Bradley Setzler

Bradley Setzler

Assistant Professor of Economics

Penn State & NBER

Appointments:

  • The Strumpf Early Career Assistant Professor of Economics, Penn State.
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, MIT (Spring 2025).
  • Faculty Research Fellow in Labor Studies, NBER.

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

Fields:

  • Primary: Labor Economics
  • Secondary: Industrial Organization, International Trade

Topics of Interest:

  1. Employer market power over workers (see 2, 3, 4, 5, 7).
  2. How trade affects workers (see 2, 6, 8).
  3. How workers recover from job loss (see 1, 6, 8).

Publications

Stephane Bonhomme, Kerstin Holzheu, Thibaut Lamadon, Elena Manresa, Magne Mogstad, Bradley Setzler
April 2023

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

Journal of Labor Economics, 2023. (Lead article.)

PDF JOLE Appendix NBER (longer version) Statistical Extracts
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 Replication Kit Statistical Extracts
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 Microeconomic Insights
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

David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson, Maggie Jones, Bradley Setzler
May 2024

Places versus People: The Ins and Outs of Labor Market Adjustment to Globalization

In preparation for Handbook of Labor Economics.
My presentations: Carnegie Mellon, Oslo Labor Workshop.

Handbook of Labor Economics
Kory Kroft, Yao Luo, Magne Mogstad, Bradley Setzler
July 2023

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

Revision requested (2nd round) by American Economic Review in June 2024.
My presentations: NBER SI-Labor, MIT, NBER IO, UBC, LSE, Stanford-SITE, Cornell, Maryland, Columbia Business School, U of Oslo, Federal Reserve Board, Carnegie Mellon/Pittsburgh, UChicago, BI Norwegian Business School, Penn State, CESifo, UToronto/Bank of Canada, Texas A&M

PDF NBER Slides In Card's Nobel Prize citation

In Progress

Michael Rubens, Bradley Setzler, Chen Yeh
May 2024

Conduct and Collusion in the U.S. Labor Market

Coming soon. Title subject to change.

David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson, Maggie Jones, Bradley Setzler
May 2024

The Children of the China Shock

Coming soon. Title subject to change.

Resources

Public Lectures

Advice

Software Packages

  • textab: construct and compile highly-customized LaTeX tables in R
  • DiD for Big Data: fast and big-data-friendly diff-in-diffs in R

Events I Organize

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