Dav­id Jinkins

I study how glob­al­iz­a­tion re­shapes eco­nom­ic out­comes by chan­ging prices and mar­ket struc­ture. Rather than treat­ing trade as a single num­ber for GDP, my work asks who gains and who loses when re­l­at­ive prices, com­pet­it­ive pres­sure, and mar­ket ac­cess shift. I ana­lyze fric­tions in in­ter­na­tion­al mar­kets.

I in­vest­ig­ate how the spa­tial or­gan­iz­a­tion of eco­nom­ies—across coun­tries, cit­ies, and neigh­bor­hoods—cre­ates both pro­ductiv­ity gains and stark in­equal­it­ies. My re­search ex­am­ines ag­glom­er­a­tion and path de­pend­ence in loc­a­tion choice; how urb­an ex­per­i­ence and loc­al net­works build hu­man cap­it­al.

Policies rarely stop at their in­ten­ded tar­gets. I ana­lyze how mi­gra­tion and so­cial policy gen­er­ate spillovers on neigh­bors and loc­al in­sti­tu­tions—through crime, hous­ing, em­ploy­ment, and com­munity co­he­sion