Recent work by Munseob Lee
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Gender disparities reduce agricultural productivity in developing countries
The misallocation of women’s talent, due to barriers to entering non-agricultural work, leads to sizable productivity losses
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The plant-level view of an industrial policy: The Korean heavy industry drive of 1973
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
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Measuring the cost of living in Mexico and the US
Data on prices and quantities of consumer packaged goods suggest that Mexican real consumption relative to the US is larger than previously estimated