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David Atkin

  • Professor of Economics
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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David Atkin is a Research Programme Director for the IGC’s Firms research programme.

David Atkin is currently a Professor of Economics at MIT. He was previously an Assistant Professor at UCLA and Yale, after receiving his PhD from Princeton University. His primary fields are trade and development. David's research focuses on evaluating the impacts of trade liberalization on the poor in the developing world by using the microeconometric tools and the large household datasets common in applied economics to analyze trade and development issues. His recent work has studied the role of regional taste differences in altering the impacts of trade reforms in India, and educational responses to the rise of export oriented manufacturing in Mexico.

Projects

Trade research and capacity building

Rocco Macchiavello, David Atkin 31 Aug 2019
Project

Quality upgrading in Myanmar's rice sector

David Atkin, Amit Khandelwal, Rocco Macchiavello 30 Jun 2019
Project

Understanding low productivity in developing countries: Evidence from the airline industry

David Atkin, Amit Khandelwal 30 Sep 2018
Project
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Evidence from a randomised experiment in Pakistan

David Atkin, Azam Chaudhry, Amit Khandelwal, Eric Verhoogen 10 Mar 2014
Project

Who's getting globalised? Intra-national trade costs and world price pass-through in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

David Atkin, Dave Donaldson 1 Dec 2011
Project

The impact of exporting: Evidence from a randomised experiment

David Atkin 1 Aug 2011
Project

All contributions

Factory workers in Savar

IGC Evidence Papers - Firms, trade, and productivity

David Atkin, Stefano Caria, Dave Donaldson, Namrata Kala, Imran Rasul, Matthieu Teachout, Eric Verhoogen, Christopher Woodruff
Synthesis paper
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IGC/EGC Conference on Firms, Trade, and Development

19–20 October 2023
Past Event

IGC-Stanford conference on firms, trade and development

4–5 November 2021
Past Event

IGC-Stanford University conference on firms, trade and development

5–6 November 2020
Past Event
Atkin et al Final report January 2020

Quality upgrading in Myanmar's rice sector

David Atkin, Meredith Startz, Rocco Macchiavello, Amit Khandelwal, Yulu Tang
Project report

Call for Papers - Conference on Firms, Trade and Development

5 December 2019 Stanford University
Past Event

IGC and Stanford University conference on firms, trade and development

5 December 2019 Koret-Taube Conference Center John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Building 366 Galvez Street, Stanford
Past Event

Trading up: The benefits of exporting for small firms

David Atkin, Amanda Jinhage
Growth brief

Retail globalisation and household welfare: Evidence from Mexico

David Atkin, Benjamin Faber, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro
Blog

Organisational barriers to technology adoption: Evidence from soccer-ball producers in Pakistan (Policy Brief)

David Atkin, Azam Chaudhry, Amit Khandelwal, Eric Verhoogen
Policy brief
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Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan (Working Paper)

David Atkin, Azam Chaudhry, Amit Khandelwal, Eric Verhoogen
Working paper
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Who’s Getting Globalized? Intra-national Trade Costs and World Price Pass-Through in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa (Working Paper)

David Atkin, Dave Donaldson
Working paper
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Who’s Getting Globalized? Intra-National Trade Costs and World Price Pass-Through in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa (Policy Brief)

David Atkin, Dave Donaldson
Policy brief