Refereed Journal Publications

Political Cleavages within Industry: Firm-level Lobbying for Trade Liberalization [paper][Web Appendix][bibtex] American Political Science Review (2017), Vol. 111, No. 1, pp. 1-20. (lead article); Winner of the 2018 Michael Wallerstein Award for the best published article in political economy in the previous year; Winner of the IPES 2013 Best Paper Award
LobbyView: Firm-level Lobbying Database [Webpage][paper][bibtex][demo video]
The Charmed Life of Superstar Exporters: Survey Evidence on Firms and Trade Policy [paper][bibtex]
Journal of Politics (2017), Vol. 79, No. 1, pp. 133-152. (with Iain Osgood, Dustin Tingley, Thomas Bernauer, Helen V. Milner, and Gabrielle Spilker)
Estimating Spatial Preferences from Votes and Text [paper][Web Appendix][bibtex]
Political Analysis (2018), Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 210-229. (with John Londregan and Marc Ratkovic)
International Trade at the Margin: Estimating the Economic Implications of Preferential Trade Agreements [paper][bibtex] Review of International Organizations , (2018), Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 189-242. (with Gabrielle Spilker, Thomas Bernauer, Helen V. Milner, Iain Osgood, and Dustin Tingley)
Firms and Global Value Chains: Identifying Firms’ Multidimensional Trade Preferences [paper][bibtex][Appendix] International Studies Quarterly (2019), Vol 63, No. 1, pp. 153-167. (with Helen V. Milner, Thomas Bernauer, Iain Osgood, Gabrielle Spilker, and Dustin Tingley)
When Should We Use Unit Fixed Effects Regression Models for Causal Inference with Longitudinal Data? [paper][bibtex] American Journal of Political Science (2019), Vol 63, No. 2, pp. 467-490. (with Kosuke Imai)
Software ["wfe": Weighted Linear Fixed Effects Regression Models for Causal Inference]
Firms in Trade and Trade Politics [paper][bibtex] Annual Review of Political Science (2019), Vol 22, pp. 399-417. (with Iain Osgood)
The Effects of Political Institutions on the Extensive and Intensive Margins of Trade [paper][bibtex][Web Appendix]
International Organization, (2019), Vol 73, No. 4, pp. 755-792. (with John Londregan and Marc Ratkovic)
Measuring Trade Profile with Granular Product-level Trade Data [paper][bibtex]
American Journal of Political Science, (2020), Vol 64, No. 1, pp. 102-117. (with Steven Liao and Kosuke Imai)
Software ["dynCluster": Dynamic Clustering Algorithm]
Mapping Political Communities: A Statistical Analysis of Lobbying Networks in Legislative Politics [paper][bibtex][Appendix] Political Analysis, (2021), Vol.29, No.3, pp.317-336 (with Dmitriy Kunisky)
Software ["polnet": A Statistical Analysis of Political Networks]
On the Use of Two-way Fixed Effects Regression Models for Causal Inference with Panel Data [paper][bibtex]
Political Analysis, (2021), Vol.29, No.3, pp.405-415 (with Kosuke Imai)
Learning Bill Similarity with Annotated and Augmented Corpora of Bills [paper][bibtex]
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). (2021) (with Jiseon Kim, Elden Griggs, and Alice Oh)
Software [Human-annotated & Synthetic U.S. Congressional Bills Data]
Matching Methods for Causal Inference with Time-Series Cross-Section Data [paper][bibtex][Appendix]
American Journal of Political Science, (2023), Vol.67, No.3, pp.587-605 (with Kosuke Imai and Erik Wang)
Software ["PanelMatch": Matching Methods for Causal Inference with Time-Series Cross-Section Data]
Systemic and Sequential Links between Campaign Donations and Lobbying [paper][bibtex]
Forthcoming at the Journal of Politics (with Jan Stuckatz and Lukas Wolters)
Domestic Institutions, Geographic Concentration, and Agricultural Liberalization [paper][bibtex] Conditionally Accepted at the American Political Science Review (with Megumi Naoi and Tomoya Sasaki)


  Selected Manuscripts

How FDI Reshapes Host Market's Trade Profile and Politics [paper][bibtex] Revise and Resubmit at the American Journal of Political Science (with Steven Liao and Sayumi Miyano)
Bulk Ingestion of Congressional Actions and Materials Dataset [paper][bibtex] (with Ryan Delano and Aaron Rudkin)
The Political Origins of Rules of Origin [paper][bibtex] (with Hao Zhang)
The Effects of Firms' Lobbying on Resource Misallocation [paper][Web Appendix][bibtex] (with Federico Huneeus)
Democracy and Trade Policy at the Product Level [paper][short version][appendix][bibtex](with Soubhik Barari)
[demo video for tariff database]
Multinational Corporations and their Influence Through Lobbying on Foreign Policy [paper][bibtex]
(with Helen V. Milner)
Bicoordinate Descent for the LASSO [paper] (with John Londregan and Marc Ratkovic)