Michael Clemens
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- Bachelors Economics University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Michael Andrew Clemens is an American economist who studies international migration and global economic development. He is a full professor in the Department of Economics at George Mason University and a non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He is also affiliated with IZA, the Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn, Germany, the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration at University College London, and is a Distinguished Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development.
Michael Clemens's Published Works
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Published Works
- How to do Xtabond2: An Introduction to Difference and System GMM in Stata (2006) (7291)
- Genuine Savings Rates in Developing Countries (1999) (796)
- Counting Chickens When They Hatch: The Short-Term Effect of Aid on Growth (2004) (745)
- Counting Chickens When They Hatch: Timing and the Effects of Aid on Growth (2012) (541)
- Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk? (2011) (520)
- Blunt Instruments: Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Identifying the Causes of Economic Growth (2013) (472)
- The Trouble with the MDGS: Confronting Expectations of Aid and Development Success (2004) (363)
- New data on African health professionals abroad (2007) (312)
- The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers Across the U.S. Border (2008) (286)
- Why did the Tariff–Growth Correlation Change after 1950? (2004) (193)
- Manual for calculating adjusted net savings (2002) (188)
- The Meaning of Failed Replications: A Review and Proposal (2015) (176)
- Does Development Reduce Migration? (2014) (165)
- Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion (2017) (158)
- The Long Walk to School: International Education Goals in Historical Perspective (2004) (151)
- Wealth Bias in the First Global Capital Market Boom, 1870-1913 (2004) (146)
- A Tariff-Growth Paradox? Protection&Apos;S Impact the World Around 1875-1997 (2001) (140)
- Do Visas Kill? Health Effects of African Health Professional Emigration (2007) (140)
- The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves: Reconciling Conflicting Results (2017) (134)
- Why Don't Remittances Appear to Affect Growth? (2014) (114)
- Why Did the Tariff-Growth Correlation Reverse after 1950? (2002) (100)
- Skill Flow: A Fundamental Reconsideration of Skilled-Worker Mobility and Development (2009) (100)
- When does rigorous impact evaluation make a difference? The case of the Millennium Villages (2010) (95)
- Skilled Emigration and Skill Creation: A Quasi-Experiment (2008) (95)
- Migration and Development Research Is Moving Far Beyond Remittances (2014) (84)
- Counting Chickens When They Hatch: The Short Term Effect of Aid on Growth (2004) (83)
- Deterring Emigration with Foreign Aid: An Overview of Evidence from Low-Income Countries. (2018) (81)
- Why Do Programmers Earn More in Houston Than Hyderabad? Evidence from Randomized Processing of US Visas (2013) (78)
- The Millennium Challenge Account: How Much is Too Much, How Long is Long Enough? (2003) (75)
- Income per Natural: Measuring Development for People Rather Than Places (2008) (74)
- A New Database of Health Professional Emigration from Africa (2006) (74)
- Blunt Instruments: On Establishing the Causes of Economic Growth (2009) (71)
- The New Role for the World Bank (2016) (60)
- Where Did British Foreign Capital Go? Fundamentals, Failures and the Lucas Paradox: 1870-1913 (2000) (57)
- Violence, Development, and Migration Waves: Evidence from Central American Child Migrant Apprehensions (2017) (53)
- Ghost of 0.7%: Origins and Relevance of the International Aid Target (2005) (53)
- Global Skill Partnerships: a proposal for technical training in a mobile world (2015) (53)
- The New Economic Case for Migration Restrictions: An Assessment (2016) (51)
- The Place Premium: Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers (2019) (46)
- What’s Wrong with the Millennium Development Goals? (2005) (44)
- Blunt Instruments: A Cautionary Note on Establishing the Causes of Economic Growth (2010) (44)
- The ghost of 0.7 per cent: origins and relevance of the international aid target (2007) (44)
- The Roots of Global Wage Gaps: Evidence from Randomized Processing of U.S. Visas (2010) (38)
- Split Decisions: Household Finance When a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work (2017) (38)
- Migration as a Strategy for Household Finance: A Research Agenda on Remittances, Payments, and Development (2014) (38)
- Income per Natural: Measuring Development as if People Mattered More than Places (2008) (37)
- Closed Jaguar, Open Dragon: Comparing Tariffs in Latin America and Asia Before World War Ii (2002) (34)
- Mobiles and mobility: The Effect of Mobile Phones on Migration in Niger (2011) (32)
- Who Protected and Why? Tariffs the World Around 1870-1938 (2003) (30)
- A Labor Mobility Agenda for Development (2010) (30)
- Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers (2016) (25)
- Concerns about the Millennium Villages project report (2012) (24)
- Absorptive Capacity : How Much Is Too Much ? (2003) (24)
- Split Decisions: Family Finance When a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work (2012) (21)
- The Emigration Life Cycle: How Development Shapes Emigration from Poor Countries (2020) (19)
- Migration from Developing Countries: Selection, Income Elasticity and Simpson's Paradox (2020) (18)
- Temporary work visas as US-Haiti development cooperation: a preliminary impact evaluation (2017) (16)
- Losing Our Minds? New Research Directions on Skilled Migration and Development (2015) (15)
- A Case Against Taxes and Quotas on High-Skill Emigration (2014) (14)
- The New Transparency in Development Economics: Lessons from the Millennium Villages Controversy (2013) (13)
