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New working paper with Amol Singh Raswan
and Chris Udry: "The Sisyphean Pursuit of Evidence for Poverty Traps."
A central idea in development economics is that poverty can trap people. We went looking for the cleanest evidence. Here's what we found – and didn't.
See www.nber.org/data-appendi... for a reply from BBBGH that we hope others find as useful as we did, thank you BBBGH team for laying out the heterogeneity issue so eloquently and clearly. We agree!