Michael A. Clemens

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Michael Andrew Clemens is an American economist at the Center for Global Development (CGD), where he leads the Migration and Development Initiative. He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Future of Work and a partner at the Financial Access Initiative research center .

Life

Clemens studied engineering ( B.Sc. , 1994) at the California Institute of Technology , and economics and environmental management at Johns Hopkins University ( MA , 1997). 1996–1997 he worked as a consultant for the Environmental Defense Fund , and 1998–1999 for the World Bank . In 2002 he received his Ph.D. from Harvard University . From 2002 to 2010 he taught at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute at Georgetown University . He has been researching at the CGD since 2002, and in a leading position since 2011.

job

Clemens' research areas are economic growth and development, migration research , economic history and international finance . He has published in renowned journals such as The Economic Journal , Journal of Economic Perspectives, and the Journal of Economic Growth .

One of his most cited works is a 2011 article in the Journal of Economic Perspectives entitled Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk . In it he explores the question of why economists spend a lot of time examining the flows of goods and capital but neglecting the migration of workers. He drafts a four-point plan for researching the effects of migration.

He has also written articles for magazines such as the Boston Review , The Huffington Post , Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs .

Publications

  • with Jeffrey G. Williamson : Wealth Bias in the First Global Capital Market Boom, 1870–1913. In: Economic Journal. 114, 2004, pp. 311-344.
  • with Jeffrey G. Williamson: Why Did the Tariff-Growth Correlation Change after 1950? In: Journal of Economic Growth. 9, 2004, pp. 5-46.
  • with Charles Kenny, Todd J. Moss: The trouble with the MDGs. Confronting expectations of aid and development success. In: World Development. 35, 2007, pp. 735-751.
  • with Steven Radelet, Rikhil R. Bhavnani, Samuel Bazzi: Counting chickens when they hatch. Timing and the effects of aid on growth. In: Economic Journal. 2011.
  • Economics and emigration. Trillion-dollar bills on the sidewalk? In: Journal of Economic Perspectives. 25, 2011, pp. 83-106.

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SURNAME Clemens, Michael A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clemens, Michael Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century