Industrial Organization, Productivity, Economics of Crime, Applied Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics
PUBLICATIONS
WORKING PAPERS
WORK IN PROGRESS
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
STUDENT SUPERVISION
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
WORK EXPERIENCE
“The ABCs of Firm Heterogeneity When Firms Sort into Markets: The Case of Exporters,” Journal of Political Economy, 132(4), 2024 (with Bernardo S. Blum, Sebastian Claro, and Ignatius Horstmann).
“On the Identification of Gross Output Production Functions,” Journal of Political Economy, 128(8), 2020 (with Amit Gandhi and Salvador Navarro).
“Optimizing Criminal Behavior and the Disutility of Prison,” The Economic Journal, 129(619), 2019 (with Giovanni Mastrobuoni).
Featured by Marginal Revolution, May 29, 2017.
Featured by Quartz, June 1, 2017.
“Separating State Dependence, Experience, and Heterogeneity in a Model of Youth Crime and Education,” Economics of Education Review, 54, 2016 (with Maria Antonella Mancino and Salvador Navarro).
“Model Uncertainty and the Effect of Shall-Issue Right-to-Carry Laws on Crime,” European Economic Review, 81, 2016 (with Steven N. Durlauf and Salvador Navarro).
“Understanding Aggregate Crime Regressions,” Journal of Econometrics, 158(2), 2010 (with Steven N. Durlauf and Salvador Navarro).
“On the Use of Aggregate Crime Regressions in Policy Evaluation,” in Understanding Crime Trends, A. Goldberger and R. Rosenfeld eds., Washington DC: National Academies Press, 2008 (with Steven N. Durlauf and Salvador Navarro).
“Financial Shocks, Productivity, and Prices,” Revision requested by the Review of Economic Studies (with Simone Lenzu and Joris Tielens).
“The Heterogeneous Impact of Referrals on Labor Market Outcomes” Revision requested by the Review of Economic Studies (with Benjamin Lester and Giorgio Topa).
“Criminal Discount Factors and Deterrence,” Reject and Resubmit at the Review of Economic Studies (with Giovanni Mastrobuoni).
Featured by the Economist, March 29, 2016.
Featured by Indian Newslink, July 12, 2017.
“How Heterogeneous is Productivity? A Comparison of Gross Output and Value Added,” working paper (with Amit Gandhi and Salvador Navarro).
“Are Exporters More Productive than Non-Exporters?” working paper.
“Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of the Bias of Technological Change” (with Salvador Navarro).
“Ex-Post Merger Analysis Using Production Data” (with Bernardo S. Blum, Sebastian Claro, and Ignatius Horstmann).
“Technology Choice, Capital Intensity, and Productivity” (with Ananth Ramanarayanan).
Conference Organizing:
International Association for Applied Econometrics (IAAE) Annual Conference (Scientific Committee Member), 2019,2020,2021
North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society-Montreal, QC (Scientific Committee Member), 2021
North American Productivity Workshop (Session Organizer), 2020, 2023
North American Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society-Atlanta, GA (Session Organizer), 2019
Conference on Firm-Level Productivity-London, ON (Co-Organizer), 2014
Invited Seminar and Conference Presentations:
Productivity, Innovation, and Economic Growth Conference, 2024
International Industrial Organization Conference, North American Productivity Workshop, 2023
UNLV, University of Miami, 2022
Vanderbilt University, International Industrial Organization Conference, NASM Econometric Society, 2021
ASSA Meetings: AEA Session-Atlanta, St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, HEC Montreal-RIIB Conference on Industrial Organization-Montreal, Collegio Carlo Alberto, RCEA Growth, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference, 2019
Workshop on the Applications of Industrial Organization-Montreal, University of Georgia, 2018
Waterloo Economics Workshop, Society of Labor Economics, NBER Summer Institute, Bank of Canada, HCEO Conference on Social Interaction and Crime--University of Chicago, University of Kentucky, 2017
NASM Econometric Society, Empirical Microeconomics Workshop in Banff, Canadian Law and Economics Association, American Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Southern Economic Association, 2016
Canadian Econometric Study Group, World Congress of the Econometric Society, 2015
