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Working Papers

2025

1. Studying Economic Black Holes: Lessons from North Korea
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

2024

2. Minority Inflation, Unemployment, and Monetary Policy
   Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2024)

2023

3. Allocation of Female Talent and Cross-Country Productivity Differences
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
   See also Journal Article Allocation of Female Talent and Cross-Country Productivity Differences, The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society (2024) View citations (6) (2024)
4. Does Turnover Inhibit Specialization? Evidence from a Skill Survey in Peru
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2023)
   See also Journal Article Does Turnover Inhibit Specialization? Evidence from a Skill Survey in Peru, American Economic Review: Insights, American Economic Association (2025) (2025)
5. Racial Heterogeneity in the U.S. Structural Transformation and Regional Convergence
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
6. The Plant-Level View of Korea's Growth Miracle and Slowdown
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
   See also Journal Article The plant‐level view of Korea's growth miracle and slowdown, Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, John Wiley & Sons (2024) (2024)

2021

7. The Plant-Level View of an Industrial Policy: The Korean Heavy Industry Drive of 1973
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)

2020

8. Measuring the Cost of Living in Mexico and the US
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
   Also in Working Papers, Becker Friedman Institute for Research In Economics (2020) View citations (2)
9. The Cost of Privacy: Welfare Effects of the Disclosure of COVID-19 Cases
   Working Papers, Becker Friedman Institute for Research In Economics View citations (27)
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2020) View citations (27)
   See also Journal Article The Cost of Privacy: Welfare Effects of the Disclosure of COVID-19 Cases, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (2022) View citations (2) (2022)

2019

10. Business Groups and Economic Development
    2019 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics
11. International Price Comparison using Scanner Data
    2019 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics

2018

12. High-Skill Immigration, Innovation, and Creative Destruction
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)
    See also Chapter High-Skill Immigration, Innovation, and Creative Destruction, NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2019) (2019)
13. How do Firms Grow? The Life Cycle of Products Matters
    2018 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics View citations (9)

2017

14. Innovation and Product Reallocation in the Great Recession
    2017 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article Innovation and product reallocation in the great recession, Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier (2018) View citations (35) (2018)

2015

15. Cost of Living Inequality during the Great Recession
    2015 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics View citations (16)
    See also Journal Article Cost of Living Inequality During the Great Recession, Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Association (2021) View citations (35) (2021)
16. Do Resource Windfalls Improve the Standard of Living in Sub-Saharan African Countries?: Evidence from a Panel of Countries
    IMF Working Papers, International Monetary Fund View citations (3)

Journal Articles

2025

1. Does Turnover Inhibit Specialization? Evidence from a Skill Survey in Peru
   American Economic Review: Insights, 2025, 7, (1), 56-70
   See also Working Paper Does Turnover Inhibit Specialization? Evidence from a Skill Survey in Peru, CESifo Working Paper Series (2023) (2023)

2024

2. Allocation of Female Talent and Cross-Country Productivity Differences
   The Economic Journal, 2024, 134, (664), 3333-3359 View citations (6)
   See also Working Paper Allocation of Female Talent and Cross-Country Productivity Differences, IZA Discussion Papers (2023) (2023)
3. The Life Cycle of Products: Evidence and Implications
   Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 132, (2), 337 - 390 View citations (5)
4. The US structural transformation and regional convergence: Racial heterogeneity
   Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2024, 39, (6), 1172-1179
5. The plant‐level view of Korea's growth miracle and slowdown
   Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2024, 57, (3), 704-725
   See also Working Paper The Plant-Level View of Korea's Growth Miracle and Slowdown, IZA Discussion Papers (2023) (2023)
6. Understanding the Lack of Skill Specialization in Peru
   Richmond Fed Economic Brief, 2024, 24, (29)

2023

7. Do resource windfalls improve standard of living in sub-Saharan African countries?
   Applied Economics, 2023, 55, (9), 944-962
8. Measuring the Cost of Living in Mexico and the United States
   American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2023, 15, (3), 43-63 View citations (3)
9. Regional redistribution through SBA guaranteed loan programs
   Journal of Corporate Finance, 2023, 78, (C) View citations (1)

2022

10. Do Black Households Face Higher and More Volatile Inflation?
    Richmond Fed Economic Brief, 2022, 22, (25)
11. The Cost of Privacy: Welfare Effects of the Disclosure of COVID-19 Cases
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104, (1), 176-186 View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper The Cost of Privacy: Welfare Effects of the Disclosure of COVID-19 Cases, Working Papers (2020) View citations (27) (2020)

2021

12. COVID-19, commuting flows, and air quality
    Journal of Asian Economics, 2021, 77, (C) View citations (3)
13. Cost of Living Inequality During the Great Recession
    Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19, (2), 913-952 View citations (35)
    See also Working Paper Cost of Living Inequality during the Great Recession, 2015 Meeting Papers (2015) View citations (16) (2015)

2018

14. Innovation and product reallocation in the great recession
    Journal of Monetary Economics, 2018, 93, (C), 1-20 View citations (35)
    See also Working Paper Innovation and Product Reallocation in the Great Recession, 2017 Meeting Papers (2017) View citations (4) (2017)

Chapters

2019

1. High-Skill Immigration, Innovation, and Creative Destruction
   A chapter in The Roles of Immigrants and Foreign Students in US Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, 2019, pp 73-98
   See also Working Paper High-Skill Immigration, Innovation, and Creative Destruction, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2018) View citations (3) (2018)