Selected Research: (see my C.V. for a complete list)
- ChatGPT Can Predict the Future when it Tells Stories Set in the Future About the Past (with Scott Cunningham)
- Uneven Enforcement of State Immigration Laws and Intra-State Migration (with Jamie Roberman, Huyen Pham and Ernesto Amaral).}
- From Alcohol to Makeup: Did Globalization Improve Women’s Household Bargaining Outcomes? (with Thang T. Vo)
- The Subfederal in Immigration Polarization (with Huyen Pham).
- Kant-Nash Equilibrium in a Model of Child Labor.
- Did Food Relief During the Covid Lockdowns Reduce Crime? Evidence from the eMTY Program (with Santiago Silva and Terry Tsai).
- The Effect of Nutrition and Food Security on Student Performance: Evidence from a Covid-19 Relief Program (with Karleigh Schilling and Santiago Silva).
- The Long-Term Effects of the Rwandan Genocide on Child Work (with Yoo-Mi Chin and Scott Cunningham), Economic Development and Cultural Change, forthcoming, available online September 2023.
- Sheriffs, State Troopers, and the Spillover Effects of Immigration Policing (with Huyen Pham), Arizona Law Review, vol. 64, 2022, pp. 463-503.
- Productivity Spillovers from Export Destinations to Domestic Firms, a Networks Analysis, (with Steven Kauffman), in International Trade, Economic Development, and the Vietnamese Economy: Essays in Honor of Binh Tran-Nam, Cuong Le Van, Pham Hoang Van, and Makoto Tawada (eds.), Springer Nature, 2022.
- International Trade, Economic Development, and the Vietnamese Economy: Essays in Honor of Binh Tran-Nam, (with Cuong Le Van and Makoto Tawada, eds.), Springer Nature, 2022.
- Can Health Insurance Reduce Household Vulnerability? Evidence from Vietnam (with Thang T. Vo), World Development, vol. 124, December 2019.
- Sub-Federal Immigration Regulation and the Trump Effect (with Huyen Pham) New York University Law Review, vol. 94, no. 1, April 2019, pp. 125-170.
- The Short and Long Run Effects of Debt Reduction: Evidence from Debt Relief Under the Enhanced HIPC and MDR Initiatives (with Kelsey Gamel), Journal of Asian Business and Economic Studies, vol. 25 no. 1, 2018, pp. 144-162.
- Trade Diversion as Firm Adjustment to Trade Policy: Evidence from EU Antidumping Duties on Vietnamese Footwear (with Nguyen Trong Hoai and Nguyen Truong Toan), World Economy, vol.40, no.6, June 2017, pp.1128–1154.
- State-Created Immigration Climates and Domestic Migration (with Huyen Pham) University of Hawaii Law Review, vol. 38, no. 1, 2016, pp. 181-210.
- Regulatory Versus Natural Endogenous Sunk Costs: Observational Equivalence In Rationalizing Lower Bounds On Industry Concentration (with David VanHoose).
- Wal-Mart as Catalyst to U.S.-China Trade (with Emek Basker). [Previous Version]
- Measuring the Climate for Immigrants: A State-by-State Analysis (with Huyen Pham), in Strange Neighbors: The Role of States in Immigration Policy, Gabriel Jack Chin and Carissa Hessick (eds.) New York University Press, 2014, Chapter 1, pp. 21-40. [See the Immigrant Climate Index(ICI).]
- Measuring State-Created Immigration Climate, (with Huyen Pham), in How to Measure Immigration Policies?, Migration and Citizenship Newsletter of the American Political Science Association, 2013. [See the Immigrant Climate Index (ICI).
- 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, vol. 21, no. 3, Fall 2012, pp. 541-82.
- 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.
- The Economics of Child Labor: Reply, (with Kaushik Basu), American Economic Review, vol. 89, no. 5, December 1999, pp. 1386-88.
- 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.
- A Methodology for Manufacturing Process Signature Analysis, (with Steven D. Eppinger and Christopher Huber), Journal of Manufacturing Systems, vol. 14, no. 1, 1995, pp. 20-34.