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

Fields:

primary: labor economics
secondary: industrial organization, international trade

Specific topics of interest:

labor market structure, wage inequality
monopsony, rent sharing, firm premiums
skill premiums, skill-biased technology
labor demand in production/trade networks
persistence of job loss, regional decline

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 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

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

Revision requested by American Economic Review in February 2023.
My presentations: NBER SI-Labor, MIT, NBER IO, UBC, LSE, Stanford-SITE, Cornell, UChicago, Penn State, CESifo, UToronto/Bank of Canada, Texas A&M

PDF NBER Slides In Card's Nobel Prize citation

Resources

Special Lectures

A Brief Overview of Monopsony, Wage Inequality, and Labor Market Sorting

Advice for Students

Letters of Recommendation (for undergraduates)
Research Presentations (for PhD students)

Public Software Packages

textables: construct and compile TeX tables in R
DiD for Big Data: fast and big-data-friendly diff-in-diffs in R
eventStudy: stacked approach to staggered diff-in-diffs in R

Public Data Sets

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