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Welcome. My main research area is industrial development
-- firms, innovation, productivity, trade, industrial policy,
labor markets in developing countries. A number of my papers
have been concerned with the process of quality upgrading --
why and how firms raise quality when they sell to richer
countries, and the consequences for labor and other input
markets. Recently I've been working on technology adoption and
productivity estimation, among other topics. Links to my
academic papers and other writings are below.
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Contact Information:
Mailing address: 420 W. 118th St., Room 1022, MC 3308, New
York, NY 10027
Office: IAB 1119
Tel: (212) 854-4428
Email:
eric.verhoogen@columbia.edu
Twitter: @EricVerhoogen
Office hours: by appointment
Working Papers:
- "Firm-Level
Upgrading in Developing Countries.” Oct. 2021. Working paper series: NBER 29461,
CEPR 16725,
IZA 14858,
BREAD 601.
Conditionally accepted, Journal of Economic
Literature.
- "Estimating
Production Functions in Differentiated-Product
Industries with Quantity Information and External
Instruments.” With Nicolás de Roux, Marcela
Eslava, and Santiago Franco. Dec. 2020.
Appendix. Working paper series: NBER 28323,
CEPR 15626,
IZA 14006,
BREAD 583,
CDEP-CGEG 90,
CEDE 2021-02.
Published/Forthcoming
Journal Articles:
- "Exports
and Wage Premia: Evidence from Mexican
Employer-Employee Data.” With Judith A. Frías,
David S. Kaplan, and David Alfaro-Serrano. Forthcoming,
Review of Economics and Statistics.
Appendix. (Previous
version, Aug. 2009).
- "North-South
Displacement Effects of Environmental Regulation: The
Case of Battery Recycling.” With Shinsuke Tanaka
and Kensuke Teshima. Aug. 2021. Forthcoming, American
Economic Review: Insights.
Appendix.
- “Enlisting
Employees in Improving Payroll-Tax Compliance:
Evidence from Mexico.” With Todd Kumler and Judith
A. Frías. Review of Economics and Statistics, v. 102,
no. 5, pp. 881-896, Dec. 2020. Appendix.
- “Export
Destinations and Input Prices.” With Paulo Bastos
and Joana Silva. American Economic Review, v. 108, no.
2, pp. 353-392, Feb. 2018.
Appendix A. Appendix
B.
- “Organizational
Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from
Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan.” With David
Atkin, Azam Chaudhry, Shamyla Chaudry, and Amit
Khandelwal. Quarterly Journal of Economics, v. 132, no.
3, pp. 1101-1164, Aug. 2017. Appendix
A. Appendix
B. (Slides.)
- SIPA
Video: "Big Questions/Big Ideas: Incentives in
Innovation"
- Related article: "How
Labor Standards Can Be Good for Growth" Harvard
Business Revew (online). pdf.
- IGC
Video: "Footballs in Pakistan: An Innovation Story"
- VoxDev
column, VoxDev
video
- Media coverage:
Canada AM (national morning news),
Marketplace (American Public Media),
The Atlantic online,
The New Republic online,
Wall Street Journal Real Time Economics blog,
NBER Digest, Columbia
News, Valor
Econômico (Brazil), The
Nation (Pakistan), phys.org,
Chris
Blattman's blog, Stephen
Dubner's TMSIDK podcast (at 29:54), Dagens
Nyheter (Sweden)
- Columbia Business School Case 180311: "Innovation
in Pakistan's Soccer Ball Industry: Barriers to
Adoption".
- “On
the Origins and Development of Pakistan’s Soccer-Ball
Cluster.” With David Atkin, Azam Chaudhry, Shamyla
Chaudry, Amit Khandelwal, and Tariq Raza. World Bank
Economic Review (ABCDE Conference Papers &
Proceedings), v. 30, no. S1, pp. S34-S41, March 2017.
- “Mark-up
and Cost Dispersion Across Firms: Direct Evidence from
Producer Surveys in Pakistan.” With David Atkin,
Azam Chaudhry, Shamyla Chaudry, and Amit Khandelwal.
American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, v.
105, no. 5, pp. 537–544, May 2015. Online
appendix. (.bib)
- “Exports
and Within-Plant Wage Distributions: Evidence from
Mexico.” With Judith A. Frías and David S. Kaplan.
American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, v.
102, no. 3, pp. 435-440, May 2012. Online
appendix. (.bib)
- “Prices,
Plant Size, and Product Quality.” With Maurice
Kugler. Review of Economic Studies, vol. 79 no. 1, pp.
