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Housing Wealth Accumulation and Electoral Representation
Academic

Housing Wealth Accumulation and Electoral Representation (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers AUG 14, 2026

We document that housing wealth accumulation systematically differs among homeowners by their political participation. Using a nationwide voter-property dataset, we find that realized housing appreciation increases monotonically the more a…

By: Carlos F. Avenancio-León, Yutao He (opens in a new tab), Michael Reher (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Taxation
Barriers to Benefits: Unemployment Insurance Take-Up and Labor Market Effects
Academic

Barriers to Benefits: Unemployment Insurance Take-Up and Labor Market Effects (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers MAY 19, 2026

Unemployment insurance (UI) take-up is relatively low in the United States. We implement a large-scale field experiment among 50,000 likely unemployed individuals to study the causes and labor supply implications…

By: Casey McQuillan (opens in a new tab), Brendan Moore (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Household Economic Security Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Changing Opportunity: Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Economic Mobility
Academic

Changing Opportunity: Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Economic Mobility (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers OCT 9, 2025

We show that intergenerational mobility changed rapidly by race and class in recent decades and use these trends to study the causal mechanisms underlying changes in economic mobility. For white…

By: Raj Chetty (opens in a new tab), Will Dobbie (opens in a new tab), Benjamin Goldman (opens in a new tab), Sonya R. Porter, Crystal S. Yang

Economic Equity & Opportunity
Extracting O*NET Features from the NLx Corpus to Build Public Use Aggregate Labor Market Data
Academic

Extracting O*NET Features from the NLx Corpus to Build Public Use Aggregate Labor Market Data (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers OCT 1, 2025

Data from online job postings are difficult to access and are not built in a standard or transparent manner. Data included in the standard taxonomy and occupational information database (O*NET)…

By: Stephen Meisenbacher (opens in a new tab), Svetlozar Nestorov (opens in a new tab), Peter Norlander (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Fitting the Bill? The First Federal Paid Leave Mandate
Academic

Fitting the Bill? The First Federal Paid Leave Mandate (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers SEP 23, 2025

We find that the first federal paid leave mandate in the US, enacted under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, increased paid leave taking by nearly 200% for eligible workers,…

By: Tanya Byker (opens in a new tab), Elena Patel (opens in a new tab), Kristin Smith (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Household Economic Security Labor, Wages & Worker Power
In Her Hands: A Guaranteed Income Initiative
Academic

In Her Hands: A Guaranteed Income Initiative (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers SEP 4, 2025

In Her Hands (IHH) is a guaranteed income (GI) initiative aimed at addressing persistent economic insecurity among women in neighborhoods with some of Georgia’s highest poverty rates. Co-designed with local…

By: Laura Brugger (opens in a new tab), Shadonna Davis (opens in a new tab), Desha Elliott (opens in a new tab), Leah Hamilton (opens in a new tab), Stephen Roll (opens in a new tab), Latrice Rollins (opens in a new tab), Simone Smith (opens in a new tab), Aaron Quick (opens in a new tab), Naomi Zewde (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Household Economic Security
The Macroeconomic Effects of Climate Policy Uncertainty
Academic

Americans Informed About the Distributional Effects of Republicans’ Budget Bill Overwhelmingly Oppose It (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers JUN 25, 2025

Republicans in the Senate are currently considering the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which, if enacted, would be the most regressive U.S. tax and budget law in at least the…

By: Jacob S. Hacker, Patrick Sullivan (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Household Economic Security Macroeconomics & Economic Measurement Taxation
HBCU Enrollment and Longer-Term Outcomes
Academic

HBCU Enrollment and Longer-Term Outcomes (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers NOV 20, 2023

Using data from nearly 1.2 million Black SAT takers, we estimate the impacts of initially enrolling in an Historically Black College and University (HBCU) on educational, economic, and financial outcomes.…

