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Robin Burgess is Professor of Economics, Founder and Director of the International Growth Centre, and Co-Director of the Economic Organisation and Public Policy Programme at the [|London School of Economics].

His areas of research interest include development economics, public economics, political economy, labor economics and environmental economics. He has published on a variety of topics – natural disasters, mass media, rural banks, land reform, labor regulation, industrial policy, taxation, poverty and growth.

Education
D.Phil. Economics, Oxford University, 1998 M.Sc. Economics, LSE, 1988 B.Sc. (Hons) Biological Sciences, Edinburgh University, Summa Cum Laude, 1985

Career
He has been a Visiting Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, the National Bureau of Economic Research, Ecole Polytechnique, University College London and the University of California at Berkeley. He is Program Director of the Development Economics Program at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a Member of the Board of the Bureau for Research in the Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER), a member of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J- PAL), a Fellow of the European Development Research Development Network (EUDN), a member of the Institute for Policy Dialogue (IPR), an Associate Editor of the Economic Journal and is the Founder and Director of the Microeconomics of Growth Research Network. Before joining academia he served as a consultant economist with the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the Government of India.

Research Areas
Development Economics Public Economics Political Economy Labor Economics Environmental Economics

Selected Publications
The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya (2013) Robin Burgess, Remi Jedwab, Edward Miguel, Ameet Morjaria, Gerard Padró i Miquel

Can Basic Entrepreneurship Transform the Economic Lives of the Poor? (2013) Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Narayan Das, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul and Munshi Sulaiman

Weather and Death in India (2011) Robin Burgess, Olivier Deschenes, Dave Donaldson, Michael Greenstone

Can Openness Mitigate the Effects of Weather Shocks? Evidence from India’s Famine Era (2010) Robin Burgess, Dave Donaldson

Do Rural Banks Matter? Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment(2005) Robin Burgess and Rohini Pande