Economists on Zoom Getting Coffee hosts Prof. Sam Asher and Prof. Paul Novosad. 

Both Sam and Paul are development economists. Sam is an Assistant Professor in the International Economics Department and Johns Hopkins SAIS and Paul is an Associate Professor at Darmouth College. Sam and Paul, during their PhD, started a massive endeavor of collecting and putting together immense datasets of administrative information for academic research purposes. While they’re focus of research has been India, in this episode we talk about doing research with high-resolution data to answer questions that otherwise cannot be answered with more aggregated information. They both, through their joint work, have significantly contributed to our understanding of economic development at the very local level. 

Sam and Paul have shown their commitment to data sharing and open science. They’ve started together the Development Data Lab (http://www.devdatalab.org), a data sharing platform so that people who want to do research on any topic can complement their own datasets with that of others in the same region or country. In this episode we talk about many things, included what have they learned in their career when doing research with high-resolution data that they couldn’t have with more standard datasets. We also talk about their data sharing platforms, such as the SHRUG (http://www.devdatalab.org/shrug), and we were able to get in a laugh or two in between! 

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