Contact:
MC 10-139
World Bank HQ
1818 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20433
Email: jrexer@princeton.edu; jrexer@worldbank.org
Google scholar, ESOC page, World Bank page
about me
I am a development economist. My research studies 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; social norms and gender equality; and climate change adaptation. My work has appeared in top academic journals, including the American Economic Review, the American Economic Journal: Policy, the Economic Journal, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
I am currently an Economist at the World Bank in the Office of the Chief Economist for South Asia, and was a visiting scholar at Princeton University. At the Bank, I have worked on climate adaptation, gender inequality, labor markets, critical minerals mining, and the economic impacts of artificial intelligence.
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, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.