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Lant Pritchett is an American development economist. He is also the Faculty Chair of the MPA/ID Program and Chair of the Kennedy School’s Development Area. His webpage is here.

Presentations/slideshows

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Video

Lant Pritchett: Education, Migration, and Development:

Books

• Let Their People Come: Breaking the Gridlock on Global Labor Mobility (free PDF chapters, Amazon paperback). Parts of this book are quoted on the website at the following pages: ghosts versus zombies, cheap labor leading to a technological slowdown.

Research

• The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers across the U.S. Border – Working Paper 148 (link to webpage, PDF linked to from there) by Michael Clemens, Claudio E. Montenegro, and Lant Pritchett. This paper is referenced at the place premium page.

Interviews

• Ending Global Apartheid with Kerry Howley, 24 January 2008, Reason.