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Welcome to my personal web site. I am currently doing PhD in Economics at Brown University, Providence, RI. My current research interest include political economy (corruption in the distribution of aid), labor and development economics (rural-urban migration and gender):
Yet Another Thing for Men and Women to Argue About: How rural female migrants help urban high-skill women joining the job market and lower men's wages in Brazil.
Abstract: Brazilian cities still receive a large number of rural migrants, who are for the most part less educated than the average urban native. On average 5\% of people living in a city came from a rural area in the last 5 years. Around half of these rural-urban migrants are women. Like the inflow of Mexican immigrants into the US, this large inflow of migrants into cities has an effect on urban wages. In fact, women's wages have decreased over the last 10 years. However men's wages have decreased even more, leading to a decrease in the gender wage gap. Can the migration of low skilled women lead explain the larger decrease in high skilled men's wages? The migration of low-skilled women can lead to an increase in the labor participation of high skilled women, who in turn compete with high skilled men for jobs, bringing down their wages. We consider an economy where two goods are produced: a consumer good and a domestic good. While we assume that only women work in the production of the domestic good, while the consumption good is produced by both men and women of different education and work experience. Unlike the typical model of labor demand and wages an exogenous increase in the supply of low skilled women, is split between the consumption and the domestic good sectors. While the increased supply of low skilled women decreases the wage of low skilled women, it also allows for the substitution of high skilled women in the production of the domestic good. With the decrease in wages of domestic workers allows more urban high skilled women to hire domestic workers and join the labor market. The increased supply of high skilled women in the consumption good sector, will lead to lower wages of workers of similar skill. More urban high skilled women will lead to lower wages for both high skilled men and women. In order to identify supply driven effects on wages and labor demand we use as instruments weather variation in rural areas and the proportion of men and women migrants living in metropolitan area in 1980. We find that from 1991 to 2000, migration of low skilled women lead to a decrease of wages of urban low skilled women, but to an increase in the labor participation of urban high skill women. Finally, we find that high skilled urban women are substitutes of high skilled urban men, which explains why high skilled urban men's wages decrease.
Corruption in the Distribution of Aid in Aceh, Indonesia after the 2004 South-East Asia Tsunami
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