We study the effect of local unemployment and attitudes towards immigrants at the time of
arrival on refugees' multi-dimensional integration outcomes. We leverage a centralized …

Amidst the rise of remote work, we ask: what are the effects of proximity to coworkers? We
find being near coworkers has tradeoffs: proximity increases long-run human capital …

Despite the large urban–rural education gap observed in most countries, little attention has
been paid to whether cities actually enjoy a comparative advantage in the production of …

Denmark has accepted refugees from a large variety of countries and for more than four
decades. Denmark has also frequently changed policies and regulations concerning …

We document that children growing up in places left behind by today's economy experience
lower levels of social mobility as adults. Using a longitudinal database that tracks over …

Using advertised wages from job postings, we show that occupations with high levels of
working from home (WFH) adoption during the COVID-19 pandemic saw a strong decrease …

Spatial income disparities have increased in the US since 1980, a pattern linked to major
social, economic, and political challenges. Yet, today's spatial inequality, and how it relates …

Firm creation is central to many theories of economic growth. I show using US Census
microdata that new firms play a dominant role in the growth of local areas, such as cities and …

Finding suitable employment in a city is more challenging for married than unmarried
migrants. This paper provides empirical evidence that the denser and more diversified labor …

We estimate the urban wage premium in the United States from 1940 to 2010. Drawing on
recent advances in the literature on selection on unobservables, we show how to control for …