Ian Coxhead's Page

Ian Coxhead's Page

Hi. I'm a development economist in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. My research focuses on problems of globalization, growth, and development in East and Southeast Asia. At UW I am a faculty affiliate of the Center for Demography and Ecology, Institute for Research on Poverty, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, La Follette School of Public Affairs, and Development Studies Ph.D. Program.

In 2017-18 I am on sabbatical leave at Hitotsubashi University Institute for Economic Research (Sept-Dec) and at Kobe University Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies (December-May).

Recent papers and publications (see CV for more)

(2018) Fossil fuel subsidy reform in the developing world: who wins, who loses, and why? (with Corbett Grainger).
(2018) Vietnam in 2017. Asian Survey 58(1).
(2017) Vietnam in 2016. Asian Survey 57(1).
(2017) Globalization and school-work choices in an emerging economy: Vietnam (with Rashesh Shrestha). Asian Economic Papers 16(2).
(2016) Does freer trade really lead to productivity growth? Evidence from Africa (with L. Bresnahan, J. Foltz and T. Mogues). World Development 86(1): 18-29 (WP version).

(2016) Could a resource export boom reduce workers’ earnings? The labor market channel in Indonesia (with Rashesh Shrestha). Bull. Indon. Econ Studies 52(2): 185-208 (WP version).
(2016) Rural-urban migration and remittances in Vietnam: evidence from migrant tracer data (with Diep Phan). Forthcoming in X. Meng and A. Liu, eds: Rural-urban Migration in Vietnam (Springer International).
(2015) Migration in Vietnam: New evidence from recent surveys (With Nguyen Viet Cuong and Vu Hoang Linh). World Bank: Vietnam Development Economics Discussion Papers No. 2. Forthcoming in X. Meng and A. Liu, eds: Rural-urban Migration in Vietnam (Springer International).
(2015) (ed). Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Economics. Routledge, UK (publisher's site).

(2013) Princelings and paupers: state employment and the distribution of human capital investments among Vietnamese households (with Diep Phan). Asian Development Review 30(2): 26-48.
(2013) Are carbon taxes good for the poor? A general equilibrium analysis for Vietnam (with Anan Wattanakuljarus and Nguyen Van Chan). World Development 51(1), November: 119-131.
(2013) Long-run costs of piecemeal reform: wage inequality and returns to education in Vietnam (with Diep Phan). Journal of Comparative Economics 41(4): 1106-1122.

Links to my pages:

• Teaching

• CV and contact information
• Where I come from
• Infrequent blog posts on khong sao,