"Foreign and Domestic Firms: Long Run Employment Effects of Export Opportunities" with Nina Pavcnik and Woan Foong Wong (Jan 2025)
NBER Working Paper 30729 STEG Working Paper 45
Previously circulated as "FDI inflows and domestic firms: Adjustments to new export opportunities"
Accepted at The Review of Economics and Statistics
"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.
"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.
"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.
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.