Wyatt Brooks

Wyatt Brooks is an assistant professor of economics and the University of Notre Dame. His work studies how policy drives income differences between countries, and focuses on how policy can create or mitigate misallocation of economic factors. His work on international trade and industrial policy studies the macroeconomic gains to policy improvements. In field work in Nicaragua, Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya, he studies the microeconomic effects of interventions on firms and households, such as improved transportation infrastructure and business training, with the goal of using these microeconomic lessons to better inform macroeconomic policy.