Research areas: Spatial Economics, International Trade, Labor Economics.  

I received my Ph.D. in Economics from University of California, San Diego in 2019.

Working Papers

• The Economic Consequences of Exporting Higher Education Services in the United States.

• Estimating Local Effects of Aggregate Shocks Under Imperfect Substitution.   

• Using Satellite Imagery to Detect the Impacts of New Highways: An Application to India (with K. Baragwanath, G. Hanson, A. Khandelwal, H. Park). R&R at Journal of International Economics

• The Economic Impacts of US Immigration Reform.  

Previously titled: Modes of Entry, Correlated Productivity, and the Global Impacts of US Immigration Reform.

Publication

• Partial Specialization and Heterogeneous Task Assignments. Forthcoming. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 

• Immigration and Occupational Comparative Advantage (with Gordon Hanson).  Journal of International Economics 145 (November 2023): 103809

• Migration, Tariffs, and China’s Export Surge (with Xiao Ma).  Journal of International Economics 140 (January 2023): 103696.

• The Rise and Fall of U.S. Low-Skilled Immigration (with Gordon Hanson and Craig McIntosh) Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2017

• High-Skilled Immigration and the Comparative Advantage of Foreign Born Workers across US Occupations (with Gordon Hanson) in High-Skilled Migration to the United States and its Economic Consequences, University of Chicago Press, 2017