Working Papers

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Targeted Business Incentives and Local Labor Markets (2012)

This paper uses a regression discontinuity design to examine the effects of geographically targeted business...

 

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

This paper examines the effects of investment subsidized by the federal government’s New Markets Tax...

 

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

We exploit a sudden shock to demand for a subset of low-wage workers generated by...

 

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Agency and Compensation: Evidence from the Hotel Industry (with Renata Kosova) (2011)

We examine how agency problems in the workplace affect compensation policies by taking advantage of...

 

Forthcoming Papers

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

This paper exploits longitudinal employer-employee matched data from the U.S. Census Bureau to investigate the...

 

Published Papers

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

This paper investigates the interaction between product heterogeneity and geographic agglomeration. Using data for nearly...

 

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

This paper examines the effect of rental housing development subsidized by the federal government’s Low-Income...

 

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

It is an established fact that there are high levels of employment volatility in the...

 

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

Innovative firms need to hire and motivate highly talented workers. This article connects the potential...

 

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

In the wake of Wal-Mart and other mass merchandisers’ entry into food retailing, the nature...

 

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

This paper investigates the implications of industrial clustering for labor mobility and earnings dynamics in...

 

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

Policymakers, faced with increasing demands to make decisions at a local level, are turning to...

 

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

The rise of super-centers and the entry of Wal-Mart into food retailing have dramatically altered...

 

Technical Papers

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

OnTheMap has been a very popular web-based, interactive mapping application since its formal launch under...

 

Related Work

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

Online appendix for "Teaching New Markets Old Tricks: The Effects of Subsidized Investment on Low-Income...

 

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

Industry clusters are associated with greater job hopping and faster growth in workers’ earning power...

 

Research Contributions

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Economic Turbulence: Is a Volatile Economy Good for America? (2006)

Every day, in every sector of our economy, a business shuts down while another starts...