The choice to migrate is never easy. While there are a lot of economic theories about where and why people migrate, what we find is that real world behavior often doesn’t match what theories would …
Development Economics
Schechter, Laura
Development Economics
Our development economics faculty work on a wide range of issues, from migration to climate change to trust to social capital. Working to apply their analysis to the challenges of an increasingly global economy, they use econometric tools along with behavioral and experimental economics to inform policy worldwide.