Institute Working Papers
The Institute Working Papers series showcases ongoing research by Institute-affiliated scholars on issues related to economic opportunity and inclusive growth. The series provides a venue to disseminate scholarly works-in-progress inside and outside the research community, solicit constructive feedback, and promote informed debate. For additional search options, please visit the Institute Working Papers collection in the Research Database.
For information on who may submit to the series, how to submit, and resources for communicating research findings effectively, please refer to these guidelines.
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Institute Working Paper 63 (Revised June 2025)Fabian Eckert and Michael Peters
Topics: Community & Economic Development; Wages, Income, Wealth
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Institute Working Paper 113 (June 2025)Abdoulaye Ndiaye and Zhixiu Yu
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Institute Working Paper 104 (Revised May 2025)Alex Albright
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Institute Working Paper 75 (Revised February 2025)Misty Heggeness and Ana Sofía LeónThis paper previously circulated with the title "Parenthood and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Chile."
Topics: Employment & Labor Markets; COVID-19
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Institute Working Paper 112 (February 2025)David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson, Maggie R. Jones, and Bradley Setzler
Topics: Employment & Labor Markets
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Institute Working Paper 111 (January 2025)Alessandra Fogli, Veronica Guerrieri, Mark Ponder, and Marta Prato
Topics: Inequality
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Institute Working Paper 110 (January 2025)Rebecca Jack, Daniel Tannenbaum, and Brenden Timpe
Topics: Employment & Labor Markets; Wages, Income, Wealth
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Institute Working Paper 109 (January 2025)Stefania Albanesi
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Institute Working Paper 108 (December 2024)Andrew Goodman-Bacon and Vanessa Palmer
Topics: Labor Market Policies
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Institute Working Paper 107 (December 2024)Michael T. Baker, Susan P. Carter, and Abigail Wozniak
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Institute Working Paper 106 (November 2024)François de Soyres, Simon Fuchs, Illenin O. Kondo, and Helene Maghin
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Institute Working Paper 105 (November 2024)Stefania Albanesi, António Dias da Silva, Juan F. Jimeno, Ana Lamo, and Alena WabitschPublished in: _Economic Policy_ (Vol. 40, Iss. 121, January 2025, pp. 71-139), https://doi.org/10.1093/epolic/eiae058.
Topics: Employment & Labor Markets
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Institute Working Paper 103 (October 2024)Kai Zhao and Ayşe İmrohoroğlu
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Institute Working Paper 101 (October 2024)Bulent Guler and Amanda MichaudRelated: [Institute Working Paper 102: Online Appendix: Dynamics of Deterrence: A Macroeconomic Perspective on Punitive Justice Policy](https://doi.org/10.21034/iwp.102)
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Institute Working Paper 102 (October 2024)Bulent Guler and Amanda Michaud
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Institute Working Paper 94 (Revised October 2024)Kathrin Ellieroth and Amanda Michaud
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Institute Working Paper 100 (October 2024)Michael Gilraine, James Graham, and Angela Zheng
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Institute Working Paper 99 (October 2024)Nicolo Russo, Rory McGee, Mariacristina De Nardi, Margherita Borella, and Ross Abram
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Institute Working Paper 98 (September 2024)Pavel Brendler, Moritz Kuhn, and Ulrike I. Steins
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Institute Working Paper 97 (August 2024)Margherita Borella, Francisco Bullano, Mariacristina De Nardi, Benjamin Krueger, and Elena ManresaForthcoming in: _The Econometrics Journal_, https://doi.org/10.1093/ectj/utaf015.
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Institute Working Paper 96 (August 2024)Bocar Abdoulaye Ba, Abdoulaye Ndiaye, Roman G. Rivera, and Alexander Whitefield
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Institute Working Paper 25 (Revised July 2024)Fabian Eckert, Sharat Ganapati, and Conor WalshThis paper previously circulated with the title "Skilled Scalable Services: The New Urban Bias in Economic Growth." This paper previously circulated with the title "Skilled Tradable Services: The Transformation of U.S. High-Skill Labor Markets."
