Working Papers

Drafts under review or in preparation. Please email me if you would like a copy of a draft not linked below.

Trade Networks Multiply the Global Health Returns to Bilateral Aid

Formerly: “Aid and AIDs — PEPFAR, Globalization, and the Spread of Infectious Disease.” With Dennis Wesselbaum. Under review. → Preprint (Research Square) · → Background paper (PDF)

The background paper develops the formal model that underlies the empirical analysis in the working paper above.

The Political Economy of Crypto-Currency: Theory and Evidence

With Ghita Chraibi. Under review. → Download draft (PDF)

Asymmetric Effects of Sanctuary Policies and 287(g) Agreements on Crime

With Christianna Palermo. Under review. → Download draft (PDF)

When Do Law Enforcement Policies Generate Economic Spillovers?

With Christianna Palermo. Under review. → Download draft (PDF)

Deflection and Delay, Not Deterrence: Visa Restrictions and Irregular Migration to the United States

With Jordi Amaral and Sophia Marcus. Under review. → Download draft (PDF)

Racial Disparities in US Environmental Migration

With Gabriela Nagle Alverio. Under review.

Climate Change, Agricultural Shocks, and Migration

With Sarah Bermeo and Gabriela Nagle Alverio. Under review.

Heterogeneous Effects of Climate, Narco-Trafficking, and Violence on Central American Migration to the United States

With Fabien Cottier, David Wrathall, Jennifer A. Devine, Elise Arellano-Thompson, Rebecca Gustine, Nicholas Magliocca, Jennifer Nakamura, Elizabeth Tellman, and Alex de Sherbinin. Forthcoming in PNAS. → Preprint (SocArXiv)