colombian Amazon: An Economic Complexity Approach for Caquetá, Guaviare, and Putumayo

Sebastian Bustos, Timothy Cheston and Nidhi Rao

207: Seeing the Forest for More Than the Trees: a Policy Strategy to Curb Deforestation and Advance Shared Prosperity in the Colombian Amazon

Timothy Cheston, Patricio Goldstein, Timothy Freeman, Alejandro Rueda-Sanz, Ricardo Hausmann, Shreyas Gadgin Matha, Sebastian Bustos, Eduardo Lora, Sarah Bui and Nidhi Rao

206: A Growth Diagnostic of Kazakhstan

Douglas Barrios, Nikita Taniparti, Ricardo Hausmann, Clément Brenot, Can Soylu, Roukaya El Houda, Ekaterina Vashkinskaya, Felicia Belostecinic and Sophia Henn

205: The Economic Complexity of Kazakhstan: A Roadmap for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth

Clément Brenot, Douglas Barrios, Eric S. M. Protzer, Nikita Taniparti, Ricardo Hausmann and Sophia Henn

204: The Value of Early-Career Skills

Simon Wiederhold and Christina Langer

203: A Survey of Importers: Results of a Survey Conducted in Collaboration with the Ethiopian Economics Association

Ricardo Hausmann, Tim O'Brien, Timothy Cheston, Nikita Taniparti, Ibrahim Worku Hassen, Can Soylu, Lucas Lamby and Pablo Neumeyer

202: Development in a Complex World: The Case of Ethiopia

Ricardo Hausmann, Tim O'Brien, Timothy Cheston, Ibrahim Worku Hassen, Can Soylu, Kishan Shah, Nikita Taniparti, Pankhuri Prasad and Pablo Neumeyer

201: An Integrated Epidemiological and Economic Model of Covid-19 NPIs in Argentina

Adolfo Rubinstein, Eduardo Levy Yeyati, Alejandro López Osornio, Federico Filippini, Adrian Santoro, Cintia Cejas, Ariel Bardach, Alfredo Palacios, Fernando Argento, Jamile Balivian, Federico Augustovski and Andrés Pichón Riviere

200: Yet it Endures: The Persistence of Original Sin

Barry Eichengreen, Ricardo Hausmann and Ugo Panizza

199: Diagnosing Drivers of Spatial Exclusion: Places, People, and Policies in South Africa’s Former Homelands

Alexia Lochmann

198: Getting Back on the Curve South Africa’s Manufacturing Challenge

Andres Fortunato

196: Leaning-against-the-wind Intervention and the “carry-trade” View of the Cost of Reserves

Eduardo Levy Yeyati and Juan Francisco Gómez

195: Search, Transport Costs, and Labor Markets in South Africa

Kishan Shah and Federico Sturzenegger

194: The Long-Run Effects of South Africa’s Forced Resettlements on Employment Outcomes

Alexia Lochmann, Nidhi Rao and Martín Rossi

193: Diagnosing South Africa’s High Unemployment and Low Informality

Kishan Shah

192: Economic Costs of Friend-shoring

Beata Javorcik, Lucas Kitzmueller, Helena Schweiger and Muhammed A. Yildirim

191: On the Design of Effective Sanctions: The Case of Bans on Exports to Russia

Ricardo Hausmann, Ulrich Schetter and Muhammed A. Yildirim

190: A Simple Theory of Economic Development at the Extensive Industry Margin

Dario Diodato, Ricardo Hausmann and Ulrich Schetter

189: A Measure of Countries’ Distance to Frontier Based on Comparative Advantage

Ulrich Schetter

188: Global Supply Chain Pressures, International Trade, and Inflation

Julian di Giovanni, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Álvaro Silva and Muhammed A. Yildirim

187: More (Inclusive) Entrepreneurship in South Africa: The Role of Franchising

Bailey Klinger

186: Cutting Putin’s Energy Rent: 'Smart Sanctioning' Russian Oil and Gas

Ricardo Hausmann, Agata Łoskot-Strachota, Axel Ockenfels, Ulrich Schetter, Simone Tagliapietra, Guntram Wolff and Georg Zachmann

185: What Will It Take for Jordan to Grow?

