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

First version: March 2020. This version: April 2022.
My presentations: NBER Summer Institute (Labor Studies), Stanford (SITE Labor Markets), MIT (Super Applied Micro seminar joint with Dev, IO, Labor, and Trade), UBC, CESifo (Labor), UChicago, Penn State, UToronto/Bank of Canada

PDF NBER Slides In Card's Nobel Prize citation

Software

eventStudy

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

textables

R package for automatically producing highly-customized LaTeX tables.

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.

Census CBP

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

Other Resources

Advice for Students

Computer Programming Tutorials