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Mark Colas

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Affiliation

Department of Economics
University of Oregon

Eugene, Oregon (United States)
http://economics.uoregon.edu/
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Working papers

  1. Mark Colas & Chao Fu, 2025. "Information Frictions and the Labor Market for Public School Teachers," NBER Working Papers 34151, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Mark Colas & Emmett Reynier, 2024. "Means-Tested Solar Subsidies," CESifo Working Paper Series 11378, CESifo.
  3. Mark Colas & Emmett Saulnier, 2023. "Optimal Subsidies for Residential Solar," CESifo Working Paper Series 10446, CESifo.
  4. Colas, Mark & Sachs, Dominik, 2022. "The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration," Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series 352, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition.
  5. Mark Colas & Robert McDonough, 2021. "Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions," Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers 54, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
  6. Mark Colas & Dominik Sachs, 2020. "The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration," CESifo Working Paper Series 8604, CESifo.
  7. Sachs, Dominik & Colas, Mark, 2020. "The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration," CEPR Discussion Papers 15325, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  8. Mark Colas & Dominik Sachs, 2020. "The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration," Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers 38, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
  9. Mark Colas & John M. Morehouse, 2019. "The Environmental Cost of Land Use Restrictions," Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers 20, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
  10. Mark Colas & Sebastian Findeisen & Dominik Sachs, 2018. "Optimal Need-Based Financial Aid," CESifo Working Paper Series 7271, CESifo.
  11. Mark Colas, 2018. "Dynamic Responses to Immigration," Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers 6, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
  12. Mark Colas & Kevin Hutchinson, 2017. "Heterogeneous Workers and Federal Income Taxes in a Spatial Equilibrium," Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers 3, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

Articles

  1. Mark Colas & Emmett Reynier, 2026. "Optimal Subsidies for Residential Solar," Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 4(1), pages 213-264.
  2. Mark Colas & Robert McDonough, 2025. "Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 43(1), pages 161-201.
  3. Mark Colas & Dominik Sachs, 2024. "The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association, vol. 16(2), pages 515-550, May.
  4. Colas, Mark & Saulnier, Emmett, 2023. "Vertical migration externalities," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 101(C).
  5. Mark Colas & John M. Morehouse, 2022. "The environmental cost of land‐use restrictions," Quantitative Economics, Econometric Society, vol. 13(1), pages 179-223, January.
  6. Mark Colas & Kevin Hutchinson, 2021. "Heterogeneous Workers and Federal Income Taxes in a Spatial Equilibrium," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association, vol. 13(2), pages 100-134, May.
  7. Mark Colas & Sebastian Findeisen & Dominik Sachs, 2021. "Optimal Need-Based Financial Aid," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 129(2), pages 492-533.
  8. Mark Colas & Suqin Ge, 2019. "Transformations in China’s Internal Labor Migration and Hukou System," Journal of Labor Research, Springer, vol. 40(3), pages 296-331, September.

Citations

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  1. Mark Colas & Sebastian Findeisen & Dominik Sachs, 2021. "Optimal Need-Based Financial Aid," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 129(2), pages 492-533.

    Mentioned in:

    1. Optimal Need-Based Financial Aid (JPE 2021) in ReplicationWiki ()

Working papers

  1. Colas, Mark & Sachs, Dominik, 2022. "The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration," Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series 352, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition.

    Cited by:

    1. Nicholas Lawson, 2024. "Discrimination and the Fiscal Benefits of Immigration," Working Papers 24-01, Research Group on Human Capital, University of Quebec in Montreal's School of Management.

  2. Mark Colas & Dominik Sachs, 2020. "The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration," CESifo Working Paper Series 8604, CESifo.

    Cited by:

    1. Michael Clemens, 2021. "The Fiscal Effect of Immigration: Reducing Bias in Influential Estimates," CESifo Working Paper Series 9464, CESifo.
    2. Janeba, Eckhard & Schulz, Karl, 2023. "Nonlinear taxation and international mobility in general equilibrium," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 218(C).

  3. Sachs, Dominik & Colas, Mark, 2020. "The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration," CEPR Discussion Papers 15325, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.

    Cited by:

    1. Michael Clemens, 2021. "The Fiscal Effect of Immigration: Reducing Bias in Influential Estimates," CESifo Working Paper Series 9464, CESifo.
    2. Janeba, Eckhard & Schulz, Karl, 2023. "Nonlinear taxation and international mobility in general equilibrium," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 218(C).

  4. Mark Colas & Dominik Sachs, 2020. "The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration," Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers 38, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

    Cited by:

    1. Michael Clemens, 2021. "The Fiscal Effect of Immigration: Reducing Bias in Influential Estimates," CESifo Working Paper Series 9464, CESifo.
    2. Janeba, Eckhard & Schulz, Karl, 2023. "Nonlinear taxation and international mobility in general equilibrium," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 218(C).

