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Can the minimum wage combat employers’ labor market power?
There are reasons we might want a higher minimum wage. New research finds labor market efficiency isn’t one of them.
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Wealth of Two Nations: The U.S. Racial Wealth Gap, 1860-2020
June 10, 2022Research
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Can the minimum wage combat employers’ labor market power?
June 3, 2022Article
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Wozniak named to governor’s Energy Transition Advisory Committee
June 2, 2022Article
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Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute expands with three new economists
May 23, 2022Article
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Minneapolis Fed announces 2022-23 class of visiting scholars
May 4, 2022News
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The complex economics of growing old
May 2, 2022Article
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Family matters
April 25, 2022Article
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Minimum Wages, Efficiency and Welfare
April 6, 2022Research
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Unequal Inflation Impacts
Event on April 5, 2022Event
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Social policy in the age of algorithms: An interview with Jon Kleinberg
March 29, 2022Article
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From the director: Changing research for a changing economy
March 29, 2022Article
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Institute update: Growing the conversation
March 29, 2022Article
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Scholar spotlight: Corina Boar
March 29, 2022Article
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Scholar spotlight: Marianne Bitler
March 29, 2022Article
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Scholar spotlight: Ricardo Reyes-Heroles
March 29, 2022Article
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Scholar spotlight: Rob Valletta
March 29, 2022Article
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The snow globe economy
March 29, 2022Article
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Year in Review: Summary of 2021 Institute Working Papers
February 2, 2022Article
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When Do Informational Interventions Work? Experimental Evidence from New York City High School Choice
February 1, 2022Research
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Changing Stability in U.S. Employment Relationships: A Tale of Two Tails
January 28, 2022Research
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The great balancing act
January 26, 2022Article
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The long coattails of economic inequality
January 6, 2022Article
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Unemployment today cuts deeper and lasts longer
December 22, 2021Article
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Changing Income Risk across the US Skill Distribution: Evidence from a Generalized Kalman Filter
December 15, 2021Research
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Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions
November 17, 2021Research
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Telework, Childcare, and Mothers’ Labor Supply
November 16, 2021Research
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Chasing opportunity
October 18, 2021Article
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Rucker Johnson interview: Powering potential
October 18, 2021Article
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Scholar Spotlight: Kuma Okoro
October 18, 2021Article
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Scholar Spotlight: Chelda Smith
October 18, 2021Article
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From the director: A long year
October 18, 2021Article
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Institute update: How lessons from 2020 guided us in 2021
October 18, 2021Article
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Blueprint for opportunity
October 18, 2021Article
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Scholar Spotlight: Dionissi Aliprantis
October 18, 2021Article
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Scholar Spotlight: Sarah Cohodes
October 18, 2021Article
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Fall 2021 Institute Research Conference
Event on October 15, 2021Event
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Where do we go from here?
October 14, 2021Article
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Disparate Impacts of Job Loss by Parental Income and Implications for Intergenerational Mobility
September 13, 2021Research
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Reaching our full potential
September 7, 2021Article
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Many jobs, few employers
September 3, 2021Article
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The Geography of Remote Work
August 19, 2021Research
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Optimal Income Taxation: An Urban Economics Perspective
July 23, 2021Research
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Immigration nation
July 6, 2021Article
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Doves for the Rich, Hawks for the Poor? Distributional Consequences of Systematic Monetary Policy
June 29, 2021Research
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Why Do Couples and Singles Save During Retirement?
