The spatial segregation of college-educated and non-college-educated workers between
commuting zones in the United States has steadily grown since 1980. We summarize prior …

We examine how broad changes in work arrangements and lifestyles brought on by the
COVID-19 pandemic have affected households' location decisions. Using data on over …

We review developments in research on within-country migration, focusing on internal
migration in the United States. We begin by describing approaches to modeling individuals' …

This paper studies the effects of an historically large federal corporate income tax cut on US
firms and workers, leveraging quasi-experimental policy variation from the 2017 law known …

The twenty-first century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In
this paper, we find that geographic inequality in mortality for midlife Americans increased by …

This article examines the role of work at the cutting of technological change—frontier work—
as a driver of prosperity and spatial income inequality. Using new methods and data, we …

Although technological change is widely credited as driving the last 200 years of economic
growth, its role in shaping patterns of inequality remains under-explored. Drawing parallels …

We discuss regional disparities in economic performance and living standards. We first set
out some key facts, and provide a conceptual framework to help analyze whether such …

The rise of economic inequalities in advanced economies has been often linked with the
growth of spatial inequalities within countries, yet there is limited comparative research that …

We study the history and geography of wealth accumulation in the US, using newly collected
historical property tax records since the early 1800s. The US General Property Tax was a …