Professor, Economics Department
University of California, Santa Cruz
aspearot@ucsc.edu, +1 (831) 459-1530
Fields: International Trade, Development, Applied Microeconomics
Education:
University of Michigan (BSE in Industrial and Operational Engineering)
University of Wisconsin, Madison (MS, PhD in Economics)
The value of value chains: An Experiment linking Farmers’ Cooperatives with a Maize Processor in Rwanda,
with Shilpa Aggarwal, Susan Godlonton, Jonathan Robinson, and Guanghong Xu
"Everybody Fights an American War": Market Access and Uncertainty during the US-China Trade War
with Brenda Samaniego de la Parra and Daniela Puggioni
Green Shoots: Seeding a Market for Certified Cassava Cuttings among Cooperatives in Rwanda
with Shilpa Aggarwal, Athanase Nduwumuremyi, Jonathan Robinson, Youngwoo Song, and Guanghong Xu
Growing Exporters and Optimal Tariffs: The Case of the China Shock, with Jesse Mora
Going the Extra Mile: Farm Subsidies and Spatial Convergence in Agricultural Input Adoption
with Shilpa Aggarwal, Dahyeon Jeong, Naresh Kumar, David Sungho Park, and Jonathan Robinson
The Costs of Product Variety - Evidence from the Light Truck Market, December, 2022
The Dynamic Effects of Cash Transfers for Agricultural Households, Conditionally Accepted, AEJ Applied Economics January 2025
with Shilpa Aggarwal, Jenny Aker, Dahyeon Jeong, Naresh Kumar, David Sungho Park, and Jonathan Robinson,
Private but Misunderstood? Evidence on Measuring Intimate Partner Violence via Self-Interviewing in Rural Liberia and Malawi, Worldbank Economic Review, forthcoming
with Shilpa Aggarwal, Dahyeon Jeong, Naresh Kumar, David Sungho Park, and Jonathan Robinson.
Market Access, Trade Costs and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Northern Tanzania, Review of Economics and Statistics, November, 2024
with Shilpa Aggarwal, Brian Giera, Dahyeon Jeong, Jonathan Robinson. Technical Appendix
Shortening the Path to Productive Investment: Evidence from Input Fairs and Cash Transfers in Malawi , Journal of Development Economics, September 2024
with Shilpa Aggarwal, Dahyeon Jeong, Naresh Kumar, David Sungho Park, and Jonathan Robinson
Exhaustive or Exhausting? Evidence on Respondent Fatigue in Long Surveys, Journal of Development Economics, August, 2022
with Shilpa Aggarwal, Dahyeon Jeong, Naresh Kumar, David Sungho Park, and Jonathan Robinson
Did COVID-19 Market Disruptions Disrupt Food Security? Evidence from Households in Rural Liberia and Malawi, PLoS ONE, November, 2021. 17 (8): e0271488
with Shilpa Aggarwal, Dahyeon Jeong, Naresh Kumar, David Sungho Park, and Jonathan Robinson..
Heterogeneous Firms, Trade Liberalization, and Welfare, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, 2019
Online Appendix
Firms in International Trade, Handbook of International Trade and Transportation, Edward Elgar Press, 2018
with Federico Diez and Jesse Mora
Unpacking the Long Run Effects of Tariff Shocks: New Structural Implications from Firm Heterogeneity Models, AEJ Microeconomics, May 2016
Current Shape Estimates, Technical Appendix
US‒Carbon Steel (India): Multi-Product Firms and the Cumulation of Products, World Trade Review, April 2016,
with Dukgeun Ahn
Relaxing CAFE: Foreign Direct Investment, NAFTA, and Domestic Product Standards, Canadian Journal of Economics, December 2015
with Phillip McCalman
Core Competencies, Matching, and the Structure of FDI, Canadian Journal of Economics, August 2014
with Federico Diez. Online Appendix
Why Trucks Jump: Offshoring and Product Characteristics, Journal of International Economics, September 2013
with Phillip McCalman, Online Appendix
Market Access, Investment, and Heterogeneous Firms, International Economic Review, May 2013
Online Appendix - Old Working Paper - Really Old Working paper
Variable Demand Elasticities and Tariff Liberalization, Journal of International Economics, January 2013
Online Appendix
Firm heterogeneity, New Investment, and Acquisitions, Journal of Industrial Economics, March 2012