Remi Jedwab

Contact information

George Washington University
Department of Economics, Suite #310
2115 G Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052
Phone: (202) 994 9011
Email: jedwab@gwu.edu

Welcome to my website. I am an Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs at George Washington University.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Development Economics, Urban Economics, Public Economics

PUBLICATIONS

"Commodity Price Shocks and Child Outcomes: The 1990 Cocoa Crisis in Cote d'Ivoire", with Denis Cogneau (PSE)
Economic Development and Cultural Change Vol. 60, No. 3: 507-534.

WORKING PAPERS

"Urbanization without Industrialization: Evidence from Consumption Cities in Africa"

"The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya", with Robin Burgess (LSE), Edward Miguel (UC-Berkeley), Ameet Morjaria (Harvard) and Gerard Padro-i-Miguel (LSE), new version coming soon

"Colonial Investments and Long-Term Development: Evidence from African Railroads", with Alexander Moradi (Sussex)
- Web Appendices 1-6: PDF

"Urbanization with and without Industrialization", with Douglas Gollin (University of Oxford) and Dietrich Vollrath (University of Houston)

"The Speed of Urbanization and Economic Development: A Comparison of Industrial Europe and Contemporary Africa", with Luc Christiaensen (World Bank) and Marina Gindelsky (GWU)

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

"Natural Resource Exports and Urbanization in Africa", with Douglas Gollin (University of Oxford) and Dietrich Vollrath (University of Houston)

"Institutions, Consumption Cities and Production Cities", with Douglas Gollin (University of Oxford) and Dietrich Vollrath (University of Houston)

"Colonial Cities and The Reversal of Fortune in Africa"

"Structural Change and Development in Ghana", with Robert Darko Osei (ISSER)

GWU SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES

I co-organize the GWU International Trade and Development Seminar. I will also co-organize two academic conferences in the Spring.

GWU International Trade and Development Seminar

World Bank-GWU Conference on Urbanization and Poverty Reduction, on May 13-14 (World Bank Headquarters)

Washington Area Development Economic Symposium, on April 20 (City View Room, Elliott School of International Affairs)