Perfectionism is increasing over time: A meta-analysis of birth cohort differences from 1989 to 2016.

T Curran, AP Hill - Psychological bulletin, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
From the 1980s onward, neoliberal governance in the United States, Canada, and the
United Kingdom has emphasized competitive individualism and people have seemingly …

Work of the Past, Work of the Future

DH Autor - AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2019 - aeaweb.org
US cities today are vastly more educated and skill-intensive than they were five decades
ago. Yet, urban non-college workers perform substantially less skilled jobs than decades …

Employment hysteresis from the great recession

D Yagan - Journal of Political Economy, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper uses US local areas as a laboratory to test for long-term impacts of the Great
Recession. In administrative longitudinal data, I estimate that exposure to a 1 percentage …

Margins of labor market adjustment to trade

R Dix-Carneiro, BK Kovak - Journal of International Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
We use both longitudinal administrative data and cross-sectional household survey data to
study the margins of labor market adjustment following Brazil's early 1990s trade …

The unequal gains from product innovations: Evidence from the us retail sector

X Jaravel - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
This article examines how product innovations led to inflation inequality in the United States
from 2004 to 2015. Using scanner data from the retail sector, I find that annual inflation for …

Firming up inequality

J Song, DJ Price, F Guvenen, N Bloom… - The Quarterly journal …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We use a massive, matched employer-employee database for the United States to analyze
the contribution of firms to the rise in earnings inequality from 1978 to 2013. We find that one …

Tax cuts for whom? Heterogeneous effects of income tax changes on growth and employment

O Zidar - Journal of Political Economy, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper investigates how tax changes for different income groups affect aggregate
economic activity. I construct a measure of who received (or paid for) tax changes in the …

Politico-economic regimes and attitudes: Female workers under state socialism

P Campa, M Serafinelli - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019 - direct.mit.edu
This paper investigates whether attitudes are affected by politico-economic regimes. We
exploit the efforts of state socialist regimes to promote women's economic inclusion. Using …

General equilibrium effects in space: Theory and measurement

R Adao, C Arkolakis, F Esposito - 2019 - nber.org
How do international trade shocks affect spatially connected regional markets? We answer
this question by extending shift-share empirical specifications to incorporate general …

Are poor cities cheap for everyone? non-homotheticity and the cost of living across us cities

J Handbury - 2019 - nber.org
This paper shows that the products and prices offered in markets are correlated with local
income-specific tastes. To quantify the welfare impact of this variation, I calculate local price …