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The Impact of Unions on the Wage Distribution: Evidence from Higher Education

By Michael Baker, Yosh Halberstam, Kory Kroft, Alexandre Mas, and Derek Messacar

American Economic Review: Insights

We estimate the impact of unionization on the wage distribution of Canadian university faculty using longitudinal administrative data on salaries and exploiting the staggered rollout of unionization across institutions. We find that unionization compres...

The Economics of Attention

By George Loewenstein and Zachary Wojtowicz

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2025

Attention is an important resource in the modern economy and plays an increasingly prominent role in economic analysis. We summarize research on attention from both psychology and economics with a particular emphasis on its capacity to explain documented ...

Housing and Inequality

By Yannis M. Ioannides and L. Rachel Ngai

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2025

We approach the literature on housing and inequality from two angles. One is the impact of unequal endowments on housing. The second is the "memberships" inequality associated with neighborhoods, namely, households' location in a geographic and social con...