Contact:
MC 10-144
World Bank HQ
1818 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20433
Email: jrexer@princeton.edu; jrexer@worldbank.org
about me
I am a development microeconomist, with interests in political economy, urban economics, and environmental economics.
My research has studied how foreign investors navigate conflict and corruption; the politics of international finance; political communication in pandemics; the environmental and political consequences of natural resource wealth; urbanization in emerging countries; and climate change adaptation. My work has appeared or is forthcoming in top academic journals, including the American Economic Review (AER), the American Economic Journal - Policy (AEJ), the Economic Journal (EJ), and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
I am currently an Economist at the World Bank in the South Asia Region Chief Economist (SARCE) Office, as well as a visiting scholar at Princeton University. At the Bank, I have worked on climate adaptation, gender and labor markets,
Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Empirical Studies of Conflict research group and Lecturer at the School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.
I hold a PhD in Applied Economics from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, and an MPA/ID from the Harvard Kennedy School. I have conducted field research in Uganda, Nigeria, India, and Myanmar.