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Sam Asher

    Imperial College Business School

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.

 

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Related Projects

  • Long–Run Social Norms and Female Labour Force Participation in India
  • The Urban Geography of Entrepreneurship and Growth in India

Related Publications

  • GLM|LIC Policy Brief No. 30

     Rural Roads and Local Economic Development
  • GLM|LIC Working Paper No. 66

    Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Methods and Estimates across Time, Space and Communities

Published Articles

  • 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

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