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Working Papers

2025

1. Money or Monitoring: Evidence on Improving Worker Effort
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2023

2. The Benefits and Costs of Guest Worker Programs: Experimental Evidence from the India-UAE Migration Corridor
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)

2020

3. Improving Management through Worker Evaluations: Evidence from Auto Manufacturing
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (6)
   See also Journal Article Improving Management Through Worker Evaluations: Evidence from Auto Manufacturing, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College (2023) (2023)

2019

4. Does Vocational Education Work? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Mongolia
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (8)
5. The Labor Supply Consequences of Having a Boy in China
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)

2017

6. Property Rights, Land Misallocation and Agricultural Efficiency in China
   Working Papers, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group View citations (26)
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2017) View citations (25)
   See also Journal Article Property Rights, Land Misallocation, and Agricultural Efficiency in China, The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd (2021) View citations (76) (2021)

2015

7. Asymmetric Information and Remittances: Evidence from Matched Administrative Data
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)
   See also Journal Article Asymmetric Information and Remittances: Evidence from Matched Administrative Data, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association (2018) View citations (15) (2018)
8. Relaxing Migration Constraints for Rural Households
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (6)
   Also in Working Papers, eSocialSciences (2015) View citations (6)

2014

9. Worker Mobility in a Global Labor Market: Evidence from the United Arab Emirates
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)

2013

10. Dishonesty and Selection into Public Service
    CID Working Papers, Center for International Development at Harvard University View citations (22)
    Also in Working Paper Series, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government (2013) View citations (23)
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2013) View citations (22)
    Working Papers, eSocialSciences (2013) View citations (23)
11. Property Rights and Intra-Household Bargaining
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
    Also in Working Papers, eSocialSciences (2012) View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article Property rights and intra-household bargaining, Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier (2014) View citations (50) (2014)

2011

12. Marriage Networks, Nepotism and Labor Market Outcomes in China
    Working Papers, eSocialSciences View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Marriage Networks, Nepotism, and Labor Market Outcomes in China, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association (2013) View citations (29) (2013)

2010

13. Statistical Discrimination, Productivity and the Height of Immigrants
    Working Papers, eSocialSciences
    See also Journal Article Statistical Discrimination, Productivity, and the Height of Immigrants, ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School (2015) View citations (5) (2015)

2003

14. IT investment and Hicks' composite-good theorem: the U.S. experience
    International Finance Discussion Papers, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) View citations (1)
15. Revisiting the Border: an assessment of the law of one price using very disaggregated consumer price data
    International Finance Discussion Papers, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) View citations (30)
16. The high-frequency response of exchange rates and interest rates to macroeconomic announcements
    International Finance Discussion Papers, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) View citations (42)
    See also Journal Article The high-frequency response of exchange rates and interest rates to macroeconomic announcements, Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier (2007) View citations (293) (2007)

Journal Articles

2023

1. Improving Management Through Worker Evaluations: Evidence from Auto Manufacturing
   The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023, 137, (4), 2459-2497
   See also Working Paper Improving Management through Worker Evaluations: Evidence from Auto Manufacturing, NBER Working Papers (2020) View citations (6) (2020)
2. The Labor-Supply Consequences of Having a Child in China
   The World Bank Economic Review, 2023, 37, (2), 257-282 View citations (1)

2021

3. Property Rights, Land Misallocation, and Agricultural Efficiency in China
   (Misallocation, Selection and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis with Panel Data from China)
   The Review of Economic Studies, 2021, 88, (4), 1831-1862 View citations (76)
   See also Working Paper Property Rights, Land Misallocation and Agricultural Efficiency in China, Working Papers (2017) View citations (26) (2017)

2018

4. Access to Migration for Rural Households
   American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10, (4), 79-119 View citations (64)
5. Asymmetric Information and Remittances: Evidence from Matched Administrative Data
   American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10, (2), 58-100 View citations (15)
   See also Working Paper Asymmetric Information and Remittances: Evidence from Matched Administrative Data, NBER Working Papers (2015) View citations (5) (2015)

2017

6. Dishonesty and Selection into Public Service: Evidence from India
   American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2017, 9, (3), 262-90 View citations (133)

2016

7. Monopsony Power in Migrant Labor Markets: Evidence from the United Arab Emirates
   Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 124, (6), 1735 - 1792 View citations (75)

2015

8. Statistical Discrimination, Productivity, and the Height of Immigrants
   ILR Review, 2015, 68, (3), 529-557 View citations (5)
   See also Working Paper Statistical Discrimination, Productivity and the Height of Immigrants, Working Papers (2010) (2010)

2014

9. Property rights and intra-household bargaining
   Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 107, (C), 192-201 View citations (50)
   See also Working Paper Property Rights and Intra-Household Bargaining, NBER Working Papers (2013) View citations (2) (2013)

2013

10. Marriage Networks, Nepotism, and Labor Market Outcomes in China
    American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5, (3), 91-112 View citations (29)
    See also Working Paper Marriage Networks, Nepotism and Labor Market Outcomes in China, Working Papers (2011) View citations (1) (2011)

2012

11. Credit Constraints, Job Mobility, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Property Reform in China
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94, (2), 532-551 View citations (112)

2011

12. State Misallocation and Housing Prices: Theory and Evidence from China
    American Economic Review, 2011, 101, (5), 2081-2107 View citations (91)

2007

13. The high-frequency response of exchange rates and interest rates to macroeconomic announcements
    Journal of Monetary Economics, 2007, 54, (4), 1051-1068 View citations (293)
    See also Working Paper The high-frequency response of exchange rates and interest rates to macroeconomic announcements, International Finance Discussion Papers (2003) View citations (42) (2003)