Courses taught: ECO 210: Price Theory ECO 212: Income and Employment ECO 230/MGT 230: Managerial Statistics ECO 323: Econometrics ECO 361: Labor Economics GC_ECON_87100: Labor Economics (CUNY Graduate Center)

Research interests: Bayesian estimation of discrete choice, simultaneous equation models Labor force participation dynamics Trade and plant-level productivity performance The effect of trade on individual labor market outcomes

Professional organizations: Research fellow of IZA, the Institute for the Study of Labor European Association of Labor Economists European Society of Population Economics

Recent publications: "Nonstandard Forms and Measures of Employment and Unemployment in Transition: A Comparative Study of Russia, Romania, and Estonia" (with Brown D., Earle J., Gimpelson V., Kapeliushnikov R., Lehmann H., Telegdy A., Vantu I., Visan R., Vishnevskaya N.), Comparative Economic Studies, 48(3), September 2006, pp. 435-457. "Employment Dynamics in the Romanian Labor Market. A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Approach," Journal of Comparative Economics 33(3), September 2005, pp. 604-639.

Recent research papers: "Adding Rungs to the Exporting Ladder: Plant-Level Exporting Dynamics and Total Factor Productivity Growth," IZA Discussion Paper No. 3807. "The NAFTA Tide: Lifting the Larger and Better Boats" (with Angel Calderon), IZA Discussion Paper No. 3207. "Joint estimation of sequential labor force participation and fertility decisions using Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques" (with Kenneth R. Troske), IZA Discussion Paper No. 1251. "Children and Women's Participation Dynamics: Direct and Indirect Effects" (with Hielke Buddelmeyer), IZA Discussion Paper No. 729. "Agriculture: Transition Buffer or Black Hole. A Three-State Model of Employment Dynamics," IZA Discussion Paper No. 676. "Total Factor Productivity Growth and Job Turnover in Mexican Manufacturing Plants in the 1990s" (with Angel Calderon), IZA Discussion Paper No. 993.

Favorite links: IZA, the Institute for the Study of Labor Rutgers University