News

1. New VoxEU column Carbon reduction and social justice: A challenge for economic policy with Lennard Schlattmann

2. New working paper Army of Mortgagors: Long-Run Evidence on Credit Externalities and the Housing Market with Tobias Herbst and Farzad Saidi

3. Call for papers for the 4th CRC TR 224 Workshop on Labor Markets is out! Please submit your work! 

4. New working paper Distributional Consequences of Climate Policies with Lennard Schlattmann

5. Changes in the Distribution of Black and White Wealth Since the US Civil War with Ellora Derenoncourt, Chi Hyun Kim, and Moritz Schularick now out in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 37, no. 4, Fall 2023 (pp. 71-90)

6. New and strongly revised version of the working paper on the U.S. debt boom The Distribution of Household Debt in the United States, 1950-2019 with Alina Bartscher, Moritz Schularick, and Ulrike Steins now available 

7. New working paper Unemployment risk, portfolio choice, and the racial wealth gap with Ellora Derenoncourt, Chi Hyun Kim, and Moritz Schularick 

Research agenda, videos, and data

• My ECONtribute podcast (in German) about my research on the German labor market 

• Link to video of presentation Monetary Policy and Racial Inequality at the Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute 2021 fall research conference conference

• Radio podcast "Tagesgespräch" on BR2 (in German) from October 2019: "Kluft zwischen Arm und Reich - Wie viel Ungleichheit verträgt unsere Gesellschaft?"

• Link to video of presentation Wealth and Income Inequality in America 1949-2016 at Spring 2019 Fed Listens Conference at the Minneapolis Fed (starts at 1h39m)

• Link to video of my presentation (session four) on a project using the Historical Survey of Consumer Finances at the St. Louis Fed Symposium "Is College Still Worth It?"

• Read about my research agenda Understanding Income and Wealth Inequality (appeared in EconomicDynamics April 2017)

• Links to videos of lectures at CES Munich on Income and Wealth Inequality: Theory and Evidence

• Link to my Data page on U.S. income and wealth data

For the results from my paper with José-Víctor Ríos-Rull (see Research) on the U.S. earnings, income, and wealth distribution please visit the data page. The page comprises results from the paper together with some additional results that are not in the paper. I am still uploading some additional  results from time to time. Please contact me if you have questions or comments.