Overview

My research is in the fields of development and international trade. I study policies intended to improve market efficiency, such as import tariff reductions, free trade agreements, and outsourcing. A special focus of my research is firms’ responses to these policies and their implications to competition, either in labor or product markets. I therefore often borrow methods and insights from the fields of labor, public, and industrial organization. My work is primarily on Latin America. Here is my CV.

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.

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. This is a heavily revised version of The Reallocation Effects of Domestic Outsourcing, presented at the NBER 2024 Development Fall meeting and available here.

Selected Papers in Progress

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

The Origins of Structural Transformation, with Julieta Caunedo and Kristina Manysheva.

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

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

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

Data Collection Initiatives

Employment Valuation Surveys, with Ieda Matavelli [Data Collection Initiative]. Funded by the EGC Incubation Fund.

Teaching

ECON 703: Empirical Trade and Development: A Practitioner’s Guide. PhD elective, Canvas.

ECON 3380b / GLBL 4102b: Emerging Markets. Undergraduate, Catalog.

Older research

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