Tim O'Brien, Thảo-Nguyên Bùi, Ermal Frasheri, Fernando Garcia, Eric S. M. Protzer, Ricardo Villasmil and Ricardo Hausmann

184: The Economic Complexity of Namibia: A Roadmap for Productive Diversification

Ricardo Hausmann, Miguel Santos, Douglas Barrios, Nikita Taniparti, Jorge Tudela Pye and Jessie Lu

183: A Growth Diagnostic of Namibia

Douglas Barrios, Frank Muci, Jessie Lu, Jorge Tudela Pye, Miguel Santos, Nikita Taniparti and Ricardo Hausmann

182: Macroeconomic risks after a decade of microeconomic turbulence: South Africa 2007-2020

Douglas Barrios, Federico Sturzenegger, Frank Muci, Patricio Goldstein and Ricardo Hausmann

181: New Avenues for Colombia’s Internationalization: Trade in Tasks

Ricardo Hausmann and Sebastian Bustos

180: Bridging the short-term and long-term dynamics of economic structural change

Andres Gomez-Lievano, Frank Neffke, Yang Li and James McNerney

179: The Quest for Increased Saudization: Labor Market Outcomes and the Shadow Price of Workforce Nationalization Policies

Michael Lopesciolo, Daniela Muhaj and Carolina Ines Pan

178: A Generation of Italian Economists

Martina Viarengo, Ugo Panizza and Enrico Nano

177: The Role of the Diaspora in the Internationalization of the Colombian Economy

Ljubica Nedelkoska, Andre Assumpcao, Ana Grisanti, Matte Hartog, Julian Hinz, Jessie Lu, Daniela Muhaj, Eric S. M. Protzer, Annalee Saxenian and Ricardo Hausmann

176: Western Australia – Research Findings and Policy Recommendations

Ana Grisanti, Douglas Barrios, Eric S. M. Protzer, Jorge Tapia, Nikita Taniparti, Ricardo Hausmann, Rushabh Sanghvi, Semiray Kasoolu and Tim O'Brien

175: Economic Complexity Report for Western Australia

Ana Grisanti, Eric S. M. Protzer, Jorge Tapia and Ricardo Hausmann

174: Growth Perspective on Western Australia

Ana Grisanti, Douglas Barrios, Eric S. M. Protzer, Jorge Tapia, Ricardo Hausmann, Semiray Kasoolu, Tim O'Brien, Rushabh Sanghvi and Nikita Taniparti

173: Sorting, Matching and Economic Complexity

Muhammed A. Yildirim

172: Understanding Saudi Private Sector Employment And Unemployment

Farah Hani and Michael Lopesciolo

171: Inequality, Openness, and Growth through Creative Destruction

Ulrich Schetter, Adrian Jäggi and Maik Schneider

170: Lockdown Fatigue: The Diminishing Effects of Quarantines on the Spread of COVID-19

Eduardo Levy Yeyati, Patricio Goldstein and Luca Sartorio

169: The Economic Case for Global Vaccinations: An Epidemiological Model with International Production Networks

Muhammed A. Yildirim, Cem Cakmakli, Selva Demiralp, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Sevcan Yesiltas

168: Diagnosing Human Capital as a Binding Constraint to Growth: Tests, Symptoms and Prescriptions

Farah Hani and Miguel Santos

167a: Buscando virtudes en la lejanía: Recomendaciones de política para promover el crecimiento inclusivo y sostenible en Loreto, Peru

Ricardo Hausmann, Miguel Santos, Jorge Tudela Pye, Frank Muci, Yang Li, Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm, Ana Grisanti and Jessie Lu