Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute

Labor Market Power

May 13, 2021

Research

Director Abigail Wozniak on the Women in Economics podcast

Speech on April 30, 2021

Speech

First comes love, then come taxes

April 15, 2021

Article

Esther Duflo interview: Deciding how to share

April 14, 2021

Article

Scholar Spotlight: Abdoulaye Ndiaye

April 14, 2021

Article

Scholar Spotlight: Ariell Zimran

April 14, 2021

Article

Scholar Spotlight: Diana Van Patten

April 14, 2021

Article

Scholar Spotlight: Sergio Barrera

April 14, 2021

Article

Tackling racism from within

April 14, 2021

Article

From the director: Evidence we can act on

April 14, 2021

Article

The myth of the rising tide

April 14, 2021

Article

Saving the American Dream? Education Policies in Spatial General Equilibrium

March 22, 2021

Research

Commuting, crowding, and COVID-19

March 18, 2021

Article

Making a difference as an economist

March 17, 2021

Article

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

March 15, 2021

Research

The poverty of nations

March 2, 2021

Article

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

February 24, 2021

Research

Monetary Policy and Racial Inequality

February 4, 2021

Research

Year in Review: Summary of 2020 Institute Working Papers

January 29, 2021

Article

2020 Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute working papers: A retrospective

January 27, 2021

Article

Coronavirus sufferers remain in the data shadows

January 13, 2021

Article

Wage Risk and Government and Spousal Insurance

December 22, 2020

Research

New COVID-19 dashboard data show disparities in access to employment safety valves

November 24, 2020

Article

The Return to Big City Experience: Evidence from Refugees in Denmark

November 13, 2020

Research

Skilled Scalable Services: The New Urban Bias in Economic Growth

November 13, 2020

Research

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

October 26, 2020

Research

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

October 26, 2020

Research

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

October 23, 2020

Research

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

October 23, 2020

Research

How well do workplace COVID-19 screens work? And do they discriminate?

October 20, 2020

Article

Firm-Embedded Productivity and Cross-Country Income Differences

October 13, 2020

Research

Reservation Benefits: Assessing Job Acceptance Impacts of Increased UI Payments

October 2, 2020

Research

The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration

October 2, 2020

Research

Crisis response: Institute economists address the pandemic

September 14, 2020

Article

Seeing the margins: An interview with Columbia University economist Sandra Black

September 14, 2020

Article

A nation divided: Survey reveals wide gaps in COVID-19 fallout

September 14, 2020

Article

“We are in a dangerous time”: Lessons from our Higher Education Conference

September 14, 2020

Article

From the director: A test of our concept, and an accelerator

September 14, 2020

Article

Scholar Spotlight: Krista Ruffini

September 14, 2020

Article

Scholar Spotlight: Milena Almagro

September 14, 2020

Article

Scholar Spotlight: Terry-Ann Craigie

September 14, 2020

Article

Scholar Spotlight: Troup Howard

September 14, 2020

Article

Wealth Distribution and Retirement Preparation Among Early Savers

September 1, 2020

Research

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

September 1, 2020

Research

The Geography of Business Dynamism and Skill Biased Technical Change

August 28, 2020

Research

Labor Supply Within the Firm

August 21, 2020

Research

How to track a killer virus with your phone

August 4, 2020

Article

Yet another source of inequality: Property taxes

July 28, 2020

Article

Family Job Search and Wealth: The Added Worker Effect Revisited

July 17, 2020

Research

Adaptation and the Cost of Rising Temperature for the U.S. Economy

July 9, 2020

Research

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

July 9, 2020

Research

Jobs or kids? Parenting during the pandemic

July 8, 2020

Article

The Assessment Gap: Racial Inequalities in Property Taxation

July 6, 2020

Research

How Does Immigration Fit into the Future of the U.S. Labor Market?

June 26, 2020

Research

Spring 2020 Institute Conference: Higher Ed, Who Pays?

Event on June 18, 2020

Event

How has COVID-19 changed work and well-being for Minnesotans?

June 15, 2020

Article

How has COVID-19 changed work and well-being for Montanans?

June 15, 2020

Article

The Rise of Fintech Lending to Small Businesses: Businesses’ Perspectives on Borrowing

June 12, 2020

Research

A teachable moment? Will George Floyd’s death spur change in economics?

