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ERIC VERHOOGEN

Associate Professor

School of International and Public Affairs

Department of Economics

Columbia University

Mailing address: 420 W. 118th St., Room 1022, MC 3308, New York, NY 10027

Tel: (212) 854-4428

Email: eric.verhoogen “at” columbia.edu

Office: IAB 1119 

Office hours: by appointment

 

 

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Published Papers

Working Papers

Teaching

Links

 

 

Published and Forthcoming Papers:

 

·         Exports and Within-Plant Wage Distributions: Evidence from Mexico.” With Judith A. Frías and David S. Kaplan. Forthcoming, American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, May 2012. Online appendix.

 

·         Prices, Plant Size, and Product Quality.” With Maurice Kugler. Review of Economic Studies, vol. 79 no. 1, pp. 307-339, Jan. 2012. Online appendix. Earlier versions: (1) “The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence from Colombia.” NBER working paper #14418, Oct. 2008. (2) “Product Quality at the Plant Level: Plant Size, Exports, Output Prices and Input Prices in Colombia.” PER Discussion Paper 0708-12, Columbia University, Jan. 2008.

 

·         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. 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. Earlier version: “Class Size and Sorting in Market Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence,” 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, pp. 489-530, May 2008. 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 (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.

 

·         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 Game.” With Stephen V. Burks and Jeffrey P. Carpenter. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 51 no.2, pp. 195-216, June 2003. 

 

 

Working Papers:

 

·         Exports and Wage Premia: Evidence from Mexican Employer-Employee Data.” With Judith A. Frías and David S. Kaplan. Aug. 2009. Earlier version: “Exporting and Individual Wage Premia: Evidence from Mexican Employer-Employee Data.” With David S. Kaplan. Jan. 2006.

 

·         “Export Destinations and Input Prices: Evidence from Portugal.” With Paulo Bastos and Joana Silva. March 2011.

 

·         “Enlisting Workers in Monitoring Firms: Payroll Tax Compliance in Mexico.” With Todd Kumler and Judith A. Frías. March 2012.

 

  

 

Teaching:

 

·         SIPA INAF U8145: Advanced Economic Development for International Affairs, Fall 2011

·         Econ G6306: Industrial Development, Fall 2011, Syllabus

·         Development Seminar

·         Development Colloquium

·         Notes for potential PhD advisees

 

  

 Links:

 

·         International Growth Centre (IGC): Home, Trade Program

·         Journal of Development Economics