Publications#
“The Effects of the Venezuelan Refugee Crisis on the Brazilian Labor Market” (with Samyam Shrestha) Journal of Economic Geography, 2026 — paper — details
“The End of Free Movement and International Migration” (with Samyam Shrestha) Economics Letters, 2025 — paper
Working Papers#
“Gender Differences in Comparative Advantage Matches: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data” (Job Market Paper) Working Paper — details
“Difference in Differences with Bad Controls” (with Carolina Caetano, Brantly Callaway, and Stroud Payne) Working Paper — details
“Immigration Enforcement and Local Business Dynamics” (with Samyam Shrestha) Working Paper — details
“Labor Market Effects of an Environmental Disaster: Evidence from the 2015 Mariana Dam Failure” Working Paper — details
Selected Work in Progress#
“Does Employer-Based Immigration Enforcement Reduce the Undocumented Immigrant Population? Re-examining the Effects of LAWA” (with Samyam Shrestha)
This paper undertakes both a narrow and wide replication of Bohn et al. (Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014), who use the synthetic control method to estimate the effect of Arizona’s 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on the state’s unauthorized immigrant population. Our narrow replication confirms their main finding: a 1.5–2 percentage point decline in the share of noncitizen Hispanics following LAWA’s implementation. In a wide replication, we re-estimate the treatment effect using the augmented synthetic control method and synthetic difference-in-differences, extend the sample through 2015, and identify both margins of the population response using American Community Survey bilateral migration data. The core finding is robust across all three estimators; however, we find that the effect attenuates after 2011, suggesting partial reversion over the longer horizon. A Poisson gravity difference-in-differences further reveals that both outflows from Arizona and inflows to the state responded to the law, with outflows responding at signing and inflows at implementation.