Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of US corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector emanating from China's…
David Stebenne’s “Promised Land: How the Rise of the Middle Class Transformed America, 1929-1968” invites us to remember those decades in…
During the COVID-19 pandemic, states issued and then rescinded stay-at-home orders that restricted mobility. We develop a model of learning…
Despite robust economies, many local officials entered 2020 already worried about budget balances that looked fragile in the short term and…
The threat of COVID-19 has increased the health risks of going to an office or factory, leading more workers to do their jobs remotely. In…
In this paper, we study how occupation (or industry) tradability shapes local labor-market adjustment to immigration. Theoretically, we…
This study dissects the US Department of the Treasury’s formula for distributing first-round CARES Act funds to Indian Country. The…
American technological creativity is geographically concentrated in areas that are generally distant from the country’s most persistent…
Scholars have increasingly drawn attention to rising levels of income inequality in the United States. However, prior studies have provided…