June 9, 2020

Article

COVID inequality

June 3, 2020

Article

Why Has the US Economy Recovered So Consistently from Every Recession in the Past 70 Years?

May 28, 2020

Research

COVID-19: Connecting small businesses to pandemic relief is a struggle, CDFIs say

May 19, 2020

Article

How linkages do, and don't, spread economic distortions

May 14, 2020

Article

Differential economic and health impact of COVID-19: The importance of cascading risk

May 13, 2020

Article

Disparities and Mitigation Behavior during COVID-19

May 13, 2020

Research

Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute welcomes 2020-2021 class of scholars

May 8, 2020

Article

Sectoral Impact of COVID-19: Cascading Risks

May 7, 2020

Research

The need for data innovation in the time of COVID-19

April 13, 2020

Article

Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute: Diverse, interdisciplinary, active

March 31, 2020

Article

Tracking COVID-19 symptoms and impact in real time: A survey-based surveillance system

March 26, 2020

Article

Why the Institute? Why this magazine?

March 19, 2020

Article

Scholar Spotlight: Chris Stoddard

March 19, 2020

Article

Scholar Spotlight: Ellora Derenoncourt

March 19, 2020

Article

Scholar Spotlight: Fabian Eckert

March 19, 2020

Article

Scholar Spotlight: Misty Heggeness

March 19, 2020

Article

About the cover: Meet Chukwudi Anyaeche

March 19, 2020

Article

Not just talk, but making a difference

March 19, 2020

Article

Housing as a driver of cities’ polarization

March 19, 2020

Article

The view from here

March 19, 2020

Article

California green rush?

March 19, 2020

Article

The mystery of regional inequality

February 27, 2020

Article

Misallocation and Intersectoral Linkages

February 18, 2020

Research

Saving for retirement

February 13, 2020

Article

Tuition, Debt, and Human Capital

February 12, 2020

Research

Income at risk

February 4, 2020

Article

Children, and nations, of divorce

January 27, 2020

Article

Spatial Wage Gaps in Frictional Labor Markets

December 23, 2019

Research

Disappearing Routine Occupations and Declining Prime-Age Labor Force Participation

December 19, 2019

Research

Expanding and diversifying housing: Approaches and impacts on opportunity

December 16, 2019

Article

Measuring Household Wealth in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics: The Role of Retirement Assets

December 13, 2019

Research

Superstars in the age of information

December 13, 2019

Article

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

December 10, 2019

Research

The Well-Being of Nations: Estimating Welfare from International Migration

November 26, 2019

Research

State Disinvestment in Higher Education: The Impact on Public Research Universities’ Patent Applications

November 25, 2019

Research

The Affordable Care Act and the Market for Higher Education

November 25, 2019

Research

Family Characteristics and Macroeconomic Factors in U.S. Intragenerational Family Income Mobility, 1978–2014

October 21, 2019

Research

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

October 11, 2019

Research

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

September 26, 2019

Research

Do cash transfers work?

September 10, 2019

Article

Nonlinear Pricing in Village Economies

August 26, 2019

Research

Pay, Employment, and Dynamics of Young Firms

August 5, 2019

Research

Cyclical Labor Income Risk

August 5, 2019

Research

The Environmental Cost of Land Use Restrictions

June 25, 2019

Research

Fall 2019 Institute Conference: Expanding and Diversifying Housing

Event on October 3, 2019

Event

Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute’s Spring Conference focuses on monetary policy

April 29, 2019

Article

Minneapolis Fed announces 2019-2020 class of Visiting Scholars

April 25, 2019

News

Test Questions, Economic Outcomes, and Inequality

April 2, 2019

Research

Minneapolis Fed’s commitment to diversity and inclusion detailed in OMWI annual report

April 2, 2019

Article

The good old days? For some, yes

March 25, 2019

Article

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

March 18, 2019

Research

A vision for the Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute

March 5, 2019

Article

Coping with volatile labor markets

March 4, 2019

Article

Saving for retirement and addressing inequality—an optimal plan

February 25, 2019

Article

The Marginal Propensity to Hire

February 20, 2019

Research

The Founding of the Federal Reserve, the Great Depression and the Evolution of the U.S. Interbank Network

