Working Papers

Trade Liberalization and Regional Dynamics (with Rafael Dix-Carneiro) (Draft: July 2016)
Summaries: World Bank Research Digest, Upjohn Institute
NBER working paper including related results.

The Labor Market Effects of Offshoring by U.S. Multinational Firms: Evidence from Changes in Global Tax Policies (with Lindsay Oldenski and Nick Sly) (Draft: June 2015)

Journal Articles

Quality-Adjusted Price Measurement: A New Approach With Evidence from Semiconductors (with David Byrne and Ryan Michaels)
Review of Economics and Statistics , Accepted
Code and data resources. VoxEU summary

Immigrants Equilibrate Local Labor Markets: Evidence from the Great Recession (with Brian Cadena)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2016) 8(1): 257-290
Online appendix
Summaries: VoxEU, NBER Digest, IRP Focus
Press coverage: Marginal Revolution, Slate, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Post

Trade Liberalization and the Skill Premium: A Local Labor Markets Approach (with Rafael Dix-Carneiro)
American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings (2015) 105(5): 551-557
Online appendix

Regional Efects of Trade Reform: What is the Correct Measure of Liberalization?
American Economic Review (2013) 103(5): 1960-1976
Online appendix
Recipient of the 2014 IZA Young Labor Economist Award
Included in Trade and Inequality in the International Library of Critical Writings in Economics series, ed. P. Goldberg.

Overestimating the Effect of Complementarity on Skill Demand
B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2011) Vol. 11: Iss. 1 (Topics), Article 65

Other Publications

Assessing Price Indexes for Markets with Trading Frictions: A Quantitative Illustration (with Ryan Michaels) in Susan Houseman and Michael Mandel eds., Measuring Globalization: Better Trade Statistics for Better Policy. Upjohn, 2015.

The Growing Problem of Disconnected Single Mothers (with Rebecca Blank) in Carolyn J. Heinrich and John Karl Scholz eds., Making the Work-Based Safety Net Work Better: Forward-Looking Policies to Help Low-Income Families. Russell Sage Foundation, 2009. National Poverty Center Working Paper #07-28

Work in Progress

Margins of Trade Adjustment in a Developing Country (with Rafael Dix-Carneiro)

Measuring Sub-national Migration Networks using Matrículas Consulares (with Brian Cadena and Maria Esther Caballero)

From Acapulco to Atlanta: The International Transmission of Local Shocks Through Migration Networks (with Brian Cadena and Maria Esther Caballero)

Import Competition, Deindustrialization, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Portugal (with Lee Branstetter and Ana Venancio)

Instrumental Variables Hurdle Models (with Max G’Sell and Jacqueline Mauro)

The Commodity Price Boom and Regional Inequality (with Andrea Pellandra)

Teaching and Research Materials

University of Michigan Econ 101 Spring 2007 Teaching Materials
STATA Programs