David Atkin
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David Atkin is a Research Programme Director for the IGC’s Firms research programme.
David Atkin is the Barton L Weller (1940) Professor in the Department of Economics at MIT. His research focuses on firms, trade and development. His recent work has studied the impacts of trade on health, education and income volatility, the costs of distance, the distribution sector in developing countries, difficulties in climbing the ladder of development, and provided experimental evidence for the impacts of trade and industrial policy. He also has interests in studying the determinants and consequences of preference heterogeneity and welfare measurement. Atkin holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University.
