Publications

Coping with Disaster: The Impact of Hurricanes on International Financial Flows, 1970-2002. B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (Advances), forthcoming.

International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment: Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks. The Economic Journal, Vol. 118, April 2008, pp. 591-630.

Integrity for Hire: An Analysis of a Widespread Customs Reform. Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 51, No. 1, 2008. (Leadership data used in paper are here.)

Can Enforcement Backfire? Crime Displacement in the Context of Customs Reform in the Philippines. Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 90, No. 1, February 2008, pp. 1-14. (Click here for the Theory Appendix.)

Are Remittances Insurance? Evidence from Rainfall Shocks in the Philippines, World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 21 (2), May 2007, pp. 219-248. (with HwaJung Choi)

Why Do Migrants Return to Poor Countries? Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Responses to Exchange Rate Shocks. Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 88, No. 4, November 2006, pp. 715-735. (Click here for the Theory Appendix.)

The Economics of Anti-Corruption: Lessons from a Widespread Customs Reform, in Susan Rose-Ackerman, ed., International Handbook of the Economics of Corruption, Elgar, 2006.

Remittances and Poverty in Migrants' Home Areas: Evidence from the Philippines with Claudia Martinez A., in Caglar Ozden and Maurice Schiff, eds., International Migration, Remittances, and the Brain Drain, World Bank, 2005.

Working papers

Under the Weather: Health, Schooling, and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall with Sharon Maccini. 2nd revision resubmitted, American Economic Review. (Click here for the Online Appendix.)

Insurance, Credit, and Technology Adoption: Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi with Xavier Gine. 1st revision resubmitted, Journal of Development Economics.

Exporting and Firm Performance: Chinese Exporters and the Asian Financial Crisis with Albert Park, Xinzheng Shi, and Yuan Jiang. 1st revision resubmitted, Review of Economics and Statistics.
       
The Impact of Rainfall on Rice Output in Indonesian Districts with David I. Levine

Remittances and the Problem of Control: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador, with Nava Ashraf, Diego Aycinena, and Claudia Martinez A. (contact me for the latest draft)

Hurricanes and Mortality in Mexico, with Todd Pugatch (contact me for the latest draft)

Work in progress

"Biometric and Financial Innovations in Rural Malawi: Field Experimental Evidence," with Xavier Gine and Jessica Goldberg

"Mobilizing Remittances for Microfinance," with Diego Aycinena and Claudia Martinez A.

"Qatar Study of Migrant Families," with Ganesh Seshan