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Welcome to my website, which includes my CV, research papers and teaching information. Please contact me for further details and information.
From July 2011 onwards I work as Assistant Professor in Economics at Wesleyan University.
Research Interests
Labor Economics, Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Latin America, Transition Countries
Published and forthcoming
(1) Does the minimum wage have a higher impact on the informal than on the formal labor market? Evidence from quasi-experiments, (IZA DP No.3911), forthcoming in Applied Economics 2013
(2) Is informal sector work an alternative to workfare benefits? The case of pre-program expansion and economic crisis, (IZA DP No.4614), accepted in Review of Development Economics
(3) A Note on Informality in the Labor Market, ( IZA DP No.4676), Journal of International Development 2011
(4) The Persistence of Informality: Evidence from Panel Data (with Aslan Akay), ( IZA DP No.6163), forthcoming in Research in Labor Economics 2012
(5) Crisis and Recovery in Argentina: Labor market, poverty, inequality and pro-poor growth dynamics, in Stephan Klasen and Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann eds., Poverty, Inequality and Migration in Latin America, Peter Lang Verlag, 2008, Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research DP No. 135
(6) Ethnic Fragmentation, Conflict, Displaced Persons and Human Trafficking: An Empirical Analysis (with Randall Akee, Arnab Basu and Nancy Chau), in Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang eds., Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Volume 8, Emerald Publishing, 2011, (IZA DP No.5142)
Working Papers
(7) Risk Attitudes and Incidence of Informality among Workers: Evidence from a Transition Country (with Thomas Dohmen and Hartmut Lehmann), Preliminary version, UPDATE AVAILABLE SOON
(8) Rubble Women: The Long-Term Effects of Postwar Reconstruction on Female Labor Market Outcomes (with Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel and Mutlu Yuksel, ( IZA DP No.6148)
(9) Consumption and Social Identity: Evidence from India (with Nishith Prakash and Zahra Siddique), ( IZA DP No.5406)
(10) Comparative Advantage, Segmentation and Informal Earnings: A Marginal Treatment Effects Approach (with Omar Arias), (IZA DP No.3916)
Teaching
Spring 2012:
ECON301 Microeconomic Analysis
ECON366 The Economics of Developing Countries
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