
Tilman Graff
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Tilman Graff
@TilmanGraff
Econ PhD student at Harvard. Interested in macro, development, and avocados.












** New WP alert ** Slack and Economic Development, with @mwwalkerecon, @nachi_365, @tedmiguel, @soliman_felix, @TilmanGraff We study the causes and macroeconomic consequences of slack in small firms. drive.google.com/file/d/1heKgka…






How should urban public transport networks be designed? Evidence from Jakarta's public bus system expansion, and a quantitative framework for characterizing optimal networks, from @thetahat, @abgaduh, @TilmanGraff, @rema_nadeem, and @ben_olken nber.org/papers/w31369



My two cents FWIW: Having a field called "development economics" makes no sense. It is essentially all fields of economics related to the 84% of people in the world who don't live in high-income countries. It is good to see it gradually absorbed into the other fields of econ.

🚨 Important new paper just out in Science Advances: What were the effects of 2020 COVID lockdowns and disruptions on households in lower income countries? (From 26 co-authors on 3 continents!) Summary/brief: poverty-action.org/publication/co… Full Paper: advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/6/ea…









