Contact Information

  • Phone: (203) 432 5011
  • Email: gerard.padro@yale.edu
  • Location:
    115 Prospect Street
    Rosenkranz Hall, Room 335
    New Haven, CT 06520
  • Mailing Address:
    Yale University
    PO Box 20831
    New Haven, CT 06520-8301

Professional Profile

Director, Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy

Faculty Affiliate, Economic Growth Center

Research Fellow, CEPR

Research Fellow, BREAD

Research Associate, NBER

Associate, ThReD

Gerard Padró i Miquel

CV

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2018–present

Professor of Economics and Political Science, Yale University

2012–2018

Professor of Economics, LSE

2007-2012

Lecturer in Economics, LSE

2005-2007

Assistant Professor of Political Economy, Stanford GSB

EDITORIAL POSITIONS

2016-2022

Associate Editor, Quarterly Journal of Economics

2013-2022

Co-Editor, Journal of Development Economics

2011-2018

Associate Editor, Review of Economic Studies

Published research

SEPTEMBER 2022

The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China

With Monica Martinez-Bravo, Nancy Qian and Yang Yao. American Economic Review 112(9): 2921-58, September 2022. Online appendix here. (NBER working paper here, CEPR discussion paper here, BREAD working paper here).

JUNE 2021

Doing Business in China: Parental Background and Government Intervention Determine Who owns a Business

With Ruixue Jia and Xiaohuan Lan. Journal of Development Economics 151: 1-12, June 2021. (NBER working paper version here).

NOVEMBER 2019

Crime, Intimidation and Whistle-blowing: a Theory of Inference from Unverifiable Reports

With Sylvain Chassang. Review of Economic Studies 86(6): 2530-2553, November 2019. (NBER working paper version here).

March 2019

Principals, Agents, and Indirect Foreign Policies

With Eli Berman, David A. Lake and Pierre Yared. In Proxy Wars: Suppressing Violence through Local Agents, edited by Eli Berman and David A. Lake. Cornell University Press: 1-27, March 2019.

June 2015

The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya

With Robin Burgess, Remi Jedwab, Ameet Morjaria and Edward Miguel. American Economic Review 105(6): 1817-1851, June 2015. Online appendix here. (CEPR discussion paper version here, NBER working paper version here).

June 2012

Selective Trials: A Principal-Agent approach to Randomized Control Trials

With Sylvain Chassang and Erik Snowberg. American Economic Review 102(4): 1279-1309, June 2012. (CEPR discussion paper version here, NBER working paper version here).

June 2012

A Political Economy Theory of Partial Decentralization

With John W Hatfield. Journal of the European Economic Association 10(3): 605-633, June 2012. (NBER working paper version here).

May 2012

The Political Economy of Indirect Control

With Pierre Yared. Quarterly Journal of Economics 127(2): 947-1015, May 2012. (NBER working paper version here).

January 2012

The Lesser Evil: Executive Accountability with Partisan Supporters

With Erik Snowberg. Journal of Theoretical Politics 24(1): 19-45, January 2012.

July 2011

Foreign Influence and Welfare

With Pol Antràs. Journal of International Economics 84(2): 135-148, July 2011. (NBER working paper version here).

November 2010

Conflict and Deterrence under Strategic Risk

With Sylvain Chassang. Quarterly Journal of Economics 125(4): 1821-1858, November 2010. (NBER working paper version here).

April-May 2010

Savings and Predation

With Sylvain Chassang. Journal of the European Economic Association P&P 8(2-3): 645-654, April-May 2010.

October 2009

Economic Shocks and Civil War

With Sylvain Chassang. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 4(3): 211-228, October 2009.

May 2009

Defensive Weapons and Defensive Alliances

With Sylvain Chassang. American Economic Review P&P 99(2): 282-286, May 2009.

October 2007

The Control of Politicians in Divided Societies: The Politics of Fear

Review of Economic Studies 74(4): 1259-1274, October 2007. (Longer NBER Working Paper version here).

August 2006

Legislative Effectiveness and Legislative Life

With James M Snyder. Legislative Studies Quarterly 31(3): 347-381, August 2006.