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September 5th, 2023, Working Paper: "Is there latent demand to support Black-owned businesses? To explore, we analyze a new feature that made it easier to identify Black-owned…
January 21, 2021, Opinion: "Pay cuts and salary freezes have become an unfortunate hallmark of the Covid-19 recession. Over seven million employees have seen their wages drop…
2020, Paper: "The rise of online marketplaces raises the potential for markets that are both more efficient and less biased. Early research pointed to the arms-length nature and…
Shutdown Shock May Endure for Federal Workers. Michael Luca, January 17, 2019, Opinion, "The ongoing government shutdown has led to a temporary loss of pay for about 800,000…
How Amazon’s Higher Wages Could Increase Productivity. Michael Luca, October 10, 2018, Paper, "Amazon recently made headlines by announcing that it would voluntarily increase its…
Survival of the Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit. Michael Luca, April 11, 2017, Paper, "We study the impact of the minimum wage on firm exit in the restaurant…
Why We Don’t Value Flextime Enough. Michael Luca, March 3, 2017, Opinion, "Earlier this month, the city council in Copenhagen voted unanimously to give all municipal workers…
Fixing Discrimination in Online Marketplaces. Michael Luca, December 2016, Paper, "In the late 1980s, law professors Ian Ayres and Peter Siegelman set out to learn whether blacks…
Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment. Benjamin Edelman, Michael Luca, December 9, 2015, "Online marketplaces increasingly…