Gerard Padró i Miquel

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

Chair, Political Science Department

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

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Published research

JULY 2025

Competitive Capture of Public Opinion

Joint with Ricardo Alonso. Econometrica 93(4): 1265-1297. (NBER working paper version here, supplementary material here).

JANUARY 2025

Exporting Ideology: the Right and Left of Foreign Influence

Joint with Pol Antràs. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 20(1): 33-70. Jan 2025. (NBER working paper version here).

SEPTEMBER 2023

Social Fragmentation, Public Goods and Local Elections: Evidence from China

With Monica Martinez-Bravo, Nancy Qian and Yang Yao. In Decentralized Governance: Crafting Effective Democracies around the World, edited by Jean-Paul Faguet and Sarmishta Pal. London: LSE Press. September 2023. (NBER working paper version here).

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