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Joshua Merfeld

KDI School of Public Policy and Management
merfeld@kdis.ac.kr

Joshua Merfeld is an Associate Professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management in Sejong City, South Korea. He is also a Research Affiliate at IZA (Institute of Labor Economics) in Bonn, Germany. His research and teaching interests include the microeconomics of development, applied microeconometrics, labour markets in developing countries, and poverty. His work has appeared in the Journal of Development Economics, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and the Journal of Development Studies.

Posts by Joshua Merfeld

India’s poverty rate does not measure what you think it does

Like all national poverty rates, India’s poverty rate is interpreted as the share of the population that is poor in a given year. In this post, Merfeld and Morduch argue that, in practice, India’s...

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