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2026

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  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
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Overview

William Easterly is a researcher primarily affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their work centers around social sciences, with a focus on economics, demography, and development. This multidisciplinary approach informs their investigations into economic policies, cultural and economic development, and international development and aid.

Easterly's research output includes papers published in notable venues such as the Journal of Development Economics and the SSRN Electronic Journal. Their recent publications are:

  • Leader value added: Assessing the growth contribution of individual national leaders, 2024, Journal of Development Economics
  • Leader Value Added: Assessing the Growth Contribution of Individual National Leaders, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal

Collaboration has been an aspect of Easterly's work, with frequent co-authorship alongside Steven Pennings.

  • Steven Pennings

Easterly has contributed book publications with the World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks, including a 2020 title named "Leader Value Added: Assessing the Growth Contribution of Individual National Leaders."

Their research explores subjects related to economic policies and impacts, culture, economy and development studies, and international development and aid, reflecting an interest in understanding growth and leadership within national contexts.

  • Economic Policies and Impacts
  • Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
  • International Development and Aid

Frequent publication venues highlight their participation in scholarly discussions on development economics, with repeated contributions to the Journal of Development Economics and SSRN Electronic Journal.

  • Journal of Development Economics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

The subfields of study indicate engagement with empirical and theoretical questions in economics and econometrics, demography, and development, illustrating a broad analytical framework applied across their research.

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Demography
  • Development

Best Publications

  • The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics

    William Russell Easterly

  • Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions

    William Easterly;Ross Levine

  • The White Man's Burden

    William Easterly

  • FISCAL POLICY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

    William Easterly;Sergio Rebelo

  • Public goods and ethnic divisions

    Alberto Alesina;Reza Baqir;William Easterly

  • The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

    William Russell Easterly

  • Fractionalization

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  • Tropics, germs, and crops: how endowments influence economic development

    William Easterly;Ross Levine;Ross Levine

  • the middle class consensus and economic development

    William Easterly

  • It's Not Factor Accumulation : Stylized Facts and Growth Models

    William Easterly;Ross Levine

  • Inflation crises and long-run growth

    Michael Bruno;William Easterly

  • Aid, Policies, and Growth: Comment

    William Easterly;Ross Levine;Ross Levine;David Roodman

  • Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth

    William Easterly

  • Good Policy or Good Luck? Country Growth Performance and Temporary Shocks

    William Easterly;Michael Kremer;Lant Pritchett;Lawrence Summers

  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation

    William Easterly;Sergio Rebelo

  • New Data, New Doubts: Revisiting "Aid, Policies, and Growth"

    William Easterly;Ross Levine;David Roodman

  • Inequality does cause underdevelopment: Insights from a new instrument ☆

    William Easterly

  • The Lost Decades: Developing Countries' Stagnation in Spite of Policy Reform 1980–1998

    William Easterly

  • The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor

    William Russell Easterly

  • Small States, Small Problems? Income, Growth, and Volatility in Small States

    William Easterly;Aart Kraay

  • Shaken and Stirred: Explaining Growth Volatility

    William Easterly;Roumeen Islam;Joseph E. Stiglitz

  • The cartel of good intentions: The problem of bureaucracy in foreign aid

    William Easterly

  • Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid

    William Easterly;Tobias Pfutze

  • Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions

    William Easterly;Ross Levine;Ross Levine;Kari Labrie

  • Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions

    Alberto F. Alesina;Alberto F. Alesina;Alberto F. Alesina;William Easterly;Reza Baqir

Frequent Co-Authors

Ross Levine
Ross Levine Hoover Institution
Stanley Fischer
Stanley Fischer BlackRock (United States)
Sergio Rebelo
Sergio Rebelo Northwestern University
Alberto Alesina
Alberto Alesina Harvard University
Luis Servén
Luis Servén Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros
Lant Pritchett
Lant Pritchett London School of Economics and Political Science
Lawrence H. Summers
Lawrence H. Summers Harvard University
Robert G. King
Robert G. King Boston University
Shantayanan Devarajan
Shantayanan Devarajan Georgetown University
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz Columbia University

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