Benjamin Marx
@benjaminmarx
Assistant Professor @bu_economics | Political economy and development.
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Our column on ``The Confederate Diaspora'' with Samuel Bazzi, Andy Ferrara, Thomas Pearson and @patesta VoxEU Full paper: shorturl.at/fvzH Thread: ⬇️
🚨 New Working Paper: Religion and Growth w/ Sascha O. Becker & Jared Rubin We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function—physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology—to frame the role of religion in economic growth. monash.edu/__data/assets/… 🧵1/9
J’Accuse! Antisemitism and Financial Markets in the Time of the Dreyfus Affair | Quoc-Anh (Q.A.) Do, Roberto Galbiati, Benjamin Marx, Miguel A. Ortiz-Serrano #EconTwitter cesifo.org/en/publication…
Our book "Roots of Underdevelopment: A New Economic and Political History of Latin America and the Caribbean" is officially OUT! I cannot be happier and more thankful to all of our wonderful authors, tagged below, and reviewers. Just in time for Christmas! link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…
Very excited to see this summary come at VoxDev. The accepted paper is also online at AER AEA Journals this week [aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…]. The paper estimates the effects of a large public works program (UPSNP) on the urban poor in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 🧵👇Clément Imbert
A new era for CGD! 🌍🌟 We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Rachel Glennerster Rachel Glennerster will be the new President of CGD! Building on the legacies of Nancy M. Birdsall and @MasoodCGD, Rachel is set to propel CGD forward with her rigorous approach to development economics,
Un immense bravo à Alexandra Roulet ! Très heureux de cette nomination Le Cercle des économistes en compagnie de Antonin Bergeaud et Fanny Henriet, et reconnaissant envers tous mes coauteurs et collègues (anciens & actuels) à ScPoEcon et BU Economics lemonde.fr/economie/artic…
Check the revised "Eat Widely, Vote Wisely: Lessons from a Campaign Against Vote Buying in Uganda," Chris Blattman Benjamin Marx and Otis Reid In a project where results were not as expected, and as a result we learned a ton about party responses against anti-vote-buying
This fantastic paper 😁 paper is finally out! It has been a great research journey with Benjamin Marx and E. Henry Also very grateful to my colleagues at Economics at Zurich and CERGIC for their insightful discussions Looking for a summary? See youtube.com/watch?v=fCKFnR… by econimate
thomas chaney and I updated our working paper on "Trade and the End of Antiquity" (which recently got some airtime here). A short re-cap: 1/n