By: Ashley Edwards (opens in a new tab), Justin Ortagus (opens in a new tab), Jonathan Smith (opens in a new tab), Andria Smythe (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity
The Effect of Means-Tested Transfers on Work: Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned SNAP Caseworkers
Academic

The Effect of Means-Tested Transfers on Work: Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned SNAP Caseworkers (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers NOV 13, 2023

We provide a comprehensive evaluation of the dynamic labor supply effects of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for a representative population using novel administrative data and an examiner design.…

By: Jason Cook (opens in a new tab), Chloe N. East

Economic Equity & Opportunity Household Economic Security Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Racial Inequality in the U.S. Unemployment Insurance System
Academic

Racial Inequality in the U.S. Unemployment Insurance System (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers JUL 19, 2023

The decentralized US unemployment insurance (UI) system lets states decide on key rules. Decentralization could help states efficiently adapt to local economic conditions, but it could also generate racial inequality.…

By: Daphné Skandalis (opens in a new tab), Ioana Marinescu (opens in a new tab), Maxim Massenkoff (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Household Economic Security Labor, Wages & Worker Power
The Effectiveness of the Food Stamp Program at Reducing Differences in the Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty
Academic

The Effectiveness of the Food Stamp Program at Reducing Differences in the Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers MAY 30, 2023

This paper investigates the effects of the Food Stamp Program (FSP) on racial disparities in the intergenerational persistence of poverty. We apply staggered difference-in-difference models that exploit variation in the…

By: Benjamin Glasner (opens in a new tab), Ronald B Mincy, Zachary Parolin (opens in a new tab), Christopher Wimer (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Household Economic Security
Global Trends in Income Inequality and Income Dynamics: New Insights from GRID
Academic

Global Trends in Income Inequality and Income Dynamics: New Insights from GRID (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers NOV 7, 2022

The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, crosscountry database that contains a wide range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and mobility. It has four…

By: Fatih Guvenen (opens in a new tab), Luigi Pistaferri (opens in a new tab), Giovanni L. Violante

Economic Equity & Opportunity Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Understanding Disparities in Unemployment Insurance Recipiency
Academic

Understanding Disparities in Unemployment Insurance Recipiency (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers JUL 13, 2022

Using data from before and during the Covid-19 pandemic, we show that the expansion of benefits under the CARES Act only modestly increased self-reported UI recipiency among UI eligible workers,…

By: Eliza Forsythe (opens in a new tab), Hesong Yang (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Household Economic Security Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Black Lives: The High Cost of Segregation
Academic

Black Lives: The High Cost of Segregation (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers MAY 9, 2022

Exploiting the arrangement of railroad tracks in northern cities, we explore the extent to which segregation impacts homicide victimization by race. Our results reveal a robust positive relationship between segregation…

By: Robynn Cox (opens in a new tab), Jamein Cunningham (opens in a new tab), Alberto Ortega (opens in a new tab), Kenneth D. Whaley (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Why is Workplace Sexual Harassment Underreported? The Value of Outside Options Amid the Threat of Retaliation
Academic

Why is Workplace Sexual Harassment Underreported? The Value of Outside Options Amid the Threat of Retaliation (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers FEB 10, 2022

Why is workplace sexual harassment chronically underreported? We hypothesize that employers coerce victims into silence through the threat of a retaliatory firing. To test this, we estimate how two external…

By: Gordon B. Dahl (opens in a new tab), Matthew Knepper (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Money Matters: Consumption Volatility Across the Income Distribution
Academic

Money Matters: Consumption Volatility Across the Income Distribution (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers FEB 3, 2022

Using the Consumer Expenditure Survey, we document the level and volatility of quarterly consumption across the socioeconomic distribution. While the measurement of well-being is focused on income, the secular and…

By: Jonathan Fisher (opens in a new tab), Bradley L. Hardy

Economic Equity & Opportunity Household Economic Security Labor, Wages & Worker Power
The impact of affirmative action litigation on police killings of civilians
Academic

