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Professor of Economics

Peter Schott's research focuses on how firms and workers respond to globalization. His most recent projects examine relative export quality across developed and developing countries as well as transfer pricing and product upgrading by multinationals.

Achievements and Awards
Yale School of Management Teaching Award (Core Classes), 2010 
National Science Foundation Research Grant, “Estimating Export Quality” (2006-2009)
National Science Foundation Research Grant, “Firms and Product Choice in International Trade” (2003-2008)

Editorships
Associate Editor, American Economic Review, 2005-2008

Affiliations
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
International Research Associate, Institute for
Fiscal Studies (UK)
Research Associate, Centre for Economic
Performance (LSE)

Selected Articles
"Multiple-Product Firms and Trade Liberalization" (with A.B. Bernard and S.J. Redding), Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming 

"Estimating Cross-Country Differences in Product Quality" (with J.C. Hallak), Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming 

"Multiple-Product Firms and Product Switching" (with A.B. Bernard and S.J. Redding), American Economic Review, Vol. 100, 70-97, March, 2010

"The Relative Sophistication of Chinese Exports," Economic Policy, Vol. 53, 5-49, January, 2008 

"Firms in International Trade" (with A.B. Bernard, J.B. Jensen and S.J. Redding), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 21, No. 3, 105-130, Summer, 2007

"Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Firms" (with A.B. Bernard and S.J. Redding), Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 74, No. 1, 31-66, January, 2007

Working Papers
"Trade Liberalization with Embedded Institutional Reform: Evidence From Chinese Exporters" (with A.K. Khandelwal and S. Wei)

"The Surprisingly Swift Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Employment" (with J.R. Pierce) 

"Transfer Pricing by U.S.-Based Multinational Firms" (with A.B. Bernard and J.B. Jensen)

Education
PhD The Anderson School at UCLA, 1999
MS UCLA, 1995
BS University of Pennsylvania, 1990