May 25, 2021Research
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Labor Market Power
May 13, 2021Research
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Director Abigail Wozniak on the Women in Economics podcast
Speech on April 30, 2021Speech
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First comes love, then come taxes
April 15, 2021Article
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Esther Duflo interview: Deciding how to share
April 14, 2021Article
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Scholar Spotlight: Abdoulaye Ndiaye
April 14, 2021Article
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Scholar Spotlight: Ariell Zimran
April 14, 2021Article
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Scholar Spotlight: Diana Van Patten
April 14, 2021Article
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Scholar Spotlight: Sergio Barrera
April 14, 2021Article
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Tackling racism from within
April 14, 2021Article
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From the director: Evidence we can act on
April 14, 2021Article
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The myth of the rising tide
April 14, 2021Article
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Saving the American Dream? Education Policies in Spatial General Equilibrium
March 22, 2021Research
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Commuting, crowding, and COVID-19
March 18, 2021Article
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Making a difference as an economist
March 17, 2021Article
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Multinationals, Monopsony, and Local Development: Evidence from the United Fruit Company
March 15, 2021Research
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The poverty of nations
March 2, 2021Article
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Racial Disparities in Frontline Workers and Housing Crowding during COVID-19: Evidence from Geolocation Data
February 24, 2021Research
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Monetary Policy and Racial Inequality
February 4, 2021Research
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Year in Review: Summary of 2020 Institute Working Papers
January 29, 2021Article
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2020 Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute working papers: A retrospective
January 27, 2021Article
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Coronavirus sufferers remain in the data shadows
January 13, 2021Article
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Wage Risk and Government and Spousal Insurance
December 22, 2020Research
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New COVID-19 dashboard data show disparities in access to employment safety valves
November 24, 2020Article
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Skilled Scalable Services: The New Urban Bias in Economic Growth
November 13, 2020Research
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The Return to Big City Experience: Evidence from Refugees in Denmark
November 13, 2020Research
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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, 2020Research
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Family and Government Insurance: Wage, Earnings, and Income Risks in the Netherlands and the U.S.
October 26, 2020Research
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Why Does Consumption Fluctuate in Old Age and How Should the Government Insure it?
October 23, 2020Research
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Are Marriage-Related Taxes and Social Security Benefits Holding Back Female Labor Supply?
October 23, 2020Research
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How well do workplace COVID-19 screens work? And do they discriminate?
October 20, 2020Article
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Firm-Embedded Productivity and Cross-Country Income Differences
October 13, 2020Research
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Reservation Benefits: Assessing Job Acceptance Impacts of Increased UI Payments
October 2, 2020Research
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The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration
October 2, 2020Research
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Crisis response: Institute economists address the pandemic
September 14, 2020Article
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Seeing the margins: An interview with Columbia University economist Sandra Black
September 14, 2020Article
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A nation divided: Survey reveals wide gaps in COVID-19 fallout
September 14, 2020Article
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“We are in a dangerous time”: Lessons from our Higher Education Conference
September 14, 2020Article
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From the director: A test of our concept, and an accelerator
September 14, 2020Article
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Scholar Spotlight: Krista Ruffini
September 14, 2020Article
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Scholar Spotlight: Milena Almagro
September 14, 2020Article
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Scholar Spotlight: Terry-Ann Craigie
September 14, 2020Article
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Scholar Spotlight: Troup Howard
September 14, 2020Article
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Wealth Distribution and Retirement Preparation Among Early Savers
September 1, 2020Research
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Who’s In and Who’s Out under Workplace COVID Symptom Screening?
September 1, 2020Research
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The Geography of Business Dynamism and Skill Biased Technical Change
August 28, 2020Research
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Labor Supply Within the Firm
August 21, 2020Research
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How to track a killer virus with your phone
August 4, 2020Article
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Yet another source of inequality: Property taxes
July 28, 2020Article
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Family Job Search and Wealth: The Added Worker Effect Revisited
July 17, 2020Research
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Adaptation and the Cost of Rising Temperature for the U.S. Economy
July 9, 2020Research
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Measuring Movement and Social Contact with Smartphone Data: A Real-Time Application to COVID-19
July 9, 2020Research
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Jobs or kids? Parenting during the pandemic
July 8, 2020Article
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The Assessment Gap: Racial Inequalities in Property Taxation
July 6, 2020Research
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How Does Immigration Fit into the Future of the U.S. Labor Market?
June 26, 2020Research
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Spring 2020 Institute Conference: Higher Ed, Who Pays?
Event on June 18, 2020Event
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How has COVID-19 changed work and well-being for Minnesotans?
June 15, 2020Article
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How has COVID-19 changed work and well-being for Montanans?
June 15, 2020Article
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The Rise of Fintech Lending to Small Businesses: Businesses’ Perspectives on Borrowing
June 12, 2020Research
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A teachable moment? Will George Floyd’s death spur change in economics?
June 9, 2020Article
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COVID inequality
June 3, 2020Article
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Why Has the US Economy Recovered So Consistently from Every Recession in the Past 70 Years?