The impact of affirmative action litigation on police killings of civilians (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers DEC 2, 2021

Although research has shown that court-ordered hiring quotas increase the number of minority police officers in litigated cities, there has been little insight into how workforce diversity, or lack thereof,…

By: Robynn Cox (opens in a new tab), Jamein Cunningham (opens in a new tab), Alberto Ortega (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity
Beyond Health: Non-Health Risk and the Value of Disability Insurance
Academic

Beyond Health: Non-Health Risk and the Value of Disability Insurance (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers NOV 22, 2021

The public debate over disability insurance has centered on concerns about individuals without severe health conditions receiving benefits. We go beyond health risk alone to quantify the overall insurance value…

By: Manasi Deshpande (opens in a new tab), Lee M. Lockwood (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Household Economic Security Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Diverse Policy Committees Can Reach Underrepresented Groups
Academic

Diverse Policy Committees Can Reach Underrepresented Groups (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers SEP 16, 2021

In a randomized control trial that varies the salience of female and minority representation on the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy committee, the FOMC, we test whether diversity affects how Fed…

By: Francesco D’Acunto (opens in a new tab), Andreas Fuster (opens in a new tab), Michael Weber (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Labor, Wages & Worker Power Macroeconomics & Economic Measurement Taxation
How Exceptional is American Job Quality? Decent- and Poverty-Pay Rates by Age, Gender, and Education in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and France*
Academic

How Exceptional is American Job Quality? Decent- and Poverty-Pay Rates by Age, Gender, and Education in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and France* (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers SEP 3, 2021

Social protection for working-age American adults is almost entirely conditional on employment, which makes earnings a particularly important dimension of job quality for workers. This paper employs new indicators (Howell,…

By: David R. Howell

Economic Equity & Opportunity Household Economic Security Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Trends in Absolute Income Mobility in North America and Europe
Academic

Trends in Absolute Income Mobility in North America and Europe (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers APR 28, 2021

We compute rates of absolute upward income mobility for the 1960-1987 birth cohorts in eight countries in North America and Europe. Rates and trends in absolute mobility varied dramatically across…

By: Robert Manduca (opens in a new tab), Maximilian Hell (opens in a new tab), Adrian Adermon, Jo Blanden, Espen Bratberg, Anne C. Gielen, Hans van Kippersluis, Keun Bok Lee, Stephen Machin (opens in a new tab), Martin D. Munk, Martin Nybom, Yuri Ostrovsky, Sumaiya Rahman, Outi Sirniö

Economic Equity & Opportunity
Tax Refund Uncertainty: Evidence and Welfare Implications
Academic

Tax Refund Uncertainty: Evidence and Welfare Implications (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers APR 8, 2021

Transfers paid through annual tax refunds are a large but uncertain source of income for poor households. We document that low-income tax-filers have substantial subjective uncertainty about these refunds. We…

By: Sydnee Caldwell (opens in a new tab), Scott Nelson (opens in a new tab), Daniel Waldinger (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Household Economic Security Labor, Wages & Worker Power Macroeconomics & Economic Measurement Taxation
The Grandkids Aren’t Alright: The Intergenerational Effects of Prenatal Pollution Exposure
Academic

The Grandkids Aren’t Alright: The Intergenerational Effects of Prenatal Pollution Exposure (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers FEB 11, 2021

Evidence increasingly shows that environmental quality shapes human capital at birth with long-run effects on health and welfare. Do these effects, in turn, affect the economic opportunities of future generations?…

By: Jonathan Colmer (opens in a new tab), John Voorheis (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Household Economic Security
Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Family Dynamics in Economically Vulnerable Households
Academic

Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Family Dynamics in Economically Vulnerable Households (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers DEC 14, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis and its reverberations resulted in levels of economic distress unprecedented since the 1930s. But COVID was a seismic social shock even for families that lost no income,…

