Working Papers:
"The Micro and Macro Productivity of Nations,"
with Stephen Ayerst and Duc Nguyen
April 2024
[Working Paper ]
"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
August 2023, submitted
[Working Paper ]
[NBER Working Paper ]
"Assessing Misallocation in Agriculture: Plots versus Farms,"
with Fernando Aragon and Juan Pablo Rud
February 2024, revised and resubmitted Food Policy
[Working Paper ]
[NBER Working Paper ]
"Misallocation in Indian Agriculture,"
with Marijn Bolhuis and Swapnika Rachapalli
April 2024, revised and resubmitted 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 Journal of Political Economy 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:
"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