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Development microeconomists and field experimenters

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David Malin Roodman

David Malin Roodman is an economist and replication specialist who worked at the Center for Global Development, GiveWell, and Open Philanthropy, and wrote Due Diligence (2012) on microfinance.

Jason Shogren

Jason F. Shogren (born 1958) is an American environmental and experimental economist, Stroock Chair at the University of Wyoming, who served on the Council of Economic Advisers in 1997.

Martin L. Weitzman

Martin L. Weitzman (1942–2019) was an American economist and Harvard professor whose work on environmental policy, long-horizon discounting, and catastrophic climate risk shaped the EPA's social-cost-of-carbon analysis.

Matthew Kahn

Matthew E. Kahn is an American environmental and urban economist, Provost Professor at the University of Southern California, known for research on how cities adapt to climate change.

Nicholas M. Odhiambo

Nicholas M. Odhiambo is a Kenyan-born South African economist and full professor at the University of South Africa, known for research on growth and financial development in Africa.

Timothy Besley

Timothy Besley is an economist at the London School of Economics working in development economics and political economy, and a former Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee member.

William Easterly

William Easterly is a development economist, professor emeritus at New York University, who spent 16 years at the World Bank and wrote books including The White Man's Burden (2006).