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Working Papers

2025

1. Do Vaping Taxes Tip the Scale? The Effect of E-Cigarette Taxation on Obesity
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
2. Robots and Crime
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2024

3. Do E-Cigarette Retail Licensure Laws Reduce Tobacco Use?
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
4. The Effect of E-Cigarette Flavor Bans on Tobacco Use
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   Also in Working Papers, Wake Forest University, Economics Department (2024)
   See also Journal Article The effect of e-cigarette flavor bans on tobacco use, Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier (2025) View citations (1) (2025)
5. The Effect of E-cigarette Taxes on Substance Use
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   See also Journal Article The Effect of E-Cigarette Taxes on Substance Use, Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier (2025) (2025)

2023

6. Mandatory Seatbelt Laws and Traffic Fatalities: A Reassessment
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2022)
   See also Journal Article Mandatory seatbelt laws and traffic fatalities: A reassessment, Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (2024) (2024)

2022

7. Can Anti-Vaping Policies Curb Drinking Externalities? Evidence from E-Cigarette Taxation and Traffic Fatalities
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
8. Have Recreational Marijuana Laws Undermined Public Health Progress on Adult Tobacco Use?
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article Have recreational marijuana laws undermined public health progress on adult tobacco use?, Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier (2023) View citations (1) (2023)
9. The Effects of Recreational Marijuana Legalization on Employment and Earnings
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article The effects of recreational marijuana legalization on employment and earnings, Journal of Population Economics, Springer (2025) (2025)

2019

10. International Trade and Employment: Theory and Evidence from Korean Firms
    Working Papers, University of California-Irvine, Department of Economics
    See also Journal Article International trade and employment: Theory and evidence from Korean firms, The World Economy, Wiley Blackwell (2021) (2021)

2018

11. Trump Tariffs Primarily Hit Multinational Supply Chains, Harm US Technology Competitiveness
    Policy Briefs, Peterson Institute for International Economics View citations (6)

Journal Articles

2025

1. Targeted Liberalization: China's foreign investment regulation reform and its post‐WTO‐accession export surge
   Review of International Economics, 2025, 33, (1), 166-206 View citations (1)
2. The Effect of E-Cigarette Taxes on Substance Use
   Journal of Health Economics, 2025, 102, (C)
   See also Working Paper The Effect of E-cigarette Taxes on Substance Use, NBER Working Papers (2024) (2024)
3. The effect of e-cigarette flavor bans on tobacco use
   Journal of Health Economics, 2025, 102, (C) View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper The Effect of E-Cigarette Flavor Bans on Tobacco Use, NBER Working Papers (2024) (2024)
4. The effects of recreational marijuana legalization on employment and earnings
   Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38, (2), 1-41
   See also Working Paper The Effects of Recreational Marijuana Legalization on Employment and Earnings, NBER Working Papers (2022) View citations (2) (2022)

2024

5. Do e-cigarette retail licensure laws reduce youth tobacco use?
   Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 98, (C) View citations (1)
6. Mandatory seatbelt laws and traffic fatalities: A reassessment
   Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2024, 39, (3), 513-521
   See also Working Paper Mandatory Seatbelt Laws and Traffic Fatalities: A Reassessment, NBER Working Papers (2023) (2023)

2023

7. Have recreational marijuana laws undermined public health progress on adult tobacco use?
   Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 90, (C) View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Have Recreational Marijuana Laws Undermined Public Health Progress on Adult Tobacco Use?, NBER Working Papers (2022) View citations (3) (2022)

2021

8. International trade and employment: Theory and evidence from Korean firms
   The World Economy, 2021, 44, (11), 3351-3388
   See also Working Paper International Trade and Employment: Theory and Evidence from Korean Firms, Working Papers (2019) (2019)
9. Job creation and job destruction: The effect of trade shocks on U.S. manufacturing employment
   The World Economy, 2021, 44, (10), 2909-2949 View citations (4)

2019

10. Economic geography and inequality in China: Did improved market access widen spatial wage differences?
    China Economic Review, 2019, 54, (C), 306-323 View citations (8)