Inequality

Inequality

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A Tractable Income Process for Business Cycle Analysis

Armed conflict exposure and trust: evidence from a natural experiment

Entrepreneurial Investment Dynamics and the Wealth Distribution

Firm dynamics, monopsony, and aggregate productivity differences

Firm Heterogeneity, Market Power and Macroeconomic Fragility

How Costly Are Cartels?

Labor Market Discrimination and the Racial Unemployment Gap: Can Monetary Policy Make a Difference?

Macroeconomic Effects of 'Free' Secondary Schooling in the Developing World

Means-Tested Transfers in the US: Facts and Parametric Estimates

Medical innovation and health disparities

Non-Tariff Barriers in the U.S.-China Trade War

On the Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks on Income and Consumption Heterogeneity

Property rights, fiscal capacity, and social capacity: The lasting impact of the Taiping Rebellion

Resource Misallocation in European Firms: The Role of Constraints, Firm Characteristics and Managerial Decisions

Serial Entrepreneurship in China

Sources of rising student debt in the U.S.: College costs, wage inequality, and delinquency

Taxing Top Wealth: Migration Responses and their Aggregate Economic Implications

The Aggregate Costs of Uninsurable Business Risk

The Efficiency-Equity Tradeoff of the Corporate Income Tax: Evidence from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

Unconventional Monetary Policies and Inequality

Understanding High-Wage Firms: Monopoly, Monopsony, and Bargaining Power

University Research and the Market for Higher Education

Warming with Borders: Forced Climate Migration and Carbon Pricing

Who Buys High and Sells Low: Trading against Expected Returns and Wealth Inequality

CBDC as Imperfect Substitute to Bank Deposits: A Macroeconomic Perspective

Go big or buy a home: The impact of student debt on career and housing choices

Merger guidelines for the labor market

Studying Generational Risk in a Large-Scale Life-Cycle Model

Time Averaging Meets Heckman, Lochner, and Taber and Ben-Porath

Who bears the costs of inflation? Euro area households and the 2021-2023 shock

"Compensate the Losers?" Economic Policy and the Origins of U.S. Partisan Realignment

(Not) Thinking About the Future: Financial Information and Maternal Labor Supply

A Cognitive Theory of Reasoning and Choice

All Along the Watchtower: Military Landholders and Serfdom Consolidation in Early Modern Russia

An endogenous gridpoint method for distributional dynamics

An Equilibrium Analysis of the Effects of Neighborhood-Based Interventions on Children

Are Inflationary Shocks Regressive? A Feasible Set Approach

Automated credit limit increases and consumer welfare

Automation and Rent Dissipation

Bargaining and Inequality in the Labor Market

Biased expectations and labor market outcomes: Evidence from German survey data and implications for the East–West wage gap

Changing Opportunity: Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps

Civil War–Induced Displacement and Human Capital

Closing Gender Gaps Through Workplace Diversity: The Intergenerational Effects of World War I

Community Engagement and Public Safety: Evidence from Crime Enforcement Targeting Immigrants

Consumer Credit and the Incidence of Tariffs: Evidence from the Auto Industry

Consumer durables and monetary policy according to HANK

Contract Terms, Employment Shocks, and Default in Credit Cards

Default Options and Retirement Saving Dynamics

Defying Distance? The Provision of Medical Services in the Digital Age

Demand Stimulus as Social Policy

Designing Dynamic Reassignment Mechanisms: Evidence from GP Allocation

Digital Distractions with Peer Influence

Distributional Growth Accounting: Education and the Reduction of Global Poverty, 1980–2019

Diversifying Society's Leaders? Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission

Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive?

Efficiency Criteria, Income Taxation, and Heterogeneous Elasticities

Equal Pay for Similar Work

Firm Accommodation After Workplace Disability: Labor Market Impacts and Implications for Subsidy Design

Gendered Spheres of Learning and Household Decision-Making over Fertility

Genetic Prediction and Adverse Selection

Germs in the Family: The Short- and Long-Term Consequences of Intra-Household Disease Spread

Health Shocks, Health Insurance, Human Capital, and the Dynamics of Earnings and Health

Homeownership, Polarization, and Inequality

How Do You Identify a Good Manager?

