Quantitative spatial economics

SJ Redding, E Rossi-Hansberg - Annual Review of Economics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
The observed uneven distribution of economic activity across space is influenced by
variation in exogenous geographical characteristics and endogenous interactions between …

Climate change economics over time and space

K Desmet, E Rossi-Hansberg - Annual Review of Economics, 2024 - annualreviews.org
With average temperature ranging from− 20° C at the North Pole to 30° C at the Equator and
with global warming expected to reach 1.4° C to 4.5° C by the year 2100, it is clear that …

Difference-in-differences estimators of intertemporal treatment effects

C De Chaisemartin, X d'Haultfoeuille - Review of Economics and …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
We study treatment-effect estimation using panel data. The treatment may be non-binary,
non-absorbing, and the outcome may be affected by treatment lags. We make a parallel …

Shift-share designs: Theory and inference

R Adao, M Kolesár, E Morales - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We study inference in shift-share regression designs, such as when a regional outcome is
regressed on a weighted average of sectoral shocks, using regional sector shares as …

Bartik instruments: What, when, why, and how

P Goldsmith-Pinkham, I Sorkin, H Swift - American Economic Review, 2020 - aeaweb.org
The Bartik instrument is formed by interacting local industry shares and national industry
growth rates. We show that the typical use of a Bartik instrument assumes a pooled …

On the persistence of the China shock

D Autor, D Dorn, GH Hanson - 2021 - nber.org
We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of
outcomes over the period 2000 to 2019. The shock plateaued in 2010, enabling analysis of …

The aggregate productivity effects of internal migration: Evidence from Indonesia

G Bryan, M Morten - Journal of Political Economy, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
We estimate the aggregate productivity gains from reducing barriers to internal labor
migration in Indonesia, accounting for worker selection and spatial differences in human …

When work disappears: Manufacturing decline and the falling marriage market value of young men

D Autor, D Dorn, G Hanson - American Economic Review: Insights, 2019 - aeaweb.org
We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming
from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic …

The economic geography of global warming

JL Cruz, E Rossi-Hansberg - Review of Economic Studies, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Global warming is a worldwide and protracted phenomenon with heterogeneous local
economic effects. We propose a dynamic economic assessment model of the world …

The work-from-home technology boon and its consequences

MA Davis, AC Ghent, J Gregory - Review of Economic Studies, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We study the impact of widespread adoption of work-from-home (WFH) technology using an
equilibrium model where people choose where to live, how to allocate their time between …