Carol Newman

Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow

Carol Newman is a professor of economics at the Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin. Her research is in the microeconomics of development with a focus on household and enterprise behaviour. She has published widely in the fields of development and agricultural economics.

She is engaged in research projects across Africa and South East Asia. She is a research associate of the Development Economics Research Group at the University of Copenhagen, and a consultant to the World Bank. She is currently Head of the School of Social Sciences and Philosophy in Trinity College Dublin, and is a co-founder of the Trinity Impact Evaluation Unit (TIME).

A UNU-WIDER Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow, Professor Newman is involved in UNU-WIDER’s project Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development. She is currently co-organizing one of the project’s six thematic sub-components on enterprise development for job creation and growth in South Africa.

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Email cnewman@tcd.ie

Twitter Carol_Newman

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    Blog
    Carol Newman's journey in economics and advocacy for gender diversity
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    In celebration of South Africa's Women's Month, SA-TIED is spotlighting the women driving change within the field of economics. Through the ‘Breaking...

    Working Paper
    Spillovers from extractive industries

    Extractive industries form an important part of the economy for many developing countries, but their impact on growth and welfare remains understudied. With global efforts to transition to net-zero carbon emissions in the coming decades...

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    Tariffs, productivity, and resource misallocation

    An often-neglected potential negative consequence of tariffs is the impact they may have on the misallocation of factor inputs. Trade protection can provide space for domestic firms to increase prices and mark-ups, allowing low-productivity firms to...

    Journal Article
    Corporate social responsibility in a competitive business environment

    Using a representative sample of more than 5,000 Vietnamese enterprises, we explore the firm-level productivity effects of corporate social responsibility (CSR). The data enables us to create 12 quantitative CSR measures, which can be grouped into...

    Journal Article
    Shocks and agricultural investment

    Part of Journal Special Issue Understanding agricultural development and change

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    Introduction to understanding agricultural development and change

    Part of Journal Special Issue Understanding agricultural development and change

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    Understanding agricultural development and change

    Agriculture is the backbone of most developing economies and structural transformation an important vehicle for economic development in low-income agrarian contexts. This special issue brings together a set of high-quality academic studies to answer...

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    Meet the women behind the Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development programme
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    Globally, women are under-represented in the field of economics. Only a third of all academic research staff in the field of economics in Europe are...

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    Linked-in by FDI

    This study combines evidence from interviews in seven countries with (i) government institutions responsible for attracting foreign direct investment (FDI), (ii) 102 multinationals (MNEs), and (iii) 226 domestic firms linked to these foreign...

    Book Chapter
    Capital allocation, credit access, and firm growth

    Part of Book Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam

    Working Paper
    Worker mobility and productivity spillovers

    This paper uses matched employer-employee data from South Africa to examine the extent to which technology transfers between firms through the hiring of workers. Allowing for differential spillovers based on observable technology differences between...

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    Resource misallocation and total factor productivity

    Misallocation of labour and capital can greatly reduce aggregate productivity. In this study, we use tax administrative data to examine the extent of resource misallocation in the South African context. In addition, we zoom in on how different...

    Working Paper
    Information, identification, or neither?

    How can development programmes reach out to remote communities? This paper presents experimental evidence on the impact of a role models intervention that aims to inspire ethnic minority households to start businesses and diversify income sources...

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    Linked in by foreign direct investment

    This study combines evidence from interviews in seven countries with (i) government institutions responsible for attracting foreign direct investment (FDI), (ii) 102 multinational enterprises (MNEs), and (iii) 226 domestic firms linked to these...

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    Risk and investment

    This paper explores the impact of exposure to uninsured risks on the investment decisions of farmers. We distinguish between households’ perceived exposure to uninsured risk, measured as past exposure to deviations in average rainfall levels, and the...

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    Capital allocation, credit access, and firm growth in Vietnam

    In this paper, we explore the relationship between firm growth, access to finance, and the efficiency of capital allocation in Vietnam over the period 2005–2015. Using data from the UNU-WIDER Vietnam SME survey, we test whether firms with higher...

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