I study policies intended to improve market efficiency in developing countries—such as tariff cuts, trade agreements, and major domestic reforms. My work is primarily on Latin America.

Working Papers

Trade, Labor Market Concentration, and Wages. Slides. Revise and Resubmit at American Economic Review.

Outsourcing, Labor Market Frictions, and Employment, with Michael Wong. Appendix. NBER working paper 34172.

Employment Preferences of Favela Residents, with Beatriz Marcoje, Ieda Matavelli, and Maria Clara Rodrigues.

Oligopsony in Dual Labor Markets.

The Origins of Structural Transformation, with Julieta Caunedo and Kristina Manysheva. Draft available upon request.

Publications

Tax Administration versus Tax Rates: Evidence from Corporate Taxation in Indonesia, with M. Chatib Basri, Rema Hanna, and Benjamin Olken. Appendix. American Economic Review 2021, 111 (12): 3827-71. Summary video.

Selected work in progress

Wage Gap Disclosure in the Tropics, with Pablo Castro, Ieda Matavelli and Bobak Pakzad-Hurson. Draft coming soon. Policy brief (in Portuguese).

Coordination Incentives of Tariff-Rate Quotas, with Jorge Florez-Acosta and Diego Jiménez-Hernández.

Admins, Scale, and the Extensive Export Margin, with Rodimiro Rodrigo.

In the field

Wage Transparency Within and Across Firms: Experimental Evidence from Brazil, with Ieda Matavelli and Bobak Pakzad-Hurson. With Ministry of Planning. Winner of J-PAL JOI Brasil pilot grant.

Teaching

ECON 7703: Empirical Trade and Development. PhD elective.

ECON 3380 / GLBL 4102 / EP&E 4314: Emerging Markets. Undergraduate.

Older Research

Charter Schools and Suspensions: Evidence from Massachusetts Chapter 222. Appendix.