International Trade

• Shadow Pricing Market Access, with Rolf Fare.  Journal of Economic Theory, WP

• Trade Restrictiveness and Efficiency, with Rolf Fare and Shawna Grosskopf, International Economic Review, 

• Trade Restrictiveness and Pollution -- A Directional Distance Function Approach, with Rolf Fare and Shawna Grosskopf. Journal of Public Economic Theory.

• Dynamic Stability, International Trade under Uncertainty, Economica.

• Search Friction and Costly Entry in the Specific Factors Model. Paper written for the forthcoming Special Issue of the Foreign Trade Review in Honor of Professor Ronald Jones. 

Mobility

• Strategic Amnesty and Credible Immigration Reforms. Journal of Labor Economics.

• Transnational Trafficking, Law Enforcement, and Victim Protection: A Middleman Trafficker's Perspective, with Randy Akee, Arnab Basu and Arjun Bedi. Journal of Law and Economics, WP

• How to Model the Weather-migration Link: a Machine-learning Approach to Variable Selection in the Mexico-U.S. Context, with Mario D. Molina, Amanda D. Rodewald and  Filiz Garip. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

• Concessional Amnesty and the Politics of Immigration Reforms, Economics and Politics. 

• North-South Investment Flows and Optimal Environmental Policies, with Hamid Beladi and M. Ali Khan. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 

• A Race to the Bottom from the Bottom: Labor Standards Competition Among Developing Countries, with Ravi Kanbur. Economica.

• The Pattern of Migration with Variable Migration Costs, Journal of Regional Science.

Labor Contracts

• Contractual Dualism, Market Power and Informality, wih Arnab Basu and Ravi Kanbur, Economic Journal, WP

• Wage Fairness in a Subcontracted Labor Market, with Arnab Basu and Vidhya Soundararajan, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, WP.

• Contract Employment as a Worker Discipline Device, with Arnab Basu and Vidhya Soundararajan. Journal of Development Economics. WP.

• Contract Employment in Developing Economies,  Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics

Labor Standards

• On Sweatshop Jobs and Decent Work. Journal of Development Economics, WP.

• Exploitation of Child Labor and the Dynamics of Debt Bondage, with Arnab Basu, Journal of Economic Growth

• Transnational Trafficking, Law Enforcement, and Victim Protection: A Middleman Trafficker's Perspective, with Randy Akee, Arnab Basu and Arjun Bedi. Journal of Law and Economics, WP

• The Adoption of International Labor Standards Conventions: Who, When and Why, with Ravi Kanbur. Brookings Trade Forum, WP

• A Race to the Bottom from the Bottom: Labor Standards Competition Among Developing Countries, with Ravi Kanbur. Economica.

• Sweatshop Labor, forthcoming in Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics

Governance and Public Policy

• A Theory of Employment Guarantees: Contestability, Credibility and Distributional Concerns, with Arnab Basu and Ravi Kanbur, Journal of Public Economics, WP

• Political  Activism as a Determinant of Clientelistic Transfers, with Yanyan Liu and Vidhya Soundararajan. Forthcoming European Economic Review. WP

• Optimal Urban Employment Policies: Notes on Calvo and Quibria, with M. Ali Khan. International Economic Review. 

• Leader Networks and Interjurisdictional Contracting in Land Conversion Quotas, with Yu Qin and Weiwen Zhang. Forthcoming in Land Economics, WP.

• Harnessing the Forces of Urban Expansion: The Public Economics of Land Development Allowance, with Weiwen Zhang.  Land Economics. WP. 

Human Capital and Health

• Cooking Fuel Choice, Indoor Air Quality ad Child Mortaility in India, with Arnab Basu, Tsenguunjav Byambasuren and Neha Khanna. Forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. WP 

• Guaranteed Manufactured without Child Labor, with Arnab Basu, and Ulrike Grote. Review of Development Economics, WP

Offshoring

• Offshoring and Developing Country Labor Markets, with Arnab K. Basu.  IZA World of Labor. 

• Offshoring to a Developing Nation with a Dual Labor Market, with Subhayu Bandyopadyay, Arnab K. Basu and Devashish Mitra. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review. WP.  

• Consequences of Offshoring to Developing Nations: Labor-Market Outcomes, Welfare and Corrective Interventions, with Subhayu Bandyopadyay, Arnab K. Basu and Devashish Mitra.  Economic Inquiry. WP.

Market Power

• Turning a Blind Eye: Costy Enforcement, Credible Commitment and Minimum Wage Laws, with Arnab Basu and Ravi Kanbur, Economic Journal, WP

• Middlemen, Fair Traders and Poverty, with Hideaki Goto and Ravi Kanbur, Journal of Economic Inequality, WP

• Employer Power, Labor Saving Technical Change, and Inequality, with Ravi Kanbur. In A. Banerjee, K. Basu, and E. Verhoogen (Eds.). Development, Distribution, and Markets. Oxford University Press. WP. 

Uncertainty

• On Risk Aversion and Nonlinear Budget Constraints with Many Commodities, Canadian Journal of Economics.

• Dynamic Stability, International Trade under Uncertainty, Economica.

• Social Connections and COVID-19 Vaccination,with Arnab Basu and Oleg Firsin. IZA Discussion Paper 16307.

• Migration Gravity, Networks and Unemployment, with Arnab Basu and Gary Lin. IZA Discussion Paper 15808.

• On Trade Policy Preference and Offshoring Ties, with Subhayu Bandyopadhyay , Arnab Basu and Devashish Mitra. IZA Discussion Paper  15782

• Employer Power and Employment in Developing Countries, with Ravi Kanbur and Vidhya Soundararajan. IZA Discussion Paper 15514.

• Food Safety Perceptions in the Shadow of COVID-19: Evidence from China, with Arnab Basu, Lin Fu and Jieyu Hao. SSRN WPS 4691791.