"The Economic Performance of Cities: A Markov-Switching Approach"
with Michael T. Owyang, Jeremy M. Piger, and
Howard J. Wall
FORTHCOMING: Journal of Urban Economics
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"Technology and Industrial Agglomeration: Evidence from Computer Usage"
FORTHCOMING: Papers in Regional Science
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"Neighborhood Income Inequality"
with Elizabeth A. La Jeunesse
FORTHCOMING: Journal of Regional Science
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"Worker Turnover, Industry Localization, and Producer Size"
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, May 2008, 66(2), pp. 322-34.
"Local Market Scale and the Pattern of Job Changes Among Young Men"
Regional Science and Urban Economics, March 2008, 38(2), pp. 101-18.
"Job Flows and Productivity Dynamics: Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing"
Macroeconomic Dynamics, April 2007, 11(2), pp. 175-201.
"Industry Localization and Earnings Inequality: Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing"
Papers in Regional Science, March 2007, 86(1), pp. 77-100.
"Do Localization Economies Derive from Human Capital Externalities?"
The Annals of Regional Science, March 2007, 41(1), pp. 31-50.
"Cities and the Growth of Wages Among Young Workers: Evidence from the NLSY"
Journal of Urban Economics, September 2006, 60(2), pp. 162-84.
"Productivity and the Geographic Concentration of Industry: The Role of Plant Scale"
Regional Science and Urban Economics, May 2006, 36(3), pp. 313-30.
"Cities, Skills, and Inequality"
Growth and Change, Summer 2005, 36(3), pp. 329-53.
"Wage Inequality and Urban Density"
Journal of Economic Geography, August 2004, 4(4), pp. 421-37.
"On the Distributional Aspects of Urban Growth"
Journal of Urban Economics, March 2004, 55(2), pp.371-97.
"Evidence on Agglomeration Economies, Diseconomies, and Growth"
Journal of Applied Econometrics, January/February 2003, 18(1), pp. 79-104.
"Search, Sorting, and Urban Agglomeration"
Journal of Labor Economics, October 2001, 19(4), pp. 879-99.
"A Note on the Spatial Correlation Structure of County-Level Growth in the U.S."
Journal of Regional Science, August 2001, 41(3), pp. 433-49.
"Neighborhoods That Don't Work"
with Allison K. Rodean
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The Regional Economist, April 2008, pp. 7-11.
"Changing Trends in the Labor Force: A Survey"
with Riccardo DiCecio, Kristie M. Engemann, and Michael T. Owyang
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, January/February 2008, 90(1), pp. 47-62.
"Trends in Neighborhood-Level Unemployment in the United States: 1980-2000"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, March/April 2007, 89(2), p. 123-41.
"The Rise in the Residential Concentration of Joblessness in America's Cities"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Bridges, Winter 2006-2007, pp. 5-7.
"Three Metro Areas Outside St. Louis Outpace State of Missouri as a Whole"
with Elizabeth A. La Jeunesse
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The Regional Economist, April 2006, p. 16.
"Human Capital Growth in a Cross Section of U.S. Metropolitan Areas"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, March/April 2006, 88(2), p. 113-32.
"Businesses Don't Just Choose a City, They Choose a Specific Neighborhood"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Bridges, Winter 2005, pp. 1-4.
"District's Largest Urban Area Slowly Regains Jobs Lost during Recession"
with Elizabeth A. La Jeunesse
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The Regional Economist, October 2005, p. 16.
"Evidence on Wage Inequality, Worker Education, and Technology"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, May/June 2005, 87(3), p. 375-93.
"Employment Trends Vary in Three of Missouri's Metro Areas"
with Elizabeth A. La Jeunesse
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The Regional Economist, April 2005, p. 16.
"Wage Gap Widens, Especially in Cities"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The Regional Economist, January 2005, pp. 12-13.