Working Papers

• “Importing the Opioid Crisis? International Trade and Fentanyl Overdoses”  (w/ Tim Moore and Ben Hansen ) 2023, NBER Working Paper 31885

   [Working Paper]  [NBER Working Paper] [Policy Summary]

Coverage: The Economist (Free Exchange) | Vox | The Economist (Leader) | Marginal Revolution | Yahoo Finance

• "The Determinants of Declining Internal Migration" (w/ Owen Thompson) 2024, NBER Working Paper 32123

[Working paper]  [NBER Working Paper] 

Coverage: NBER Digest |  Business Insider 

• “Offshoring and the Decline of Unions” (w/ Jakob Munch) 2024, IZA Discussion Paper 17116

[IZA Working Paper]

Publications

• “The Gender Gap Among Top Business Executives” (w/ Wolfgang Keller and Teresa Molina) 2023,  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 211: 270-286.

[Published Version]  [Working Paper] [NBER Working Paper]

Coverage: National Affairs

• “Intra-African Trade” 2022, Review of World Economics, 158(1): 25-51.

       [Published Version]  [Working Paper]  [UH Working Paper]

Coverage: US Dep of Agr

• “Impact of Immigration on Firm-Level Offshoring” (w/ Dario Pozzoli) 2021, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 103(1): 177-195.

[Published Version] [Working Paper]  

Coverage: US Senate Budget Committee

• “Globalization and Executive Compensation” (w/ Wolfgang Keller) 2021, Journal of International Economics, 129. 

[Published Version] [Working Paper] [NBER Working Paper] [Policy Summary]

Coverage:  Harvard Kennedy School | Harvard Law School | Brookings | Bloomberg | Vox | US News | PAC    

•  “Implications of COVID-19 for Trade and Trade Policy in LDCs” (w/ Emily Blanchard) 2020 report for the World Trade Organization 

[Published Version]

• “Cabotage Sabotage? The Curious Case of the Jones Act”, 2020, Journal of International Economics, 127.

[Published Version] [Working Paper]  [UHERO Working Paper] 

Coverage: Wilson Center | Hawaii Free Press |  Civil Beat |  Grassroot Institute of Hawaii | Tax Foundation of Hawaii | UHERO |Hawaii Public Radio

• “English Proficiency and Labor Market Performance: Evidence from the Economics Profession” 2017, Economic Inquiry, 55(1): 202-222. 

[Published Version]  [Working Paper] 

• “Globalization and Human Capital Investment: Export Composition Drives Educational Attainment” (w/ Emily Blanchard) 2017, Journal of International Economics, 106: 165-183. 

[Published Version]  [Working Paper] 

• “Remittances and the Wage Impact of Immigration” 2015, Journal of Human Resources, 50(3): 694-727.

[Published Version]  [Working Paper] 

Coverage:  ABC News | Oregonian | New York Times 

• “Impact of Corruption on Firm-Level Export Decisions” 2015, Economic Inquiry, 54(2): 1105-1127.

[Published Version]  [Working Paper] 

• “A Race to the Bottom? Employment Protection and Foreign Direct Investment” 2013,  Journal of International Economics, 91(2): 191-203. 

[Published Version]  [Working Paper] 

Coverage: White House Report

• “Immigration and Firm Expansion” 2013, Journal of Regional Science, 53(1): 142-157, (Special Immigration Issue edited by Gianmarco Ottaviano and Giovanni Peri).

[Published Version]  [Working Paper] 

Coverage:   CNBC | Business Insider | New York Times 

• “Offshoring, Immigration, and the Native Wage Distribution” 2012, Canadian Journal of Economics, 45(3): 830-856.

[Published Version]  [Working Paper] 

• “Globalization and Investment in Human Capital” (w/ Dan Hickman) 2011, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 64(4): 652-670.

[Published Version] [Working Paper]

Coverage:   Business Insider 

• “Was Job Quality ‘Job One’ in the Tri-state Region’s Economic Recovery?” (w/ Loretta Mester) 2004, Regional Highlights, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. 

[Published Version] 

Work in Progress

• "Trade Networks" (w/ Andrew Greenland)