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Sam Asher

  • Associate Professor
  • Imperial College London Business School

Roles

Researchers

Sam Asher is assistant professor in the Department of International Economics at Johns Hopkins SAIS. His work focusses on high spatial resolution administrative and remote sensing data to better understand the spatial distribution of economic activity, growth and poverty in developing countries.

Projects

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Fostering sustainable urbanisation: How urban policies affect the causes and consequences of climate change

Paul Novosad, Sam Asher 30 Sep 2026
Project

Land governance and urban development in India

Sam Asher, Paul Novosad 31 Oct 2022
Project

Rapid urbanisation, rural-to-urban migration and rural development: Evidence from 8000 Indian towns

Paul Novosad, Sam Asher 30 Jun 2018
Project

How do rural roads affect development? Evidence from India

Paul Novosad, Sam Asher 31 May 2018
Project

Rapid response project on Indian firm data

Sam Asher, Paul Novosad 31 Mar 2015
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The cost of road construction in rural Tanzania: Random audits and contractor performance

Sam Asher, Martina Kirchberger, Paul Novosad 31 Aug 2016
Project

All contributions

Thumbnail image of Asher et al Working Paper February 2024

Residential segregation and unequal access to local public services in India: Evidence from 1.5m neighbourhoods

Sam Asher, Kritarth Jha, Paul Novosad, Anjali Adukia, Brandon Tan
Working paper
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The Socioeconomic High-resolution Rural-Urban Geographic dataset on India (SHRUG)

Sam Asher, Tobias Lunt, Ryu Matsuura, Paul Novosad
Working paper

IGC-SCID Conference on firms, trade, and development 2016

3–4 November 2016 Stanford University
Past Event