Working Papers:

  • "The Micro and Macro Productivity of Nations," with Stephen Ayerst and Duc Nguyen
    July 2024, submitted
    [Working Paper]   [NBER Working Paper]  
     
  • "On Productivity and Distortions across Countries," prepared for the Symposium on the Global Business Environment and Firm Productivity, June 5, 2025, The World Bank, Washington DC, USA  
     
  • "Resource Allocation, Technology Adoption, and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis with Panel Data," with Duc Nguyen
    June 2025  
     
  • "Aggregate Employment and the Rise of Services across Time and Countries," with Margarida Duarte
    May 2023
    [Draft Paper]  
     
  • "Distortions, Producer Dynamics, and Aggregate Productivity: A General Equilibrium Analysis," with Stephen Ayerst and Loren Brandt
    May 2024, revise and resubmit American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
    [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]  
     
  • "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:

  • "Resource Allocation and Productivity Growth in Canadian Agriculture," with Duc Nguyen  
  • "Structural Transformation within the Intermediate Inputs Market," with Lucia Casal and Julieta Caunedo  
  • "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 Alexandros Fakos and 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