Moritz Kuhn
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
University of Mannheim
- Address
- L 7, 3-5, 68161 Mannheim, Germany
- mokuhn@uni-mannheim.de
- Phone
- +49 621 181 1929
- Office hours
- please send an email (judith.price@uni-mannheim.de)
To learn more about the research activities of my Macro Inequality Lab please visit macro-inequality-lab.net
The Macro Inequality Lab brings together scholars to tackle pressing issues surrounding wealth, labor markets, and opportunity. We strive to generate knowledge that matters — not only for academia, but also for policymakers and the public — to help design smarter policies and foster an economy in which everyone can contribute and thrive.
News
- Launch of the new webpage distributionaldynamics.com accompanying my paper Distributional Dynamics with Christian Bayer and Luis Calderon, with quarterly data on the U.S. distributions of consumption, income, and wealth since 1962
- My paper Job levels and Wages with Christian Bayer has been accepted for publication at the Review of Economic Studies
- New version of my paper Distribution Dynamics with Christian Bayer and Luis Calderon online
- My paper The Geography of Job Creation and Job Destruction with Iourii Manovskii and Xincheng Qiu is forthcoming in the Journal of Monetary Economics
- Starting in January 2026, I will join the editorial board of the Journal of the European Economic Association as an associated editor
U.S. income and wealth data
For the results from my paper with José-Víctor Ríos-Rull (see Publications) on the U.S. earnings, income, and wealth distribution please visit the data page. The page comprises results from the paper together with some additional results that are not in the paper. I am still uploading some additional results from time to time. Please contact me if you have questions or comments.
Research agenda, videos, and data
- Video of my presentation in the Virtual Seminar on Climiate Economics Series of the paper "Distributional Consequences of Climate Policies"
- My ECONtribute podcast (in German) about my research on the German labor market
- Link to video of presentation Monetary Policy and Racial Inequality at the Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute 2021 fall research conference conference
- Radio podcast "Tagesgespräch" on BR2 (in German) from October 2019: "Kluft zwischen Arm und Reich - Wie viel Ungleichheit verträgt unsere Gesellschaft?"
- Link to video of presentation Wealth and Income Inequality in America 1949-2016 at Spring 2019 Fed Listens Conference at the Minneapolis Fed (starts at 1h39m)
- Link to video of my presentation (session four) on a project using the Historical Survey of Consumer Finances at the St. Louis Fed Symposium "Is College Still Worth It?"
- Read about my research agenda Understanding Income and Wealth Inequality (appeared in EconomicDynamics April 2017)
- Links to videos of lectures at CES Munich on Income and Wealth Inequality: Theory and Evidence
- Link to my Data page on U.S. income and wealth data