Bradley Setzler

Bradley Setzler

Assistant Professor of Economics

Pennsylvania State University

Assistant Professor of Economics, Pennsylvania State University.

Links: Research | CV | bradley.setzler@gmail.com

 

Interests: Applied micro centered around labor economics and extending into international, IO, and public economics. Specific interests:

  • labor market structure, wage inequality
  • monopsony, rent sharing, firm premiums
  • skill premiums, skill-biased technology
  • labor productivity, production networks
  • multinational production/trade and labor
  • job subsidies, employment insurance

Research

Kory Kroft, Yao Luo, Magne Mogstad, Bradley Setzler
June 2021

Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry

Revised and resubmitted to Econometrica in June 2021.
My presentations: NBER Summer Institute (Labor Studies), Stanford (SITE Labor Markets), MIT (Super Applied Micro seminar joint with Dev, IO, Labor, and Trade), UChicago, UToronto/Bank of Canada

PDF NBER
Bradley Setzler, Felix Tintelnot
April 2021

The Effects of Foreign Multinationals on Workers and Firms in the United States

(Job market paper)
Published by the Quarterly Journal of Economics in August 2021.
My presentations: NBER Labor Studies, NBER Trade, EIIT, ASSA, UEA, UChicago, Penn State

PDF QJE Appendix NBER Twitter Summary The Economist
Thibaut Lamadon, Magne Mogstad, Bradley Setzler
April 2021

Imperfect Competition, Compensating Differentials and Rent Sharing in the U.S. Labor Market

Forthcoming in the American Economic Review since September 2021.

PDF AER NBER Supplement: Firm Effects
Stephane Bonhomme, Kerstin Holzheu, Thibaut Lamadon, Elena Manresa, Magne Mogstad, Bradley Setzler
August 2020

How Much Should we Trust Estimates of Firm Effects and Worker Sorting?

Revision requested by the Journal of Labor Economics in March 2021

PDF NBER
David Autor, Andreas Kostol, Magne Mogstad, Bradley Setzler
July 2019

Disability Benefits, Consumption Insurance, and Household Labor Supply

Published by the American Economic Review in July 2019.

PDF AER NBER (old)

Software

eventStudy

R package and guide for performing event studies with heterogeneous dynamic effects.
PDF Code

textables

R package for automatically producing highly-customized LaTeX tables.
Code

Public Data Sets

State Corporate Tax Rates

2000-2020 top corporate tax rates by state. Extends the data set of Giroud & Rauh (2020) which ends in 2012.
Code Dataset

Census CBP

2001-2017 Census CBP data on employment, payrolls, and establishments at various levels of aggregation (e.g., industry-by-county).
Code Dataset

Other Resources

Computer Programming Tutorials

  • Learn to program in R: my RA training notes with package development instructions and quizzes.
  • Learn to program in Julia: my lecture notes from grad school have been used by over 50,000 people since I posted them in 2014 (a bit out of date).