Topics: Wages, Income, Wealth; Employment & Labor Markets; Economic Growth
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Institute Working Paper 95 (July 2024)Natalie Gubbay, Brandon Hawkins, Illenin O. Kondo, Kevin Rinz, John Voorheis, and Abigail Wozniak
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Institute Working Paper 93 (July 2024)Joshua Coven, Sebastian Golder, Arpit Gupta, and Abdoulaye Ndiaye
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Institute Working Paper 92 (May 2024)Juan C. Córdoba, Anni T. Isojärvi, and Haoran Li
Topics: Employment & Labor Markets
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Institute Working Paper 91 (May 2024)Meghana Gaur, John Grigsby, Jonathon Hazell, and Abdoulaye Ndiaye
Topics: Wages, Income, Wealth
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Institute Working Paper 89 (May 2024)Rodrigo Adão, Arnaud Costinot, Dave Donaldson, and John Sturm
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Institute Working Paper 90 (May 2024)Erin L. Wolcott
Topics: Employment & Labor Markets; Inequality
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Institute Working Paper 88 (May 2024)Oriana Bandiera, Ananya Kotia, Ilse Lindenlaub, Christian Moser, and Andrea Prat
Topics: Employment & Labor Markets; Inequality
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Institute Working Paper 87 (April 2024)Tobias Herbst, Moritz Kuhn, and Farzad Saidi
Topics: Housing; Banks; Borrowing & Lending
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Institute Working Paper 47 (Revised April 2024)Fabian Eckert and Tatjana KleinebergThis paper previously circulated with the title "Saving the American Dream? Education Policies in Spatial General Equilibrium."
Topics: Educational Equity; K-12 Education; Inequality; Public Policy
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Institute Working Paper 86 (March 2024)Ellora Derenoncourt, Chi Hyun Kim, Moritz Kuhn, and Moritz Schularick
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Institute Working Paper 85 (February 2024)Moritz Kuhn, Iourii Manovskii, and Xincheng Qiu
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Institute Working Paper 84 (January 2024)Alejandro Estefan, Roberto Gerhard, Joseph P. Kaboski, Illenin O. Kondo, and Wei Qian
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Institute Working Paper 83 (December 2023)Honey Batra, Amanda Michaud, and Simon Mongey
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Institute Working Paper 82 (December 2023)Zvi Eckstein, Michael Keane, and Osnat Lifshitz
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Institute Working Paper 81 (November 2023)Michael Keane and Timothy NealForthcoming in: _Journal of Labor Economics_, https://doi.org/10.1086/732771.
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Institute Working Paper 80 (November 2023)Elena Capatina and Michael Keane
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Institute Working Paper 79 (November 2023)Eugene Tan and Teegawende ZeidaPublished in: _Journal of Monetary Economics_ (Vol. 143, April 2024, article 103543), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2023.12.001.
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Institute Working Paper 78 (September 2023)Iacopo Morchio and Christian Moser
Topics: Wages, Income, Wealth; Employment & Labor Markets; Inequality
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Institute Working Paper 77 (August 2023)Victoria Gregory, Julian Kozlowski, and Hannah Rubinton
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Institute Working Paper 76 (July 2023)Francis Annan, Belinda Archibong, and Uche Ekhator-Mobayode
Topics: Public health; Public Policy
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Institute Working Paper 74 (June 2023)David Wiczer and Fernando Leibovici
Topics: Recessions; Credit & Financial Markets
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Institute Working Paper 73 (May 2023)Mohammed Ait Lahcen, Garth Baughman, and Hugo van Buggenum
Topics: Unemployment; Monetary Policy
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Institute Working Paper 61 (Revised May 2023)Marina Mileo Gorzig and Deborah Rho, PhDThis paper previously circulated with the title "The Impact of Limiting Applicant Information on Rental Housing Discrimination." Forthcoming in: _Contemporary Economic Policy_, https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12704.
