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ERIC VERHOOGEN

Associate Professor
School of International and Public Affairs and Department of Economics
Columbia University

Co-Director, Center for Development Economics and Policy

Office hours: by appointment

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 “at” columbia.edu

Working Papers:

“Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan.” With David Atkin, Azam Chaudhry, Shamyla Chaudry, and Amit Khandelwal. July 2014. (.bib)

Media coverage:

CDEP Project Description

IGC Video: "Footballs in Pakistan: An Innovation Story"

“Export Destinations and Input Prices: Evidence from Portugal.” With Paulo Bastos and Joana Silva. NBER working paper no. 20143, May 2014. (Also CEPR discussion paper no. 9985.) Appendix. (.bib) Revision requested, American Economic Review.

“Enlisting Employees in Improving Payroll-Tax Compliance: Evidence from Mexico.” With Todd Kumler and Judith A. Frías. NBER working paper no. 19385, Aug. 2013. Appendices. (.bib) Other working paper series: CDEP-CGEG 7, CEPR 9622, BREAD 395, IZA 7591. Earlier version: Columbia University PER discussion paper 1112-07, June 2012.

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

Published and Forthcoming Papers:

“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, 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)

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. (.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)

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. (.bib)

Reprinted in Trade and Inequality, ed. Pinelop Koujianou Goldberg, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
Supplementary material: Appendix II, Erratum.
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.
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“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)

Policy-Oriented, Non-Technical, Comments etc.:

“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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