307-339, Jan. 2012. Online
appendix. (.bib)
- “Plants
and Imported Inputs: New Facts and an Interpretation.”
With Maurice Kugler. American Economic Review Papers and
Proceedings, v. 99 no. 2, pp. 501-507, May 2009. (.bib)
Supplementary material: Appendix
Table 1.
- “Class-Size
Caps, Sorting, and the Regression Discontinuity Design.”
With Miguel Urquiola. American Economic Review, v. 99
no. 1, pp. 179-215, March 2009. (.bib)
- “Trade,
Quality Upgrading and Wage Inequality in the Mexican
Manufacturing Sector.” Quarterly Journal of
Economics, vol. 123, no. 2, pp. 489-530, May 2008. (.bib)
Appendix
II, Erratum.
- Reprinted in Trade
and Inequality, ed. Pinelopi Koujianou
Goldberg, Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Earlier versions: (1) June 2007: CEPR
#6385, BREAD
#153, IZA
#2913; (2) Jan. 2004: UC
Berkeley Center for Labor Economics #67.
- Press mentions: Wall
Street Journal, May 24, 2007, page A1
(Volkswagen example drawn in part from this paper.) In
Spanish: La
Reforma (México D.F.), May 24, 2007, Negocios p. 10.
Non-technical summary: SIPA
News, Jan. 2009.
- 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,
pp. 477-498, July 2007. (.bib)
- “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. (.bib)
- “The
Effect of Stakes in Distribution Experiments.”
With Stephen V. Burks and Jeffrey P. Carpenter.
Economics Letters, vol. 86, no. 2, Feb. 2005. (.bib)
- “Playing
Both Roles in the Trust Game.” With Stephen V.
Burks and Jeffrey P. Carpenter. Journal of Economic
Behavior and Organization, vol. 51 no.2, pp. 195-216,
June 2003. (.bib)
Other Writing,
Lectures, etc.:
- “Interventions
to Promote Technology Adoption in Firms: A Systematic
Review.” With David Alfaro-Serrano, Tanay
Balantrapu, Ritam Chaurey, and Ana Goicoechea. Campbell
Systematic Reviews, vol. 17, no. 4, Dec. 2021.
- Development,
Distribution, and Markets. Co-edited with Kaushik
Basu, Maitreesh Ghatak, Kenneth Kletzer, and Sudipto
Mundle. Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Columbia Business School Case Study: "Innovation
in Pakistan's Soccer Ball Industry: Barriers to
Adoption." With R. A. Farrokhnia and Amit
Khandelwal. CBS Case 180311. June 2018.
- "Upgrading
Outputs Means Upgrading Inputs." With Paulo Bastos
and Joana Silva. VoxDev,
Feb. 2018.
- "Incentivising
Technology Adoption in Pakistani Firms." With
David Atkin, Azam Chaudhry, and Amit Khandelwal. VoxDev,
Nov. 2017.
- "Improving
Payroll-Tax Compliance Through Decentralized
Monitoring," VoxDev.
June 2017.
- WTO Global Dialogues Lecture: "Trade
and Inequality in Developing Countries." Dec. 20,
2016. Short
summary.
- "How
Labor Standards Can Be Good for Growth," Harvard
Business Review (online), April 27, 2016. (pdf)
- “Estructura
Industrial e Innovación: Notas para una Nueva
Estrategia de Desarrollo Industrial en México.”
Boletin Informativo Techint, Edición Especial, Oct.
2013. [English version: “Industrial
Structure and Innovation: Notes Toward a New Strategy
for Industrial Development in Mexico.”] Appendix.
(.bib)
- “Heterogeneous
Firms, Trade and the Links to Growth,” Plenary
talk at International Growth Centre (IGC) Growth Week
2012 (slides).
- “Diferencias
de Precios de los Insumos de Origen Nacional y
Extranjero en la Industria Colombiana.” With Gilma
Beatriz Ferreira Villegas, Maurice Kugler, Germán Pérez
Hernández, and Luis Miguel Suarez Cruz. Revista ib de la
Información Básica, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 72-84, Dec. 2011.
- Comment on “The Effect of Mexican Workforce Migration
on the Mexican Maquiladora Labor Market,” by Scott E.
Atkinson and Marilyn Ibarra, Economía, vol. 8, no. 1,
Fall 2007.
- Comment on “Globalization, Migration and Development:
The Role of Mexican Migrant Remittances,” by Ernesto
López-Córdova. Economía, vol. 6, no. 1, Fall 2005.
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