Inequality, taxation, and labor market policy

Working Papers

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

   • Last Update: October 2023

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

   • Last Update: December 2020

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

   • Last Update: November 2023

Publications

1. A Simple Model of Corporate Tax Incidence (with D. Swonder). Forthcoming. AEA Papers and Proceedings.

2. 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

3. 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 

4. 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 and Minimum Wages: Evidence from an Online Job Board (with V. Escudero and H. Liepmann)

2. Minimum Wages and the Distribution of Firm Wage Premia (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) 

   • Last Update: June 2023

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

   • Last Update: August 2023

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