The purposes and impact of higher education on the economy and the broader society have
been transformed through time in various ways. Higher education institutional and policy …

The singular focus of public debate on the “top 1 percent” of households overlooks the
component of earnings inequality that is arguably most consequential for the “other 99 …

We document that between 50% and 70% of changes in the US wage structure over the last
four decades are accounted for by relative wage declines of worker groups specialized in …

This review considers the evolution of economic thinking on the relationship between digital
technology and inequality across four decades, encompassing four related but intellectually …

Labor market tightness following the height of the Covid-19 pandemic led to an unexpected
compression in the US wage distribution that reflects, in part, an increase in labor market …

US cities today are vastly more educated and skill-intensive than they were five decades
ago. Yet, urban non-college workers perform substantially less skilled jobs than decades …

We answer three core questions about the hypothesized role of newly emerging job
categories (“new work”) in counterbalancing the erosive effect of task-displacing automation …

Consumers rely on the price changes of goods in their grocery bundles when forming
expectations about aggregate inflation. We use micro data that uniquely match individual …

We classify the empirical literature on the wage impact of immigration into three groups,
where studies in the first two groups estimate different relative effects, and studies in the third …

We use an event study approach to examine the economic consequences of hospital
admissions for adults in two datasets: survey data from the Health and Retirement Study …