David Lagakos Options Volunteer Basis, Potential for UROP Funding Overview I am looking for research assistants who can help me track the children and grandchildren of former slaves who were interviewed about their lives in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writer’s Projects iconic “Slave Narratives.” The research assistants will help match the individual […]
David Lagakos conducts research in the fields of macroeconomics and development economics, focusing on the determinants of sectoral productivity levels, human capital accumulation, structural transformation, and cross-country differences in labor market outcomes, among other topics. His research has appeared in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics and […]