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Place-specific determinants of income gaps: New sub-national evidence from Mexico - Ricardo Hausmann
January 2021, Paper: "The literature on wage gaps between Chiapas and the rest of Mexico revolves around individual factors, such as education and ethnicity. Yet, twenty years…
October 9, 2020, Opinion: "Firms that manage to survive until an effective COVID-19 vaccine is widely available will have a bright future but weak balance sheets. Innovative new…
October 6, 2020, Video: "Professor Ricardo Hausmann's webcast, Managing COVID-19 in the Americas, Africa and the Middle East."
2020, Paper: "What does it take for a sub-national unit to become an autonomous engine of growth? This issue is particularly relevant to large cities, as they tend to display…
September 17, 2020, Video: "The Viz Hub (located at growthlab.app) is a portfolio of visualization tools, interactive stories, and supporting software packages, powered by the…
September 8, 2020, Video: "Economists on Zoom Getting Coffee (…
August 29, 2020, Paper: "Fighting COVID-19 has forced countries around the world to make trade-offs between lives and livelihoods. But in countries where many people already live…
August 10, 2020, Opinion: "Business travel, which used to represent $1.5 trillion a year – about 1.7% of world GDP – has slowed to a trickle. But the economic impact will extend…
July 2020, Paper, "In this paper, we develop a heterogeneous agent general equilibrium framework to analyze optimal joint policies of a lockdown and transfer payments in times of…
July 1, 2020, Video, "The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis of unprecedented scale, with aftershocks that will be felt in virtually every aspect of life for years or decades to…