How do firms set wages across space? Using job-level vacancy data and a survey of HR
managers, we show that 40-50% of a job's posted wages are identical across locations …

We use novel surveys of firms and workers, linked to administrative employer-employee
data, to study the prevalence and importance of individual bargaining in wage …

We evaluate the nationwide impact of the Washington State Attorney General's 2018-20
enforcement campaign against no-poach clauses in franchising contracts, which prohibited …

Labor market information is an important input to labor, workforce, education, and
macroeconomic policy. However, granular and real-time data on labor market trends are …

Open source software (OSS) is a form of public knowledge widely provided and relied on by
the private sector. To study the effects of growing government involvement in this critical …

How informative are job ads about the actual pay and amenities offered by employers?
Using a comprehensive database of job ads posted by Norwegian employers, we develop a …

We leverage rich data from a prominent online job board in Uruguay to assess directed
search patterns in job applications, focusing on posted wages and advertised non-wage …

We use novel, linked survey-administrative data to study the prevalence and importance of
individual bargaining for wage determination. We introduce and validate a survey measure …

This dissertation is comprised of three essays in macroeconomics and public finance.
Chapter 1 focuses on measuring strategic complementarity in the wages posted by firms in …

We study the role of traders' meeting capacities in decentralized markets with adverse
selection. Uninformed principals choose trading mechanisms to find an agent with whom to …