Authors
Louise Guillouet, Amit Khandelwal, Rocco Macchiavello, Matthieu Teachout
- Acknowledgements & Disclosure
- This project would not have been possible without the support and collaboration of U Set Aung, Thilawa SEZ Management Committee, participating factories, and Ian Porter. Our project managers, Paing Thu Htet, Mohak Mangal, Madhav Malhotra, Sangyung Park, have provided exceptional research support, as has the entire Yangon team: Aung Thet Paing, La Min Eain, Myat Mo Phu, Thura Aung, and Zimbo Htike. Pol Antrás, Charles Angelucci, David Atkin, Oriana Bandiera, Wouter Dessein, Ben Faber, Bob Gibbons, Isabela Manelici, Andrea Prat, Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, Rafael Sadun, Meredith Startz, John Van Reenen, Jose Vasquez provided helpful comments at various stages of the project. We also thank conference and seminar participants at Berkeley, CEU, Census, CEPR, Copenhagen, Dartmouth, 2020 Empirical Management Conference, EBRD, EIIT, HBS, IADB, IPA, LSE, MIT, 2020 NEUDC, PSE, PSU, Sussex, Tufts and Yale. The project is registered at the AEA RCT Registry 0004326. We obtained approval from the Columbia University IRB under protocols AAAR2302 and AAAS3817. Financial support from the International Growth Center and Columbia's Center on Japanese Economy and Business is gratefully acknowledged. All errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3386/w28807
- Published in
- United States of America