Jacob Moscona

Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics at Harvard University, Assistant Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Jacob Moscona is an Assistant Professor of Economics at MIT. Previously, he was a Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics at Harvard and a postdoctoral fellow at J-PAL at MIT. Jacob’s research focuses on development economics, political economy, and the economics of innovation and the environment. He received his PhD from MIT in 2021 and AB from Harvard in 2016.

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VoxEU Column

Public R&D and Brazil’s agricultural revolution

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  • Development & Growth
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  • Productivity and Innovation
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VoxEU Column

State capacity and American technology: Evidence from the 19th century

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  • Economic history
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  • Productivity and Innovation