[1] Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of international trade, development, and industrial organization with specific focus on how agents respond to globalization.
Pavcnik's diverse works analyze the effects of globalization on child laborers, households, workers, and firms.
Her most recent work studies the effect of large-scale trade policy reforms on economic growth and inequality.
[1] Pavcnik additionally graduated Magna cum laude and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa Pavnick's research interests are centered around the three following fields: International trade, development, and in austral organization.
[4] Her most cited works include a study of liberalized trade on plant productivity in Chile, published in The Review of Economic Studies;[5] the distributional effects of globalization in developing countries, published in the Journal of Economic Literature (joint with Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg);[6] and an investigation of the relationship between trade costs, imports of intermediate inputs, and domestic firm product scope using in India, published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics (also joint with Pinelopi Goldberg).