Inequality, taxation, and labor market policy

Working Papers

1. [updated] Minimum Wages and Optimal Redistribution: The Role of Firm Profits

2. Place-Based Redistribution (with C. Gaubert, P. Kline, and D. Yagan). R&R at The American Economic Review

3. Workplace Litigiousness and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Workers' Compensation Reform (with M. Lauletta)

Publications

1. Do Policies and Institutions Matter for Pre-Tax Income Inequality? Cross-Country Evidence (appendix) (replication package). 2022. International Tax and Public Finance 29 (1): pp. 20-52

2. Trends in US Spatial Inequality: Concentrating Affluence and a Democratization of Poverty (appendix) (replication package) (NBER wp) (with C. Gaubert, P. Kline, and D. Yagan). 2021. AEA Papers and Proceedings 111: pp 520-525 

3. Using Small Businesses for Individual Tax Planning: Evidence from Special Tax Regimes in Chile (with C. Agostini, E. Engel, and A. Repetto). 2018. International Tax and Public Finance 25 (6): pp 1449-1489

Selected Work in Progress

1. Directed Search, Minimum Wages, and Job Applications: Evidence from an Online Job Board (with V. Escudero and H. Liepmann)

2. Sectoral Minimum Wages, Firms, and Wage Inequality: Evidence from Uruguay (with M. Bergolo, R. Ceni, and M. Fondo)

Discrimination

Working Papers

1. An Observational Implementation of the Outcome Test with an Application to Ethnic Prejudice in Pretrial Detentions (with N. Grau). 

2. Discrimination Against Immigrants in the Criminal Justice System: Evidence from Pretrial Detentions (with P. Domínguez and N. Grau)

Publications

1. Combining Discrimination Diagnostics to Identify Sources of Statistical Discrimination (appendix) (with P. Domínguez and N. Grau). 2022. Economics Letters 212, 110294 

Selected Work in Progress

1. Gender Bias in College Admissions (with M. Grau, N. Grau, and T. Reyes)

Miscellaneous

Publications

1. Ambiguity and Long-Run Cooperation in Strategic Games (appendix) (code) (with M. Rojas). 2021. Oxford Economic Papers 73 (3): pp 1077-1098