Desmond Ang is an applied economist and associate professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. His research examines the causes and consequences of racial discrimination and has been published in leading journals including American Economic Review, American Political Science Review, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. He is an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Desmond received his PhD in economics from University of California, San Diego and his B.A. from Dartmouth College.
His research website can be found here.
Courses
Power & Inequality
Academic Journal/Scholarly Articles
HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series
Research Papers/Reports
Commentary
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