There are gaps in data on income inequality in poor countries. The newly appointed Noranda Chair Professor of Economics Fatih Guvenen intends to address those gaps.

“Gaps exist for good reasons,” Professor Guvenen explained. “They exist because addressing those gaps is complicated, filling them would take a lot of work for which there are inadequate resources, and there is often a disconnect between what scholars want to achieve, or think they want to achieve, and how research benefits or does not benefit communities.

The challenges described were part of the motivation behind Guvenen’s decision to join the Department of Economics at the University of Toronto from the University of Minnesota.

“There are many institutions who have resources to invest in research,” he said. “The University of Toronto had not only resources, but vision.” [Read more…]