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macroeconomics, growth and development, labor economics incl. trends in working from homeSelected Work
“Work from Home Before and After the COVID-19 Outbreak”
with Adam Blandin and Karel Mertens
American Economic Journal-Macroeconomics, October 2023, Vol. 15, No. 4
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“Structural Change in Labor Supply and Cross-Country Differences in Hours Worked”
with David Lagakos, Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, and Hitoshi Tsujiyama
Journal of Monetary Economics, September 2022, Vol. 130, pp. 68-85
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“Hours and Wages”
with Adam Blandin and Richard Rogerson
Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2022, Vol. 3, No. 137, pp. 1901-63
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“Taxation and Labor Supply of Married Couples Across Countries: A Macroeconomic Analysis”
with N. Fuchs-Schündeln
Review of Economic Studies, July 2018, Vol. 85, No. 3, pp. 1543-76
“How Do Hours Worked Vary with Income? Cross-Country Evidence and Implications”
with David Lagakos and Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln
American Economic Review, January 2018, Vol. 108, No. 1, pp. 170-199
“The Quantitative Role of Child Care for Female Labor Force Participation and Fertility”
Journal of the European Economic Association, June 2016, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 639-668
“Data Revisions of Aggregate Hours Worked: Implications for the Europe-U.S. Hours Gap”
with Bettina Brüggemann and Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, First Quarter 2019
“The Rapid Adoption of Generative AI” (PDF)
with Adam Blandin and David J. Dening
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2024-027A, September 2024
“Hours Worked and Lifetime Earnings Inequality” (PDF)
with Adam Blandin and Richard Rogerson
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2024-024A, September 2024
“Measuring Trends in Work From Home: Evidence from Six U.S. Datasets” (PDF)
with Adam Blandin, Aidan Caplan, and Tristan Caplan
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2024-023A, September 2024
“Work from Home and Interstate Migration” (PDF)
with Adam Blandin, Karel Mertens, and Hannah Rubinton
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2024-012A, May 2024
“After 40 Years, How Representative Are Labor Market Outcomes in the NLSY79?” (PDF)
with Adam Blandin and Richard Rogerson
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2024-010B, April 2024
Alexander Bick is an economic policy advisor in the Research division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, which he joined in June 2022. He is a macroeconomist with interests in labor economics, economic growth, and development. His current research focuses on two broad topics: first, within- and cross-country differences in how much people work and how this decision is affected by public policies; second, trends in working from home in the U.S. and the consequences for job and geographic mobility. During the first two years of the pandemic, he ran a high-frequency online survey in collaboration with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas to provide real-time estimates of the state of the labor market.
Bick holds a master’s degree and doctorate in economics from Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. His research has been published in leading general interest journals in economics such as the American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. His research has been covered by national and international media outlets such as the Associated Press, Bloomberg, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. After finishing his dissertation in 2009, Bick stayed for three years as an assistant professor at Goethe University. From 2012-2022, he was an assistant and associate professor of economics at Arizona State University, where he taught in the M.B.A. and Ph.D. programs. He spent his sabbatical in the fall of 2019 as a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.