Well-functioning markets are key for economic development. Can policy make markets work better? I study firm responses to trade policy and other sector/firm-targeting reforms in emerging markets, and how this response shapes the organization of production, employment, and wages. I use administrative microdata and original data collection via survey experiments. My current work includes several projects on firms and labor markets in Brazil and research on the effects of tariff-rate quotas on importer coordination in Colombia.

Working Papers

Wage Gap Disclosure in the Tropics, with Pablo Castro, Ieda Matavelli and Bobak Pakzad-Hurson. April 2026. Cowles paper 2517. Policy brief.

Trade, Labor Market Concentration, and Wages. March 2026. Appendix. NBER paper 35018. Cowles paper 2510. Revise and Resubmit at American Economic Review.

Outsourcing, Labor Market Frictions, and Employment, with Michael Wong. August 2025. Appendix. NBER paper 34172.

Publications

Employment Preferences of Favela Residents, with Beatriz Marcoje, Ieda Matavelli, and Maria Clara Rodrigues. AEA Papers and Proceedings 2026, 116: 156–161. Published data and code.

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

Constructing Structural Change, with Julieta Caunedo and Kristina Manysheva. June 2026. Draft available upon request.

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

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

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.