Publications
"Entry and exit of informal firms and development"
with Nina Pavcnik
IMF Economic Review, 2021, 69(3), 540-575.
An earlier version of this paper circulated as "Out with the old and unproductive, in with the new and similarly unproductive: Microenterprise dynamics in a growing low-income country"
"Trade liberalization and labor market adjustment in Botswana"
with Margaret McMillan
Journal of African Economies, 2020, 29(3), 236-270.
"Business formalization in Vietnam"
with Jordan Nanowski
Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55(5), 805-821.
"Export markets and labor allocation in a low-income country"
with Nina Pavcnik
American Economic Review, 2018, 108(7), 1899-1941.
Coverage: NYT Magazine
with Dwayne Benjamin, Loren Brandt, and Nguyen Le Hoa
Review of Economics of the Household, 2018, 16(1), 41-74.
University of Toronto Department of Economics Working Paper 461
"Moving out of agriculture: Structural change in Vietnam"
with Nina Pavcnik
In "Structural change, fundamentals, and growth: A framework and case studies," (Eds.) Margaret McMillan, Dani Rodrik, and Claudia Paz Sepulveda. Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute. 2017.
"Stuck in the middle? Structural change and productivity growth in Botswana"
with Margaret McMillan, Inigo Verduzco-Gallo, and Keith Jefferis
In "Structural change, fundamentals, and growth: A framework and case studies," (Eds.) Margaret McMillan, Dani Rodrik, and Claudia Paz Sepulveda. Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute. 2017
"Growth with equity: Income inequality in Vietnam, 2002-14"
with Dwayne Benjamin and Loren Brandt
Journal of Economic Inequality, 15(1), 25-46. 2017
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10392. Replication files
"Informal employment in a growing and globalizing low-income country"
with Nina Pavcnik
American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 105(5), pp. 545-50. 2015.
"Exporting out of poverty: Provincial poverty in Vietnam and U.S. market access"
Journal of International Economics, 85(1), pp. 102-113. 2011. [Dataset and do file]
Reprinted in Trade and Inequality, edited by Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Coverage: Washington Post, NYT Magazine
"International welfare comparisons and nonparametric testing of multivariate stochastic dominance"
with Adonis Yatchew
Journal of Applied Econometrics, 22(5), pp.951-969. 2007.
"Financial intermediation and growth: Some robustness results"
with Thanasis Stengos
Economics Letters, 88(3), pp. 306-312. 2005.
Reviews
"International Trade"
with Senior Editors David Atkin and Amit Khandelwal and Co-Editors Laura Boudreau, Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Isabela Manelici, Pamela Medina, Ameet Morjaria, Luigi Pascali, Bob Rijkers, and Meredith Startz
VoxDevLit, https://voxdev.org/lits/international-trade, 2022.
Reports
"Assessing the Impact of Land Redistribution in the Central Highlands"
with Dwayne Benjamin, Loren Brandt, and Nguyen Le Hoa
A Report Prepared for the World Bank, 2010.
"Crop Output in Vietnam, 1992 to 2006: An Analysis of the Patterns and Sources of Growth"
with Dwayne Benjamin, Loren Brandt, Barbara Coelli
A Report Prepared for the World Bank, 2009.
Book reviews
Review of The impact of macroeconomic policies on poverty and income distribution: Macro-micro evaluation techniques and tools. 2009. Economic Record, Vol. 85, Issue 271, pp. 490-491.