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Research topics

• Political Science
• Economics
• Demographic economics
• Economic growth
• Finance
• Sociology
• Law
• Materials science
• Labour economics
• Psychology
• Gender studies
• International trade
• Composite material
• Business

Selected publications

• The Changing Landscape of International Development: An Introduction

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2026-01-01

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• The Changing Nature of International Trade and Its Implications for Development

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01

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• The Changing Nature of International Trade and its Implications for Development

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01

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• The Global Gender Distortions Index (GGDI)

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2025-08-01

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  The extent to which women participate in the labor market varies greatly across the globe.If such differences reflect distortions that women face in accessing good jobs, they can reduce economic activity through a misallocation of talent.In this paper, we build on Hsieh et al. (2019) to provide a methodology to quantify these productivity consequences.The index we propose, the "Global Gender Distortions Index (GGDI)", measures the losses in aggregate productivity that genderbased misallocation imposes.Our index allows us to separately identify labor demand distortions (e.g., discrimination in hiring for formal jobs) from labor supply distortions (e.g., frictions that discourage women's labor force participation) and can be computed using data on labor income and job types.Our methodology also highlights an important distinction between welfare-relevant misallocation and the consequences on aggregate GDP if misallocation arises between market work and non-market activities.To showcase the versatility of our index, we analyze gender misallocation within countries over time, across countries over the development spectrum, and across local labor markets within countries.We find that misallocation is substantial and that demand distortions account for most of the productivity losses.

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• Trade and Domestic Distortions: The Case of Informality

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01 · 6 citations

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• The Global Gender Distortions Index (Ggdi)

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01

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• Aggregate Implications of Barriers to Female Entrepreneurship

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01 · 5 citations

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• Aggregate Implications of Barriers to Female Entrepreneurship

  Econometrica · 2024-01-01 · 26 citations

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  We develop a framework for quantifying barriers to labor force participation (LFP) and entrepreneurship faced by women in India. We find substantial barriers to LFP, and higher costs of expanding businesses through hiring workers for women entrepreneurs. However, there is one area where female entrepreneurs have an advantage: the hiring of female workers. We show that this is not driven by the sectoral composition of female employment. Consistent with this pattern, policies promoting female entrepreneurship can significantly increase female LFP even without explicitly targeting female LFP. Counterfactual simulations indicate that removing all excess barriers faced by women entrepreneurs would substantially increase the fraction of female‐owned firms, female LFP, earnings, and generate substantial gains for the economy. These gains are due to higher LFP, higher real wages and profits, and reallocation: low productivity male‐owned firms previously sheltered from female competition are replaced by higher productivity female‐owned firms previously excluded from the economy.

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• The US-China Trade War and Global Reallocations

  American Economic Review Insights · 2024-05-31 · 89 citations

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  The US-China trade war created net export opportunities rather than simply shifting trade across destinations. Many “bystander” countries grew their exports of taxed products into the rest of the world (excluding the United States and China). Country-specific components of tariff elasticities, rather than specialization patterns, drove large cross-country variation in export growth of tariff-exposed products. The elasticities of exports to US-Chinese tariffs identify whether a country’s exports complement or substitute the United States or China and its supply curve’s slope. Countries that operate along downward-sloping supplies whose exports substitute (complement) the United States and China are among the larger (smaller) beneficiaries of the trade war. (JEL F13, F14, O19, P33)

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• Presidential Address: Demand‐Side Constraints in Development. The Role of Market Size, Trade, and (In)Equality

  Econometrica · 2023-01-01 · 14 citations

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  What is the pathway to development in a world marked by rising economic nationalism and less international integration? This paper answers this question within a framework that emphasizes the role of demand‐side constraints on national development, which is identified with sustained poverty reduction. In this framework, development is linked to the adoption of an increasing returns to scale technology by imperfectly competitive firms that need to pay the fixed setup cost of switching to that technology. Sustained poverty reduction is measured as a continuous decline in the share of the population living below $1.90/day purchasing power parity in 2011 U.S. dollars over a five‐year period. This outcome is affected in a statistically significant and economically meaningful way by domestic market size, which is measured as a function of the income distribution, and international market size, which is measured as a function of legally‐binding provisions to international trade agreements, including the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the World Trade Organization, and 279 preferential trade agreements. Counterfactual estimates suggest that, in the absence of international integration, the average resident of a low‐ or lower‐middle‐income country does not live in a market large enough to experience sustained poverty reduction. Domestic redistribution targeted towards generating a larger middle class can partially compensate for the lack of an international market.

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Recent grants

• Trade Liberalization, Wages, and Employment in Developing Countries: The Role of Political Economy and the Informal Sector

  NSF · $360k · 2002–2008

Frequent coauthors

• Nina Pavcnik

  Dartmouth Hospital

  146 shared

• Costas Meghir

  62 shared

• Amit Khandelwal

  Yale University

  58 shared

• Jan De Loecker

  KU Leuven

  39 shared

• Simeon Djankov

  London School of Economics and Political Science

  36 shared

• Petia Topalova

  36 shared

• Tristan Reed

  World Bank Group

  28 shared

• Rafael Dix-Carneiro

  Duke University

  26 shared

Awards & honors

• Connecticut Magazine Top Docs 2016
• Connecticut Magazine Top Docs 2015