Starting in summer 2024, I worked with Gaurav Khanna and two grad students to examine city wage premiums.
We use an AKM and movers design estimate to analyze how place affects earnings. Unlike past similar work, we use a panel from LinkedIn with more than 500 million people from around the world, which allows us to take a more global perspective and analyze both country and city effects.
A very early draft of the paper is linked below. It will be periodically updated as I have more recent versions.