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Dev Patel
Dev Patel is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at the Harvard University. He graduated with a B.A. in economics and a minor in mathematics from Harvard University, where he researched growth, gender norms, and migration at the Center for History and Economics. He has been a research assistant at the Center for Global Development (CGD). Prior to joining CGD, he studied fiscal policy for Dr Arvind Subramanian and the Government of India.
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Everything you know about cross-country convergence is (now) wrong
A quarter-century after the empirical growth literature set out to explain why poor countries are not catching up with rich ones, cross-country regressions have mercifully gone out of fashion. In this post, Dev Patel, Justin Sandefur, and Arvind Subramanian point out that in the interim, the core facts have changed.
