Anton Heil

PhD Student

Expertise: development, environmental economics

Email:

j.heil@lse.ac.uk

Room:

SAL 3.19 B

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Website

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Development
Economics of Environment and Energy
Department of Economics

Latest

Poverty Traps

18 February 2026

Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Anton Heil and Munshi Sulaiman

Poverty traps are among the most influential yet elusive ideas in economics. This chapter reviews the challenges involved in identifying poverty traps and surveys the progress made over the past quarter century. It exami... Read more...

Journal Articles

Why Do People Stay Poor?

01 May 2022

Clare Balboni, Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Maitreesh Ghatak and Anton Heil

There are two broad views as to why people stay poor. One emphasizes differences in fundamentals, such as ability, talent, or motivation. The poverty traps view emphasizes differences in opportunities that stem from acce... Read more...

Journal Articles

Cycles of Fire? Politics and Forest Burning in Indonesia

01 May 2021

Clare Balboni, Robin Burgess, Anton Heil, Jonathan Old and Benjamin Olken

This paper examines the link between electoral incentives and environmental degradation by exploiting a satellite dataset on 107,000 forest fires and 879 asynchronous district elections in Indonesia. Fires represent a ch... Read more...

Development Discussion Papers

Why Do People Stay Poor?

09 March 2020

Clare Balboni, Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Maitreesh Ghatak and Anton Heil

There are two views as to why people stay poor. The equal opportunity view emphasizes that differences in individual traits like talent or motivation make the poor choose low productivity jobs. The poverty traps view e... Read more...