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Sam Asher

    Johns Hopkins University

Sam Asher is an assistant professor in the Department of International Economics at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. He was previously an economist at the Development Research Group (DECRG) at the World Bank. He is also an associate of the Center for International Development (Harvard University) and an affiliate at the Centre for Policy Research (New Delhi).

Sam received his PhD 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

  • 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

  • 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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