I. Development Economics:
Winner of the Michael Moore Award for Best Paper in Applied Microeconomics, University of Michigan.
Under review. Presented at Michigan, NEUDC (Brown), Urban Institute, McGill, Georgia State, Davis, UCSD, PAA, Mathematica, William and Mary, Center for Global Development, IFPRI, Society of Labor Economists, Reno, Stockholm University, Stockholm School of Economics, the World Bank, University of Toronto
Journal of Development Economics, vol 124, January 2017, p 120-141
Under review. Presented at Michigan, ISI-Delhi and Berkeley's - Annual World Bank Conference; co-author presentations at William and Mary, Toronto conference, Alaska, World Bank, Pretoria, Northeastern, ESOC (US Institute of Peace), ThReD (London)
Revise and resubmit - ReStat. Presented at EconCon(Columbia), NEUDC (Harvard), Michigan, ISI-Delhi, MWIEDC (Wisconsin)
Presented at Michigan
Presented at the Michigan, the ISI-Delhi, NEUDC (MIT), Center for Global Development
supported by the Alfred P Sloan Foundation's NBER Fellowship on High-Skill Immigration.
Presented at Michigan, Midwest Macro (Purdue), Raleigh (Society of Labor Economists), Western Ontario (Labo(u)r day), Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi), Mt Holyoke, PacDev (UC Riverside), IZA (Bonn), Center for Global Development (DC), CERDI (Clermont-Ferrand), NBER Summer Institute (Cambridge, MA), UCLA Law, Hawaii, Claremont, NEUDC (Tufts), CU Denver
11. "Formal Employment and Organized Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia" (with Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo) Under review. Presentations at UCSD, Michigan (H2D2), Rosario (Bogota), Colombian Central Bank (Bogota), Minnesota (MWIEDC), AL CAPONE (IDB)
12. "Political Punishment and Financial Safety Nets: Evidence from India's Demonetization" (with Priya Mukherjee)
Other Media:
Data Projects:
a. Census Digitization Project: digitize the Census of India and creates a long-run panel from 1871 until 2011
b. Income Dynamics Lab: long-run panels of households using nationally-representative household surveys in India
c. Secondary Data Bank: Terrorism Data (with Laura Zimmerman), GIS data (satellite night-time data, roads, highways, rivers, elevation, rail-lines), affirmative action data, schooling data, local GDP data.
II. High-Skill Migration:
2. "Reservoir of Foreign Talent” (with John Bound & Nicolas Morales) Science vol. 356, Issue 6339, pp. 697, May 2017
3. "Finishing Degrees And Finding Jobs” (with John Bound, Murat Demirci and Sarah Turner - chapter in Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 15, William R. Kerr, Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, editors)
Revise and resubmit - AEJ: Policy. Presentations at Michigan, Urban Institute, NBER Education Spring Meetings, Population Association of America, Society of Labor Economists (SOLE), Ohio State, UIUC, National Sun-Yat Sen University
co-author presentations at the University of Michigan, UC- San Diego, UC - Davis, NBER SI on Global Talent. (chapter in “High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences” eds. Gordon Hanson, William Kerr and Sarah Turner)
supported by the Alfred P Sloan Foundation's NBER Fellowship on High-Skill Immigration.
Presented at Michigan, Midwest Macro (Purdue), Raleigh (Society of Labor Economists), Western Ontario (Labo(u)r day), Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi), Mt Holyoke, PacDev (UC Riverside), IZA (Bonn), Center for Global Development (DC), CERDI (Clermont-Ferrand), NBER Summer Institute (Cambridge, MA)
7. "High-Skill Immigration and Consumer Welfare" (with Munseob Lee)
Other Media:
a. On International Students at US Universities:
b. On the H-1B Program and High-Skill Worker Migration:
Data Projects:
Pathways to Adjustment Project (with John Bound, Breno Braga and Sarah Turner): Immigration of high-skilled workers and students, and the impact on the US labor and education market.