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Structural Change and the Rise in Markups
Job Market Paper, 2022.
Keywords: endogenous markups, income elasticity of demand, manufacturing, non-homothetic preferences, online experiment, price elasticity of demand, services, skill premium, structural change, survey, technological progress

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College Admissions and the (Mis)allocation of Talent
2022.
Keywords: college admissions, college enrollment, college market, credit constraints, financial aid, High School Longitudinal Study, information asymmetry, Pell Grants, sorting, tuition discrimination

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The Expansion of Product Varieties in the New Age of Advertising
2022.
Keywords: digital (directed) advertising, regression analysis, specialization, targeting, traditional (undirected) advertising, varieties, welfare

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Numerical Methods for Macroeconomists (with Julia and Matlab codes)
2022.
Keywords: Aiyagari model, calibration, Coleman algorithm, difference equations, dynamic programming, endogenous grid method, interpolating functions, linearization, Markov chains, maximization problems, Monte Carlo simulation, nonlinear equations, numerical differentiation and integration, parameterized expectations, random number generation

Book Code repository (coming soon)

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The Great Transition: Kuznets Facts for Family-Economists
Handbook of the Economics of the Family, Vol. 1, pp. 389-441, Chapter7, edited by Shelly Lundberg and Alessandra Voena (Elsevier), 2023.
Keywords: average weekly hours, blue-collar jobs, calibration, college premium, education, family economics, fertility, housework, Kuznets, leisure, market work, marriage, neutral technological progress, price of labor-saving household durables, skilled-biased technological change, white-collar jobs

Handbook Paper NBER WP Data: Ask Kuznets! Model: Run your experiments! Video summary at STEG

Investing in Public Infrastructure: Roads or Schools?
Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 25(7), pp. 1892-1921, 2021.
Keywords: debt intolerance, debt sustainability, developing countries, human capital, political myopia, public investment

Paper Slides VoxEU

Building Resilience to Natural Disasters: An Application to Small Developing States
Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 135, pp. 574-586, 2018.
Keywords: adaptation, debt sustainability, natural disasters, resilience, small states

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The Long-run Decoupling of Emissions and Output: Evidence from the Largest Emitters
Energy Policy, Vol. 118, pp. 58-68, 2018.
Keywords: emissions, environmental Kuznets curve, environmental Okun’s Law

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Emissions and Growth: Trends and Cycles in a Globalized World
IMF Working Paper No. 17 / 191, 2017.
Keywords: emissions, environmental Kuznets curve, environmental Okun’s Law

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Collect More, Spend Better: Public Investment in Asian Frontier Markets
IMF Working Paper No. 17 / 10, 2017.
Keywords: Cambodia, debt sustainability, fiscal policy, growth, public investment, revenue collection, Sri Lanka, Vietnam

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World Economic Outlook

October 2017: Seeking Sustainable Growth

Article IV Staff Reports and Selected Issues

Vanuatu, 2018 Solomon Islands, 2017 Solomon Islands (Selected Issues), 2017 Vanuatu, 2016 Ecuador (Selected Issues), 2015

Small States' Resilience to Natural Disasters and Climate Change

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