By: Ariel Kalil (opens in a new tab), Susan Mayer (opens in a new tab), Rohen Shah (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Household Economic Security Labor, Wages & Worker Power
The Effect of Political Power on Labor Market Inequality: Evidence from the 1965 Voting Rights Act
Academic

The Effect of Political Power on Labor Market Inequality: Evidence from the 1965 Voting Rights Act (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers OCT 16, 2020

A central concern for racial and ethnic minorities is having an equal opportunity to advance group interests via the political process. There remains limited empirical evidence, however, whether democratic policies…

By: Abhay Aneja (opens in a new tab), Carlos Fernando Avenancio-León (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Labor, Wages & Worker Power
The Impact of COVID-19 on the U.S. Child Care Market: Evidence from Stay-at-Home Orders
Academic

The Impact of COVID-19 on the U.S. Child Care Market: Evidence from Stay-at-Home Orders (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers JUL 16, 2020

Stay-at-home orders (SAHOs) have been implemented in most U.S. states to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. This paper quantifies the short-run impact of these containment policies on search behavior and…

By: Umair Ali (opens in a new tab), Chris M. Herbst (opens in a new tab), Christos A. Makridis

Economic Equity & Opportunity Household Economic Security Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Is the social safety net a long-term investment? Large-scale evidence from the food stamps program
Academic

Is the social safety net a long-term investment? Large-scale evidence from the food stamps program (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers MAY 11, 2020

We use novel, large-scale data on 43 million Americans from the 2000 Census and the 2001 to 2013 American Communities Survey linked to the Social Security Administration’s NUMIDENT to study…

By: Martha J. Bailey, Hilary W. Hoynes, Maya Rossin-Slater (opens in a new tab), Reed Walker (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Household Economic Security
An SEIR Infectious Disease Model with Testing and Conditional Quarantine
Academic

An SEIR Infectious Disease Model with Testing and Conditional Quarantine (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers APR 7, 2020

We extend the baseline Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Recovered (SEIR) infectious disease epidemiology model to understand the role of testing and case-dependent quarantine. Our model nests the SEIR model. During a period of asymptomatic…

By: David Berger (opens in a new tab), Kyle Herkenhoff (opens in a new tab), Simon Mongey (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Household Economic Security Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Whose News? Class-Biased Economic Reporting in the United States
Academic

Whose News? Class-Biased Economic Reporting in the United States (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers MAR 3, 2020

There is substantial evidence that voters’ choices are shaped by assessments of the state of the economy and that these assessments, in turn, are influenced by the news. But how…

By: Alan M. Jacobs (opens in a new tab), J. Scott Matthews (opens in a new tab), Timothy Hicks (opens in a new tab), Eric Merkley (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Macroeconomics & Economic Measurement
Unequally Insecure: Rising Black/White Disparities in Job Displacement, 1981-2017
Academic

Unequally Insecure: Rising Black/White Disparities in Job Displacement, 1981-2017 (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers FEB 13, 2020

Social scientists have documented vast racial disparities in labor market outcomes such as hiring and firing decisions, compensation, and opportunities for occupational advancement. Yet little is known about the racial…

By: Elizabeth Wrigley-Field (opens in a new tab), Nathan Seltzer (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Targeted Debt Relief and the Origins of Financial Distress: Experimental Evidence from Distressed Credit Card Borrowers
Academic

Targeted Debt Relief and the Origins of Financial Distress: Experimental Evidence from Distressed Credit Card Borrowers (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers DEC 4, 2019

We study the drivers of financial distress using a large-scale field experiment that offered randomly selected borrowers a combination of (i) immediate payment reductions to target short-run liquidity constraints and…

By: Will Dobbie (opens in a new tab), Jae Song (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Household Economic Security Labor, Wages & Worker Power Macroeconomics & Economic Measurement
Hard Times: Routine Schedule Unpredictability and Material Hardship among Service Sector Workers
Academic