Topics: Housing; Public Policy
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Institute Working Paper 72 (May 2023)Krista Ruffini
Topics: Early Childhood Development; Public Policy
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Institute Working Paper 71 (April 2023)Abi Adams-Prassl, Kristiina Huttunen, Emily Nix, and Ning Zhang
Topics: Wages, Income, Wealth; Public Policy
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Institute Working Paper 70 (April 2023)Makoto Nakajima
Topics: Inequality; Monetary Policy
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Institute Working Paper 69 (April 2023)Uta Bolt, Jamie Hentall MacCuish, Eric French, and Cormac O’Dea
Topics: Higher Education; Early Childhood Development; Inequality
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Institute Working Paper 68 (April 2023)Jonathan I. Dingel, Joshua D. Gottlieb, Maya Lozinski, and Pauline Mourot
Topics: Public health
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Institute Working Paper 40 (Revised March 2023)Richard Blundell, Margherita Borella, Jeanne Commault, and Mariacristina De NardiThis paper previously circulated with the title "Why Does Consumption Fluctuate in Old Age and How Should the Government Insure it?" Published in: _American Economic Review_ (Vol. 114, No. 2, February 2024, pp. 575-613), https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20220555.
Topics: Insurance
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Institute Working Paper 67 (March 2023)Amanda Michaud
Topics: Insurance; Unemployment
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Institute Working Paper 66 (March 2023)Andrés Blanco, Andrés Drenik, Christian Moser, and Emilio Zaratiegui
Topics: Economic Growth; Wages, Income, Wealth
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Institute Working Paper 65 (March 2023)Kevin Rinz and John Voorheis[Download the state-level income distribution data for 1998 to 2019 (zip file).](https://kevinrinz.github.io/data/state_income_data.zip)
Topics: Wages, Income, Wealth; Inequality
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Institute Working Paper 64 (November 2022)Abi Adams-Prassl, Kristiina Huttunen, Emily Nix, and Ning ZhangPublished in: _Quarterly Journal of Economics_ (Vol. 139, Iss. 2, May 2024, pp. 937-991), https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjad045.
Topics: Employment & Labor Markets
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Institute Working Paper 62 (September 2022)Randall Akee, Donn Feir, Marina Mileo Gorzig, and Samuel Myers, Jr.Published in: _Research in Social Stratification and Mobility_ (Vol. 89, February 2024, article 100880), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100880.
Topics: Indian Country; Community & Economic Development; Public Policy
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Institute Working Paper 60 (July 2022)Dasom Ham
Topics: Employment & Labor Markets; COVID-19
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Institute Working Paper 59 (June 2022)Ellora Derenoncourt, Chi Hyun Kim, Moritz Kuhn, and Moritz SchularickPublished in: _Quarterly Journal of Economics_ (Vol. 139, Iss. 2, May 2024, pp. 693-750), https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjad044.
Topics: Wages, Income, Wealth; Inequality
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Institute Working Paper 58 (April 2022)David Berger, Kyle Herkenhoff, and Simon MongeyPublished in: _Econometrica_ (Vol. 93, Iss. 1, January 2025, pp. 265-301), https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA21466.
Topics: Minimum Wage; Employment & Labor Markets; Public Policy
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Institute Working Paper 57 (February 2022)Sarah Cohodes, Sean P. Corcoran, Jennifer Jennings, and Carolyn Sattin-BajajPublished in: _Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis_ (Vol. 47, Iss. 1, March 2025, pp. 208-236), https://doi.org/10.3102/01623737231203293.
Topics: Public Policy; K-12 Education
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Institute Working Paper 56 (January 2022)Raven Molloy, Christopher L. Smith, and Abigail WozniakPublished in: _Journal of Human Resources_ (Vol. 59, Iss. 1, January 2024, pp. 35-69), https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0821-11843.
Topics: Employment & Labor Markets; Workforce
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Institute Working Paper 55 (December 2021)J. Carter Braxton, Kyle Herkenhoff, Jonathan Rothbaum, and Lawrence Schmidt
Topics: Wages, Income, Wealth; Unemployment; Employment & Labor Markets
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Institute Working Paper 54 (November 2021)Mark Colas and Robert McDonoughPublished in: _Journal of Labor Economics_ (Vol. 43, No. 1, January 2025, pp. 161-201), https://doi.org/10.1086/725873.
