Department of Economics

Economics 350, Spring 2022: Guest Lectures

Week 1, March 30, 2022
1. Thomas Coleman
  - Auten, Gerald. 2021. “Recent Research on Income Distribution: An Overview of the Field.” Capitalism and Society 15 (1).
  - Auten, Gerald, Geoffrey Gee, and Nicholas Turner. 2013. “New Perspectives on Income Mobility and Inequality.” National Tax Journal 66 (4): 893-912.
  - Auten, Gerald, and David Splinter. 2019a. “Top 1 Percent Income Shares: Comparing Estimates Using Tax Data.” AEA Papers and Proceedings, 109 (May): 307-11.
  - Auten, Gerald, and David Splinter. 2019b. “Income Inequality in the United States: Using Tax Data to Measure Long-Term Trends.”Unpublished manuscript, Office of Tax Analysis, U.S. Treasury Department.
  - Bivens, Josh, and Lawrence Mishel. 2015. “Understanding the Historic Divergence Between Productivity and a Typical Worker’s Pay: Why It Matters and Why It’s Real.” EPI Briefing Paper No. 406.
  - Bivens, Josh, Lawrence Mishel, and John Schmitt. (2018). “It’s Not Just Monopoly and Monopsony.” Economic Policy Institute. Report. 145564.
  - Bricker, Jesse, Alice Henriques, Jacob Krimmel, and John Sabelhaus. 2016a. “Measuring Income and Wealth at the Top Using Administrative and Survey Data.” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity Spring 2016 (March): 261-331.
  - Bricker, Jesse, Alice Henriques, Jacob Krimmel, and John Sabelhaus. 2016b. “Measuring Income and Wealth at the Top Using Administrative and Survey Data – Blog.” Brookings (blog). March 10, 2016.
  - Burkhauser, Richard V, Kevin Corinth, James Elwell, and Jeff Larrimore. 2019. “Evaluating the Success of President Johnson’s War on Poverty: Revisiting the Historical Record Using a Full-Income Poverty Measure.” Working Paper 26532. National Bureau of Economic Research.
  - Burkhauser, Richard V., Shuaizhang Feng, Stephen P. Jenkins, and Jeff Larrimore. 2012. “Recent Trends in Top Income Shares in the United States: Reconciling Estimates from March CPS and IRS Tax Return Data.” The Review of Economics and Statistics, 94 (2): 371-88..
  - Burkhauser, Richard V., Jeff Larrimore, and Kosali I. Simon. 2012. “A ‘Second Opinion’ on the Economic Health of the American Middle Class.” National Tax Journal, 65 (1): 7-32.
  - Elwell, James, Kevin Corinth, and Richard V Burkhauser. 2019. “Income Growth and Its Distribution from Eisenhower to Obama: The Growing Importance of In-Kind Transfers (1959-2016).” Working Paper 26439. National Bureau of Economic Research.
  - Fixler, Dennis, Marina Gindelsky, and David Johnson. 2020a. “Distributing Personal Income: Trends Over Time.” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 26996.
  - Fixler, Dennis, Marina Gindelsky, and David Johnson. 2020b. “Measuring Inequality in the National Accounts.” WP2020-3. BEA Working Paper Series. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
  - Fixler, Dennis, Marina Gindelsky, and David Johnson. 2021. “The Feasibility of a Quarterly Distribution of Personal Income.” WP2021-8. BEA Working Paper Series. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
  - Goldin, Claudia, and Lawrence F. Katz. 2007. “The Race between Education and Technology: The Evolution of U.S. Educational Wage Differentials, 1890 to 2005.” Working Paper 12984. National Bureau of Economic Research.
  - Goldin, Claudia, and Lawrence F. Katz. 2010. The Race between Education and Technology. 2/28/10 edition. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press.
  - Guvenen, Fatih, and Greg Kaplan. 2017. “Top Income Inequality in the 21st Century: Some Cautionary Notes.” Working Paper 23321. National Bureau of Economic Research.
  - Guvenen, Fatih, Greg Kaplan, Jae Song, and Justin Weidner. (2021). “Lifetime Earnings in the United States over Six Decades.” Unpublished manuscript, University of Minnesota, Department of Economics.
  - Hoffmann, Florian, David S. Lee, and Thomas Lemieux. 2020. “Growing Income Inequality in the United States and Other Advanced Economies.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 34 (4): 52-78.
  - Horwitz, Steven. 2015. “Inequality, Mobility, and Being Poor in America.” Social Philosophy and Policy 31 (2): 70-91.
  - Larrimore, Jeff. 2014. “Accounting for United States Household Income Inequality Trends: The Changing Importance of Household Structure and Male and Female Labor Earnings Inequality.” Review of Income and Wealth, 60 (4): 683-701.
  - Larrimore, Jeff, Richard V. Burkhauser, and Philip Armour. 2015. “Accounting for Income Changes Over the Great Recession Relative to Previous Recessions: The Impact of Taxes and Transfers.” National Tax Journal 68 (2): 281-318.
  - Larrimore, Jeff, Richard V. Burkhauser, Gerald Auten, and Philip Armour. (2021). “Recent Trends in US Income Distributions in Tax Record Data Using More Comprehensive Measures of Income Including Real Accrued Capital Gains.” Journal of Political Economy, 129(5):1319-1360.
  - Murphy, Kevin M., and Robert H. Topel. 2016a. “Human Capital Investment, Inequality and Economic Growth.” Working Paper 21841. National Bureau of Economic Research.
  - Murphy, Kevin M., and Robert H. Topel. 2016b. “Human Capital Investment, Inequality, and Economic Growth.” Journal of Labor Economics 34 (S2): S99-127.
