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Eric Verhoogen
International Affairs Building, Room 1119
Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics
Phone: 212-854-4428
www.columbia.edu/~ev2124/
eric.verhoogen@columbia.edu
ev2124@columbia.edu
Biography:
Eric Verhoogen is Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics. His main research area is industrial development – applied microeconomic research on firms in developing countries. This area overlaps with the fields of development economics, international trade, labor economics, and industrial organization. A recurrent theme in his work is the process of quality upgrading in the manufacturing sectors of developing countries – its causes, consequences, and broader implications.
Verhoogen holds a BA from Harvard College (1991), an MA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2001), and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley (2004).
Search Categories: Latin America, trade, economics, labor, manufacturing
Selected Publications:
"Trade, Quality Upgrading and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector," Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 123, no. 2, pp. 489-530, May 2008.
"Class-Size Caps, Sorting, and the Regression Discontinuity Design" with Miguel Urquiola, American Economic Review, v. 99 no. 1, pp. 179-215, March 2009.
“Prices, Plant Size, and Product Quality” with Maurice Kugler. Review of Economic Studies, vol. 79 no. 1, pp. 307-339, Jan. 2012.