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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 --
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. Feedback
welcome.
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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
Published/Forthcoming
Papers:
- “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.)
- 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)
- IGC
Video: "Footballs in Pakistan: An Innovation Story"
- Related article: "How
Labor Standards Can Be Good for Growth" Harvard
Business Revew (online). pdf.
- “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. Pinelop 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)
Working Papers:
Policy-Oriented,
Non-Technical, Comments etc.:
- "Improving
Payroll-Tax Compliance Through Decentralized Monitoring,"
VoxDev, June 2017
- "How
Labor Standards Can Be Good for Growth," Harvard
Business Revew (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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