- “The Unexpected Compression: Competition at Work in the Low Wage Labor Market” with David Autor and Annie McGrew. (March 2023) NBER Working Paper 31010. New!
- Online Appendix
- Media and other coverage: Wall Street Journal (x2), Financial Times, The Atlantic (x2), Vox, Speech by Federal Reserve VP Brainard.
- “Power and Dignity in the Low-Wage Labor Market” with Suresh Naidu and Adam Reich. (September 2022). NBER Working Paper 30441. New!
- “Monopsony and Employer Mis-optimization Account for Round Number Bunching in the Wage Distribution” with Alan Manning and Suresh Naidu. (January 2020) Revision requested, American Economic Review
- “The Impact of the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation on Employment: Evidence from the Household Pulse Survey” (July 2020)
- “Debt and Growth: An Assessment of Key Findings on Causality and Thresholds” with Michael Ash and Deepankar Basu. Umass Amherst Dept. of Economics Working Paper No. 2017-10 (April 2017).
- “Pooling Multiple Case Studies using Synthetic Controls: An Application to Minimum Wage Policies” with Ben Zipperer. IZA Discussion Paper 8944 (March 2015)
- “Minimum Wages and Aggregate Job Growth: Causal Effect or Statistical Artifact?” IZA Discussion Paper 7674 (October 2013).
- “Credible Research Designs for Minimum Wage Studies” with Sylvia Allegretto, Michael Reich and Ben Zipperer. IZA Discussion Paper 7638 (September 2013). Older version from June 2013 available here.
- “Employee Replacement Costs” with Eric Freeman and Michael Reich.
- “Firm Entry and Wages: Impact of Wal-Mart Growth on Earnings Throughout the Retail Sector” with Barry Eidlin and T. William Lester.