About Me
Welcome! I am a PhD candidate in Economics at Duke University.
My research interests are labor, macro, and spatial economics. I am interested in how family background, immigration policies, and labor market frictions shape inequality and distort the allocation of talent.
My CV is available here. You can contact me at runling.wu@duke.edu.
Working Papers
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Intergenerational Mobility in Welfare: Wages and Amenities
Abstract (click to expand)
Measures of intergenerational mobility primarily focus on earnings and often overlook substantial heterogeneity in job amenities. We propose a novel measure of intergenerational welfare mobility, “value-value” slope, including both pecuniary and non-pecuniary value of a job. We apply a revealed preference approach to construct common rankings of jobs based on worker flows. Using Danish administrative data, we document that there is 31% more intergenerational mobility than earnings-based mobility measures alone would suggest: the value-value slope is 0.105 and the wage-premia slope is 0.151.
- The Worker and Firm Origins of Life-Cycle Wage Inequality (coming soon)
“The Micro and Macro Perspective of the Labor Market” Reading Group
Jesse Wedewer and I co-organize the “Micro and Macro Perspective of the Labor Market” Virtual Reading Group at Duke. An archive can be found here.
Please contact labor.public@gmail.com if you are interested in participating. Meetings are on Saturdays at 11 AM (ET) via Zoom.
Teaching
Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, Duke University:
- Econ 702 — Macroeconomics I (PhD), Fall 2024
- Econ 706 — Macroeconomics II (PhD), Spring 2025
Contact
Email: runling.wu@duke.edu
Department of Economics, Duke University • Durham, NC