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 405

CV

Research Interests
International trade, industrial organization, international finance, applied econometrics.

Working Papers:

The Production of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Human Capital in the Global Economy. Joint with Stephen Yeaple. Draft. NBER working paper 24524.

Video Presentation of Main Ideas

No Pain, No Gain: The Effects of Exports on Sickness, Injury, and Effort. 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. NBER working paper 22041, IZA Discussion Paper 9741.  Forthcoming, Journal of Economic Literature.

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. NBER working paper 17496. 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.