Prachi Mishra

Tariffs, Enforcement, and Customs Evasion: Evidence from India (2008)

Prachi Mishra, International Monetary Fund, Beata Javorcik, Charles Kramer, Nuno Limao, Aaditya Mattoo, ...

This paper is forthcoming in the Journal of Public Economics. We examine the effect of tariff policies on evasion of customs duties, in the context of the trade reform in India of the 1990s. By...

Emigration and Brain Drain: Evidence from the Caribbean (2007)

Mishra, Prachi

This paper quantifies the magnitude and nature of migration flows from the Caribbean and estimates their costs and benefits. The Caribbean countries have lost 10-40 percent of their labor force due...

Emigration and Brain Drain: Evidence from the Caribbean (2007)

Mishra, Prachi

This paper quantifies the magnitude and nature of migration flows from the Caribbean and estimates their costs and benefits. The Caribbean countries have lost 10-40 percent of their labor force due...

Emigration and Brain Drain: Evidence from the Caribbean (2007)

Mishra, Prachi

This paper quantifies the magnitude and nature of migration flows from the Caribbean and estimates their costs and benefits. The Caribbean countries have lost 10-40 percent of their labor force due...

Emigration and Brain Drain: Evidence from the Caribbean (2007)

Mishra, Prachi

This paper quantifies the magnitude and nature of migration flows from the Caribbean and estimates their costs and benefits. The Caribbean countries have lost 10-40 percent of their labor force due...

Policies, Enforcement, and Customs Evasion: Evidence from India (2007)

Prachi Mishra, Arvind Subramanian, Prepared Prachi Mishra, Arvind Subramanian, Petia Topalova

This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF. The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the IMF...

Essays on globalization and wages in developing countries (Mexico, India) (2004)

Mishra, Prachi

This dissertation has two main parts. The first part presents the first econometric study of the effect of emigration on national wages in a source country. The second part is composed of two essays,...

Emigration and Brain Drain: Evidence from the Caribbean

Prachi Mishra

This paper quantifies the magnitude and nature of migration flows from the Caribbean and estimates their costs and benefits. The Caribbean countries have lost 10-40 percent of their labor force due...

Trade Liberalization and Wage Inequality: Evidence from India

Prachi Mishra, Utsav Kumar

We evaluate empirically the impact of the dramatic 1991 trade liberalization in India on the industry wage structure. The empirical strategy uses variation in industry wage premiums and trade policy...

Emigration and Wages in Source Countries: Evidence from Mexico

Prachi Mishra

This paper empirically examines the effect on wages in Mexico of Mexican emigration to the United States, using data from the Mexican and United States censuses from 1970-2000. The main result in the...

Policies, Enforcement, and Customs Evasion: Evidence from India

Petia Topalova, Prachi Mishra, Arvind Subramanian

We examine the effect of tariff policies on evasion of customs duties, in the context of the trade reform in India of the 1990s. We exploit the variation in tariff rates across time and products to...

Health Aid and Infant Mortality

Prachi Mishra, David Locke Newhouse

This paper examines the relationship between health aid and infant mortality, using data from 118 countries between 1973 and 2004. Health aid has a statistically significant effect on infant...

Do Interest Groups Affect Immigration?

Giovanni Facchini, Anna Maria Mayda, Prachi Mishra

While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration, there is no systematic empirical evidence on this issue. To motivate our analysis, we develop a simple...

Trade Liberalization and Wage Inequality: Evidence from India

Utsav Kumar, Prachi Mishra

We evaluate empirically the impact of the dramatic 1991 trade liberalization in India on the industry wage structure. The empirical strategy uses variation in industry wage premiums and trade policy...

Emigration and Brain Drain: Evidence from the Caribbean

Prachi Mishra

This paper quantifies the magnitude and nature of migration flows from the Caribbean and estimates their costs and benefits. The Caribbean countries have lost 10-40 percent of their labor force due...

Do Interest Groups Affect US Immigration Policy?

Facchini, Giovanni, Mayda, Anna Maria, Mishra, Prachi

While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration policy, there is no systematic empirical analysis of this issue. In this paper, we construct an...

Do Interest Groups Affect U.S. Immigration Policy?

Prachi Mishra, Anna Maria Mayda, Giovanni Facchini

While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration policy, there is no systematic empirical analysis of this issue. In this paper, we construct an...

Do Interest Groups Affects US Immigration Policy?

Giovanni Facchini, Anna Maria Mayda, Prachi Mishra

While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration policy, there is no systematic empirical analysis of this issue. In this paper, we construct an...

Do Interest Groups affect US Immigration Policy?

Giovanni Facchini, Anna Maria Mayda, Prachi Mishra

While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration policy, there is no systematic empirical analysis of this issue. In this paper, we construct an...

Tariffs, enforcement, and customs evasion: Evidence from India

Mishra, Prachi, Subramanian, Arvind, Topalova, Petia

We examine the effect of tariff policies on evasion of customs duties, in the context of the trade reform in India of the 1990s. By exploiting the variation in tariff rates across time and products,...

Exchange Rates and Wages in an Integrated World

Mishra, Prachi, Spilimbergo, Antonio

We analyze how the pass-through from exchange rate to domestic wages depends on the degree of integration between domestic and foreign labor markets. Using data from 66 countries over the period...

Democracy and Reforms

Giuliano, Paola, Mishra, Prachi, Spilimbergo, Antonio

Empirical evidence on the relationship between democracy and economic reforms is scarce, limited to few reforms and countries and for few years. This paper studies the impact of democracy on the...

Democracy and Reforms

Giuliano, Paola, Mishra, Prachi, Spilimbergo, Antonio

Empirical evidence on the relationship between democracy and economic reforms is scarce, limited to few reforms and countries and for few years. This paper studies the impact of democracy on the...

Exchange Rates and Wages in an Integrated World

Prachi Mishra, Antonio Spilimbergo

We analyze how the pass-through from exchange rate to domestic wages depends on the degree of integration between domestic and foreign labor markets. Using data from 66 countries over the period...

Emigration and Brain Drain: Evidence from the Caribbean

Prachi Mishra

This paper quantifies the magnitude and nature of migration flows from the Caribbean and estimates their costs and benefits. The Caribbean countries have lost 10–40 percent of their labor force due...