Research

 

Working Papers


The Race Between Education, Technology, and the Minimum Wage 

April 2023

Presentation slides (January 2024)

This paper supersedes and expands the paper ``The Race Between Education, Technology, and Institutions."


Unequal Expenditure Switching: Evidence from Switzerland

with Raphael Auer, Ariel Burstein, and Sarah Lein, December 2022

Conditionally accepted at The Review of Economic Studies


Cross-border shopping: evidence and welfare implications for Switzerland 

with Ariel Burstein and Sarah Lein, December 2022 (first version June 2022)

Revision requested at The Journal of International Economics


Exposure(s) to Trade and Earnings Dynamics

with Arnaud Costinot and Matti Sarvimaki, June 2022 (first version November 2021)

Presentation slides (June 2022)


Capital-Skill Complementarity in Firms and in the Aggregate Economy” (preliminary and incomplete)

with Giuseppe Berlingieri, Filippo Boeri, and Danial Lashkari, September 2022 (first version March 2022)

Presentation slides (November 2022)

 

Discrimination and Racial Disparities in Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from WWII” 

with Anna Aizer, Ryan Boone, and Adriana Lleras-Muney, September 2021

 

Trade and Welfare (Across Local Labor Markets)

with Ryan Kim, April 2020

 


Published and Forthcoming Papers

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Trade shocks and labor market adjustment

with Ryan Kim

American Economic Review: Insights, 2021, Vol. 3, No. 1: 115-130.

Teaching presentation slides (a mix of empirics + condensed paper)

 

Tradability and the Labor-Market Impact of Immigration: Theory and Evidence from the U.S.” (including Online Appendix)

with Ariel Burstein, Gordon Hanson, and Lin Tian

Econometrica, 2020, Vol. 88, Issue 3: 1071-1112.

 

Changes in between-group inequality: computers, occupations, and international trade

with Ariel Burstein and Eduardo Morales

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2019, Vol. 11, No. 2: 348-400.

 

International Trade, Technology, and the Skill Premium

with Ariel Burstein

Presentation slides

Journal of Political Economy, 2017, Vol. 125, No. 5: 1356-1412.

 

Comparative Advantage and Optimal Trade Policy

with Arnaud Costinot, Dave Donaldson, and Iván Werning

Presentation slides

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2015, Vol. 130, Issue 2: 659-702.

 

Beyond Ricardo: Assignment Models in International Trade

with Arnaud Costinot

Online Appendix

Annual Review of Economics, 2015, Vol. 7: 31-62.

 

Importing Skill-Biased Technology”         

with Ariel Burstein and Javier Cravino

Online Addendum

Presentation slides

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2013, Vol. 5, No. 2: 32-71.

 

An Elementary Theory of Global Supply Chains

with Arnaud Costinot and Su Wang

Online Addendum

Presentation slides

Review of Economic Studies, 2013, Vol. 80, Issue 1: 109-144.

 

Global Supply Chains and Wage Inequality

with Arnaud Costinot and Su Wang

Presentation slides

American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2012, Vol. 102, No. 3: 396-401.

 

Spatial Price Discrimination with Heterogeneous Firms 

Journal of Industrial Economics, 2011, Vol. 59, No. 4: 661-676.

 

Matching and Inequality in the World Economy

with Arnaud Costinot

Presentation slides

Journal of Political Economy, 2010, Vol. 118, No. 4: 747-786.

 

Spatial Competition with Heterogeneous Firms

Presentation slides

Erratum

Journal of Political Economy, 2008, Vol. 116, No. 3: 423-466.

 

Institutions and Moral Hazard in Open Economies

Journal of International Economics, 2007, Vol. 71, No. 2: 495-514.

 

 

Papers absorbed by others

 

“Factor Prices and International Trade: A Unifying Perspective”

with Ariel Burstein, October 2011 (1st draft June 2010)

Largely absorbed into “International Trade, Technology, and the Skill Premium”

Previously circulated under the name “International Trade Patterns, the Skill Premium, and Heterogeneous Firms”