Handbook of Development Economics

Pascaline Dupas is the Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics and Professor of Public Affairs at Princeton University, which she joined in 2023 after twelve years at Stanford University as the Kleinheinz Family Professor of International Studies. Professor Dupas is Co-Scientific Director of J-PAL Africa, the African regional office of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab and Co-Director of Princeton's Center for Health and Wellbeing. She is also Co-Chair of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Awarded the Best Young French Economist Prize in 2015, she is also a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a former Sloan Fellow, and a former Guggenheim Fellow.

Her work focuses on the structural obstacles faced by the most vulnerable households in low- and middle-income countries, with the aim of identifying interventions and public policies capable of durably overcoming them. She conducts field research in sub-Saharan Africa across areas as varied as education policy in Ghana and Cameroon, clean water access programs in Guinea and Togo, and the quality of public services in Tanzania and Ethiopia. Her research combines scientific rigor with grounding in the realities of the populations studied, in order to produce evidence directly useful for public decision-making.

Born and educated in France, Dupas studied philosophy and economics as an undergraduate student at the École Normale Superieure (Ulm). She obtained a PhD in Economics from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in 2006.

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg is the William Nordhaus Professor of Economics and Global Affairs and an Affiliate of the Economic Growth Center at Yale University. She holds a joint appointment at the Yale Department of Economics and the Jackson School of Global Affairs. From 2018 to 2020, she was the Chief Economist of the World Bank Group. Goldberg has served as President of the Econometric Society, Vice-President of the American Economic Association, and Editor-in-Chief of the American Economic Review. She is member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and International Fellow of the British Academy. She is also recipient of the A.SK Award in Social Sciences, the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize, the Bodossaki Excellence Award and the Bodossaki Prize in Social Sciences, and Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and Sloan Research Fellowships. She is a Distinguished CES (Munich) Fellow for 2024, Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research (NBER), research fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) in London, UK, fellow of the CESifo research network in Germany, and member of the board of directors of the Bureau of Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD).

Goldberg is an applied microeconomist drawn to policy-relevant questions in trade and development. She has exploited a broad set of methodological approaches – ranging from estimation of structural industry equilibrium models to reduced form techniques – to provide insights into the determinants and effects of trade policies, trade and inequality, intellectual property rights protection in developing countries, exchange rate passthrough, pricing to market, and international price discrimination.

Her most recent research examines the resurgence of protectionism in the U.S.; trade, poverty and inequality; the interplay between informality and trade liberalization in the presence of labor market frictions; industrial policy; and discrimination against women in developing countries.

She holds a Diplom in Economics from the University of Freiburg, Germany, and a PhD in Economics from Stanford University.

Rohini Pande is the Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics and Director of the Economic Growth Center at Yale University and faculty director of Inclusion Economics at Yale. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Econometric Society fellow, and a former co-editor of American Economic Review: Insights. Pande received the 2018 Carolyn Bell Shaw Award from the American Economic Association for promoting the success of women in the economics profession and the 2022 Infosys Prize in Social Sciences. Formerly, Pande was the Rafik Harriri Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School.

Pande’s research examines how institutions shape power relationships and patterns of economic, political, and environmental advantage in low- and middle-income countries. Her work focuses on institutional design as a key technology for improving human welfare, and asks how notions of economic justice and human rights, along with efficiency gains, can legitimize and enable institutional change.

With Inclusion Economics India Center, she is working with Indian central and state governments on gender-inclusive rural development, on payments for ecosystem services, and on digital innovations to improve governance. With Inclusion Economics Nepal she is evaluating innovations to strengthen quality of policy-making by elected local governments.

With colleagues from Yale, Chicago and MIT, Pande has collaborated with the State Government of Gujarat on evaluating India’s first regulated pollution market. She chaired the sub-committee on carbon markets for the COP30 presidency, presenting a report on the case for a unified global carbon market.

Pande received a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics, a BA/MA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University, and a BA in Economics from Delhi University.