Bradley Setzler

Associate Professor of Economics

Ohio State & NBER

Current Appointments:

Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure), Ohio State.
Research Associate in Labor Studies, NBER.

Fields:

Primary: Labor Economics, Applied Micro
Secondary: Industrial Organization, Spatial and Trade Economics

Topics of Interest:

Labor market power and
- mergers, collusion, and conduct in labor markets (see 7, 8);
- its interactions with product market power (see 5, 7);
- the role of firms in wage inequality (see 3, 4).
Local labor market adjustment to
- trade exposure (see 6, 9, 10, 11);
- job creation by foreign firms (see 2);
- worker-level health shocks (see 1).

Note: the numbers are links to my relevant papers, ordered chronologically.

Professional Links:

Publications

David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson, Maggie R. Jones, Bradley Setzler

September 2025

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

Handbook of Labor Economics, 2025.

PDF Handbook of Labor Economics Slides NBER Wall Street Journal New York Times

Kory Kroft, Yao Luo, Magne Mogstad, Bradley Setzler

August 2025

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

American Economic Review, 2025.

PDF AER Appendix NBER (old) Slides

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 Appendix Supplement: Firm Effects NBER 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.

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

Michael Rubens, Bradley Setzler, Chen Yeh

June 2026

Conduct in US Labor Markets

Newly available to present in 2026. Scheduled: ASSA, Minnesota Fed, Oslo Labor Workshop, U of Oslo, Stanford SITE, Tilburg. Preliminary draft now available to present.

Bradley Setzler

October 2025

Labor and Product Market Power, Endogenous Quality, and the Consolidation of the US Hospital Industry

Econometrica, revise and resubmit.
Newly available to present in 2025. Presentations: ASSA, Brandeis, Cornell, Florida, Leuven, Michigan, MIT, NBER Health Economics, NBER Industrial Organization, NBER Labor Studies, NBER Megafirms, Ohio State, Princeton, Stanford, UEA. NBER working paper now available.

PDF Slides NBER

In Progress

David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson, Maggie R. Jones, Bradley Setzler, John Voorheis

October 2025

The Children of the China Shock

Daniel Haanwinckel, Bradley Setzler

October 2025

What Policies Can Attenuate the Negative Impacts of Trade Shocks on Local Labor Markets?

Bradley Setzler, OECD LinkEED

October 2025