Research
Publications
- Free Trade and the Formation of Environmental Policy: Evidence from US Legislative Votes, with Nouri Najjar, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 17, No. 2, May 2025, 224-258. Download
- International Trade and the Environment: Three Remaining Empirical Challenges, with M. Scott Taylor, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, November 2022. Download, Download WP Version
- Do Environmental Regulations Affect the Decision to Export? with Nouri Najjar. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 14, No. 2, May 2022, 125-160. Download
- Environmental Regulations and the Clean-Up of Manufacturing: Plant-Level Evidence, with Nouri Najjar. Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 103, No. 3, July 2021, 476-491. Download
- Maize and Precolonial Africa, with Juan Moreno-Cruz. Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 136, January 2019, 137-150. Download Media: Business Weekly, National Affairs, Boston Globe
- Trade and the Environment: New Methods, Measurements, and Results, with Brian R. Copeland and M. Scott Taylor, Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 9, August 2017, 59-85. Download
- Trade Liberalization and the Environment: Evidence From NAFTA and U.S. Manufacturing. Journal of International Economics, Vol. 105, March 2017, 130-149. Download Media: Journalist’s Resource, The American Prospect, National Affairs, The Conversation
- Tariff Structure, Trade Expansion and Canadian Protectionism: 1870-1910, with Eugene Beaulieu, Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 47, No. 1, February 2014, 144-172. Download Media: Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette, Financial Post
- Economic Growth, Industrialization and the Environment, Resource and Energy Economics, Vol. 34, No. 4, November 2012, 442-467. Download
Working Papers
- Geography and the Technique Effect: Evidence from Canada, with Kevin Andrew, Mamoon Kader, and Hashmat Kahn. Download (revise and resubmit)
- Sample Bias in Decompositions of Economic Dynamics, with Nouri Najjar. Download
- Energy Transitions in the Long Run: Theory and Evidence from English Coal, with Juan Moreno-Cruz. Download
Resting Papers
- Intra-Industry Trade and the Environment, with Liang Chen. Download