May 28, 2020Research
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COVID-19: Connecting small businesses to pandemic relief is a struggle, CDFIs say
May 19, 2020Article
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How linkages do, and don't, spread economic distortions
May 14, 2020Article
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Differential economic and health impact of COVID-19: The importance of cascading risk
May 13, 2020Article
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Disparities and Mitigation Behavior during COVID-19
May 13, 2020Research
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Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute welcomes 2020-2021 class of scholars
May 8, 2020Article
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Sectoral Impact of COVID-19: Cascading Risks
May 7, 2020Research
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The need for data innovation in the time of COVID-19
April 13, 2020Article
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Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute: Diverse, interdisciplinary, active
March 31, 2020Article
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Tracking COVID-19 symptoms and impact in real time: A survey-based surveillance system
March 26, 2020Article
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Why the Institute? Why this magazine?
March 19, 2020Article
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Scholar Spotlight: Chris Stoddard
March 19, 2020Article
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Scholar Spotlight: Ellora Derenoncourt
March 19, 2020Article
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Scholar Spotlight: Fabian Eckert
March 19, 2020Article
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Scholar Spotlight: Misty Heggeness
March 19, 2020Article
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About the cover: Meet Chukwudi Anyaeche
March 19, 2020Article
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Not just talk, but making a difference
March 19, 2020Article
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Housing as a driver of cities’ polarization
March 19, 2020Article
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The view from here
March 19, 2020Article
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California green rush?
March 19, 2020Article
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The mystery of regional inequality
February 27, 2020Article
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Misallocation and Intersectoral Linkages
February 18, 2020Research
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Saving for retirement
February 13, 2020Article
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Tuition, Debt, and Human Capital
February 12, 2020Research
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Income at risk
February 4, 2020Article
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Children, and nations, of divorce
January 27, 2020Article
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Spatial Wage Gaps in Frictional Labor Markets
December 23, 2019Research
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Disappearing Routine Occupations and Declining Prime-Age Labor Force Participation
December 19, 2019Research
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Expanding and diversifying housing: Approaches and impacts on opportunity
December 16, 2019Article
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Measuring Household Wealth in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics: The Role of Retirement Assets
December 13, 2019Research
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Superstars in the age of information
December 13, 2019Article
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Manning Up and Womaning Down: How Husbands and Wives Report Earnings When She Earns More
December 10, 2019Research
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The Well-Being of Nations: Estimating Welfare from International Migration
November 26, 2019Research
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State Disinvestment in Higher Education: The Impact on Public Research Universities’ Patent Applications
November 25, 2019Research
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The Affordable Care Act and the Market for Higher Education
November 25, 2019Research
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Family Characteristics and Macroeconomic Factors in U.S. Intragenerational Family Income Mobility, 1978–2014
October 21, 2019Research
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Improving Child Welfare in Middle Income Countries: The Unintended Consequence of a Pro-Homemaker Divorce Law and Wait Time to Divorce
October 11, 2019Research
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Who is a Passive Saver Under Opt-In and Auto-Enrollment?
September 26, 2019Research
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Do cash transfers work?
September 10, 2019Article
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Nonlinear Pricing in Village Economies
August 26, 2019Research
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Pay, Employment, and Dynamics of Young Firms
August 5, 2019Research
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Cyclical Labor Income Risk
August 5, 2019Research
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The Environmental Cost of Land Use Restrictions
June 25, 2019Research
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Fall 2019 Institute Conference: Expanding and Diversifying Housing
Event on October 3, 2019Event
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Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute’s Spring Conference focuses on monetary policy
April 29, 2019Article
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Minneapolis Fed announces 2019-2020 class of Visiting Scholars
April 25, 2019News
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Test Questions, Economic Outcomes, and Inequality
April 2, 2019Research
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Minneapolis Fed’s commitment to diversity and inclusion detailed in OMWI annual report
April 2, 2019Article
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The good old days? For some, yes
March 25, 2019Article
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The Lost Ones: The Opportunities and Outcomes of Non-College-Educated Americans Born in the 1960s
March 18, 2019Research
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A vision for the Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute
March 5, 2019Article
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Coping with volatile labor markets
March 4, 2019Article
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Saving for retirement and addressing inequality—an optimal plan
February 25, 2019Article
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The Marginal Propensity to Hire
February 20, 2019Research
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The Founding of the Federal Reserve, the Great Depression and the Evolution of the U.S. Interbank Network
February 12, 2019Research
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Spring 2019 Institute Conference: Distributional Consequences of the Business Cycle and Monetary Policy
Event on April 9, 2019Event
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In the gig economy, reputation counts
February 6, 2019Article
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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, 2019Research
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Optimal Social Insurance and Rising Labor Market Risk
February 1, 2019Research
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The Cyclical Behavior of Labor Force Participation
January 22, 2019Research
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The Slaughter of the Bison and Reversal of Fortunes on the Great Plains
January 15, 2019Research
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Is Size Everything?
