Macro Inequality Lab

Publications

Income and Wealth Inequality in the United States: An Update Including the 2022 Wave

José-Víctor Ríos-Rull and Moritz Kuhn
Quarterly Review, October 2025

The Distribution of Household Debt in the United States, 1950-2022

Alina Bartscher, Moritz Kuhn, Moritz Schularick, and Ulrike Steins
Volume 57, July 2025

Unemployment insurance reforms and labor market dynamics

Benjamin Hartung, Philip Jung, and Moritz Kuhn
March 2025, advance online publication

What if? The economic effects for a Germany of a stop of energy imports from Russia

Rüdiger Bachmann, David Baqaee, Christian Bayer, Andreas Löschel, Benjamin Moll, Moritz Kuhn, Andreas Peichl, Karen Pittel, and Moritz Schularick
Volume 91, Issue 364, July 2024

Changes in the Distribution of Black and White Wealth Since the US Civil War

Ellora Derenoncourt, Chi Hyun Kim, Moritz Kuhn, and Moritz Schularick
Volume 37, Number 4, Fall 2023

Wealth of two nations: The U.S. racial wealth gap, 1860-2020

Ellora Derenoncourt, Chi Hyun Kim, Moritz Kuhn and Moritz Schularick
Volume 139, Issue 2, May 2024

Coordinated Firm-Level Work Processes and Macroeconomic Resilience

Jinfeng Luo, Moritz Kuhn, Iourii Manovskii, and Xincheng Qiu
Volume 137, July 2023 (mention website)

Monetary policy and racial inequality

Alina Bartscher, Moritz Kuhn, Moritz Schularick, and Paul Wachtel
Spring 2022

Income and Wealth Inequality in America, 1949-2016

Moritz Kuhn, Moritz Schularick, and Ulrike I. Steins
Volume 128, Number 9, September 2020

The College Wealth Divide: Education and Inequality in America, 1956-2016

Alina Bartscher, Moritz Kuhn, and Moritz Schularick
Volume 102, Number 1, Q1 2020

Earnings losses and labor mobility over the life cycle

Philip Jung and Moritz Kuhn
Volume 17, Issue 3, June 2019

Insurance in Human Capital Models with Limited Enforcement

Tom Krebs, Moritz Kuhn, and Mark Wright
Volume 25, April 2017

2013 Update on the U.S. Earnings, Income, and Wealth Distributional Facts: A View from Macroeconomic Modelers

José-Víctor Ríos-Rull and Moritz Kuhn
Quarterly Review 3711, April 2016

Human Capital Risk, Contract Enforcement, and the Macroeconomy

Tom Krebs, Moritz Kuhn, and Mark Wright
Volume 105, Number 11, November 2015

Optimal taxation in a habit formation economy

Sebastian Koehne and Moriz Kuhn
Volume 122, February 2015

Should unemployment insurance be asset-tested?
(Online Appendix)

Sebastian Koehne and Moriz Kuhn
Volume 18, Issue 3, July 2015

Labor market institutions and worker flows: Comparing Germany and the U.S.

Philip Jung and Moriz Kuhn
Volume 124, Issue 581, December 2014

Recursive equilibria in an Aiyagari style economy with permanent income shocks

Moritz Kuhn
Volume 53, Number 3, August 2013