Radine Rafols

I'm a consultant at the Development Research Group at the World Bank. My research interests lie in the intersection of Development, Environmental and Labor Economics.

I received my PhD in Economics from Syracuse University last June 2023. I was a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell University from 2023 to summer of 2024.

You can find my CV here.

Contact:  rrafols@worldbank.org

Research

Under Review

Economic Consequences of Climate Change: Evidence from the Philippines [Draft]  Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Development Economics


Gender Norms and Child Penalties [New DraftRevise & Resubmit, Labour Economics

Publications

Place-based Preferential Tax Policy and Industrial Development: Evidence from India’s Program on Industrially Backward Districts (with Rana Hasan and Yi Jiang)  Journal of Development Economics, 2021


Urban Agglomeration Effects in India: Evidence from Town Level Data (with Rana Hasan and Yi Jiang)

Asian Development Review, 2017

In Progress

Evaluating the Relocation of Indonesia's Capital: A Quantitative Spatial Model Approach  (with Alex Rothenberg, Yao Wang, and Yi Jiang)

Are Workers Moving to High Productivity Regions?

(with Ying Feng, Tatjana Kleineberg, and Tommaso Porzio)  

Slums and Neighborhood Dynamics: Evidence from Manila (with Alex Rothenberg)

Teaching

Teaching Assistant

at Syracuse University

ECN  310: Cities in Developing Countries

Prof. Alexander Rothenberg

Undergraduate Course, Spring 2021


ECN  422: Introduction to Statistics and Econometrics

Prof. Jan Ondrich

Undergraduate Course, Fall 2020


ECN 302: Principles of Macroeconomics

Prof. Abdulaziz Shifa

Undergraduate Course, Spring 2019

ECN  304: Economics of Social Issues

Prof. Eugene Liu

Undergraduate Course, Fall 2020


ECN 302: Principles of Macroeconomics

Prof. Jan Ondrich

Undergraduate Course, Spring 2019


ECN  302: Principles of Macroeconomics

Prof. Derek Laing

Undergraduate Course, Fall 2018