We study the results of a massive nationwide correspondence experiment sending more
than 83,000 fictitious applications with randomized characteristics to geographically …

Many personal and policy decisions turn on perceptions of school effectiveness, defined
here as the causal effect of attendance at a particular school or set of schools on student test …

We develop a framework for difference-in-differences designs with staggered treatment
adoption and heterogeneous causal effects. We show that conventional regression-based …

We quantify the importance of imperfect competition in the US labor market by estimating the
size of labor market rents earned by American firms and workers. We construct a matched …

We propose a framework to identify and estimate earnings distributions and worker
composition on matched panel data, allowing for two‐sided worker‐firm unobserved …

Increases in the minimum wage can substantially reduce earnings inequality. To
demonstrate this, we combine administrative and survey data with an equilibrium model of …

Many studies use matched employer-employee data to estimate a statistical model of
earnings determination with worker and firm fixed effects. Estimates based on this model …

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 …

Using administrative German data, we show that large cities allow for a more efficient
matching between workers and firms and this has important consequences for geographical …

Do firms that pay more offer better amenities, or does the greater pay compensate for worse
amenities? Using matched US employee-employer data, this paper estimates the joint …