Moises Yi

PUBLISHED AND FORTHCOMING PAPERS

David Card, Jesse Rothstein, and Moises Yi. "Location, Location, Location." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2025,  Vol 17(1): 297-336 . (Online Appendix, Replication Package)

Moises Yi, Steffen Mueller, and Jens Stegmaier. "Industry Mix, Local Labor Markets, and the Incidence of Trade Shocks." Journal of Labor Economics 2024,  Vol 42(3): 837-875. (Online Appendix) 

David Card, Jesse Rothstein, and Moises Yi. "Industry Wage Differentials: A Firm-Based Approach." Journal of Labor Economics 2024,  Vol 42(S1): S11-S59.  

Simon Galle, Andres Rodriguez-Clare, and Moises Yi. "Slicing the Pie: Quantifying the Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Trade." Review of Economic Studies 2023, Vol. 90(1): 331–75. 

J. David Brown, Suzanne Dorinski, Misty Heggeness, Lawrence Warren, and Moises Yi. "Predicting the Effect of Adding a Citizenship Question to the 2020 Census." Demography 2019, Vol 56(4): 1173-94.

Moises Yi, Steffen Mueller, and Jens Stegmaier.  "Transferability of Skills across Sectors and Heterogeneous Displacement Costs."  American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings 2017, Vol. 107(5): 332-36. 

WORKING PAPERS

NEW DRAFT (2026) Trade and Welfare (across Local Labor Markets) (with Ryan Kim and Jonathan Vogel)

Size Matters: Matching Externalities and the Advantages of Large Labor Markets (with Enrico Moretti)

Re-Assessing the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis (with David Card and Jesse Rothstein)

Shorter version: AEA Papers and Proceedings, (2024) 114: 221-25 (replication materials)

SELECTED WORK IN PROGRESS

How do neighborhoods and firms affect intergenerational mobility?  (with David Card and Jesse Rothstein)

The Distributional Effects of Million Dollar Plants: Worker-Level Evidence (with Ben Hyman, Cailin Slattery and Owen Zidar)

Puerto Rican Migrants in the Mainland United States: Evidence from Administrative Data (with David Card and Jesse Rothstein)

Minimum wages and worker reallocation (with Arin Dube, Laura Giuliano and Attila Lindner)

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