Contact Information:
Department of Economics
Purdue University
403 West State Street
West Lafayette IN 47907-2056
E-Mail: cxiang@purdue.edu
Phone: (765) 494-4499
Fax: (765) 494-9658
Office: Krannert 319
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Research Interests
International trade, industrial organization, international
finance, applied econometrics.
Working Papers:
Cross Country Income Differences and the Distinction between Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Human Capital. Joint with Stephen Yeaple. (originally titled "The Production of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Human Capital in the Global Economy" ).
Draft. Appendix. Substantially revised relative to NBER working paper 24524.
No Pain, No Gain: Work Demand, Work Effort, and Worker Health . Joint with David Hummels and Jakob Munch.
Substantially revised relative to NBER working paper 22365
and IZA Discussion Paper 10036.
See the following media coverages of our study:
Washington Post,
CTV News (Canada),
Indianapolis Public Radio, and
My Live Interview with Jennifer Burke, CTV
News, Canada
The main Danish newspaper, Politiken, ran a major
story covering our
main results,
and a second one covering
our calculations for
utility losses from injury and sickness.
Video
Presentation on Policy Implications and for General Audience.
Publications
Offshoring and
Labor Market. Joint with David Hummels and Jakob Munch.
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2018, 56(3),981-1028
Product
Cycles in U.S. Imports Data. Review of Economics and Statistics,
December 2014, 96(5), 999-1004.
Appendix.
HS 10 New Goods List
The
Wage Effects of Offshoring: Evidence from Danish Matched
Worker-Firm Data. Joint with David Hummels, Rasmus
Jorgensen, and Jakob Munch. American Economic Review, 104 (6), June 2014, 1597-1629.
Online Appendix.
Reprinted in "Trade and Inequality", a
volume in The International Library of Critical Writings in
Economics series, edited by Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Edward
Elgar, July 2015.
Column
at voxeu.org
Video
Presentation on Policy Implications and for General Audience.
Exporting
Christianity: Governance and Doctrine in the Globalization
of US Denominations
Joint with Gordon Hanson. Journal of International
Economics, 91 (2), 301-320, November 2013. (previously NBER
working paper 16964).
Offshoring,
Transition, and Training: Evidence from Danish Matched
Worker-Firm Data. Joint with
David Hummels, Jakob R. Munch and Lars Skipper. American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, May 2012.
"Trade
Barriers and Trade Flows with Product Heterogeneity: An Application to U.S. Motion
Picture Exports", joint with Gordon Hanson,
Journal of International Economics 83, pp. 14-26, 2011.
(previously NBER Working
Paper 14461.)
Data for Linguistic Distance. Data
for Religion Dissimilarity.
"Explaining
Import Variety and Quality: the Role of the Income
Distribution", joint
with YoChul Choi and David Hummels. Journal of International Economics,
vol. 77 (2), 265-275.
Theory
Appendix.
"Factor
Uses and the Pattern of Specialization", joint
with Georg Schaur and Anya Savikhin. Review of International Economics,
16(2), 368-382, 2008.
"Diversification
Cones, Trade Costs and Factor Market Linkages".
Journal of International
Economics, Volume 71, Issue 2, April 2007, Pages
448-466.
"New
Goods and Skill Premium"
Journal of International Economics, Volume 71,
Issue 1 , 8 March 2007, Pages 133-147. The original
version is RSIE working paper #478, the University of
Michigan.
"New
Goods and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor,"
Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2005, pp. 285 -
298. The original version is RSIE working paper #479,
the University of Michigan.
The Complete
List of Narrow-Definition New Goods
"The
Home Market Effect and Bilateral Trade Patterns",
joint with Gordon H. Hanson. American Economic
Review,
September 2004, 94(4), pp 1108 - 1129. Much improved
as compared with the original
version, NBER working paper # 9076.
Data Appendix
"The
Sufficiency of the 'Lens Condition' for Factor Prie
Equalization in the Case of Two Factors", Journal
of International Economics, (53)2
(2001) pp. 463-474.

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