Patrick Kline

 

    CURRICULUM VITAE

 

    Teaching Fields:  Labor, Urban, Econometrics

    Research Interests: Place Based Policies, Local Labor Markets, Program Evaluation, Equilibrium Models

 

  

    PLACE BASED POLICIES

• Local Economic Development, Agglomeration Economies, and the Big Push: 100 Years of Evidence from the Tennessee Valley Authority (w/ Enrico Moretti)
  

• Assessing the Incidence and Efficiency of a Prominent Place Based Policy (w/ Matias Busso and Jesse Gregory) (Revised 4/7/12)
  
• Prior version: Do Local Economic Development Programs Work? Evidence from the Federal Empowerment Zone Program (w/ Matias Busso)

• Place Based Policies, Heterogeneity, and Agglomeration American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 100 (May 2010), pp. 383-387. 
• Note: Some important typos are present in the published version.

    LOCAL / SECTORAL LABOR MARKETS

• Understanding Sectoral Labor Market Dynamics : An Equilibrium Analysis of the U.S. Oil and Gas Field Services Industry

    ECONOMETRICS

• Sensitivity to Missing Data Assumptions: Theory and An Evaluation of the U.S. Wage Structure (w/ Andres Santos)  Code and Data (Revised 4/27/12)
• Prior version: Interval Estimation of Potentially Misspecified Quantile Models in the Presence of Missing Data
  

• Higher Order Properties of the Wild Bootstrap under Misspecification (w/ Andres Santos)  Code (Revised 3/19/12)
  

• A Score Based Approach to Wild Bootstrap Inference (w/ Andres Santos)    Code  Journal of Econometric Methods, forthcoming

• Oaxaca-Blinder as a Reweighting Estimator  American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 101 (May 2011), pp. 532-537.  Code and Data

 

    NONMARKET INTERACTIONS

• The Impact of Juvenile Curfew Laws on Arrests of Youth and Adults  American Law and Economics Review, 2011 doi: 10.1093/aler/ahr011

• Relational Costs and the Production of Social Capital: Evidence from Carpooling (with Kerwin Charles) Economic Journal, 116 (April 2006), pp. 581-604.