Verhoogen

ERIC VERHOOGEN

Assistant Professor

Department of Economics

School of International and Public Affairs

Columbia University

Mailing address:

420 W. 118th St., Room 1022
New York, NY 10027

(212) 854-4428

eric.verhoogen “at” columbia.edu

 

Office: IAB 1001b

Office hours: by appointment

 

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Research Statement

Published Papers

Working Papers

Teaching

 

Published Papers:

 

·         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, titled “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. (Complete pdf of magazine here.) 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:

 

·         The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence from Colombia.” With Maurice Kugler. NBER working paper #14418, Oct. 2008. Revision requested, Review of Economic Studies.

 

Earlier version, titled “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.

 

·         “Exports and Wage Premia: Evidence from Mexican Employer-Employee Data.” With Judith A. Frías and David S. Kaplan. New version coming very soon.

 

Earlier version: “Exporting and Individual Wage Premia: Evidence from Mexican Employer-Employee Data.” With David S. Kaplan. Jan. 2006.

 

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

  

 

Teaching:

 

Current courses:

·         SIPA INAF U8145: Advanced Economic Development for International Affairs, Fall 2009

·         Econ G6306: Industrial Development, Fall 2009

 

Past courses:

·         SIPA INAF U8145: Advanced Economic Development for International Affairs, Fall 2008

·         Econ G6306: Industrial Development, Fall 2008, Syllabus

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

 

Miscellaneous:

·         Notes for potential PhD advisees

·         Notes for potential applicants to SIPA (master’s or PhD) or Economics PhD programs