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Research Interests: International Trade and Migration

Teaching: 
Spring 2014: International Microeconomics

Office: SSM 358A
Department of Economics
University of California, Merced
5200 N. Lake Rd.
Merced, CA 95343
gwright4 AT ucmerced.edu

Publications

Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs (with Giovanni Peri and Gianmarco Ottaviano)    
  PDF   American Economic Review, August 2013, Vol. 103 No. 5
  Web Appendix      NY Times Coverage     VoxEU Summary

Revisiting the Employment Impact of Offshoring 
  PDF   European Economic Review, February 2014, Vol. 66 


Working Papers

From Selling Goods to Selling Services: Firm Responses to Trade Liberalization (with Holger Breinlich & Anson Soderbery)
  CEPR Working Paper No. 10116     PDF    

Work in Progress

A Short-Run View of What Computers Do: Evidence from a U.K. Tax Incentive (with Paul Gaggl)

Immigration, Trade and Productivity in Services: Evidence from U.K. Firms (with Giovanni Peri & Gianmarco Ottaviano)

Information and Exporting - An Experimental Approach (with Holger Breinlich, Dave Donaldson & Patrick Nolen)

Health Effects of a Trade Embargo in an Import-Dependent Economy: Evidence from Nepal (with Matthias Parey & Abhishek Chakravarty)

Search Engines vs Steam Engines: Theory and Evidence on Technology, Career Choice and the Income Distribution (with Tianxi Wang)

Other Work

Report on the State of Available Data for the Study of International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment (with Feenstra and Lipsey, et al.) NBER Working Paper No. 16254, August 2010  Final Report

The Dynamics and Differentiation of Latin American Agricultural Exports (with Ben Mandel) PDF Draft


Data

Rob Feenstra's International Trade Data (now including the Penn World Tables): http://cid.econ.ucdavis.edu


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