February 12, 2019

Research

Spring 2019 Institute Conference: Distributional Consequences of the Business Cycle and Monetary Policy

Event on April 9, 2019

Event

In the gig economy, reputation counts

February 6, 2019

Article

Rural Affordable Rental Housing: Quantifying Need, Reviewing Recent Federal Support, and Assessing the Use of Low Income Housing Tax Credits in Rural Areas

February 1, 2019

Research

Optimal Social Insurance and Rising Labor Market Risk

February 1, 2019

Research

The Cyclical Behavior of Labor Force Participation

January 22, 2019

Research

The Slaughter of the Bison and Reversal of Fortunes on the Great Plains

January 15, 2019

Research

Is Size Everything?

January 10, 2019

Research

Optimal Paternalistic Savings Policies

January 10, 2019

Research

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

December 28, 2018

Research

The Macroeconomic Consequences of Early Childhood Development Policies

December 12, 2018

Research

Growth, disease, and the personal touch

November 30, 2018

Article

Explosive Dynamics in House Prices? An Exploration of Financial Market Spillovers in Housing Markets Around the World

November 29, 2018

Research

Climbing ladders

November 7, 2018

Article

Wozniak Named Director of Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute

October 29, 2018

Article

College financial aid: Equity and efficiency

October 18, 2018

Article

Killer robots? Not so much

October 5, 2018

Article

Trading places

September 26, 2018

Article

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

September 12, 2018

Research

Interview with Philip Jefferson

September 12, 2018

Article

Optimal Need-Based Financial Aid

September 7, 2018

Research

Fall 2018 Institute Conference: Regional Shocks and Regional Divergence

Event on October 18, 2018

Event

Adjusting to Robots: Worker-Level Evidence

August 21, 2018

Research

Rethinking Detroit

August 7, 2018

Research

Location as an Asset

August 7, 2018

Research

The wealth gap and the race between stocks and homes

July 31, 2018

Article

Innovation in Early Childhood Development and K-12 Education

Event on October 23, 2018

Event

College Access and Attendance Patterns: A Long-Run View

July 2, 2018

Research

Occupational Licensing Over Time and Across Countries

Event on September 13, 2018

Event

Early-Stage Business Formation: An Analysis of Applications for Employer Identification Numbers

June 28, 2018

Research

The rise and reversal of college education

June 26, 2018

Article

Income and Wealth Inequality in America, 1949-2016

June 14, 2018

Research

What Would You Do with $500? Spending Responses to Gains, Losses, News, and Loans

May 23, 2018

Research

Inequality in 3-D: Income, Consumption, and Wealth

May 15, 2018

Research

Top Income Concentration and Volatility

May 8, 2018

Research

Health care costs and savings, an old age question

May 8, 2018

Article

Internal Migration in the United States: A Comparative Assessment of the Utility of the Consumer Credit Panel

May 2, 2018

Research

Individuals, Institutions, and Inequality Conference

Event on September 28, 2018

Event

Minneapolis Fed Announces New Class of Visiting Scholars

April 11, 2018

News

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

April 10, 2018

Research

Minneapolis Fed Announces Community Advisory Board

April 5, 2018

News

Regional Consumption Responses and the Aggregate Fiscal Multiplier

April 2, 2018

Research

Internal Immigrant Mobility in the Early 20th Century: Experimental Evidence from Galveston Immigrants

March 26, 2018

Research

Interview with Mark L.J. Wright

March 26, 2018

Article

Demographics and the Evolution of Global Imbalances

March 23, 2018

Research

Hysteresis in Employment among Disadvantaged Workers

March 19, 2018

Research

Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from Brazil

March 12, 2018

Research

Spring 2018 Institute Conference: Labor Market Trends and the Future of Work

Event on May 11, 2018

Event

Minneapolis Fed to Study Effects of City’s New Minimum Wage Rule

March 6, 2018

Article

Racial Gaps in Labor Market Outcomes in the Last Four Decades and over the Business Cycle

February 22, 2018

Research

The Paper Trail of Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from Patent Interferences

February 15, 2018

Research

You’re fired?

