Current Projects

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

Growing Exporters and Optimal Tariffs:  The Case of the China Shock, with Jesse Mora

Working Papers

The Dynamic Effects of Cash Transfers: Evidence from High Frequency Surveys in Rural Liberia and Malawi, October 2022, with Shilpa Aggarwal,  Jenny Aker, Dahyeon Jeong, Naresh Kumar, David Sungho Park, and Jonathan Robinson, R&R AEJ Applied Economics

Private but Misunderstood? Evidence on Measuring Intimate Partner Violence via Self-Interviewing in Rural Liberia and Malawi, August, 2022, with Shilpa Aggarwal, Dahyeon Jeong, Naresh Kumar, David Sungho Park, and Jonathan Robinson.  R&R Worldbank Economic Review

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  R&R Economic Journal

The Costs of Product Variety - Evidence from the Light Truck Market, December, 2022

Publications

Shortening the Path to Productive Investment: Evidence from Input Fairs and Cash Transfers in Malawi , with Shilpa Aggarwal, Dahyeon Jeong, Naresh Kumar, David Sungho Park, and Jonathan Robinson, Accepted, Journal of Development Economics

Exhaustive or Exhausting? Evidence on Respondent Fatigue in Long Surveys, August, 2022, with Shilpa Aggarwal, Dahyeon Jeong, Naresh Kumar, David Sungho Park, and Jonathan Robinson Accepted, Journal of Development Economics

Market Access, Trade Costs and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Northern Tanzania, September, 2022, with Shilpa Aggarwal, Brian Giera, Dahyeon Jeong, Jonathan Robinson Accepted, Review of Economics and Statistics.  Technical Appendix

Did COVID-19 Market Disruptions Disrupt Food Security? Evidence from Households in Rural Liberia and Malawi, November, 2021, with Shilpa Aggarwal, Dahyeon Jeong, Naresh Kumar, David Sungho Park, and Jonathan Robinson. PLoS ONE 17 (8): e0271488.

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