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59: Wealth of Two Nations: The U.S. Racial Wealth Gap, 1860-2020

Ellora Derenoncourt, Chi Hyun Kim, Moritz Kuhn and Moritz Schularick

58: Minimum Wages, Efficiency and Welfare

David Berger, Kyle Herkenhoff and Simon Mongey

57: When Do Informational Interventions Work? Experimental Evidence from New York City High School Choice

Sarah Cohodes, Sean Corcoran, Jennifer Jennings and Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj

56: Changing Stability in U.S. Employment Relationships: A Tale of Two Tails

Raven S. Molloy, Christopher Smith and Abigail Wozniak

55: Changing Income Risk across the US Skill Distribution: Evidence from a Generalized Kalman Filter

John Carter Braxton, Kyle Herkenhoff, Jonathan Rothbaum and Lawrence Schmidt

54: Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions

Mark Colas and Robert McDonough

53: Disparate Impacts of Job Loss by Parental Income and Implications for Intergenerational Mobility

Martti Kaila, Emily Nix and Krista Riukula

52: Telework, Childcare, and Mothers’ Labor Supply

Misty Heggeness and Palak Suri

51: Optimal Income Taxation: An Urban Economics Perspective

Mark Huggett and Wenlan Luo

50: Doves for the Rich, Hawks for the Poor? Distributional Consequences of Systematic Monetary Policy

Nils Gornemann, Keith Kuester and Makoto Nakajima

49: Why Do Couples and Singles Save During Retirement?

Mariacristina De Nardi, Eric French, John Jones and Rory McGee

48: Labor Market Power

David Berger, Kyle Herkenhoff and Simon Mongey

47: Saving the American Dream? Education Policies in Spatial General Equilibrium

Fabian Eckert and Tatjana Kleineberg

46: Multinationals, Monopsony, and Local Development: Evidence from the United Fruit Company

Esteban Méndez-Chacón and Diana Van Patten

45: Monetary Policy and Racial Inequality

Alina K. Bartscher, Moritz Kuhn, Moritz Schularick and Paul Wachtel

44: Wage Risk and Government and Spousal Insurance

Mariacristina De Nardi and Giulio Fella

43: The City Paradox: Skilled Services and Remote Work

Fabian Eckert, Sharat Ganapati and Conor Walsh

42: Family and Government Insurance: Wage, Earnings, and Income Risks in the Netherlands and the U.S

Mariacristina De Nardi and Giulio Fella

41: Are Marriage-Related Taxes and Social Security Benefits Holding Back Female Labor Supply?

Margherita Borella, Mariacristina De Nardi and Fang Yang

40: Why Does Consumption Fluctuate in Old Age and How Should the Government Insure it?

Margherita Borella and Mariacristina De Nardi

39: Firm-Embedded Productivity and Cross-Country Income Differences

Vanessa Alviarez, Javier Cravino and Natalia Ramondo

38: The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration

Mark Colas and Dominik Sachs

37: Racial Disparities in Frontline Workers and Housing Crowding during COVID-19: Evidence from Geolocation Data

Milena Almagro, Joshua Coven, Arpit Gupta and Angelo Orane-Hutchinson

36: Who’s In and Who’s Out under Workplace COVID Symptom Screening?

Krista Ruffini, Aaron Sojourner and Abigail Wozniak

35: Measuring Movement and Social Contact with Smartphone Data: A Real-Time Application to COVID-19

Victor Couture, Jonathan Dingel, Allison Green, Jessie Handbury and Kevin Williams

34: The Assessment Gap: Racial Inequalities in Property Taxation

Carlos F. Avenancio-León and Troup Howard

33: Why Is Mommy So Stressed? Estimating the Immediate Impact of the COVID-19 Shock on Parental Attachment to the Labor Market and the Double Bind of Mothers

Misty Heggeness

32: Disparities and Mitigation Behavior during COVID-19

Abigail Wozniak

31: Sectoral Impact of COVID-19: Cascading Risks

Sophie Osotimehin and Latchezar Popov

30: Misallocation and Intersectoral Linkages

Sophie Osotimehin and Latchezar Popov

29: Spatial Wage Gaps in Frictional Labor Markets

Sebastian Heise and Tommaso Porzio

28: Manning Up and Womaning Down: How Husbands and Wives Report Earnings When She Earns More

Misty Heggeness and Marta Murray-Close

27: Improving Child Welfare in Middle Income Countries: The Unintended Consequence of a Pro-Homemaker Divorce Law and Wait Time to Divorce

Misty Heggeness

26: Who is a Passive Saver Under Opt-In and Auto-Enrollment?

Colleen Flaherty Manchester, Gopi Goda, Matthew R. Levy, Aaron Sojourner and Joshua Tasoff

25: Skilled Tradable Services: The Transformation of U.S. High-Skill Labor Markets

Fabian Eckert, Sharat Ganapati and Conor Walsh

24: The Return to Big City Experience: Evidence from Danish Refugees

Fabian Eckert, Mads Hejlesen and Conor Walsh

23: Nonlinear Pricing in Village Economies

Orazio Attanasio and Elena Pastorino

22: Cyclical Labor Income Risk

Makoto Nakajima and Vladimir Smirnyagin

21: Pay, Employment, and Dynamics of Young Firms

Tania Babina, Wenting Ma, Christian Moser, Paige P. Ouimet and Rebecca Zarutskie

20: The Environmental Cost of Land Use Restrictions

Mark Colas and John M. Morehouse

19: The Lost Ones: The Opportunities and Outcomes of Non-College-Educated Americans Born in the 1960s

Margherita Borella, Mariacristina De Nardi and Fang Yang

18: Optimal Social Insurance and Rising Labor Market Risk

Tom Krebs and Martin Scheffel

17: Optimal Paternalistic Savings Policies

Christian Moser and Pedro Olea de Souza e Silva

16: Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market

Alan Benson, Aaron Sojourner and Akhmed Umyarov

15: Which Ladder to Climb? Wages of Workers by Job, Plant, and Education

Christian Bayer and Moritz Kuhn

14: Optimal Need-Based Financial Aid

Mark Colas, Sebastian Findeisen and Dominik Sachs

13: Adjusting to Robots: Worker-Level Evidence

Wolfgang Dauth, Sebastian Findeisen, Jens Suedekum and Nicole Woessner

12: Location as an Asset

Adrien Bilal and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

11: Rethinking Detroit

Raymond Owens, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg and Pierre Daniel Sarte

10: College Access and Attendance Patterns: A Long-Run View

Lutz Hendricks, Christopher Herrington and Todd Schoellman

9: Income and Wealth Inequality in America, 1949-2016

Moritz Kuhn, Moritz Schularick and Ulrike I. Steins

8: Medical Expenses and Saving in Retirement: The Case of U.S. and Sweden

Makoto Nakajima and Irina Telyukova

7: Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from Brazil

Niklas Engbom and Christian Moser

6: Dynamic Responses to Immigration

Mark Colas

5: Wage Inequality and Job Stability

Ana Luisa Pessoa de Araujo

4: Spatial Patterns of Development: A Meso Approach

Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou

3: Heterogeneous Workers and Federal Income Taxes in a Spatial Equilibrium

Mark Colas and Kevin Hutchinson

2: Emigration during the French Revolution: Consequences in the Short and Longue Durée

Raphael Franck and Stelios Michalopoulos

1: Human Capital and Development Accounting: New Evidence from Wage Gains at Migration

Lutz Hendricks and Todd Schoellman