RESEARCH

Pedro de Araujo Dean's Office Department of Economics & Business Colorado College

Publications (Articles and Book Chapters):

[* denotes publication with undergraduate students]

• "Do Preferences for Amenities Differ Among Home Buyers? A Hedonic Price Approach," Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies, forthcoming (with Kate Cheng)*
  

• "A Life Insurance Deterrent to Risky Behavior in Africa," Journal of Policy Modeling, 37(4), pp. 548-576, 2015 (with James Murray)
  

• "Calculating Welfare Costs of Inflation in a Search Model with Preference Heterogeneity: A Calibration Exercise," Bulletin of Economic Research, 67(1), pp. 14-29, 2015
  

• "Financial Liberalization and Patterns of International Portfolio Holdings," Empirical Economics, 49(1), pp. 213-234, 2015 (with Olena Mykhaylova and James Staveley-O'Carroll)

• "Women's Health Knowledge, Sexual Empowerment, and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa," Economics Bulletin, 34(3), pp. 1875-1890, 2014 (with Margaux Miller)*
  

• "Access to Media and HIV Knowledge in India" Economies, 2(2), pp. 124-146, 2014 (with Smriti Agarwal)*

• "Does Overcrowding and Health Insurance Type Impact Patient Outcomes in Emergency Departments?" Health Economics Review, 25(3), pp. 1-7, 2013 (with Maroula Khraiche and Andrea Tukan)*

• "HIV/AIDS and Commercial Sex Work in the Developing World," The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Prostitution (S. Cunningham and M. Shah), Oxford University Press, forthcoming

• "Self-Esteem, Education, and Wages Revisited," Journal of Economic Psychology, 34(1), pp. 120-132, 2013 (with Stephen Lagos)* 

• "HIV Related Knowledge and Risky Sexual Behavior in sub-Saharan Africa," Oxford Development Studies, 41(2), pp. 173-188, 2013 (with Smriti Agarwal and Jayash Paudel)*

• "What Should be Taught in Intermediate Macroeconomics?," Journal of Economic Education, 44(1), pp. 74-90, 2013 (with Roisin O'Sullivan and Nicole Simpson)

• "Socio-Economic Status, HIV/AIDS Knowledge and Stigma, and Sexual Behavior in India," Indian Development Review, 11(1), pp. 71-87, 2013

• "On the Association Between HIV Knowledge and Unsafe Sexual Behavior in India," International Journal of Development Issues, 11(3), pp. 227-234, 2012 (with Smriti Agarwal)*

• "The HIV Epidemic, Skill Heterogeneity, and Output," Review of Development Economics, 16(1), pp. 1-15, 2012

• "Channels for Improved Performance from Living on Campus," American Journal of Business Education, 3(12), pp. 57-64, 2010 (with James Murray)

• "Estimating the Effects of Dormitory Living on Student Performance," Economics Bulletin, 30(1), pp. 866-878, 2010 (with James Murray)

        Working Papers and Research in Progress:

• Using Job Interviews to Teach Economics and Business (with Jim Parco)

• The Impact of International Information Disclosure Requirements on Market Discipline (with Kirby Leyshon, R&R - Applied Financial Economics)

• Demographic Responses to a Political Transformation: Evidence of Women's Empowerment from a Natural Experiment in Nepal (with Jayash Paudel, R&R - Journal of Comparative Economics)
  

• Determinants of College Performance: Accounting for Selection Bias (with Geoff Clemm)

• The Effect of Industrial Composition on Metropolitan Population Growth (with Jordan Brooks, R&R - Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy)
  

• The Effects of Marijuana Businesses on Residential Housing Prices (with Jim Parco and Haley Parco)
  

• Foreign Direct Investment, Financial Development, and Investor Learning (with Maroula Khraiche)

• Unmaking the Self-Made Man: Intergenerational Mobility in the U.S. Revisited (with Adria Dortignacq, under review)

• 5.0 Shades of Android: Determining App Preferences from User Reviews (with Will Richmond, under review)

• Do Increased Broadband Speeds Promote Economic Growth? (with Jack Dimmit, under review)

• The Consequences of Civil War and Political Instability on Nepali Tourism (with Sidharth Moktan, under review)