Ideas Have Consequences: The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice

Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Random Coefficient Models

Identification of Time-Inconsistent Models: The Case of Insecticide-Treated Nets

Inequality and asset prices during Sudden Stops

Insuring Peace: Index-Based Livestock Insurance, Droughts, and Conflict

Intergenerational Impacts of Secondary Education: Experimental Evidence from Ghana

Investing in Influence: Investors, Portfolio Firms, and Political Giving

Labor Market Competition and the Assimilation of Immigrants

Latent Heterogeneity in the Marginal Propensity to Consume

Leveraging Virtual Contact and Social Networks to Foster Interethnic Harmony

Life-Cycle Wages and Human Capital Investments: Selection and Missing Data

Linking Social and Personal Preferences: Theory and Experiment

Making the Invisible Hand Visible: Managers and Worker Allocation

Manager Pay Inequality and Market Power

Marginal Propensity to Consume and Personal Characteristics: Evidence from Bank Transaction Data and Survey

Marginal Returns to Public Universities

Marriage, Fertility, and Cultural Integration in Italy

Measuring and Mitigating Racial Disparities in Tax Audits

Minimum Wages, Efficiency, and Welfare

Mis(sed) Diagnosis: Physician Decision Making and ADHD

On the Nature of Entrepreneurship

Online Business Models, Digital Ads, and User Welfare

Optimal Taxation and Market Power

Peer Effects and Rank Concerns in the Classroom

Peer Effects and the Gender Gap in Corporate Leadership

Place-Based Redistribution

Policy Diffusion and Polarization across U.S. States

Politics at Work

Praying for Rain

Racial disparities in crime and wealth

Racial Disparities in Federal Sentencing: Evidence from Drug Mandatory Minimums

Racial Disparities in Housing Returns

Rationing by Race

Religion, Education, and the State

Republican Support and Economic Hardship: The Enduring Effects of the Opioid Epidemic

Revolutionary Transition: Inheritance Change and Fertility Decline

Risk Sharing Tests and Covariate Shocks: Drought, Floods, and Pests in Uganda

Rural Migrants and Urban Informality: Evidence From Brazil

School Choice and the Housing Market

Screening and Segmenting: A Consumer Surplus Perspective

Should Monetary Policy Care about Redistribution? Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy with Heterogeneous Agents

Silence to Solidarity: How Communication About a Minority Affects Discrimination

Skill-Replacing Technology and Bottom-Half Inequality

Spatial Implications of Telecommuting

Supply, Demand, Institutions, and Firms: A Theory of Labor Market Sorting and the Wage Distribution

Talent Hoarding in Organizations

The Architecture of Social Networks and the Diffusion of Innovations

The Confederate Diaspora

The Earnings and Labor Supply of U.S. Physicians

The Effect of Education Policy on Crime: An Intergenerational Perspective

The Effect of Provider Diversity on Racial Health Disparities: Evidence from the Military

The Effects of Gender Integration on Men

The Effects of Mandatory Profit-Sharing on Workers and Firms

The Effects of Medical Debt Relief: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments

The Future in Mind: Aspirations and Long-Term Outcomes in Rural Ethiopia

The Geography of job creation and job destruction

The Illiquidity of Water Markets

The Impact of Incarceration on Employment, Earnings, and Tax Filing

The Impact of Unions on Nonunion Wage Setting: Threats and Bargaining

The Optimal Taxation of Couples

The Power of Proximity to Coworkers

The Productivity of Professions: Evidence from the Emergency Department

The Social Tax: Redistributive Pressure and Labor Supply

Traditional Institutions in Modern Times: Dowries as Pensions When Sons Migrate

Vanguard: Black Veterans and Civil Rights After World War I

Voluntary Minimum Wages: The Local Labor Market Effects of National Retailer Policies

What Do Policies Value?

What Jobs Come to Mind? Stereotypes About Fields of Study

What Works and for Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across the U.S.

What's My Employee Worth? The Effects of Salary Benchmarking

Why Doesn't the United States Have National Health Insurance?