Racial Inequality in the Labor Market (with Patrick Bayer and Kerwin Kofi Charles). In Handbook of Labor Economics, 6: 159-228.
Voluntary Minimum Wages: The Local Labor Market Effects of National Retailer Policies (with David Weil). August 2025. Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Atlantic Slavery's Impact on European and British Economic Development. May 2025. Journal of Historical Political Economy.
Community Engagement with Law Enforcement after High-profile Acts of Police Violence (with Desmond Ang, Panka Bencsik, and Jesse Bruhn), March 2025. American Economic Review: Insights.
Wealth of Two Nations: The U.S. Racial Wealth Gap, 1860-2020 (with Chi Hyun Kim, Moritz Kuhn, and Moritz Schularick). May 2024. Quarterly Journal of Economics. (Lead article.)
Changes in the Distribution of Black and White Wealth since the US Civil War (with Chi Hyun Kim, Moritz Kuhn, and Moritz Schularick), Fall 2023. Journal of Economic Perspectives.
Comment on “Reparations and persistent racial wealth gaps." 2023. NBER Macroeconomics Annual.
Can You Move to Opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration. Feb. 2022. American Economic Review. (Lead article.)
Minimum Wages and Racial Inequality (with Claire Montialoux). Feb. 2021. Quarterly Journal of Economics.
The Historical Origins of Global Inequality. In After Piketty: The agenda for economics and inequality. Eds: Boushey H, DeLong JB, Steinbaum M. Cambridge: Harvard University Press ; 2017. pp. 491-511. Publisher's Version.
Minimum Wages and Informality (with François Gerard, Lorenzo Lagos, and Claire Montialoux), October 2025. [Slides] [Data & replication package webpage]. NBER Working Paper 34445.
What Do (Thousands of) Unions Do? Union-Specific Pay Premia and Inequality (with François Gerard, Lorenzo Lagos, and Claire Montialoux), August 2025. [Online Appendix]. NBER Working Paper 34139.
Racial Inequality in France (with Yajna Govind and Paolo Santini), July 2025. NBER Working Paper 34013.
Unemployment Risk, Portfolio Choice, and the Racial Wealth Gap (with Chi Hyun Kim, Moritz Kuhn, and Moritz Schularick), working paper, October 2023.
The Historical Incarceration Penalty in the United States (with Desmond Ang, Kyle Hancock, and Jing Wu).
Racial Inequality, Minimum Wage Spillovers, and the Informal Sector (with François Gérard, Lorenzo Lagos, and Claire Montialoux).
Racial Inequality in Multiracial Societies (with Yajna Govind, Claire Montialoux, and Paolo Santini).
Market Forces and Employer Racial Preferences: Evidence from Wartime Shortages (with Joan Martínez).
State Unemployment Insurance Rules: A New Long-Run Database (1937-2020) (with Monica Essig Aberg and Claire Montialoux).
The Rise of Punitive Criminal Justice Policy in the Wake of the Great Migration (with Benjamin Feigenberg, Conrad Miller, and Heather Sarsons).