University of Toronto, 2014
Canadian Economic Association, 2013
International Industrial Organization Conference, University of Michigan, University of Cambridge, Aarhus University, Tilburg University, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Society for Economic Dynamics, NASM Econometric Society, Vanderbilt University, 2012
University of Calgary, 2011
DOJ, FTC, University of Georgia, University of Toronto,
University of Western Ontario, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010
International Industrial Organization Conference, 2009
Editorial Duties:
Associate Editor, Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2024-present
Referee Activity:
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Canadian Journal of Economics, Criminal Justice Review, Criminology, Econometrica, Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, Economics Business Letters, Economics Letters, Economics of Education Review, European Economic Review, International Economic Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Productivity Analysis, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Labour Economics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, RAND Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic Studies, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Southern Economic Journal
University of Western Ontario
Industrial Organization (Ph.D.), 2011-2013, 2015-2021
Advanced Methods in Applied Economics (Ph.D.), 2019-2023
Probability and Statistics (Ph.D.), 2012-2017
Empirical Industrial Organization (Honors undergraduate), 2011-2013, 2016-2018
Senior Research Seminar in Economics (Honors undergraduate), 2012-2013, 2024-2025
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Teaching Assistant, Probability and Statistics, 2008
Teaching Assistant, Principles of Microeconomics, 2005-2006
Ph.D. Thesis Supervisor
David Fieldhouse (co-supervisor): 2014, 1st placement: Moody's Analytics
Zhuang Liu (co-supervisor): 2019, 1st placement: Charles River Associates
Cecilia Diaz Campo: 2022, 1st placement, Washington University in St. Louis, Olin Business School
Emmanuel Murray Leclair: 2024, 1st placement, University of Melbourne
Curtis Aquino (co-supervisor), expected graduation 2025
Charlotte Ursenbach (co-supervisor), expected graduation 2025
F. Javier Martinez Hernandez, expected graduation 2025
Ph.D. Thesis Committee Member
Kai Xu: 2011, 1st placement: Zhejiang University
Wenya Wang: 2017, 1st placement: Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Maria Antonella Mancino: 2018, 1st placement: Wilfrid Laurier University
Diego Salazar: 2020, 1st placement: National University of Singapore
Zinaida Kalinina-Foltin: 2021, 1st placement: Social Research and Demonstration Corporation
Aldo Sandoval Hernandez: 2021, 1st placement: University of Sussex
Charles Gauthier: 2022, 1st placement: Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Ph.D. Thesis External Examiner
Mihaela Alina Nastasoiu: 2016, Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario
Angelos Theodorakopoulos: 2017, Ghent University
Eduardo Ferraz: 2018, Sao Paulo School of Economics - FGV
Nhial Nathaniel Kuch, 2021, Queens University
Jun Hyun (Joseph) Ryoo, 2021, Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario
Meng Qi (Annie) Ding, 2024, Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario
Ph.D. Summer Paper Advisor: 10 students
Honors Undergraduate Thesis Supervisor: 15 students
Graduate Program Director, 2023-2024
Director, Center for Human Capital and Productivity (CHCP), 2021-present
Appointments Committee, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2014-2015, 2019-2020, 2022-2023
Committee on Academic Policy, 2019-2020, 2023-2024
Graduate Affairs Committee, 2012-2013, 2014-2015, 2016-2017, 2023-2024 (chair)
Alumni Portal Co-Director, 2012-2013
Graduate Studies Awards Committee, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2020-2021 (chair)
Applied Economics/Econometrics Workshop Coordinator, 2011-2012, 2017-2018
PhD Comprehensive Exam Committee, 2020-2021
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Project Assistant, 2006-2009
Charles River Associates (Washington, DC)
Research Analyst/Associate, 2001-2004
Updated September 2024