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Current research

Migration, Specialization, and Trade: Evidence from Brazil's March to the West [New version coming soon!]
Supplementary Appendix (Not for Publication)
with Heitor Pellegrina
Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Political Economy
Latest version: September 2021
NBER Working Paper 28421 | RSIE Working Paper 681, January 2021

Deforestation: A Global and Dynamic Perspective [Draft coming soon!]
with Farid Farrokhi, Elliot Kang, and Heitor Pellegrina


Published and accepted papers

The Geography of Job Tasks
Appendix
with Enghin Atalay and Daniel Tannenbaum
Journal of Labor Economics, Accepted
Latest version: January 2023
NBER Working Paper 30421 | RSIE Working Paper 682, June 2021
Coverage: VoxEU Column

Domestic Trade Frictions and Agriculture [Online Appendix]
Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 128, No. 7, 2690-2738, July 2020.
Latest version: March 2019
RSIE Working Paper 641, May 2015

The Evolution of Work in the United States [Data page]
with Enghin Atalay, Phai Phongthiengtham, and Daniel Tannenbaum
AEJ: Applied Economics, Vol 12, No. 2, 1-34, April 2020
Latest version: June 2019
* Awarded best paper published in the AEJ: Applied Economics in the previous three years (2023)
Coverage: VoxEU Column, AEA Chart of the Week, BLS Monthly Labor Review

Trade-Induced Structural Change and the Skill Premium
with Javier Cravino
AEJ: Macroeconomics, Vol 11, No. 3, 289-326, July 2019
Latest version: June 2018
Previous version: NBER Working Paper 23503, June 2017

New Technologies and the Labor Market
with Enghin Atalay, Phai Phongthiengtham, and Daniel Tannenbaum
Journal of Monetary Economics (CRNYU Series), Vol. 97, 48-67, August 2018
Latest version: March 2018

International Trade: Linking Micro and Macro
with Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum
Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Tenth World Congress, Volume II, Applied Economics, 2013, 329-370
Previous version: NBER Working Paper 17864, February 2012

Work in progress

Mining, Agriculture and Deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon
with Brian Cevallos Fujiy and Heitor Pellegrina

Older working papers

The Inequality Implications of Evolving Occupations
with Enghin Atalay, Phai Phongthiengtham, and Daniel Tannenbaum
Latest version: June 2019

Practical Aspects of Implementing the Multinomial PML Estimator
Latest version: June 2019
Update of notes written in July 2012, which clarify the estimation in Eaton, Kortum, and Sotelo (2013)

Teaching

AY 2021-22

Econ 340 - International Economics

Econ 490 - Topics in International Trade and Spatial Economics (ULWR)

Econ 495 - Research Seminar in International Trade (Honors Thesis)

Econ 641 - International Trade

Previous years

Econ 441 - International Trade

Econ 442 - International Finance

Econ 642 - International Finance