Jonah M. Rexer - Research

Presented at: Georgetown University (2024), NBER Summer Institute (2023), UT Dallas (2023), Royal Economic Society (2023), LatAm Peace Science Conference (2023), DebtCon Princeton (2023), ESOC Lab (2022), WEFIDEV (2022), CESifo Political Economy (2022)

ESOC Working Paper

[8] Penalties and Premiums in Sovereign Credit Ratings [Resubmitted]

With Ethan B. Kapstein, Adityamohan Tantravahi, and Fangyuan Yi. Revise and Resubmit at Emerging Markets Review

Presented at: Princeton Development Finance Workshop (2023)

[9] Heat, informality, and reallocation: Firm adaptation in the short and long run [Submitted]

With Siddharth Sharma.

Presented at: IIM-Bangalore (2025); Barcelona GSE Summer Forum (2025); NEUDC (2024), Stanford University Climate Change Adaptation Conference (2024)

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper

[10] From Patriarchy to Policy: Norms, Votes, and Gender Equal Laws [Submitted]

With Maurizio Bussolo and Lynn Hu.

Presented at: ECINEQ (2025); World Bank DECIG Seminar(2025); Queen's Business School, Belfast (2025)

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper

[11] The marriage penalty: social norms, specialization, and women's work [Submitted]

With Maurizio Bussolo and Maggie Triyana.

Presented at: ECINEQ (2025); World Bank Gender Research in South Asia Seminar (2024)

Economic Times; Yahoo; Telegraph India; World Bank Working Paper

[12] The local advantage: Firm selection under weak institutions [Submitted]

With Erik Katovich and Utsoree Das.

Presented at: WCERE (2026); INFER Conference (2025); University of Geneva (2024)

CEPR-STEG Working Paper; INFER Working Paper

[13] Climate change adaptation: What does the evidence say?

With Siddharth Sharma.

[14] Household and firm exposure to heat and floods in South Asia

With A. Patrick Behrer, Siddharth Sharma, and Margaret Triyana.

WIPs

The Urban Gender Premium in Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from South Asia (with Sam Asher, Aditi Bhowmick, Maurizio Bussolo, and Paul Novosad) Draft soon

Embankments: Climate beliefs, behaviors, and adaptation (with Ashley Pople, Siddharth Sharma, and Maggie Triyana) Data collection complete

Artificial intelligence, services reshoring, and white collar jobs in India (with Gaurav Chiplunkar and Siddharth Sharma) Analysis ongoing

Fuel subsidies with black-market leakage: Evidence from Nigeria

Implementation in a challenging environment: AI-assisted teachers in Balochistan (with Saher Asad, Jishnu Das, and Siddharth Sharma) Data collection and intervention ongoing

Policy

South Asia Development Update, Chapter 2: Artificial intelligence, real impact: Labor Market Implications of AI Adoption in South Asia. October 2025. The World Bank.

From Risk to Resilience: Helping People and Firms Adapt in South Asia (with eds. Megan Lang, Siddharth Sharma, and Maggie Triyana). Main author, Chapter 3: Prepared for the worst: Building household resilience. June 2025. The World Bank.

South Asia Development Update, Chapter 2: Empower to prosper: women working for growth. October 2024. The World Bank.

OECD Blog; World Bank blog

South Asia Development Update, Spotlight: Heat and floods in South Asia: Household and firm exposure. October 2024. The World Bank.

South Asia Development Update, Spotlight: Who bears the burden of climate adaptation and how? April 2024. The World Bank.

South Asia Development Update, Chapter 2: Recruiting firms for the energy transition, October 2023. The World Bank.

Myanmar Economic Bulletin, Trade and Transport: Subnational convergence in Myanmar, 2018. Myanmar Development Institute, Ministry of Finance and Planning.