How does the concentration of skilled workers in a handful of cities affect human capital accumulation? You can find out the answer in in my job market paper!
Extremely grateful to the Program for Research on Inequality and
@EDerenoncourt
for supporting my research on the role of cities in generating aggregate wage inequality!
Our Program for Research on Inequality (PRI) has awarded research grants to 6 Ph.D. candidates pursuing work on the topic of inequality. The grants reflect PRI’s mission to promote research by & foster community among scholars of inequality in economics:
Should governments promote resilience by encouraging firms to source from safer, domestic suppliers? Or would it be better to promote the diversification of supply chains? Find out here ⬇️
"Supply Chain Resilience: Should Policy Promote International Diversification or Reshoring?" by Elhanan Helpman,
@Hugo_Lhu
and me now published online in the JPE.
To what extent are supply chain bottlenecks causing drug shortages in the United States? A time-pressing question, a unique dataset, and an impressive paper all-around: make sure to read Anaïs' JMP!
Anaïs Galdin’s job market paper investigates market failures causing persistent shortages in generic injectable pharmaceutical markets. Building a unique dataset that traces U.S. drugs to global factories, she ties reduced resilience to offshoring.
Next, in the Human Capital session
#uea2023
we have a very interesting paper Should I Stay or Should I Grow? The Impact of Cities on Learning and Aggregate Productivity by
@Hugo_Lhu
the paper addresses the trade off between spatial inequality and human capital accumulation. 🧵
And if you're wondering why cities may even matter at all, simply have a look at how different the wage distribution looks like are across cities. Here in France.
Thank you very much indeed to the Chicago FED for hosting this stellar conference and giving me the opportunity to present my job market paper! And what a pleasure to meet
@AgosBrinatti
,
@ksangani8
, and Magnus!
Thrilled to share my JMP at the Rookie Chicago Fed Conference this year, alongside an impressive lineup of papers. Wonderful experience!
@ksangani8
@Hugo_Lhu
Magnus Irie
Long commute today? Listen to the new episode of
@InequaliTalks
in which
@AdrienBilal
talks about our work on the consequences of labor outsourcing for growth and inequality! Big fan of the podcast
@ClemVaneff
!
@TradeDiversion
Thanks so much for compiling this list Jonathan!
Hugo Lhuillier (Princeton University) - "Should I Stay or Should I Grow? How Cities Affect Learning, Inequality and Productivity" -
TLDR: the spatial agglomeration of skills clusters learning opportunities to the most productive cities, and gives rise to a steep equity-efficiency tradeoff:
➕ it boosts the aggregate stock of human capital
➖ it generates substantive learning disparities across cities