Jacob Kushner

Jacob Kushner writes on asylum and migration, development economics and inequality, foreign aid and investment, and governance. His current work tells the stories of refugees in East/Central Africa, the Caribbean, and Germany.

Women walk with their donkeys outside the St. Christophe memorial, the mass gravesite where tens of thousands of earthquake victims are buried, on the ninth anniversary of the 2010 earthquake, just north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January 12th, 2019. The property is surrounded on three sides by greater Canaan.

Economics

Haiti's earthquake shattered several cities, but it also birthed another.

By Jacob Kushner

A policeman walks past the Higher Regional Court in Dresden, Germany.

Field Notes

"There is a TV crew here from Texas called Infowars. They are the good ones—they are for Trump. Be nice to them."

By Jacob Kushner

News in Brief

Randomized controlled trials are the popular centerpiece of an emerging data-driven approach to figuring out precisely the best way to end poverty. Can a return to the scientific method fix the global aid industry?

By Jacob Kushner

Jacob Kushner

Beside a Vast Graveyard, a New City Rises in Haiti

Letter From Dresden, Germany: What It's Like to Be a Refugee in Germany's Conservative Stronghold

Can Science Save Development Aid?