Nicholas Li
Welcome to my homepage! I graduated from UC Berkeley in May 2019 (and also in 2009). Go Bears!
I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at George Washington University.
e-mail: li dot nicholas dot y at gmail dot com
Research
The (In)effectiveness of Targeted Payroll Tax Reductions, with Alessandra Fenizia and Luca Citino.
Racial Sorting, Restricted Choices, and the Origins of Residential Segregation in U.S. Cities.
This paper was previously titled "Housing Market Channels of Segregation."
Not a Bartik: Networks and Selection Bias in Immigration Shift-Share Designs. [Preliminary and Incomplete. Do not cite without permission.]
Bunching as Quantile Differences with Implications for Welfare Analysis.
Publications
Information Technology and Government Decentralization: Experimental Evidence from Paraguay, with Ernesto Dal Bó, Frederico Finan, and Laura Schechter. Econometrica, 2021.
Reevaluating Agricultural Productivity Gaps with Longitudinal Microdata, with Joan Hamory, Marieke Kleemans, and Edward Miguel. Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021.