Professor
Fields: Macroeconomics, Economic Development
David Lagakos conducts research in the fields of macroeconomics and development economics. His research has appeared in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and other prominent academic journals. He currently serves as a co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy and an associate editor of Econometrica. Since 2016 he has worked as the lead academic for the International Growth Centre in Ghana, helping to foster policy-relevant academic research on economic growth. Lagakos is a research affiliate at the NBER, the CEPR, and BREAD. He is a co-organizer of the annual NBER conference on Economic Growth. Before joining the faculty of Boston University, Lagakos was an associate professor with tenure at the University of California San Diego, and held previous positions at Arizona State University and the Federal Reserve Banks of Minneapolis and New York. He received his PhD in 2008 from UCLA and his BA in 2001 from the University of Rochester.