Verhoogen

 

ERIC VERHOOGEN

Assistant Professor

Department of Economics

School of International and Public Affairs

Columbia University

Mailing address:

IAB 1022

420 W. 118th St.
New York, NY 10027

(212) 854-4428

eric.verhoogen “at” columbia.edu

 

Office: IAB 1001b

Office hours: by appt.

 

 

CV

Research

Teaching

 

Research:

 

Published and Forthcoming Papers

  

·         “Class-Size Caps, Sorting, and the Regression Discontinuity Design.” With Miguel Urquiola, March 2008. Forthcoming, American Economic Review.

 

Earlier version (July 2007): NBER #13303, CEPR #6425, BREAD #155, IZA #2963.

 

·         “Trade, Quality Upgrading and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector  Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 123, no. 2, May 2008, pp. 489-530.

 

Supplementary material: Appendix II.

 

Earlier versions:

1. June 2007: CEPR #6385, BREAD #153, IZA #2913.

2. Jan. 2004: UC Berkeley Center for Labor Economics #67.

 

Press mention: Wall Street Journal, May 24, 2007, page A1 (Volkswagen example drawn in part from this paper.) In Spanish: La Reforma (Mιxico D.F.), May 24, 2007, Negocios p. 10.

 

VW photos.

 

·         “Fairness and Freight-Handlers: Local Labor Market Conditions and Wage Fairness Perceptions in a Trucking Firm.” With Stephen V. Burks and Jeffrey P. Carpenter. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, vol. 60, no. 4, July 2007, pp. 477-498.

 

·         “Comparing Students to Workers: The Effects of Social Framing on Behavior in Distribution Games.” With Jeffrey P. Carpenter and Stephen V. Burks. In J. P. Carpenter, G. Harrison, and J. List eds., Research in Experimental Economics, vol. 10. Amsterdam, Boston: JAI/Elsevier, 2005.

 

·         “The Effect of Stakes in Distribution Experiments.” With Stephen V. Burks and Jeffrey P. Carpenter. Economics Letters, vol. 86, no. 2, Feb. 2005.

 

·         “Playing Both Roles in the Trust GameWith Stephen V. Burks and Jeffrey P. Carpenter. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 51 no.2, June 2003, pp. 195-216. 

 

Working Papers

 

·         “Product Quality at the Plant Level: Plant Size, Exports, Output Prices and Input Prices in Colombia.” With Maurice Kugler, Jan. 2008.

 

·         “Exporting and Individual Wage Premia: Evidence from Mexican Employer-Employee Data.” With David S. Kaplan, Nov. 2005.

 

·          “Chinese Competition and Mexican Manufacturers: Plant-Level Evidence and Policy Implications.” With Hitoshi Shigeoka and Matthew Wai-Poi, Aug. 2006.

  

 

Teaching:

 

Future courses:

·         BREAD/CEPR/Verona 2008 Summer School in Development Economics

 

Current courses:

On leave for 2007-2008 academic year.

 

Past courses:

·         SIPA INAF U8145: Advanced Economic Development for International Affairs, Fall 2006

·         Econ G6306: Industrial Development, Fall 2006

·         Development/Environment Seminar, Fall 2006, Spring 2007

 

Miscellaneous:

·         Notes for potential PhD advisees