Harrison Mitchell

Harrison Mitchell

Economics PhD Student

Research

Publications

  1. “Herder-Related Violence, Agricultural Work, and the Informal Sector as a Safety Net” (with Jeffrey Bloem, Amy Damon, and David Francis) Journal of Development Economics 176, 2025
  2. “Migration and Resilience during a Global Crisis” (with many co-authors) European Economic Review 158, 104524, 2023

Working Papers

  1. “The Global Value of Cities” (with Aakash Bhalothia, Gavin Engelstad, and Gaurav Khanna)
  2. “External Validity and Implementation at Scale: Evidence from a Migration Loan Program in Bangladesh” (with Mushfiq Mobarak, Karim Naguib, Maira Emy Reimao, and Ashish Shenoy)

Work in Progress

  1. “The Curse of Connectivity: Evidence from Indonesia’s Village Resettlement Program”
  2. “Build it and They Will Modernize: Structural Change and Village Creation” (STEG PhD Research Grant)
  3. “Land Inequality and Rural Structural Transformation: Evidence from India” (with Frances Lu and Manaswini Rao)
  4. “Transportation Networks and Inter-Group Contact” (with Thomas Gautier, Gedeon Lim, and Alex Rothenberg)