Topics: Public Policy; Low & Moderate Income
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Institute Working Paper 52 (Revised November 2021)Misty Heggeness and Palak SuriThis paper previously circulated with the title "Telework Did Not Save Us: Motherhood, Work, and a Once in a Century Pandemic."
Topics: Employment & Labor Markets
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Institute Working Paper 53 (September 2021)Martti Kaila, Emily Nix, and Krista Riukula
Topics: Unemployment; Inequality; Wages, Income, Wealth
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Institute Working Paper 43 (Revised August 2021)Lukas Althoff, Fabian Eckert, Sharat Ganapati, and Conor WalshThis paper previously circulated with the title "The City Paradox: Skilled Services and Remote Work." Published in: _Regional Science and Urban Economics_ (vol. 93, March 2022, article 103770), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2022.103770
Topics: Employment & Labor Markets; Technology & Innovation
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Institute Working Paper 51 (July 2021)Mark Huggett and Wenlan LuoPublished in: _Review of Economic Dynamics_ (Vol. 51, December 2023, pp. 847-866), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.red.2023.08.006.
Topics: Taxes & Tax Policy
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Institute Working Paper 50 (June 2021)Nils Gornemann, Keith Kuester, and Makoto Nakajima
Topics: Monetary Policy; Unemployment; Inequality; Wages, Income, Wealth
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Institute Working Paper 49 (May 2021)Mariacristina De Nardi, Eric French, John Bailey Jones, and Rory McGee
Topics: Wages, Income, Wealth
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Institute Working Paper 48 (May 2021)David Berger, Kyle Herkenhoff, and Simon MongeyPublished in: _American Economic Review_ (Vol. 112, No. 4, April 2022, pp. 1147-1193), https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20191521.
Topics: Employment & Labor Markets; Taxes & Tax Policy; Wages, Income, Wealth
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Institute Working Paper 46 (March 2021)Esteban Méndez-Chacón and Diana Van Patten
Topics: Community & Economic Development; Employment & Labor Markets
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Institute Working Paper 37 (Revised February 2021)Milena Almagro, Joshua Coven, Arpit Gupta, and Angelo Orane-Hutchinson
Topics: Public health; Inequality; Housing
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Institute Working Paper 45 (February 2021)Alina K. Bartscher, Moritz Kuhn, Moritz Schularick, and Paul Wachtel
Topics: Wages, Income, Wealth; Monetary Policy; Inequality
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Institute Working Paper 44 (December 2020)Mariacristina De Nardi, Giulio Fella, and Gonzalo Paz-PardoPublished in: _Review of Economic Studies_ (Vol. 92, Iss. 2, March 2025, pp. 954-980), https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdae042.
Topics: Wages, Income, Wealth; Insurance; Public Policy
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Institute Working Paper 24 (November 2020)Fabian Eckert, Mads Hejlesen, and Conor WalshThis paper circulated under a former title prior to March 2020, "The Return to Big City Experience: Evidence from Danish Refugees." Published in: _Journal of Urban Economics_ (Vol. 130, article 103454, July 2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2022.103454.
Topics: Wages, Income, Wealth; Employment & Labor Markets
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Institute Working Paper 33 (Revised October 2020)Misty HeggenessPublished in the _Review of Economics of the Household_ under the title "Estimating the Immediate Impact of the COVID-19 Shock on Parental Attachment to the Labor Market and the Double Bind of Mothers" (October 2020), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-020-09514-x.
Topics: Child Care; Public health; Employment & Labor Markets
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Institute Working Paper 42 (October 2020)Mariacristina De Nardi, Giulio Fella, Marike Knoef, Gonzalo Paz-Pardo, and Raun Van OoijenPublished in _Journal of Public Economics_ (Vol. 193, January 2021, article 104327), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104327.
