Research

Publications

"Do weak institutions undermine global innovation production? A stochastic frontier approach.'' with R. Goel. The Journal of Technology Transfer. 2023.

``What Drives the Production and Diffusion of Mobile Apps? An International Investigation.'' with R. Goel. Managerial and Decision Economics. 2022.

"Bounds on Average and Quantile Treatment Effects on Duration Outcomes under Censoring, Selection, and Noncompliance." with X. Chen, C. Flores and A. Flores-Lagunes. Forthcoming: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. 2020.

"Inference for Treatment Effects of Job Training on Wages: Using Bounds to Compute Fisher's Exact P-Value." with M. Bia. Applied Economic Letters. 2019.

"Level of Development and Income Inequality in the United States: Kuznets Hypothesis Revisited Once Again." with R. Ram. Economic Modelling. 2018.

"The Valuation of Public Goods, the Time to Capitalization, and Network Externalities:A Spatial Hedonic Regression Analysis." with A. Ohler. Land Economics. 2017. 

"Who Benefits From Job Placement Services? A Two-Tiered Earnings Frontier Approach." Journal of Productivity Analysis. 2017.

"A Distributional Analysis of the Socio-Economic and Ecological Determinants of ForestCarbon Stocks." with J. Soto, F. Scobedo and D. Adams. Environmental Science and Policy. 2016.

"Bounds on Average and Quantile Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training on Wages." with Alfonso Flores-Lagunes and Carlos Flores. The Journal of Human Resources. 2013.

"The Effects of Job Corps Training on Wages of Adolescents and Young Adults." with Alfonso Flores-Lagunes and Carlos Flores. American Economic Review P&P. 2013.

Research in Progress

“Does Youth Training Lead to Better Job Quality? Evidence from Job Corps” with A. Flores-Lagunes.

“Evaluating Training Impacts Controlling for Specific Local Economic Conditions.”

“Do Labor Market Intermediaries Affect the Speed of Employer Learning?” with D. Nikolaou and A. Islam.

"The Impact of Parental Leave Taking on Wages: Evidence from Luxembourg." with M. Bia and M. Valentova. 

"Testing for the Validity of Individual-Level Monotonicity Assumptions"