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October 22, 2022, Audio: "To what extent does where you live determine how you live? In particular, does growing up in a poor neighborhood reduce one’s chances for economic and…
June 2021, Paper: "How does one's place of residence affect individual behavior and long-run outcomes? Understanding neighborhood and place effects has been a leading question for…
January 15, 2021, Video: "AFE2020 Keynote by Larry Katz, Harvard University "Housing Mobility Policies and Neighborhood Effects: Lessons from Randomized Field Experiments"
July 1, 2020, Paper, "Antipoverty policies may hold promise as tools to improve health and reduce mortality rates among low-income Americans. We examined the health effects of the…
January 11, 2020, Paper, "The race between education and technology provides a canonical framework that does an excellent job of explaining US wage structure changes across the…
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice. Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Lawrence Katz, August 2019, Paper, "Low-income families in…
What makes gig economy workers anxious? Lawrence Katz, March 8, 2018, Audio, "What do freelance writers, IT consultants and Mary Kay sellers all have in common? They are each a…
Imagining a Future of Work That Fosters Mobility for All. Lawrence Katz, February 2018, Paper, "We live in a time of rising economic polarization. Low- and high-wage jobs are…
Expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit for Workers Without Dependent Children. Lawrence Katz, September 2017, Paper, "In recent decades, wage inequality in the United States has…
The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms. Lawrence Katz, May 2017, Opinion, "The fall of labor's share of GDP in the United States and many other countries in…