When official statistics are unavailable or unreliable, researchers can use a range of forensic methods – such as satellite imagery, mirror trade data, price monitoring, refugee surveys, humanitarian data, and text mining – to extract credible econom...

Jobs in Peru use a larger number of skills than comparable jobs in the US. This lack of specialisation is consistent with firms’ hiring of "toderos" (workers with many skills, do-it-alls), given the high levels of worker reallocation.

The misallocation of women’s talent, due to barriers to entering non-agricultural work, leads to sizable productivity losses

Korea’s promotion of heavy and chemical industries would have been more successful if it had not come with a rise in concentration and misallocation

Data on prices and quantities of consumer packaged goods suggest that Mexican real consumption relative to the US is larger than previously estimated