Overview
Hannah Postel is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Sanford School of Public Policy and faculty affiliate of the Duke Population Research Institute (DuPRI) and Duke Center for International Development (DCID). Prior to her position at Duke, she was a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. She uses novel data to explore the relationship between migration and economic development and provide historical perspective on population movements and policies. She received her PhD in Demography and Social Policy from Princeton University in 2022 and her B.A. from Middlebury College in 2013. Prior research has been published in the American Economic Review and Population and Development Review.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Assistant Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy
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2024 - Present
Sanford School of Public Policy
Affiliate in the Duke Center for International Development
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2024 - Present
Duke Center for International Development,
Sanford School of Public Policy
Recent Publications
Record Linkage For Character-Based Surnames: Evidence from Chinese Exclusion.
Journal Article Explorations in economic history · January 2023 This paper proposes a novel pre-processing technique to improve record linkage for historical Chinese populations. Current matching approaches are relatively ineffective due to Chinese-specific naming conventions and enumeration errors. This paper develops ... Full text CiteComment on Kaestner, “revisiting the bracero guest worker reforms”
Journal Article Econ Journal Watch · March 1, 2020 In Clemens, Lewis, and Postel (2018), we evaluate one of the largest active labor market policy interventions of its kind: the federal government decision to bar almost half a million Mexican bracero workers from the U.S. labor market in the 1960s. We—henc ... CiteDeterring Emigration with Foreign Aid: An Overview of Evidence from Low-Income Countries.
Journal Article Population and development review · December 2018 Full text CiteEducation, Training & Certifications
Princeton University ·
2022
Ph.D.
Princeton University ·
2020
M.A.
Middlebury College ·
2013
B.A.