Nina Pavcnik is the Niehaus Family Professor in International Studies for the Economics Department at

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...

. Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of

international trade International trade is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories because there is a need or want of goods or services. (see: World economy) In most countries, such trade represents a significant ...

development Development or developing may refer to: Arts *Development hell, when a project is stuck in development *Filmmaking, development phase, including finance and budgeting *Development (music), the process thematic material is reshaped *Photographi ...

, and

industrial organization In economics, industrial organization is a field that builds on the theory of the firm by examining the structure of (and, therefore, the boundaries between) firms and market (economics), markets. Industrial organization adds real-world complic ...

with specific focus on how agents respond to

globalization Globalization, or globalisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is the process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide. The term ''globalization'' first appeared in the early 20t ...

. Pavcnik's diverse works analyze the effects of globalization on child laborers, households, workers, and firms. Her most recent work studies the effect of large-scale trade policy reforms on economic growth and inequality. Pavcnik is a research associate at the

National Bureau of Economic Research The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is an American private nonprofit research organization "committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic c ...

, the

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, and the

Institute for the Study of Labor The IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (german: Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit), until 2016 referred to as the Institute of the Study of Labor (IZA), is a private, independent economic research institute and academic network focused o ...

. She is also a senior fellow at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development. She taught Econ 39 and 49 courses in Dartmouth College in 2015.

Education

She graduated from

Yale Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wor ...

with a B.A. in Economics in 1994, and received her Ph.D. in Economics from

Princeton Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine ...

in 1999. Pavcnik additionally graduated ''Magna cum laude'' and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa

Research

Pavnick's research interests are centered around the three following fields: International trade, development, and in austral organization. Furthermore, she specifically analyzes how globalization is responded to by households, firms, and workers specifically. Similarly, her projects are focused around the investigations of large-scale trade policy reforms and the consequences that may arise in result. Pavcnik's published research has received over 8,000 citations. Her most cited works include a study of liberalized trade on plant productivity in Chile, published in ''

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''; the distributional effects of globalization in developing countries, published in the

Journal of Economic Literature The ''Journal of Economic Literature'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal, published by the American Economic Association, that surveys the academic literature in economics. It was established in 1963 as the ''Journal of Economic Abstracts'',

(joint with

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg Pinelopi "Penny" Koujianou Goldberg (born 1963) is a Greek-American economist who served as chief economist of the World Bank from 2018 until 2020. She holds the named chair of Elihu Professor of Economics at Yale University. She is also a non-re ...

); and an investigation of the relationship between trade costs, imports of intermediate inputs, and domestic firm product scope using in India, published in the

Quarterly Journal of Economics ''The Quarterly Journal of Economics'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Oxford University Press for the Harvard University Department of Economics. Its current editors-in-chief are Robert J. Barro, Lawrence F. Katz, Nathan N ...

(also joint with Pinelopi Goldberg).

Professional activities

Pavcnik is an Editor of the

World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the Interna ...

Economic Review, a Co-Editor of the

Journal of International Economics The ''Journal of International Economics'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of economics. The journal publishes articles on both theoretical and empirical aspects of international economics. Various topics covered include trade pat ...

, and a member of both the World Bank Research Committee and

American Economic Association The American Economic Association (AEA) is a learned society in the field of economics. It publishes several peer-reviewed journals acknowledged in business and academia. There are some 23,000 members. History and Constitution The AEA was esta ...

. At Dartmouth, Pavcnik is on the King Scholar Steering Committee and the International Studies Minor Steering Committee. She has also been on the Committee on Advisory to the President and was Chair of the Faculty Committee on Graduate Fellowships.

Personal

Pavcnik is married to economics professor Eric Edmonds. She is a citizen of Slovenia and the United States.

References

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