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Place-based policy in the US comprises a wide range of government programs spread across federal, state, and local agencies. Gordon Hanson, Dani Rodrik, & Rohan Sandhu study how loosely connected policy supply chains distribute resources from federal government to recipients at the local level.

Dani Rodrik and co-authors unpack the puzzle of recent growth accelerations in Africa: declining shares of the labor force employed in agriculture, increasing labor productivity in agriculture, and declining labor productivity in modern sectors.

Gordon Hanson and Enrico Moretti examine changes in the spatial distribution of good jobs across US commuting zones over 1980-2000 and 2000-2021. 

Jacob Greenspon and Gordon Hanson evaluate the long-run employment impacts of pipelines constructed by the U.S. government during World War II to transport oil and gas from the oil fields of the Southwest to wartime industrial producers in the Northeast.

Enhancing productivity in labor-absorbing services must be an essential priority, for reasons of both growth and equity. Dani Rodrik and Rohan Sandhu provide a broad overview of what such a strategy might look like. 

Mariana Mazzucato and Dani Rodrik discuss how conditionalities can be applied to catalyze investment, innovation and growth that is aligned with the goal of shaping more sustainable, inclusive, and resilient economies.

A considerable literature that has developed in recent years providing rigorous evidence on how industrial policies work. Dani Rodrik, along with  Nathan Lane and Réka Juhász review the standard rationales and critiques of industrial policy and provide an overview of new approaches to measurement

Society’s transition toward more sustainable energy sources is well underway. But substantially reducing the use of fossil fuels will profoundly disrupt the communities that currently dedicate themselves to carbon-intensive industries. Gordon Hanson writes for the Aspen Economic Strategy Group.