Research Interests
macroeconomics and spatial economicsSelected Work
“The Geography of Business Dynamism and Skill-Biased Technical Change”
Review of Economic Studies, volume and issue forthcoming
Related working paper (PDF)
“The Role of Establishment Size in the City-Size Earnings Premium”
with Charly Porcher and Clara Santamaria
Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 136, pp. 103556
Related working paper (PDF)
“Aggregate Implications of the Rise in Firms’ Custom Software Investments”
with Xian Jiang
On the Economy, September 16, 2025
“The Effect of COVID Immigration Restrictions on Post-Pandemic Labor Market Tightness”
with Maggie Isaacson, Cassie Marks, and Lowell Ricketts
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Fourth Quarter 2024
“Shipping Prices and Import Price Inflation”
with Maggie Isaacson
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Second Quarter 2023
“Where Are Labor Markets the Tightest? A Tale of the 100 Largest US Cities”
with Cassie Marks, Lowell R. Ricketts, and William M. Rodgers III
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2023, No. 25
“Where Are the Workers? A Look into the Decline in Immigration”
with Cassie Marks
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2023, No. 19
“Income Segregation and Income Inequality”
with Maggie Isaacson
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2023, No. 5
“City Segregation and the College Degree Gap”
with Maggie Isaacson
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2022, No. 17
“Inflation and Shipping Costs”
with Maggie Isaacson
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2022, No. 5
“School District Expenditures and Race”
with Maggie Isaacson
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2022, No. 3
“Childhood Income Volatility”
with Maggie Isaacson
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2021, No. 8
“Information and Communications Technology Spending and City Size”
with Maggie Isaacson
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2021, No. 7
“Business Dynamism and City Size”
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2021, No. 4
“Work from Home and Interstate Migration” (PDF)
with Alexander Bick, Adam Blandin, and Karel Mertens
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2024-012A, May 2024
“The Adoption of Non-Rival Inputs and Firm Scope” (PDF)
with Xian Jiang
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2024-005D, September 2025
“The Impact of Racial Segregation on College Attainment in Spatial Equilibrium” (PDF)
with Victoria Gregory and Julian Kozlowski
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2022-036E, July 2023
“Inequality in the Welfare Costs of Disinflation” (PDF)
with Benjamin Pugsley
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2020-021C, September 2021
Hannah Rubinton is an economist in the Research division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, which she joined in April 2020. Her areas of research include macroeconomics and spatial economics. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University. Her work has been published in the Journal of Urban Economics, Research Policy, and the St. Louis Fed Review.