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Erik Hurst
Frank P. and Marianne R. Diassi Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and John E. Jeuck Faculty Fellow, Chicago Booth; Deputy Director, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
Erik Hurst is a macroeconomist whose work focuses on housing markets, labor markets and household financial behavior. One strand of Hurst's research explores the importance of home production in determining time series, life cycle, and business cycle variation in measured consumption spending. His contributions to this literature include "Consumption versus Expenditure" and "Deconstructing Life Cycle Expenditure" in the Journal of Political Economy, "Life Cycle Prices and Production" and "Time Use During the Great Recession" in the American...
Related Working Papers
- Jul 12, 2022The Distributional Impact of the Minimum Wage in the Short and Long Run
- Jun 28, 2021Task Based Discrimination
- Jul 20, 2020The U.S. Labor Market During the Beginning of the Pandemic Recession
- Feb 4, 2020A Cross-Cohort Analysis of Human Capital Specialization and the College Gender Wage Gap
- Jan 30, 2020Income Growth and the Distributional Effects of Urban Spatial Sorting
- Jun 18, 2019The Allocation of Talent and U.S. Economic Growth
- Mar 8, 2019Aggregate Nominal Wage Adjustments: New Evidence from Administrative Payroll Data
- Feb 3, 2019Regional Heterogeneity and the Refinancing Channel of Monetary Policy
- Jan 16, 2019The Aggregate Implications of Regional Business Cycles
- Apr 2, 2018The Transformation of Manufacturing and the Decline in U.S. Employment
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Related Insights
- Jul 12, 2022The Distributional Impact of the Minimum Wage in the Short and Long Run
- Jun 28, 2021Task-Based Discrimination
- Sep 8, 2020The Allocation of Talent and US Economic Growth
- Jun 1, 2020Key Economic Facts About COVID-19
- Aug 12, 2019Income Growth and the Distributional Effects of Urban Spatial Sorting
- Apr 25, 2019Labor, Jobs, and the Modern Economy: A Conversation with Chicago Booth Professor Erik Hurst
- Mar 16, 2019Aggregate Nominal Wage Adjustments: New Evidence from Administrative Payroll Data
- Jan 15, 2019The Aggregate Implications of Regional Business Cycles
- Apr 1, 2018The Transformation of Manufacturing and the Decline in U.S. Employment
- Mar 5, 2018Friedman Forum: The Effect of Technology on the Labor Supply of Young Men and Women, Featuring Booth’s Erik Hurst
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- May 3, 2019Jobless Rate Falls to Lowest in Nearly 50 Years as Employers Ramp Up Hiring
- May 7, 2018Booth’s Erik Hurst discusses leisure time of young adults
- Apr 9, 2018Regarding his recent paper with Booth’s Erik Hurst and Department of Economics PhD student Mariel Schwartz, Harris Policy’s Kerwin Charles says “fewer and fewer people of any type are needed in manufacturing production”
- Apr 5, 2018Research from Harris Policy’s Kerwin Kofi Charles, Booth’s Erik Hurst, and Department of Economics’ PhD Student Mariel Schwartz find link between drop in manufacturing and employment rates of prime-age working Americans, especially men
- Apr 3, 2018Paper written by Harris Policy’s Kerwin Kofi Charles, Booth’s Erik Hurst, and Department of Economics PhD student Mariel Schwartz found that manufacturing job losses had terrible long-run effects
- Mar 6, 2018Watch New Videos of Winter Quarter Friedman Forum Talk With Erik Hurst and Becker Brownbag Talk With Chang-Tai Hsieh
- Feb 20, 2018NBER paper from Booth’s Erik Hurst cited in discussion of leisure time
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