Bradley Setzler

Bradley Setzler

Assistant Professor of Economics

Pennsylvania State University & NBER

Assistant Professor of Economics, Pennsylvania State University.

Faculty Research Fellow in Labor Studies, NBER.

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 demand in production/trade networks
  • job subsidies, employment insurance

Publications

Stephane Bonhomme, Kerstin Holzheu, Thibaut Lamadon, Elena Manresa, Magne Mogstad, Bradley Setzler
February 2022

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

Journal of Labor Economics, 2023.

PDF Appendix NBER (longer version)
Thibaut Lamadon, Magne Mogstad, Bradley Setzler
January 2022

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

American Economic Review, 2022.

PDF AER NBER AER Appendix Supplement: Firm Effects
Bradley Setzler, Felix Tintelnot
August 2021

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

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2021. (Job market paper.)

PDF QJE Appendix NBER Feenstra-Taylor textbook Twitter Summary The Economist
David Autor, Andreas Kostol, Magne Mogstad, Bradley Setzler
July 2019

Disability Benefits, Consumption Insurance, and Household Labor Supply

American Economic Review, 2019.

PDF AER NBER (old)

Working Papers

Kory Kroft, Yao Luo, Magne Mogstad, Bradley Setzler
April 2022

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

This version: April 2022.
My presentations: NBER Summer Institute, MIT, UBC, LSE, Stanford, Cornell, UChicago, Penn State, CESifo, UToronto/Bank of Canada, Texas A&M

PDF NBER Slides In Card's Nobel Prize citation

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

Special Lectures

Advice for Students

Computer Programming Tutorials