Moritz Kuhn

Professor

Department of Economics

University of Mannheim

L 7, 3-5, 68161 Mannheim, Germany

mokuhn@uni-mannheim.de

+49 621 181 1929

Office hours: please send an email (judith.price@uni-mannheim.de).

Link to my Google Scholar page

Follow me on Twitter @kuhnmo

To learn more about the research activities of my Macro Inequality Lab please visit https://macro-inequality-lab.net/
The Macro Inequality Lab brings together scholars to tackle pressing issues surrounding wealth, labor markets, and opportunity. We strive to generate knowledge that matters — not only for academia, but also for policymakers and the public — to help design smarter policies and foster an economy in which everyone can contribute and thrive.

News

My paper The Geography of Job Creation and Job Destruction with Iourii Manovskii and Xincheng Qiu has been conditionally accepted at the Journal of Monetary Economics
New Research Lab: I am excited to announce as director the launch of the Macro Inequality Lab
Department of Economics at University of Mannheim supports new Measurement Laboratory (MeToD) and I am a proud member of its evaluation committee
I am the new head of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Institute for Employment research (IAB)
New policy paper (IAB Forum, in German) on the Perception of the German Social Security System

Research agenda, videos, and data

Video of my presentation in the Virtual Seminar on Climiate Economics Series of the paper "Distributional Consequences of Climate Policies"
My ECONtribute podcast (in German) about my research on the German labor market
Link to video of presentation Monetary Policy and Racial Inequality at the Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute 2021 fall research conference conference
Radio podcast "Tagesgespräch" on BR2 (in German) from October 2019: "Kluft zwischen Arm und Reich - Wie viel Ungleichheit verträgt unsere Gesellschaft?"
Link to video of presentation Wealth and Income Inequality in America 1949-2016 at Spring 2019 Fed Listens Conference at the Minneapolis Fed (starts at 1h39m)
Link to video of my presentation (session four) on a project using the Historical Survey of Consumer Finances at the St. Louis Fed Symposium "Is College Still Worth It?"
Read about my research agenda Understanding Income and Wealth Inequality (appeared in EconomicDynamics April 2017)
Links to videos of lectures at CES Munich on Income and Wealth Inequality: Theory and Evidence
Link to my Data page on U.S. income and wealth data

For the results from my paper with José-Víctor Ríos-Rull (see Research) on the U.S. earnings, income, and wealth distribution please visit the data page. The page comprises results from the paper together with some additional results that are not in the paper. I am still uploading some additional results from time to time. Please contact me if you have questions or comments.