Mitchell VanVuren

PhD candidate in Economics at University of California, San Diego, Postdoc at Yale University

Mitchell VanVuren is a macroeconomist primarily interested in questions of growth and development and healthcare. He is interested in combining microdata and experimental results with macroeconomic models to to better inform our understanding of these phenomena at an aggregate level and the challenges that may come with scaling up small-scale interventions to the level of an entire economy.

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VoxEU Column

Lockdowns in developing countries should focus on shielding the elderly

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  • COVID-19
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  • Development