January 10, 2019Research
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Optimal Paternalistic Savings Policies
January 10, 2019Research
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Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market
December 28, 2018Research
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The Macroeconomic Consequences of Early Childhood Development Policies
December 12, 2018Research
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Growth, disease, and the personal touch
November 30, 2018Article
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Explosive Dynamics in House Prices? An Exploration of Financial Market Spillovers in Housing Markets Around the World
November 29, 2018Research
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Climbing ladders
November 7, 2018Article
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Wozniak Named Director of Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute
October 29, 2018Article
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College financial aid: Equity and efficiency
October 18, 2018Article
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Killer robots? Not so much
October 5, 2018Article
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Trading places
September 26, 2018Article
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Which Ladder to Climb? Wages of Workers by Job, Plant, and Education
September 12, 2018Research
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Interview with Philip Jefferson
September 12, 2018Article
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Optimal Need-Based Financial Aid
September 7, 2018Research
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Fall 2018 Institute Conference: Regional Shocks and Regional Divergence
Event on October 18, 2018Event
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Adjusting to Robots: Worker-Level Evidence
August 21, 2018Research
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Rethinking Detroit
August 7, 2018Research
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Location as an Asset
August 7, 2018Research
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The wealth gap and the race between stocks and homes
July 31, 2018Article
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Innovation in Early Childhood Development and K-12 Education
Event on October 23, 2018Event
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College Access and Attendance Patterns: A Long-Run View
July 2, 2018Research
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Occupational Licensing Over Time and Across Countries
Event on September 13, 2018Event
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Early-Stage Business Formation: An Analysis of Applications for Employer Identification Numbers
June 28, 2018Research
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The rise and reversal of college education
June 26, 2018Article
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Income and Wealth Inequality in America, 1949-2016
June 14, 2018Research
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What Would You Do with $500? Spending Responses to Gains, Losses, News, and Loans
May 23, 2018Research
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Inequality in 3-D: Income, Consumption, and Wealth
May 15, 2018Research
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Top Income Concentration and Volatility
May 8, 2018Research
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Health care costs and savings, an old age question
May 8, 2018Article
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Internal Migration in the United States: A Comparative Assessment of the Utility of the Consumer Credit Panel
May 2, 2018Research
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Individuals, Institutions, and Inequality Conference
Event on September 28, 2018Event
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Minneapolis Fed Announces New Class of Visiting Scholars
April 11, 2018News
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Medical Expenses and Saving in Retirement: The Case of U.S. and Sweden
April 10, 2018Research
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Minneapolis Fed Announces Community Advisory Board
April 5, 2018News
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Regional Consumption Responses and the Aggregate Fiscal Multiplier
April 2, 2018Research
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Internal Immigrant Mobility in the Early 20th Century: Experimental Evidence from Galveston Immigrants
March 26, 2018Research
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Interview with Mark L.J. Wright
March 26, 2018Article
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Demographics and the Evolution of Global Imbalances
March 23, 2018Research
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Hysteresis in Employment among Disadvantaged Workers
March 19, 2018Research
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Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from Brazil
March 12, 2018Research
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Spring 2018 Institute Conference: Labor Market Trends and the Future of Work
Event on May 11, 2018Event
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Minneapolis Fed to Study Effects of City’s New Minimum Wage Rule
March 6, 2018Article
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Racial Gaps in Labor Market Outcomes in the Last Four Decades and over the Business Cycle
February 22, 2018Research
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The Paper Trail of Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from Patent Interferences
February 15, 2018Research
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You’re fired?
