Publications and Acceptances

Peri, G., Rury, D., and Wiltshire, J.C., 2024. “The Economic Impact of Migrants from Hurricane Maria.” Journal of Human Resources 59 (6): 1795-1829

• Downloadables: PDF Pre-print | Online Appendix | Replication Package

• Coverage: Good on Paper Podcast (The Atlantic), The Atlantic, USA TODAY, The NBER Digest (No. 11, November 2020), Hutchins Roundup (Brookings), The Weeds Podcast (Vox)

Orlova, N., Rury, D., and Wiltshire, J.C., 2026. “Lifting the Cap on Non-Resident University Enrollment: Evidence from Wisconsin.” Empirical Economics 70 (46): https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-025-02878-y

• Downloadables: PDF Working Paper | Online Appendix | Replication Package

• COVERAGE: Inside Higher Ed, Higher Ed Dive

Wiltshire, J.C., McPherson, C., Reich, M., and Sosinskiy, D., Forthcoming. “Minimum Wage Effects and Monopsony Explanations.” Journal of Labor Economics

• Downloadables: PDF Pre-Print | Online Appendix | Replication Package

• Coverage: Congressional Budget Office, Michigan Senate Labor Committee, Michigan House Labor Committee, Connecticut Joint Committee on Labor and Public Employees, New York Magazine, CNN Business, Common Dreams, Pitchfork Economics Podcast, Social Society

Wiltshire, J.C., Forthcoming. “allsynth: (Stacked) Synthetic Control Bias-Correction Utilities for Stata.” The Stata Journal

• Downloadables: PDF Working Paper | (type into stata): ssc install allsynth, replace all

Working Papers

Walmart Supercenters and Monopsony Power: How a Large, Low-Wage Employer Impacts Local Labor Markets

• Coverage: The Atlantic, US Congressional Joint Economic CommittEe, US House Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth, Public Seminar, Daily Kos

Crosswalks from ‘County Groups’ to Counties for the 1970 and 1980 U.S. Decennial Census Metro Samples

Selected Works in Progress

Playing with Fire: The Unintended Consequences of Logging Restrictions in the Northern Spotted Owl Habitat (with Natalia Orlova and Fengyi Zhang)

Hospital Mergers, Health Provider Concentration, and Medical Debt (with Alaa Abdelfattah, Sergio Pinto, and Marshall Steinbaum)

Monopsony Power and the U.S. Social Safety Net

Exploiting the Threshold: Labor Market Power and Statutory Benefit Qualification Rules (with Janet Burlacu)

Catholic Hospital System Acquistions and Abortion Access (with Alaa Abdelfattah, Sergio Pinto, Emma Reinsch, and Marshall Steinbaum)

The Impact of International Students on Canadian Labour and Housing Markets (with Alaa Abdelfattah, Wifag Adnan, Jason Hicks, and Fengyi Zhang)