David N. Weil
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| Born | 1960 (age 63–64) |
| Title | James and Merryl Tisch Professor of Economics |
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| Institutions | Brown University |
| Doctoral students | Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan |
David Nathan Weil (born 1961) is the James and Merryl Tisch Professor of Economics at Brown University. Weil's scholarship has focused on economic growth and demographic economics.[1][2] Between 2015 and 2018, Weil chaired Brown's Department of Economics.
Education and research
Weil received a Bachelor of Arts in history from Brown University in 1982. He completed his doctorate in economics at Harvard University in 1990.
Weil's most widely cited paper is "A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth" coauthored with
Weil is also a co-author alongside J. Vernon Henderson and Adam Storeygard of the paper "Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space" published in American Economic Review in 2012, which firstly explored the possibility of using satellite data on night lights as a proxy to measure economic growth without relying on official figures, and built a statistical framework for it. The paper has been cited almost 3,000 times.[3]
References
- ^ "David Weil". IGC. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
- ^ "Weil, David". vivo.brown.edu. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
- PMID 25067841.
External links
- David N. Weil publications indexed by Google Scholar
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