  - Piketty, Thomas, and Emmanuel Saez. 2003. “Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118 (1): 1-41.
  - Piketty, Thomas, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman. (2017). “Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133(2):553-609.
  - Piketty, Thomas, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman. 2019. “Simplified Distributional National Accounts.” AEA Papers and Proceedings, 109 (May): 289-95.
  - Rose, Stephen. 2018. “How Different Studies Measure Income Inequality.” Urban Institute. December 3, 2018.
  - Saez, Emmanuel. 2016. “Striking It Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States (Updated with 2015 Preliminary Estimates).” Unpublished manuscript, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Economics.
  - Smith, Matthew, Owen M. Zidar, and Eric Zwick. (2021). “Top Wealth in America: New Estimates and Implications for Taxing the Rich.” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series, No. 29374.
  - Smith, Matthew, Danny Yagan, Owen M Zidar, and Eric Zwick. 2019a. “Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century.” Working Paper 25442. National Bureau of Economic Research.
  - Smith, Matthew, Danny Yagan, Owen Zidar, and Eric Zwick. 2019b. “Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 134 (4): 1675-1745.
  - Tinbergen, Jan. 1975. Income Distribution: Analysis and Policies. Amsterdam; New York: North-Holland Pub. Co.
Week 2
Week 3
- Jin Zhou
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
- Victor Ronda, Genetics and Family
  - Lee, James J., Robbee Wedow, Aysu Okbay, Edward Kong, Omeed Maghzian, etal. (2018). “Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals.” Nature Genetics, 50(8):1112-1121.
  - Houmark, Mikkel Aagaard, Victor Ronda, and Michael Rosholm. 2020. “The Nurture of Nature and the Nature of Nurture: How Genes and Investments Interact in the Formation of Skills.” Institute of Labor Economics. IZA Discussion Paper. DP No. 13780.
  - Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna, and Anastasia Terskaya. 2019. “Sibling Differences in Educational Polygenic Scores: How Do Parents React?” Institute of Labor Economics. IZA DP No. 12375.
  - Ronda, Victor, Esben Agerbo, Dorthe Bleses, Preben Bo Mortensen, Anders Børglum, et al. (2022). “Family disadvantage, gender, and the returns to genetic human capital.” Forthcoming, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
  - Barth, Daniel, Nicholas W. Papageorge, and Kevin Thom. (2020). “Genetic Endowments and Wealth Inequality.” Journal of Political Economy, 128(4):1474-1522.
  - Papageorge, Nicholas W, and Kevin Thom. (2019). “Genes, Education, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study.” Journal of the European Economic Association, 18(3):1351-1399.
  - Rustichini, Aldo, William G. Iacono, James Lee, and Matt McGue. (2020). “Educational Attainment and Intergenerational Mobility: A Polygenic Score Analysis.” Unpublished manuscript, University of Minnesota, Department of Economics
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
- Robert Moffitt
  - Bastian, Jacob. (2022). “Investigating the Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion on Poverty and Employment.” Rutgers University, Department of Economics
  - Chan, Marc K., and Robert Moffitt. (2018). “Welfare Reform and the Labor Market.” Annual Review of Economics, 10(1):347-381.
  - Hoynes, Hilary, and Jesse Rothstein. (2019). “Universal Basic Income in the United States and Advanced Countries.” Annual Review of Economics, 11(1):929-958.
  - Kosar, Gizem, and Robert A. Moffitt. (2017). “Trends in Cumulative Marginal Tax Rates Facing Low-Income Families, 1997–2007.” Tax Policy and the Economy, 31(1):43-70.
  - Moffitt, Robert. (2022). “Transfers, Tax and Tax Credits at the Bottom: Draft Deaton Review Commentary.” Johns Hopkins University, Department of Economics
  - Moffitt, Robert A. (2015). “The Deserving Poor, the Family, and the U.S. Welfare System.” Demography, 52(3):729-749.
  - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2019). “Consequences of Child Poverty.” In A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty, edited by Greg Duncan and Suzanne Le Menestrel, 67-96. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
- Bruce Meyer
  - Akerlof, George A. (1978). “The Economics of “Tagging” as Applied to the Optimal Income Tax, Welfare Programs, and Manpower Planning.” The American Economic Review, 68(1):8-19.
  - Corinth, Kevin, Bruce D. Meyer, Matthew Stadnicki, and Derek Wu. 2022. “The Anti-Poverty, Targeting, and Labor Supply Effects of Replacing a Child Tax Credit with a Child Allowance.” NBER Working Papers. 29366.
  - Corinth, Kevin, Bruce D. Meyer, and Derek Wu. 2022. “The Change in Poverity from 1995 to 2016 among Single Parent Families.” NBER Working Papers. 29870.
  - Han, Jeehoon, Bruce D. Meyer, and James X. Sullivan. (2021). “The Consumption, Income, and Well-Being of Single mother–headed Families 25 Years After Welfare Reform.” National Tax Journal, 74(3):791-824.
  - Keane, Michael, and Robert Moffitt. (1998). “A Structural Model of Multiple Welfare Program Participation and Labor Supply.” International Economic Review, 39(3):553-589.
  - Meyer, Bruce D., and Dan T. Rosenbaum. (2001). “Welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 116(3):1063-1114.
  - Meyer, Bruce D., and James X. Sullivan. (2008). “Changes in the Consumption, Income, and Well-Being of Single Mother Headed Families.” American Economic Review, 98(5):2221-41.
  - Meyer, Bruce D., Derek Wu, Victoria Mooers, and Carla Medalia. (2021). “The Use and Misuse of Income Data and Extreme Poverty in the United States.” Journal of Labor Economics, 39(S1):S5-S58.