Topics: Wages, Income, Wealth; Insurance
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Institute Working Paper 41 (October 2020)Margherita Borella, Mariacristina De Nardi, and Fang Yang
Topics: Taxes & Tax Policy; Public Policy; Employment & Labor Markets
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Institute Working Paper 39 (October 2020)Vanessa Alviarez, Javier Cravino, and Natalia RamondoPublished in: _Journal of Political Economy_ (Vol. 131, No. 9, September 2023, pp. 2289-2327), https://doi.org/10.1086/724314.
Topics: Trade & Globalization; Inequality
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Institute Working Paper 38 (October 2020)Mark Colas and Dominik SachsPublished in: _American Economic Journal: Economic Policy_ (Vol. 16, No. 2, May 2024, pp. 515-550), https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20220176.
Topics: Immigration; Employment & Labor Markets
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Institute Working Paper 36 (September 2020)Krista Ruffini, Aaron Sojourner, and Abigail WozniakPublished in _Journal of Policy Analysis and Management_ (vol. 40, no. 2, Spring 2021, pp. 614-641), https://doi.org/10.1002/pam.22288.
Topics: Workforce; Public health
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Institute Working Paper 35 (July 2020)Victor Couture, Jonathan I. Dingel, Allison Green, Jessie Handbury, and Kevin R. Williams
Topics: Public health
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Institute Working Paper 34 (July 2020)Carlos Avenancio-León and Troup HowardPublished in: _The Quarterly Journal of Economics_ (Vol. 137, Iss. 3, August 2022) https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjac009.
Topics: Inequality; Taxes & Tax Policy; Housing
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Institute Working Paper 32 (May 2020)Abigail Wozniak
Topics: Public health; Public Policy; Inequality
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Institute Working Paper 31 (May 2020)Sophie Osotimehin and Latchezar Popov
Topics: Workforce; Macroeconomics; Public health
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Institute Working Paper 30 (February 2020)Sophie Osotimehin and Latchezar PopovPublished in: _Review of Economic Dynamics_ (Vol. 51, December 2023, pp. 177-198), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.red.2022.12.005.
Topics: Macroeconomics
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Institute Working Paper 29 (December 2019)Sebastian Heise and Tommaso Porzio
Topics: Wages, Income, Wealth; Employment & Labor Markets; Inequality
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Institute Working Paper 28 (December 2019)Marta Murray-Close and Misty Heggeness
Topics: Wages, Income, Wealth
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Institute Working Paper 27 (October 2019)Misty HeggenessPublished in _Journal of Development Economics_, March 2020, Vol. 143, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2019.102405.
Topics: K-12 Education; Public Policy; Economic Growth
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Institute Working Paper 26 (September 2019)Gopi Shah Goda, Matthew R. Levy, Colleen Flaherty Manchester, Aaron Sojourner, and Joshua TasoffPublished in: _Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization_ (vol. 173, May 2020, pp. 301-321), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2019.08.026.
Topics: Credit & Financial Markets; Inequality
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Institute Working Paper 23 (August 2019)Orazio Attanasio and Elena PastorinoPublished in _Econometrica_ (vol. 88, no. 1, January 2020, pp. 207-263), https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA13918.
Topics: Agriculture & Farming; Low & Moderate Income
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Institute Working Paper 21 (August 2019)Tania Babina, Wenting Ma, Christian Moser, Paige Ouimet, and Rebecca Zarutskie
Topics: Wages, Income, Wealth; Small Business; Employment & Labor Markets
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Institute Working Paper 22 (August 2019)Makoto Nakajima and Vladimir Smirnyagin
Topics: Wages, Income, Wealth; Recessions; Inequality
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Institute Working Paper 20 (June 2019)Mark Colas and John M. MorehousePublished in: _Quantitative Economics_ (Vol. 13, Iss. 1, January 2022) https://qeconomics.org/ojs/index.php/qe/article/view/1612.
Topics: Climate; Housing; Public Policy
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Institute Working Paper 19 (March 2019)Margherita Borella, Mariacristina De Nardi, and Fang YangPublished in _NBER Macroeconomics Annual_ (vol. 34, 2019, pp. 67-115), ed. M. Eichenbaum, E. Hurst, and J. A. Parker. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, https://www.nber.org/chapters/c14249.
