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Dave Donaldson, Principal Investigator

Dave Donaldson is the Class of 1949 Professor at the department of economics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has studied, among other topics: the welfare and inequality effects of market integration, the impact of improvements in transportation infrastructure, how trade can mitigate and exacerbate the effects of climate change, and how economists can quantify market failures and the interventions (such as industrial policy) that attempt to fix them. 

Supported by the US Department of Agriculture grant #59-3000-7-0102 Amendement 1

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2026, 18th Annual Feldstein Lecture, Mark Duggan, "Social Security Reform in an Era of Fiscal Deficits" Primary tabs
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Mark Duggan, who is currently the Wayne and Jodi Cooperman Professor of Economics at Stanford University and will soon...
SI 2026 Methods Lecture
  • Methods Lectures
Research Associate Melissa Dell of Harvard University and Ashesh Rambachan of MIT delivered the 2026 Methods...