Working Papers:

• "Aggregate Employment and the Rise of Services across Time and Countries," with Margarida Duarte
  February 2023
  [Draft Paper]  
   
  
• "Distortions, Producer Dynamics, and Aggregate Productivity: A General Equilibrium Analysis," with Stephen Ayerst and Loren Brandt
  February 2023
  [Working Paper]   [NBER Working Paper]  
   
  
• "Assessing Misallocation in Agriculture: Plots versus Farms," with Fernando Aragon and Juan Pablo Rud
  January 2023, submitted
  [Latest Version]   [Working Paper]   [NBER Working Paper]  
   
  
• "Land Security and Mobility Frictions," with Tasso Adamopoulos, Loren Brandt, Chaoran Chen, and Xiaoyun Wei
  January 2022, in revision for resubmission to the Quarterly Journal of Economics
  [Working Paper]   [NBER Working Paper]  
   
  
• "Heterogeneity, Measurement Error, and Misallocation in African Agriculture: A Comment," with Fernando Aragon and Juan Pablo Rud
  May 2021
  [Working Paper]  
   
  
• "Misallocation in Indian Agriculture," with Marijn Bolhuis and Swapnika Rachapalli
  October 2021, revise and resubmit American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
  [Working Paper]   [NBER Working Paper]  
   
  
• "The Role of Nonemployers in Business Dynamism and Aggregate Productivity," with Pedro Bento
  October 2022, revise and resubmit American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
  [Working Paper]   [NBER Working Paper]  
   
  
• "Policy Distortions and Aggregate Productivity with Endogenous Establishment-Level Productivity," with Jose-Maria Da-Rocha and Marina M. Tavares
  March 2023, accepted European Economic Review
  [Working Paper]   [NBER Working Paper]  
   
  
• "Resource Allocation and Productivity in Agriculture"
  February 2016
  [Draft Paper]  
   
  
• "On-the-job Training, Limited Commitment, and Firing Costs," with V.V. Chari and Carlos Urrutia
  August 2005
  [Version in pdf]

Work in Progress:

• "From Micro to Macro: Land Institutions, Agricultural Productivity, and Structural Transformation."  
  
• "Dynamic Misallocation Accounting," with Jose-Maria Da-Rocha and Marina M. Tavares  
  
• "Property Rights Reform and Productivity: An Analysis of the Mexican Land Certification Program," with Marco Gonzalez-Navarro  
  
• "Agricultural Productivity Growth in Africa," with Chaoran Chen  
  
• "Structural Transformation and Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa," with Margarida Duarte  
  
• Book: Economic Growth and Development, with Margarida Duarte