Academic Publications


Living Arrangements and Labor Market Volatility of Young Workers

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (2024)
Sebastian Dyrda, Greg Kaplan and José-Víctor Ríos-Rull
Final Version NBER Working Paper 2012 Version


The Marginal Propensity to Consume in Heterogeneous Agent Models

Annual Reviews of Economics, 14, 747-775 (2022)
Greg Kaplan and Gianluca Violante
Published Version Final Version


Lifetime Incomes in the United States Over Six Decades

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 14(4), 446-479 (2022)
Fatih Guvenen, Greg Kaplan, Jae Song and Justin Weidner
Published Version Final Version
January 2019 VersionNBER Working Paper 2017 Version
Non-technical Summary Replication Materials


Some Unpleasant Markup Arithmetic: Production Function Elasticities and their Estimation from Production Data

Journal of Monetary Economics, 121, 1-14 (2021)
Carnegie-Rochester-NYU Conference Series
Steve Bond, Arshia Hashemi, Greg Kaplan and Piotr Zoch
Published Version • December 2020 Version • April 2020 Version


What Would You Do With $500? Evidence from Gains, Losses, News And Loans

Review of Economic Studies, 88(4) , 1760-1795 (2021)
Andreas Fuster, Greg Kaplan and Basit Zafar
Published Version
August 2020 VersionFebruary 2020 VersionFebruary 2018 Version


A Further Look at the Propagation of Monetary Policy Shocks in HANK

Journal of Money Credit and Banking, 52, S2 (2020)
Felipe Alves, Greg Kaplan, Ben Moll and Gianluca Violante
Published VersionAugust 2020 VersionOnline Appendix
July 2019 Version


The Glass Ceiling and the Paper Floor: Gender Differences Among Top Earners, 1981-2012

NBER Macroeconomics 2020 Annual (2020)
Fatih Guvenen, Greg Kaplan and Jae Song
June 2020 Version (with Appendices)
February 2020 VersionSeptember 2014 VersionAppendices


Non-Durable Consumption and Housing Net Worth in the Great Recession: Evidence from Easily Accessible Data

Journal of Public Economics, 189, (2020)
Greg Kaplan, Kurt Mitman and Gianluca Violante
Published VersionMarch 2020 VersionApril 2016 Version
Press: The Atlantic • Equitable Growth


The Housing Boom and Bust: Model Meets Evidence

Journal of Political Economy, 128 (9), 2020)
Greg Kaplan, Kurt Mitman and Gianluca Violante
Published Version · Frequently Asked Questions


Relative Price Dispersion: Evidence and Theory

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 11(3), 68-124 (2019)
Greg Kaplan, Guido Menzio, Leena Rudanko and Nicholas Trachter
Published Version · Replication Materials


The Changing (Dis-) Utility of Work

Journal of Economic Perspectives, 32(3), 239-258 (2018)
Greg Kaplan and Sam Schulhofer-Wohl
Published Version · Replication Material
Non-technical summary


Microeconomic Heterogeneity and Macroeconomic Shocks

Journal of Economic Perspectives, 32(3), 167-194 (2018)
Greg Kaplan and Gianluca Violante
Published Version · Working Paper Version
Non-technical summary
Replication Material


Household Economic Inequality in Australia

Greg Kaplan, Gianni La Cava and Tahlee Stone
Economic Record (2018)
Published Version


Monetary Policy According to HANK

Greg Kaplan, Ben Moll and Gianluca Violante
American Economic Review, 108(3), 697-743 (2018)
Published Version · Notes on Algorithm · Replication Material


Inequality, Heterogeneity and Consumption in the JPE

Greg Kaplan
Commemorative essay in "The Past, Present and Future of Economics: A Celebration of the 125 Year Anniversary of the JPE and Chicago Economics"
Edited by John List and Harald Uhlig
Journal of Political Economy, 125, 1862-68 (2017)
Published Version · Full Issue


When Inequality Matters for Macro and Macro Matters for Inequality

SeHyoun Ahn, Greg Kaplan, Ben Moll, Tom Winberry and Cristian Wolf
NBER Macroeconomics Annual, Volume 32 (2017)
Published Version
Matlab toolbox available here: https://github.com/gregkaplan/phact


Inflation at the Household Level

Greg Kaplan and Sam Schulhofer-Wohl
Journal of Monetary Economics 91, 19-38 (2017)
Published Version · Online Appendix
Press: Politico


Top Income Inequality in the 21st Century: Some Cautionary Notes

Fatih Guvenen and Greg Kaplan
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review, Issue 3811 (2017)
Published Version
Press: Financial Post · World Economic Forum


Understanding the Long-Run Decline in Interstate Migration

Greg Kaplan and Sam Schulhofer-Wohl
International Economic Review 58, 1, 57-94 (2017)
Published Version · Replication Materials · Link to Replication Input Data
Press: NY Times Magazine · The Economist · Washington Post · FT · Daily Princetonian


How Large is the Stock Component of Human Capital?

Greg Kaplan and Mark Huggett
Review of Economic Dynamics 22, 21-51 (2016)
(previously circulated as The Money Value of a Man)
Published Version · Replication Materials


Shopping Externalities and Self-Fulfilling Unemployment Fluctuations

Greg Kaplan and Guido Menzio
Journal of Political Economy, vol. 124, no. 3 (2016).
Published Version


The Morphology of Price Dispersion

Greg Kaplan and Guido Menzio
International Economic Review 56.4, 1165-1204 (2015)
Published Version


The Wealthy Hand-to-Mouth

Greg Kaplan, Giovanni L. Violante and Justin Weidner
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (2014)
Published Version · Replication material (HFCS, HILDA, SCF, SFS, WAS) · Replication material (PSID)
Press:


A Model of the Consumption Response to Fiscal Stimulus Payments

Greg Kaplan and Giovanni L. Violante
Econometrica 82.4, 1199-1239 (2014)
Published Version · Online Appendix · Replication Materials
Non-technical summaries: Microeconomic Insights · Richmond Fed Spotlight


How Risky are Recessions for Top Earners?

Greg Kaplan, Faith Guvenen and Jae Song
American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings (2014)
Published Version


A Tale of Two Stimulus Payments: 2001 vs 2008

Greg Kaplan and Giovanni L. Violante
American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings (2014)
Published Version


Inequality and the Lifecycle

Greg Kaplan
Quantitative Economics, 3, 471-525 (2012)
Published Version · Replication Materials


Interstate Migration Has Fallen Less Than You Think: Consequences of Hot Deck Imputation in the Current Population Survey

Greg Kaplan and Sam Schulhofer- Wohl
Demography 49.3, 1061-1074 (2012)
Published Version · Non-technical Summary · Replication Materials
Press:


Moving Back Home: Insurance Against Labor Market Risk

Greg Kaplan
Journal of Political Economy 120.3 (2012): 446-512.
Published Version · Non-technical Press Release · Non-technical Summary
Replication Materials


Human Capital Values and Returns: Bonds Implied by Earnings and Asset Returns Data

Mark Huggett and Greg Kaplan
Journal of Economic Theory 146.3, 897-919 (2011)
Published Version


How Much Consumption Insurance Beyond Self-Insurance?

Greg Kaplan and Giovanni L. Violante
American Economic Journals: Macroeconomics 2.4, 53-87 (2010)
Published Version · Replication Materials


Higher Education Funding Reforms in England: The Distributional Effects and the Shifting Balance of Costs

Lorraine Dearden, Emla Fitzsimons, Alissa Goodman and Greg Kaplan
Economic Journal 118.Feb, F100-F125, (2008)
Published Version