Publications
with David Lagakos, Benjamin Moll, Nancy Qian, and Todd Schoellman
Journal of Political Economy, 2018
We document how life-cycle wage growth varies across countries. We harmonize repeated cross-sectional surveys from countries of all income levels and show that experience-wage profiles are on average twice as steep in rich countries as in poor countries.
Slides
with David Lagakos, Benjamin Moll, Nancy Qian, and Todd Schoellman
Journal of Human Capital’s special edition honoring Gary Becker, 2018
We document that returns to potential experience among U.S. immigrants are higher for workers coming from rich countries than for those coming from poor countries. We interpret this fact as evidence that workers accumulate less human capital on the job in poor countries, and provide additional evidence consistent with this interpretation.
Slides
with Vittorio Bassi , Raffaela Muoio, Ritwika Sen, Esau Tugume
Econometrica, 2022
Rental market interactions allow small firms to increase their effective scale and mechanize production, even when each individual firm would be too small to invest in expensive machines.
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with Federico Rossi and Gabriella Santangelo
American Economic Review, 2022
We use data on agricultural employment by birth-cohort and a new dataset of education policy reforms to show that the 20th-century human capital increase contributed to structural transformation. Human capital growth accounts for about 20% of the global decline in agricultural employment.
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Press Coverage of old versions: Voxeu article ; WEForum