February 6, 2018

Article

Dynamic Responses to Immigration

January 29, 2018

Research

On Intergenerational Immobility: Evidence that Adult Credit Health Reflects the Childhood Environment

January 17, 2018

Research

Equity and Efficiency in Space

January 17, 2018

Article

Macroeconomic Nowcasting and Forecasting with Big Data

January 10, 2018

Research

Measuring the “Free” Digital Economy Within the GDP and Productivity Accounts

January 8, 2018

Research

A Tax Plan for Endogenous Innovation

January 4, 2018

Research

Missing Growth from Creative Destruction

January 2, 2018

Research

The Persistence of Financial Distress

December 28, 2017

Research

Parental Proximity and Earnings after Job Displacements

December 27, 2017

Research

The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level in a World of Low Interest Rates

December 15, 2017

Research

Geographic Inequality of Economic Well-being among U.S. Cities: Evidence from Micro Panel Data

December 13, 2017

Research

An Assessment of the National Establishment Time Series (NETS) Database

December 7, 2017

Research

Wage Inequality and Job Stability

December 1, 2017

Research

First-Time Homebuyers: Toward a New Measure

November 28, 2017

Research

Spatial Patterns of Development: A Meso Approach

November 28, 2017

Research

The Unequal Distribution of Economic Education: A Report on the Race, Ethnicity, and Gender of Economics Majors at US Colleges and Universities

November 20, 2017

Research

Heterogeneous Workers and Federal Income Taxes in a Spatial Equilibrium

November 14, 2017

Research

The Effect of Fertility on Mothers’ Labor Supply over the Last Two Centuries

November 13, 2017

Research

The Local Aggregate Effects of Minimum Wage Increases

November 9, 2017

Research

“Don’t Know What You Got Till It’s Gone” – The Effects of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) on Mortgage Lending in the Philadelphia Market

November 2, 2017

Research

Fall 2017 Institute Conference: Segregation and Inequality

Event on October 26, 2017

Event

Reservation Employer Establishments: Data from the U.S. Census Longitudinal Business Database

October 18, 2017

Research

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

September 26, 2017

Research

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

August 10, 2017

Research

Old, Frail, and Uninsured: Accounting for Puzzles in the U.S. Long-Term Care Insurance Market

August 9, 2017

Research

The Decline in Intergenerational Mobility After 1980

July 6, 2017

Research

Residential Rent Affordability across U.S. Metropolitan Areas

June 21, 2017

Research

A Theory of Sticky Rents: Search and Bargaining with Incomplete Information

June 20, 2017

Research

Who Counts as Employed? Informal Work, Employment Status, and Labor Market Slack

June 19, 2017

Research

The Unintended Consequences of Employer Credit Check Bans on Labor and Credit Markets

June 16, 2017

Research

Monetary Policy and Inequality

June 15, 2017

Research

Evidence on the Production of Cognitive Achievement from Moving to Opportunity

June 13, 2017

Research

Does Differential Treatment Translate to Differential Outcomes for Minority Borrowers? Evidence from Matching a Field Experiment to Loan-Level Data

June 13, 2017

Research

New Findings on the Fiscal Impact of Immigration in the United States

June 13, 2017

Research

College Is Not Enough: Higher Education Does Not Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Wealth Gaps

June 9, 2017

Research

Organizations, Skills, and Wage Inequality

June 9, 2017

Research

Wage Shocks and the Technological Substitution of Low-Wage Jobs

June 9, 2017

Research

Inaugural Spring 2017 Institute Conference

Event on May 22, 2017

Event

Assessing Differences in Labor Market Outcomes Across Race, Age, and Educational Attainment

May 1, 2017

Research

Are Central Cities Poor and Non-White?

April 10, 2017

Research

Un-Fortunate Sons: Effects of the Vietnam Draft Lottery on the Next Generation's Labor Market

March 30, 2017

Research

Levels and Trends in the Income Mobility of U.S. Families, 1977-2012

January 19, 2017

Research

Optimal Income Taxation: Mirrlees Meets Ramsey

January 18, 2017

Research

Does Greater Inequality Lead to More Household Borrowing? New Evidence from Household Data

January 18, 2017

Research

Household Formation over Time: Evidence from Two Cohorts of Young Adults

January 18, 2017

Research

The Role of Selective High Schools in Equalizing Educational Outcomes: Heterogeneous Effects by Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status

January 18, 2017

Research

The Effects of Mortgage Credit Availability: Evidence from Minimum Credit Score Lending Rules

January 18, 2017

Research