- Does Development Reduce Migration? - Working Paper 359 (2014) (12)
- Why were Latin America's tariffs so much higher than Asia's before 1950? (2011) (11)
- WHY THE TARIFF-GROWTH CORRELATION CHANGED AFTER 1950 (2001) (11)
- Skill Development and Regional Mobility: Lessons from the Australia-Pacific Technical College (2014) (10)
- Testing for Repugnance in Economic Transactions: Evidence from Guest Work in the Gulf (2017) (10)
- The Effect of Foreign Labor on Native Employment: A Job-Specific Approach and Application to North Carolina Farms (2013) (10)
- Multisector intervention to accelerate reductions in child stunting: an independent critique of scientific method. (2012) (9)
- The Effect of Occupational Visas on Native Employment: Evidence from Labor Supply to Farm Jobs in the Great Recession (2017) (7)
- 'Do Rich Countries Invest Less in Poor Countries Than the Poor Countries Themselves?' (2002) (7)
- Seize the Spotlight: A Case for Gulf Cooperation Council Engagement in Research on the Effects of Labor Migration (2013) (6)
- Global Mobility and the Threat of Pandemics: Evidence from Three Centuries (2020) (6)
- 'World Bank Capital Neither Complements Nor Substitutes for Private Capital' (2002) (6)
- Let the People Go (2014) (6)
- Mapping the Worm Wars : What the Public Should Take Away from the Scientific Debate about Mass Deworming 7 / 30 / 15 (2015) (6)
- A Self-Interested Approach to Migration Crises (2015) (6)
- Human Capital Investment Under Exit Options: Evidence from a Natural Quasi-Experiment (2019) (5)
- The New Case for Migration Restrictions: An Assessment (2016) (5)
- Split Decisions : Family Finance When a Policy Discontinuity Allocates (2012) (4)
- Dividend Investing: Strategy for Long-Term Outperformance (2012) (4)
- Dividend investing performance and explanations: a practitioner perspective (2013) (4)
- Open Dragon, Closed Jaguar: Endogenous Tariffs in Asia and Latin America 1870-1940 (2010) (3)
- Migration and Household Finances: How a Different Framing Can Improve Thinking About Migration (2020) (3)
- Smart policy toward high-skill emigrants (2015) (3)
- Deaton : Instruments , Randomization , and Learning about Development (2011) (3)
- The Collision of Development Goals and Impact Evaluation (2012) (3)
- The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves: Reconciling Conflicting Results - Working Paper 455 (2017) (3)
- The New Transparency in Development Economics (2013) (3)
- The effect of seasonal work visas on native employment: Evidence from US farm work in the Great Recession (2022) (2)
- The labour market impact of refugee waves (2017) (2)
- Migration on the Rise, a Paradigm in Decline: The Last Half-Century of Global Mobility (2022) (2)
- Deflation and Stock Prices (2016) (2)
- The Biggest Idea in Development That No One Really Tried (2010) (2)
- The Fiscal Effect of Immigration: Reducing Bias in Influential Estimates (2021) (2)
- Violence, Development and Migration Waves: Evidence from Central American Child Migrant Apprehensions (2017) (1)
- The Millennium Development Goal Aid Targets, and the Costs of Over-Expectations (2010) (1)
- Textbox 5: Measuring the Household Effects of Temporary Overseas Work: A Unique New Study in India (2012) (1)
- Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers - Working Paper 428 (2016) (1)
- CGD Policy Paper 119 February 2018 Deterring Emigration with Foreign Aid : An Overview of Evidence from Low-Income Countries (2018) (1)
- Patrick Kingsley The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty‐First‐Century Refugee Crisis New York: Liveright Publishing, 2017. 351 p. $26.95. (2017) (1)
- Measuring the Spatial Misallocation of Labor: The Returns to India-Gulf Guest Work in a Natural Experiment (2019) (1)
- Online Appendix “Labor Market Effects of Immigration Restrictions: Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion” (2017) (1)
- Comment on: Arne Bigsten, "Donor coordination and the uses of aid" (2005) (1)
- smart policy toward high-skill emigrants Many proposed policies on skilled migration do little to improve skill stocks or development outcomes , but promising options exist (2015) (0)
- Migration and Development Research Is Moving Far beyond Remittances - Working Paper 365 (2014) (0)
- Paul Streeten.Globalisation: Threat or Opportunity?Herndon, Va.: Copenhagen Business School Press, 2001. Pp. 190. $29.00 (paper). (2003) (0)
- The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers: Evidence from a Randomized Lottery (2022) (0)
- Comment on Kaestner, "Revisiting the Bracero Guest Worker Reforms" (2020) (0)
- Asset Pricing: Trends and Changes in Discount Rates and P/E Ratios (2015) (0)
- The New Role of the World Bank (2016) (0)
- The Economic and Fiscal Effects on the United States from Reduced Numbers of Refugees and Asylum Seekers (2022) (0)
- A Behavioral Defense of the FED Model (2007) (0)
- Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers (2016) (0)
- D OES F INANCIAL I NTEGRATION S PUR E CONOMIC G ROWTH ? N EW E VIDENCE FROM THE F IRST E RA OF F INANCIAL G LOBALIZATION (2006) (0)
- NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DOES TRADE CAUSE CAPITAL TO FLOW? EVIDENCE FROM HISTORICAL RAINFALLS (2011) (0)
- Asset Pricing: Dissecting Trends and Changes in the P/E Ratio of the S&P 500 Index (2014) (0)
- W ORKING P APER N UMBER 23 (2003) (0)
- When is the Rigorous Impact Evaluation of Development Projects a Luxury, and When Is It a Necessity? (2010) (0)
- THE TARIFF-GROWTH CORRELATION CHANGE AFTER 1950 ? (2003) (0)
- Migration and Development Research Is Moving Far beyond Remittances (2014) (2014) (0)
- Supplementary analysis for the blog post, ‘What Economists Can Learn from the Mariel Boatlift: Answering Questions about Our Research’ (2017) (0)
- Global Skill Partnerships : A Proposal for Turning Brain Drain into Brain Gain (2018) (0)
- Labour Mobility with Vocational Skill: Australian Demand and Pacific Supply (2021) (0)
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