Bradley Setzler

Assistant Professor of Economics

MIT, Penn State & NBER

Appointments:

The Hal Varian Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, MIT.
The Strumpf Early Career Assistant Professor of Economics, Penn State (on leave).
Faculty Research Fellow in Labor Studies, NBER.

Links: Research | CV | bradley.setzler@gmail.com

Fields:

Primary: Labor Economics
Secondary: Industrial Organization, International Trade

Topics of Interest:

Labor market power and
- its interactions with product market power (see 5, 7);
- the role of firms in wage inequality (see 3, 4);
- mergers for labor concentration (see 7);
- testing the conduct of labor markets (see 9).
Labor market adjustment to
- local trade exposure (see 6, 8);
- local spillovers from foreign firm entry (see 2);
- worker-specific productivity shocks (see 1).

Note: the numbers are links to my relevant papers, ordered chronologically.

Publications

Stephane Bonhomme, Kerstin Holzheu, Thibaut Lamadon, Elena Manresa, Magne Mogstad, Bradley Setzler

April 2023

How Much Should we Trust Estimates of Firm Effects and Worker Sorting?

Journal of Labor Economics, 2023. (Lead article.)

PDF JOLE Appendix NBER (longer version) Statistical Extracts

Thibaut Lamadon, Magne Mogstad, Bradley Setzler

January 2022

Imperfect Competition, Compensating Differentials, and Rent Sharing in the U.S. Labor Market

American Economic Review, 2022.

PDF AER NBER AER Appendix Supplement: Firm Effects Replication Kit Statistical Extracts

Bradley Setzler, Felix Tintelnot

August 2021

The Effects of Foreign Multinationals on Workers and Firms in the United States

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2021.

PDF QJE Appendix NBER Feenstra-Taylor textbook Twitter Summary The Economist Microeconomic Insights

David Autor, Andreas Kostol, Magne Mogstad, Bradley Setzler

July 2019

Disability Benefits, Consumption Insurance, and Household Labor Supply

American Economic Review, 2019.

PDF AER NBER (old)

Working Papers

David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson, Maggie Jones, Bradley Setzler

January 2025

Places vs People: The Ins and Outs of Labor Market Adjustment to Globalization

Submitted for publication in the Handbook of Labor Economics in December 2024.
My presentations: Carnegie Mellon, Oslo Labor Workshop.

Handbook of Labor Economics

Kory Kroft, Yao Luo, Magne Mogstad, Bradley Setzler

November 2024

Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry

Revised and resubmitted (2nd revision) to the American Economic Review in November 2024.
My presentations: NBER SI-Labor, MIT, NBER IO, UBC, LSE, Stanford-SITE, Cornell, Maryland, Columbia Business School, U of Oslo, Federal Reserve Board, Carnegie Mellon/Pittsburgh, UChicago, BI Norwegian Business School, Penn State, CESifo, UToronto/Bank of Canada, Texas A&M, Wisconsin, Duke, Queen’s

PDF NBER Slides In Card's Nobel Prize citation