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Research Interests: Development and International Trade

PUBLISHED AND FORTHCOMING PAPERS

“Trade, Tastes and Nutrition in India” [Download PDF][Published Version]
American Economic Review: Vol. 103 No. 5 (August 2013)
Write up in The Economist
Previous Version [Download PDF]

“The Caloric Costs of Culture: Evidence from Indian Migrants” [Download PDF][Published Version]
American Economic Review: Vol. 106 No. 4 (April 2016)
Write up in the New York Times

“Endogenous Skill Acquisition and Export Manufacturing in Mexico” [Download PDF]
American Economic Review: Vol. 106 No. 8 (August 2016)
Write up in AEA Research Highlights

“Exporting and Firm Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment” with Amit Khandelwal and Adam Osman [Download PDF] [Published Version] [Slides]
Quarterly Journal of Economics: Vol. 132 No. 2 (May 2017) Editor's Choice
Write up in Forbes, Council of Economic Advisors

“Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan” with Azam Chaudhry, Shamyla Chaudry, Amit Khandelwal and Eric Verhoogen [Download PDF] [Published Version]
Quarterly Journal of Economics: Vol. 132 No. 3 (August 2017)
Write up in Marketplace, The Atlantic online, The New Republic online, Wall Street Journal Economics Blog, NBER Digest

“Retail Globalization and Household Welfare: Evidence from Mexico” with Ben Faber and Marco Gonzalez-Navarro [Download PDF] [Published Version]
Journal of Political Economy: Vol. 126 No. 1 (February 2018) Lead Article
Write up in VoxEU, IGC Blog, Microeconomic Insights, CATO Research Brief

“How Do We Choose Our Identity? A Revealed Preference Approach Using Food Consumption”  with Eve Colson-Sihra and Moses Shayo [Download PDF][Published Version]
Journal of Political Economy: Vol. 129 No. 4 (April 2021)

“Volatility and the Gains from Trade” with Treb Allen [Download PDF]
Econometrica: Vol. 90 No. 5 (September 2022)
Write up in the NBER Digest

 “Measuring Welfare and Inequality with Incomplete Price Information” with Ben Faber, Thibault Fally and Marco Gonzalez-Navarro [Download PDF]
Quarterly Journal of Economics: Vol. 139(1): 419-475 (February 2024)

“Globalization and the Ladder of Development: Pushed to the Top or Held at the Bottom?” with Arnaud Costinot and Masao Fukui [Download PDF]
Review of Economic Studies: Forthcoming

WORKING PAPERS

“Who's Getting Globalized? The Size and Implications of Intranational Trade Costs” with Dave Donaldson [Download PDF]
Revise and Resubmit, Econometrica
Write up in VoxDev

“The Returns to Face-to-Face Interactions: Knowledge Spillovers in Silicon Valley” with Keith Chen and Anton Popov [Download PDF]
Revise and Resubmit, American Economic Review

“Trade Barriers and Market Power: Evidence from Argentina's Discretionary Import Restrictions” with Joaquin Blaum, Pablo Fajgelbaum and Augusto Ospital [Download]
Reject and Resubmit, American Economic Review

“Working from Home, Worker Sorting and Development” with Antoinette Schoar and Sumit Shinde [Download]

“Trucks” with Treb Allen, Santiago Cantillo and Carlos Hernandez [Draft Available on Request]

“The Incidence of Distortions” with Baptiste Bernadac, Dave Donaldson, Tishara Grag and Federico Huneeus[Draft Available on Request]

DORMANT PROJECTS

“Working for the Future: Female Factory Work and Child Health in Mexico” [New Version Coming Soon-Old Version Here]

NON-REFEREED OR LIGHTLY-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

“The Traveling Trucker Problem” with Treb Allen, Santiago Cantillo Cleves and Carlos Eduardo Hernández
AEA Paper and Proceedings (2024)  [Download PDF]

“The Role of Trade in Economic Development” with Dave Donaldson
Handbook of International Economics: Vol. 5 (2022)  [Download PDF]

“Trade and Price-index Inequality”
IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities (2021)  [Download PDF]

“How Distortions Alter the Impacts of International Trade in
Developing Countries” with Amit Khandelwal
Annual Review of Economics: Vol. 12 (2020)  [Download PDF]

“Measuring Productivity: Lessons from Tailored Surveys and Productivity Benchmarking” with Amit Khandelwal and Adam Osman
American Economic Association Papers & Proceedings (2019), 109: 444-449  [Download PDF]

“On the Origins and Development of Pakistan's Soccer-Ball Cluster” with Azam Chaudhry, Shamyla Chaudry, Amit Khandelwal, Tariq Raza and Eric Verhoogen
The World Bank Economic Review (2016) [Download PDF]

“Markup and Cost Dispersion Across Firms: Direct Evidence from Producer Surveys in Pakistan” with Azam Chaudhry, Shamyla Chaudry, Amit Khandelwal and Eric Verhoogen
American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings (May 2015), 105(5):537-544 [Download PDF]

“Habit Formation and the Gains from Price Stability”
CESifo Economic Studies (2012) 58(2): 373-384 [Download PDF]

POLICY NOTES

“Evaluating Sama’s Training and Job Programs in Nairobi, Kenya”
Policy Note  [Download PDF]