Topics: Inequality; Wages, Income, Wealth; Public health
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Institute Working Paper 18 (February 2019)Tom Krebs and Martin Scheffel
Topics: Insurance; Employment & Labor Markets
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Institute Working Paper 17 (January 2019)Christian Moser and Pedro Olea de Souza e Silva
Topics: Credit & Financial Markets; Public Policy; Inequality
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Institute Working Paper 16 (December 2018)Alan Benson, Aaron Sojourner, and Akhmed Umyarov
Topics: Employment & Labor Markets; Technology & Innovation
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Institute Working Paper 15 (September 2018)Christian Bayer and Moritz Kuhn
Topics: Employment & Labor Markets; Wages, Income, Wealth; Inequality
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Institute Working Paper 14 (September 2018)Mark Colas, Sebastian Findeisen, and Dominik SachsPublished in _Journal of Political Economy_ (Vol. 129, No. 2, February 2021, pp. 492-533), https://doi.org/10.1086/711952.
Topics: Higher Education; Public Policy
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Institute Working Paper 13 (August 2018)Wolfgang Dauth, Sebastian Findeisen, Jens Suedekum, and Nicole Woessner
Topics: Technology & Innovation; Employment & Labor Markets
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Institute Working Paper 11 (August 2018)Raymond Owens III, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, and Pierre-Daniel SartePublished in: _American Economic Journal: Economic Policy_, 12(2): 258-305, https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20180651.
Topics: Housing; Public Policy
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Institute Working Paper 12 (August 2018)Adrien Bilal and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
Topics: Employment & Labor Markets; Wages, Income, Wealth
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Institute Working Paper 10 (July 2018)Lutz Hendricks, Chris Herrington, and Todd SchoellmanPublished in _AEJ: Macroeconomics_ (Vol. 13, No. 1, January 2021, pp. 184-215), https://doi.org/10.1257/mac.20190154.
Topics: Higher Education
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Institute Working Paper 9 (June 2018)Moritz Kuhn, Moritz Schularick, and Ulrike I. SteinsPublished in: _Journal of Political Economy_ (vol. 128, no. 9, September 2020, pp. 3469-3519) https://doi.org/10.1086/708815.
Topics: Inequality; Credit & Financial Markets; Wages, Income, Wealth
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Institute Working Paper 8 (April 2018)Makoto Nakajima and Irina A. Telyukova
Topics: Insurance; Public health
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Institute Working Paper 7 (March 2018)Niklas Engbom and Christian Moser
Topics: Minimum Wage; Employment & Labor Markets
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Institute Working Paper 6 (January 2018)Mark Colas
Topics: Immigration; Employment & Labor Markets
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Institute Working Paper 5 (December 2017)Ana Luisa Pessoa de Araujo
Topics: Unemployment; Employment & Labor Markets
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Institute Working Paper 4 (November 2017)Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias PapaioannouPublished in _Annual Review of Economics_ (vol. 10, 2018, pp.383-410), https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-080217-053355.
Topics: Economic Growth; Trade & Globalization
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Institute Working Paper 3 (November 2017)Mark Colas and Kevin HutchinsonPublished in _American Economic Journal: Economic Policy_ (vol. 13, iss. 2, May 2021, pp. 100-134), https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20180529.
Topics: Taxes & Tax Policy; Inequality
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Institute Working Paper 2 (September 2017)Raphaël Franck and Stelios Michalopoulos
Topics: Immigration; Economic Growth; Agriculture & Farming
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Institute Working Paper 1 (August 2017)Todd Schoellman and Lutz HendricksPublished as: Hendricks, Lutz and Todd Schoellman. "Human Capital and Development Accounting: New Evidence from Wage Gains at Migration", _The Quarterly Journal of Economics_, May 2018, vol. 133, no. 2, p. 665-700. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjx047
Topics: Immigration; Economic Growth