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Michael Walker

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Michael Walker is a Ph.D. student in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his B.A. in Economics with Honors and Distinction from Stanford University in 2009. He has previously been a Research Associate and Assitant Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Research Assistant to Professor Edward Miguel at Berkeley.

Projects

Understanding the economic effects and resilience to COVID-19: Evidence from a cash transfer project in Kenya

Edward Miguel, Johannes Haushofer, Michael Walker, Dennis Egger 31 Jul 2020
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Spatial equilibrium effects of positive wealth shocks

Edward Miguel, Paul Niehaus, Johannes Haushofer, Michael Walker 28 Feb 2017
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Economic activity and living standards during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from rural Kenya

Edward Miguel, Johannes Haushofer, Michael Walker, Dennis Egger
Policy brief
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Understanding economic effects and resilience to COVID-19: Evidence from a cash transfer project in Kenya

Edward Miguel, Dennis Egger, Johannes Haushofer, Michael Walker
Project report
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Informal taxation and cash transfers: Experimental evidence from Kenya

Michael Walker
Working paper

Informal taxation in rural Kenya

Michael Walker
Blog

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