Institute Working Papers
Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute
The Institute Working Papers series showcases the ongoing research of scholars at the Institute on issues related to economic opportunity and inclusive growth. These working papers are preliminary versions that are being shared in a timely manner to a broad research community, with the aim of promoting scholarly debate and soliciting constructive feedback.
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Institute Working Paper 29 (December 2019)Spatial Wage Gaps in Frictional Labor Markets
Sebastian Heise and Tommaso Porzio
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Institute Working Paper 28 (Revised December 2019)Manning Up and Womaning Down: How Husbands and Wives Report Earnings When She Earns More
Marta Murray-Close and Misty Heggeness
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Institute Working Paper 27 (October 2019)Improving Child Welfare in Middle Income Countries: The Unintended Consequence of a Pro-Homemaker Divorce Law and Wait Time to Divorce
Misty Heggeness
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Institute Working Paper 26 (September 2019)Who is a Passive Saver Under Opt-In and Auto-Enrollment?
Gopi Shah Goda, Matthew R. Levy, Colleen Flaherty Manchester, Aaron Sojourner, and Joshua Tasoff
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Institute Working Paper 25 (September 2019)Skilled Tradable Services: The Transformation of U.S. High-Skill Labor Markets
Fabian Eckert, Sharat Ganapati, and Conor Walsh
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Institute Working Paper 24 (September 2019)The Return to Big City Experience: Evidence from Danish Refugees
Fabian Eckert, Mads Hejlesen, and Conor Walsh
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Institute Working Paper 23 (August 2019)Nonlinear Pricing in Village Economies
Orazio Attanasio and Elena Pastorino
Forthcoming in Econometrica.
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Institute Working Paper 22 (August 2019)Cyclical Labor Income Risk
Makoto Nakajima and Vladimir Smirnyagin
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Institute Working Paper 21 (August 2019)Pay, Employment, and Dynamics of Young Firms
Tania Babina, Wenting Ma, Christian Moser, Paige Ouimet, and Rebecca Zarutskie
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Institute Working Paper 20 (June 2019)The Environmental Cost of Land Use Restrictions
Mark Colas and John M. Morehouse
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Institute Working Paper 19 (March 2019)The Lost Ones: The Opportunities and Outcomes of Non-College-Educated Americans Born in the 1960s
Margherita Borella, Mariacristina De Nardi, and Fang Yang
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Institute Working Paper 18 (February 2019)Optimal Social Insurance and Rising Labor Market Risk
Tom Krebs and Martin Scheffel
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Institute Working Paper 17 (January 2019)Optimal Paternalistic Savings Policies
Christian Moser and Pedro Olea de Souza e Silva
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Institute Working Paper 16 (December 2018)Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market
Alan Benson, Aaron Sojourner, and Akhmed Umyarov
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Institute Working Paper 15 (September 2018)Which Ladder to Climb? Wages of Workers by Job, Plant, and Education
Christian Bayer and Moritz Kuhn
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Institute Working Paper 14 (September 2018)Optimal Need-Based Financial Aid
Mark Colas, Sebastian Findeisen, and Dominik Sachs
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Institute Working Paper 13 (August 2018)Adjusting to Robots: Worker-Level Evidence
Wolfgang Dauth, Sebastian Findeisen, Jens Suedekum, and Nicole Woessner
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Institute Working Paper 12 (August 2018)Location as an Asset
Adrien Bilal and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
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Institute Working Paper 11 (August 2018)Rethinking Detroit
Raymond Owens III, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, and Pierre-Daniel Sarte
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Institute Working Paper 10 (July 2018)College Access and Attendance Patterns: A Long-Run View
Lutz Hendricks, Chris Herrington, and Todd Schoellman
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Institute Working Paper 9 (June 2018)Income and Wealth Inequality in America, 1949-2016
Moritz Kuhn, Moritz Schularick, and Ulrike I. Steins
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Institute Working Paper 8 (April 2018)Medical Expenses and Saving in Retirement: The Case of U.S. and Sweden
Makoto Nakajima and Irina A. Telyukova
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Institute Working Paper 7 (March 2018)Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from Brazil
Niklas Engbom and Christian Moser
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Institute Working Paper 6 (January 2018)Dynamic Responses to Immigration
Mark Colas
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Institute Working Paper 5 (December 2017)Wage Inequality and Job Stability
Ana Luisa Pessoa de Araujo
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Institute Working Paper 4 (November 2017)Spatial Patterns of Development: A Meso Approach
Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou
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Institute Working Paper 3 (November 2017)Heterogeneous Workers and Federal Income Taxes in a Spatial Equilibrium
Mark Colas and Kevin Hutchinson
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Institute Working Paper 2 (September 2017)Emigration during the French Revolution: Consequences in the Short and Longue Durée
Raphaël Franck and Stelios Michalopoulos
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Institute Working Paper 1 (August 2017)Human Capital and Development Accounting: New Evidence from Wage Gains at Migration
Lutz Hendricks and Todd Schoellman
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