Research
Working Papers:
"Minimum wage and Informality in a Roy Bargaining Economy: Evidence from a Bunching Estimator" (with Zhengfei Yu). R&R at the Journal of Labor Economics.
"College application costs, centralized admission, and college enrollment for students with disabilities." (with Aline Dalcin and Guilherme Stein). R&R at the Journal of Human Capital.
"Paying by waiting in line: Public sector queuing and the public sector wage gap'' (with Felipe Araujo and Andrew Smith).
Publications:
[12] "Bunching Estimation Methods" (with Marinho Bertanha, Carolina Caetano, and Nathan Seegert). Forthcoming at Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics.
[11] “Moving Policies Toward Racial and Ethnic Equality: The Case of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ” (with Alfonso Flores- Lagunes, Norbert Wilson, and Judith Liu). American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2023.
[Preprint] [Published Version]
[10] "JUE Insight: Using the Mode to Test for Selection in City Size Wage Premia" (with Stuart Rosenthal and Boqian Jiang). Journal of Urban Economics, 2023. [Preprint] [Published Version]
[9] "Childbearing and the Distribution of the Reservation Price of Fertility: The Case of the Korean Baby Bonus Program" (with Dahae Choo). Journal of Asian Economics, 2021.
[Preprint] [Published Version]
[8] "Minimum Contrast Empirical Likelihood Inference of Discontinuity in Density" (with Jun Ma and Zhengfei Yu). Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2020. [Published Version}
[7] "Balancing tests in stratified randomized controlled trials: A cautionary note" (with Sergio Firpo and Miguel Foguel). Economics Letters, 2020.
[Preprint] [Published Version]
[6] "The Differential Incidence and Severity of Food Insecurity by Racial, Ethnic, and Immigrant Groups over the Great Recession in the United States" (with Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Judith Liu, and Norbert L. Wilson), AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018. [Preprint] [Published Version]
[5] "Measuring the Role of the 1959 Revolution on Cuba's Economic Performance" (with Felipe Ribeiro, Guilherme Stein and Thomas H. Kang), The World Economy, 2018.
[4] "Estimating the Effects of Minimum Wage in a Developing Country: A Density Discontinuity Design Approach", Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2018.
[Preprint] [Published Version]
(2014 International Association for Applied Econometrics graduate student paper award, 2015 Bank of Canada graduate student paper award.)
[3] "Identification and Estimation Using a Density Discontinuity Approach" with Zhengfei Yu, In Cattaneo M. D. and Escanciano J. C (Eds) Advances in Econometrics, volume 38, Regression Discontinuity Designs: Theory and Applications, 29-72, 2017.
[Preprint] [Published Version]
(2018 Emerald Literati Awards. - Outstanding Author Contribution)
[2] "Optimal Bandwidth Selection for Local Linear Estimation of Discontinuity in Density" (with Jun Ma and Zhengfei Yu), Economics Letters, 153, 23-27, 2017. [Published Version]
[1] "Measuring Peer Effects in the Brazilian School System" (with Sergio Firpo and Cristine Pinto), Applied Economics, 2015.