Inflation inequality: Measurement, causes, and policy implications

X Jaravel - Annual Review of Economics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Does inflation vary across the income distribution? This article reviews the growing literature
on inflation inequality, describing recent advances and opportunities for further research in …

Trade and geography

SJ Redding - Handbook of International Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper reviews recent research on geography and trade. One of the key empirical
findings over the last decade has been the role of geography in shaping the distributional …

Commuting, migration, and local employment elasticities

F Monte, SJ Redding, E Rossi-Hansberg - American Economic Review, 2018 - aeaweb.org
We provide theory and evidence that the elasticity of local employment to a labor demand
shock is heterogeneous depending on the commuting openness of the local labor market …

Income growth and the distributional effects of urban spatial sorting

V Couture, C Gaubert, J Handbury… - Review of Economic …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We explore the impact of rising incomes at the top of the distribution on spatial sorting
patterns within large US cities. We develop and quantify a spatial model of a city with …

Persistence and path dependence in the spatial economy

T Allen, D Donaldson - 2020 - nber.org
How much of the spatial distribution of economic activity today is determined by history
rather than by geographic fundamentals? And if history matters for spatial allocations, does it …

Spatial economics for granular settings

JI Dingel, F Tintelnot - 2020 - nber.org
We examine the application of quantitative spatial models to the growing body of fine spatial
data used to study economic outcomes for regions, cities, and neighborhoods. In “granular” …

Engel's law in the global economy: Demand‐induced patterns of structural change, innovation, and trade

K Matsuyama - Econometrica, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Endogenous demand composition across sectors due to income elasticity differences, or
Engel's Law for brevity, affects (i) sectoral compositions in employment and in value …

Are poor cities cheap for everyone? Non‐homotheticity and the cost of living across US cities

J Handbury - Econometrica, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Firm heterogeneity in consumption baskets: Evidence from home and store scanner data

B Faber, T Fally - The Review of Economic Studies, 2022 - academic.oup.com
A growing literature has documented the role of firm heterogeneity within sectors for nominal
income inequality. This article explores the implications for household price indices across …

O-ring production networks

B Demir, AC Fieler, DY Xu… - Journal of Political …, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
We document strong skill matching in Turkish firms' production networks. Additionally, in the
data, export demand shocks from rich countries increase firms' skill intensity and their trade …