Matthew Freedman is an assistant professor in Cornell University's Department
of Economics whose interests lie at the intersection of labor economics, public finance,
and urban economics. 

For my CV, please see the link at right.

New Working Papers

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Low-Income Housing Development, Poverty Concentration, and Neighborhood Inequality (with Tamara McGavock) (2013)
 

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Immigration, Employment Opportunities, and Criminal Behavior (with Emily Owens and Sarah Bohn) (2013)
 

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Tax Incentives and Housing Investment in Low-Income Neighborhoods (2013)
 

Papers Under Submission

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The Urban Density Premium Across Establishments (with R. Jason Faberman) (2013)
 

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Place-Based Programs and the Geographic Dispersion of Employment (2013)
 

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Redistribution, Delegation, and Regulators' Incentives: Evidence from the Clean Air Act (with Antonio Bento and Corey Lang) (2013)
 

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Your Friends and Neighbors: Localized Economic Development, Inequality, and Criminal Activity (with Emily Owens) (2012)
 

Forthcoming Papers

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Agency and Compensation: Evidence from the Hotel Industry (with Renata Kosova), Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (2012)
 

Published Papers - 2013

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Targeted Business Incentives and Local Labor Markets, Journal of Human Resources (2013)
 

Published Papers - 2012

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Teaching New Markets Old Tricks: The Effects of Subsidized Investment on Low-Income Neighborhoods, Journal of Public Economics (2012)
 

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Decomposing the Sources of Earnings Inequality: Assessing the Role of Reallocation (with Elizabeth Davis, Julia Lane, Brian McCall, and L. Kristin Sandusky), Industrial Relations (2012)
 

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Agglomeration, Product Heterogeneity, and Firm Entry (with Renata Kosova), Journal of Economic Geography (2012)
 

Published Papers - 2011

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Low-Income Housing Development and Crime (with Emily Owens), Journal of Urban Economics (2011)
 

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Lost Jobs and Health Insurance: An Analysis of the Impact of Employment Volatility on Firm-Provided Health Insurance Coverage (with Iben Bolvig and Julia Lane), Applied Economics (2011)
 

Published Papers - 2009

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Reaching for the Stars: Who Pays for Talent in Innovative Industries? (with John Haltiwanger, Julia Lane, and Kathryn Shaw), The Economic Journal (2009)
 

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Product Market Competition and Human Resource Practices in the Retail Food Sector (with Julia Lane, Brian McCall, Nicole Nestoriak, and Timothy Park), Industrial Relations (2009)
 

Published Papers - 2008

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Job Hopping, Earnings Dynamics, and Industrial Agglomeration in the Software Publishing Industry, Journal of Urban Economics (2008)
 

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New Approaches to Creating Data for Economic Geographers (with Julia Lane and Marc Roemer), The Journal of Official Statistics (2008)
 

Published Papers - 2006

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Supermarket Human Resource Practices and Competition from Mass Merchandisers (with Julia Lane, Brian McCall, Nicole Nestoriak, and Timothy Park), The American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2006)
 

Technical Papers

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LEHD OnTheMap Technical Documentation (with Marc Roemer and Lars Vilhuber) (2008)
 

Related Work

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Redistribution, Delegation, and Regulators' Incentives: Evidence from the Clean Air Act [Online Appendix] (with Antonio Bento and Corey Lang) (2013)
 

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Teaching New Markets Old Tricks: The Effects of Subsidized Investment on Low-Income Neighborhoods [Online Appendix] (2012)
 

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Past Work Experience and Earnings Trajectories of Single Mothers (with Susan Hauan and Julia Lane) (2012)
 

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ILR Impact Brief - Industry Clusters Affect Job Mobility and Earnings Growth, ILR Policy & Issue Briefs (2008)
 

Teaching

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Graduate Labor Economics II (ECON 7430/ILRLE 7460) (2013)
 

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Undergraduate Personnel Economics (ILRLE/ECON 4430) (2013)
 

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Undergraduate Labor Economics (ILRLE 2400) (2011)
 

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Graduate Labor Economics I (ECON 7420/ILRLE 7450) (2009)