This chapter reviews key literature studying the effects of wars on minority and
underrepresented groups in US labor markets in the 20th century. These labor markets …

We estimate the urban wage premium in the United States from 1940 to 2010. Drawing on
recent advances in the literature on selection on unobservables, we show how to control for …

Conventional economic theories cannot fully explain the timing, duration, and size of the
American Baby Boom. I propose a new explanation: the rise of the labor movement. Union …

This paper studies the unconditional effects of a general policy intervention, which includes
location-scale shifts and simultaneous shifts as special cases. The location-scale shift is …

Using a differences-in-differences model, I find evidence that a structural change between
wages and industrial concentration occurred in the winter of 1936-1937. This structural …

Since the 1940s, right-to-work (RTW) laws' impact on income distribution has been debated,
particularly due to the understudied early adopters from 1944 to 1963. Earlier studies …

The wage controls of the National War Labor Board (NWLB) have been credited with
contributing to the decline in income inequality from 1940 to 1950 that occurred along many …

This paper suggests a generalization of covariates shifts to study distributional impacts on
inequality and distributional measures. It builds on the recentered influence function (RIF) …