Doug Gollin joined Oxford in October 2012 after spending 16 years on the faculty of Williams College in the United States, where he retains an affiliation.
Doug Gollin joined the Economics Department in 2022 after spending ten years in the Oxford Department of International Development. He was previously on the faculty of Williams College in the United States from 1996 to 2012. His research focuses broadly on economic development and growth, with an emphasis on structural transformation. He has interests in agricultural productivity and technology.
Doug currently serves as academic director for a research programme on Structural Transformation and Economic Growth (STEG), funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office and managed by the CEPR. Doug is also part of the Department of Economics at Tufts University, where he is the Jason P. and Chloe Epstein Professor of Economics.
Doug Gollin’s research focusses on economic development and growth, with particular interests in agriculture and structural transformation. His work brings a general equilibrium perspective to issues such as: sectoral differences in productivity; the impacts of agricultural technologies; the role of transport costs in shaping spatial patterns of development; the importance of small firms and self employment in poor countries; and the macroeconomic effects of disease.