Sam Asher
Sam Asher is an associate professor of economics at Imperial College London Business School. He was previously an assistant professor of international economics at Johns Hopkins SAIS and before that an economist at the Development Research Group (DECRG, World Bank). He is an associate of the Bureau for Research and the Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) and the Center for International Development (Harvard University), and an affiliate at the Centre for Policy Research (New Delhi). He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and was then a postdoctoral research fellow in the Economics Department and Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
Related Projects
Related Publications
GLM|LIC Policy Brief No. 30
Rural Roads and Local Economic Development
G²LM|LIC Policy Brief No. 91
The Female Urban Mobility Advantage in South Asia
GLM|LIC Working Paper No. 66
Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Methods and Estimates across Time, Space and Communities
G²LM|LIC Working Paper No. 113
Income Growth and Women’s Work
Published Articles
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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Measures and Estimates across Time and Social Groups -
The World Bank Economic Review, 35(4), 845-871
Development Research at High Geographic Resolution: An Analysis of Nigh-Lights, Firms, and Poverty in India Using the SHRUG Open Data Platform -
The American Economic Review, 110(3), 797-823
Rural Roads and Local Economic Development