
Project Title: Export Diversification Across Two Globalizations: A Network Analysis (Co-Scholar Isabella Weber)
A long-standing insight in development economics is that higher levels of diversification, are closely linked to higher levels of growth and prosperity. Yet, due to data limitations we know little about how countries’ export diversification evolves in the very long-run. Isabella Weber, Assistant Professor of Economics, and collaborators have constructed the first, global database of commodity-level exports for the previous globalization that ended with World War I (https://www.
Selected Publications
- Griffin M., Hoff, P. D. (2020) “Testing Sparsity-Inducing Penalties.” Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 29(1): 128-139.
- Griffin M., Hoff, P. D. (2019) “Lasso ANOVA Decompositions for Matrix and Tensor Data.” Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. 137:181-194.
- Griffin M., Gile K. J., Fredriksen-Goldsen K., Handcock M. S., Erosheva E. A. (2018) “A simulation-based framework for assessing the feasibility of respondent-driven sampling for estimating characteristics in populations of lesbian, gay and bisexual older adults.” Annals of Applied Statistics. 12(4):2252-2278.