David Atkin is a Research Fellow at CERP. He is currently an Associate Professor at MIT and Co-Chair of J-PAL’s firm sector. His recent work has studied the role of regional taste differences in altering the impacts of trade reforms in India, and educational responses to the rise of export-oriented manufacturing in Mexico. Previously he was an Assistant Professor at UCLA and prior to that at Yale University. His research interests are Development and International Trade. He focuses on evaluating the impact of trade liberalization on the poor in the developing world by using the micro econometric tools and the large household datasets common in applied economics to analyze trade and development issues. Dr David has his PhD in Economics from Princeton University and a MA in Economics from Cambridge University.