Research

Publications

• Gottlieb, Joshua D, Maria Polyakova, Kevin Rinz, Hugh Shiplett, and Victoria Udalova. 2025. “The Earnings and Labor Supply of U.S. Physicians.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming.
  • Download: Final published version, July 2023 version, Census version, NBER version, BFI version, BFI research brief, authors’ non-technical summary (corresponds to prior version), physician earnings data
  • Coverage: Washington Post (x2)
• Kondo, Illenin, Kevin Rinz, Natalie Gubbay, Brandon Hawkins, John Voorheis, and Abigail Wozniak. 2025. “Granular Income Inequality and Mobility using IDDA: Exploring Patterns across Race and Ethnicity.” In Race, Ethnicity and Economic Statistics for the 21st Century, ed. Randall Akee, Lawrence Katz, and Mark Loewenstein, forthcoming.
  • Download: paper, data
• Rinz, Kevin. 2022. “Did Timing Matter? Life Cycle Differences in Effects of Exposure to the Great Recession.” Journal of Labor Economics 40(3), 703–735.
  • Download: final paper, online appendix, working paper (September 2019), non-technical summary
  • Coverage: Washington Post, Wall Street Journal
• Rinz, Kevin. 2022. “Labor Market Concentration, Earnings, and Inequality.” Journal of Human Resources 57(S), S251–S283.
  • Download: Final pre-print, Online Appendix, CARRA Working Paper (September 2018)
  • Coverage: Bloomberg, Quartz, The Economist
• Hungerman, Daniel M., Kevin Rinz, and Jay Frymark. 2019. “Beyond the Classroom: The Implications of School Vouchers for Church Finances.” Review of Economics and Statistics 101(4), 588-601.
  • Download: NBER version
  • Coverage: The Atlantic, Business Insider, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, POLITICO, USA Today, America
• Hungerman, Daniel M., Kevin Rinz, Tim Weninger, and Chungeun Yoon. 2018. “Political Campaigns and Church Contributions.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
  • Download: published version, NBER version
• Hungerman. Daniel M. and Kevin Rinz. 2016. “Where Does Voucher Funding Go? How Large-scale Subsidy Programs Affect Private-school Revenue, Enrollment, and Prices.” Journal of Public Economics 136, 62-85.
  • Download: published version, NBER version
  • Coverage: VoxEU, Chalkbeat

Working Papers

• “The Effect of Emergency Financial Assistance on Employment and Earnings” (with Daniel Hungerman, David Phillips, and James Sullivan)
  • Download: paper (January 2024), NBER version (July 2024), non-technical summary
• “Re-examining Regional Income Convergence: A Distributional Approach” (with John Voorheis)
  • Download: paper, non-technical summary, state income distribution data, data readme
• “The Distributional Effects of Minimum Wages: Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data” (with John Voorheis)
  • Download: CARRA Working Paper (March 2018), Washington Center for Equitable Growth Working Paper (May 2018)
  • Coverage: Marginal Revolution, Bloomberg, Salon, Washington Center for Equitable Growth, Business Insider 1 and 2, St. Louis American, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
• “Labor Market Effects of the Affordable Care Act: Evidence from a Tax Notch” (with Kavan Kucko and Ben Solow)
  • Download: CARRA Working Paper (July 2017)
• “Undone by the Market? The Effects of School Vouchers on Educational Inputs”
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Work in Progress

• “A Shock by Any Other Name? Reconsidering the Impacts of Local Demand Shocks” (with Sean Bassler, David Wasser, and Abigail Wozniak)

Resting Papers

• “The Effects of Right to Work Laws on Wages: Evidence from the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947”
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