Hard Times: Routine Schedule Unpredictability and Material Hardship among Service Sector Workers (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers OCT 16, 2019

American policy-makers have long focused on work as a key means to reduce poverty. And yet work has become increasingly precarious and polarized. This precarity is manifest in low wages,…

By: Daniel Schneider (opens in a new tab), Kristen Harknett (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Labor, Wages & Worker Power
What Explains Race/Ethnic Inequality in Job Quality in the Service Sector?
Academic

What Explains Race/Ethnic Inequality in Job Quality in the Service Sector? (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers OCT 16, 2019

White workers experience significant advantages in the labor market both in hiring and in compensation compared to their non-white peers. Human capital differences and occupational segregation are commonly offered as…

By: Adam Storer (opens in a new tab), Daniel Schneider (opens in a new tab), Kristen Harknett (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Job quality and the educational gradient in entry into marriage and cohabitation
Academic

Job quality and the educational gradient in entry into marriage and cohabitation (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers NOV 27, 2018

Men’s and women’s economic resources are important determinants of marriage timing. Prior demographic and sociological literature has often measured resources in narrow terms, considering employment and earnings and not more…

By: Daniel Schneider (opens in a new tab), Kristen Harknett (opens in a new tab), Matthew Stimpson (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Household Economic Security
Returns in the labor market: A nuanced view of penalties at the intersection of race and gender
Academic

Returns in the labor market: A nuanced view of penalties at the intersection of race and gender (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers AUG 7, 2018

There have been decades of research on wage gaps for groups based on their socially salient identities such as race and gender, but little empirical investigation on the effects of…

By: Mark Paul (opens in a new tab), Khaing Zaw (opens in a new tab), Darrick Hamilton (opens in a new tab), William Darity Jr. (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Labor, Wages & Worker Power
New technologies and the labor market
Academic

New technologies and the labor market (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers MAY 1, 2018

Using newspaper job ad text from 1960 to 2000, we measure job tasks and the adoption of individual information and communication technologies (ICTs). Most new technologies are associated with an…

By: Enghin Atalay (opens in a new tab), Phai Phongthiengtham (opens in a new tab), Sebastian Sotelo (opens in a new tab), Daniel Tannenbaum (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Estimating the marginal propensity to consume using the distributions of income, consumption, and wealth
Academic

Estimating the marginal propensity to consume using the distributions of income, consumption, and wealth (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers APR 19, 2018

Recent studies of economic inequality almost always separately examine income inequality, consumption and wealth inequality, and hence, these studies miss the important synergy between the three measures explicit in the…

By: Jonathan Fisher (opens in a new tab), David Johnson (opens in a new tab), Jonathan Latner (opens in a new tab), Timothy Smeeding (opens in a new tab), Jeffrey Thompson (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Macroeconomics & Economic Measurement
Who becomes an inventor in America? The importance of exposure to innovation
Academic

Who becomes an inventor in America? The importance of exposure to innovation (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers FEB 27, 2018

Download File 02272018-WP-inventor-america-exposure Read the full PDF in your browser We characterize the factors that determine who becomes an inventor in America by using deidentified data on 1.2 million inventors…

By: Alex Bell (opens in a new tab), Raj Chetty (opens in a new tab), Xavier Jaravel (opens in a new tab), Neviana Petkova (opens in a new tab), John Van Reenen (opens in a new tab)

Competition & Economic Dynamism Economic Equity & Opportunity
Inequality and aggregate demand
Academic

Inequality and aggregate demand (opens in a new tab)

Working Papers FEB 19, 2018

Download File 02192018-WP-inequality-aggregate-demand Read the full PDF in your browser We explore the transmission mechanism of income inequality to output. In the short run, higher inequality reduces output because marginal…

By: Adrien Auclert (opens in a new tab), Matthew Rognlie (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Labor, Wages & Worker Power Macroeconomics & Economic Measurement
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