February 6, 2018Article
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Dynamic Responses to Immigration
January 29, 2018Research
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On Intergenerational Immobility: Evidence that Adult Credit Health Reflects the Childhood Environment
January 17, 2018Research
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Equity and Efficiency in Space
January 17, 2018Article
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Macroeconomic Nowcasting and Forecasting with Big Data
January 10, 2018Research
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Measuring the “Free” Digital Economy Within the GDP and Productivity Accounts
January 8, 2018Research
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A Tax Plan for Endogenous Innovation
January 4, 2018Research
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Missing Growth from Creative Destruction
January 2, 2018Research
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The Persistence of Financial Distress
December 28, 2017Research
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Parental Proximity and Earnings after Job Displacements
December 27, 2017Research
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The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level in a World of Low Interest Rates
December 15, 2017Research
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Geographic Inequality of Economic Well-being among U.S. Cities: Evidence from Micro Panel Data
December 13, 2017Research
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An Assessment of the National Establishment Time Series (NETS) Database
December 7, 2017Research
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Wage Inequality and Job Stability
December 1, 2017Research
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First-Time Homebuyers: Toward a New Measure
November 28, 2017Research
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Spatial Patterns of Development: A Meso Approach
November 28, 2017Research
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The Unequal Distribution of Economic Education: A Report on the Race, Ethnicity, and Gender of Economics Majors at US Colleges and Universities
November 20, 2017Research
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Heterogeneous Workers and Federal Income Taxes in a Spatial Equilibrium
November 14, 2017Research
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The Effect of Fertility on Mothers’ Labor Supply over the Last Two Centuries
November 13, 2017Research
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The Local Aggregate Effects of Minimum Wage Increases
November 9, 2017Research
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“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, 2017Research
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Fall 2017 Institute Conference: Segregation and Inequality
Event on October 26, 2017Event
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Reservation Employer Establishments: Data from the U.S. Census Longitudinal Business Database
October 18, 2017Research
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Emigration during the French Revolution: Consequences in the Short and Longue Durée
September 26, 2017Research
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Human Capital and Development Accounting: New Evidence from Wage Gains at Migration
August 10, 2017Research
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Old, Frail, and Uninsured: Accounting for Puzzles in the U.S. Long-Term Care Insurance Market
August 9, 2017Research
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The Decline in Intergenerational Mobility After 1980
July 6, 2017Research
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Residential Rent Affordability across U.S. Metropolitan Areas
June 21, 2017Research
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A Theory of Sticky Rents: Search and Bargaining with Incomplete Information
June 20, 2017Research
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Who Counts as Employed? Informal Work, Employment Status, and Labor Market Slack
June 19, 2017Research
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The Unintended Consequences of Employer Credit Check Bans on Labor and Credit Markets
June 16, 2017Research
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Monetary Policy and Inequality
June 15, 2017Research
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Evidence on the Production of Cognitive Achievement from Moving to Opportunity
June 13, 2017Research
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Does Differential Treatment Translate to Differential Outcomes for Minority Borrowers? Evidence from Matching a Field Experiment to Loan-Level Data
June 13, 2017Research
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New Findings on the Fiscal Impact of Immigration in the United States
June 13, 2017Research
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College Is Not Enough: Higher Education Does Not Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Wealth Gaps
June 9, 2017Research
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Organizations, Skills, and Wage Inequality
June 9, 2017Research
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Wage Shocks and the Technological Substitution of Low-Wage Jobs
June 9, 2017Research
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Inaugural Spring 2017 Institute Conference
Event on May 22, 2017Event
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Assessing Differences in Labor Market Outcomes Across Race, Age, and Educational Attainment
May 1, 2017Research
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Are Central Cities Poor and Non-White?
April 10, 2017Research
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Un-Fortunate Sons: Effects of the Vietnam Draft Lottery on the Next Generation's Labor Market
March 30, 2017Research
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Levels and Trends in the Income Mobility of U.S. Families, 1977-2012
January 19, 2017Research
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Optimal Income Taxation: Mirrlees Meets Ramsey
January 18, 2017Research
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Does Greater Inequality Lead to More Household Borrowing? New Evidence from Household Data
January 18, 2017Research
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Household Formation over Time: Evidence from Two Cohorts of Young Adults
January 18, 2017Research
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The Role of Selective High Schools in Equalizing Educational Outcomes: Heterogeneous Effects by Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status
January 18, 2017Research
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The Effects of Mortgage Credit Availability: Evidence from Minimum Credit Score Lending Rules
January 18, 2017Research