Education: PhD, Economics, Cornell University; SM, SB, Mechanical Engineering, MIT.
My Research Interests: Economic Development, International Trade, Retail as a Trade Platform, Technology Change, Developing Country Labor Markets, Immigration, Corruption, Applied Theory, Applied Microeconomics
Courses I've Taught: Economic Development (U,G), International Economics, Economics of Information, Game Theory, Price Theory
Selected Research Papers: (see my C.V. for a complete list)
- Wal-Mart as Catalyst to U.S.-China Trade (with Emek Basker).
[Previous Version]
- Supersize It: The Growth of Chains and the Rise of the 'Big Box' Retail Store (with Emek Basker and Shawn Klimek), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, forthcoming.
- Measuring the Climate for Immigrants: A State-by-State Analysis (with Huyen Pham), in Illegals in the Backyard: State and Local Regulation of Immigration Policy, Gabriel Jack Chin and Carissa Hessick (eds.) New York University Press, forthcoming.
- The Economic Impact of Subfederal Immigration Regulation: An Empirical Analysis (with Huyen Pham), Cardozo Law Review, vol. 32, no. 2, November 2010, pp. 485-518.
- reprinted in Immigration and Nationality Law Review, vol. 31, 2012.
- Imports 'Я' Us: Retail Chains as Platforms for Developing-Country Imports (with Emek Basker), American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), vol. 100, no. 2, May 2010, pp. 414-18. [Working Paper Version] [data]
- Dutch Disease in the Labor Market: Women's Work and Industrialization, Review of Development Economics, vol. 13, no. 4, November 2009, pp. 560-75.
- High Corruption Income in Ming and Qing China, (with Shawn Ni), Journal of Development Economics, vol. 81, December 2006, pp. 316-36.
- Emulative Development through Trade Expansions: East Asian Evidence, (with Henry Y. Wan Jr.), in International Trade Policy and the Pacific Rim, John Piggott and Alan Woodland (eds.), Macmillan Press, 1999, pp.348-66.
- The Economics of Child Labor, (with Kaushik Basu), American Economic Review, vol. 88, no. 3, June 1998, pp. 412-27.
- Interpreting East Asian Growth, (with Henry Y. Wan Jr.), in Dynamics, Economic Growth, and International Trade, Bjarne Jensen and Kar-yiu Wong (eds.), University of Michigan Press, 1997, pp. 265-86.
Popular Writings:
- Child Labor: Southeast Asia, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Vietnamese Tariff Doesn't Add Up, (with Huyen Pham) Op-Ed, Mobile Register, July 20, 2003.
- No Such Thing As Free Trade, (with Huyen Pham) Op-Ed, Chicago Tribune, June 20, 2003. [Vietnamese translation].
- The Fishy Business on Vietnamese Trade, (with Huyen Pham) Op-Ed, San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 25, 2003.
- Catfish Ruling: Fishy Business, (with Huyen Pham) Op-Ed, Asia Times, Feb. 22, 2003. [Vietnamese translation].
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