Voluntary Minimum Wages: The Local Labor Market Effects of National Retailer Policies (with David Weil). Forthcoming, Quarterly Journal of Economics. Updated working paper, February 2025.
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. Previously titled “Police violence reduces civilian cooperation and engagement with law enforcement."
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.) [Non-technical Summary] [NBER Working Paper Version]
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.
Racial Inequality in the Labor Market (with Patrick Bayer and Kerwin Kofi Charles). NBER working paper 33372. Prepared for the Handbook of Labor Economics Volume 6.
Unemployment Risk, Portfolio Choice, and the Racial Wealth Gap (with Chi Hyun Kim, Moritz Kuhn, and Moritz Schularick), working paper, October 2023.
Racial Inequality, Minimum Wage Spillovers, and the Informal Sector (with François Gérard, Lorenzo Lagos, and Claire Montialoux), working paper, May 2021. [Slides].
The Historical Incarceration Penalty in the United States (with Desmond Ang, Kyle Hancock, and Jing Wu).
Union-Specific Rents and Inequality (with François Gerard, Lorenzo Lagos, and Claire Montialoux).
Minimum Wages and the Gradients of Informality (with François Gerard, Lorenzo Lagos, and Claire Montialoux).
Racial Inequality in France (with Yajna Govind and Paolo Santini).
The Origins of Racial Discrimination in US Labor Markets: Evidence from 34 Million Vacancy Postings (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).