  5. Mark Colas & John M. Morehouse, 2019. "The Environmental Cost of Land Use Restrictions," Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers 20, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

    Cited by:

    1. Ranie Lin & Lala Ma & Toan Phan, 2021. "Race and Environmental Worries," Working Paper 21-15, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

  6. Mark Colas & Sebastian Findeisen & Dominik Sachs, 2018. "Optimal Need-Based Financial Aid," CESifo Working Paper Series 7271, CESifo.

    Cited by:

    1. Heathcote, Jonathan & Cai, Zhifeng, 2018. "College Tuition and Income Inequality," CEPR Discussion Papers 13101, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    2. Kristy Fan & Tyler J. Fisher & Andrew A. Samwick, 2021. "The Insurance Value of Financial Aid," NBER Working Papers 28669, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    3. Bas Jacobs & Uwe Thuemmel, 2023. "Optimal linear income taxes and education subsidies under skill-biased technical change," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer;International Institute of Public Finance, vol. 30(6), pages 1529-1575, December.
    4. Mark Colas & Dominik Sachs, 2020. "The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration," Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers 38, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
    5. Koen Declercq & Erwin Ooghe, 2021. "Should Higher Education Be Subsidized More?," CESifo Working Paper Series 9377, CESifo.
    6. Youngmin Park, 2018. "Inequality in Parental Transfers, Borrowing Constraints, and Optimal Higher Education Subsidies," 2018 Meeting Papers 623, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    7. Thomas Aronsson & Spencer Bastani & Khayyam Tayibov, 2021. "Social Exclusion and Optimal Redistribution," CESifo Working Paper Series 9448, CESifo.
    8. Andreu Arenas & Clément Malgouyres, 2018. "Countercyclical School Attainment and Intergenerational Mobility," Working papers 679, Banque de France.
    9. Mookherjee, Dilip & Napel, Stefan, 2021. "Welfare rationales for conditionality of cash transfers," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 151(C).
    10. Garrett Anstreicher, 2024. "Family Resources and Human Capital in Economic Downturns," Working Papers 24-15, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
    11. Emily G. Moschini & Gajendran Raveendranathan, 2024. "College Financial Aid Application Frictions," Department of Economics Working Papers 2024-10, McMaster University.
    12. Spencer Bastani & Sebastian Koehne, 2022. "How Should Consumption Be Taxed?," CESifo Working Paper Series 10038, CESifo.
    13. Mark Colas & Dominik Sachs, 2020. "The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration," CESifo Working Paper Series 8604, CESifo.
    14. Youngmin Park, 2019. "Inequality in Parental Transfers and Optimal Need-Based Financial Aid," Staff Working Papers 19-7, Bank of Canada.
    15. Winfried Koeniger & Julien Prat, 2018. "Human Capital and Optimal Redistribution," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, vol. 27, pages 1-26, January.
    16. Aronsson, Thomas & Bastani, Spencer & Tayibov, Khayyam, 2025. "Redistribution and labor market inclusion," Working Paper Series 2025:19, IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy.
    17. Alessandra Casarico & Elena Del Rey & Jose I. Silva, 2023. "Child care costs, household liquidity constraints, and gender inequality," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 36(3), pages 1461-1487, July.
    18. Uta Bolt & Eric French & Jamie Hentall-MacCuish & Cormac O'Dea, 2025. "Intergenerational altruism and transfers of time and money: a life cycle perspective," IFS Working Papers W25/23, Institute for Fiscal Studies.
    19. Manudeep Bhuller & Philipp Eisenhauer & Moritz Mendel, 2022. "Sequential Choices, Option Values, and the Returns to Education," Papers 2205.05444, arXiv.org, revised Jul 2024.

  7. Mark Colas, 2018. "Dynamic Responses to Immigration," Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers 6, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

    Cited by:

    1. Ryan Kim & Jonathan Vogel & Moises Yi, 2020. "Trade and Welfare (Across Local Labor Markets)," NBER Working Papers 27133, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Braun, Sebastian Till & Weber, Henning, 2021. "How do regional labor markets adjust to immigration? A dynamic analysis for post-war Germany," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 129(C).

  8. Mark Colas & Kevin Hutchinson, 2017. "Heterogeneous Workers and Federal Income Taxes in a Spatial Equilibrium," Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers 3, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

    Cited by:

    1. Herkenhoff, Kyle F. & Ohanian, Lee E. & Prescott, Edward C., 2018. "Tarnishing the golden and empire states: Land-use restrictions and the U.S. economic slowdown," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 93(C), pages 89-109.
    2. Coen-Pirani, Daniele & Sieg, Holger, 2019. "The impact of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act on the spatial distribution of high productivity households and economic welfare," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 105(C), pages 44-71.

Articles

  1. Mark Colas & Dominik Sachs, 2024. "The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association, vol. 16(2), pages 515-550, May.

    Cited by:

    1. Hessami, Zohal & Schirner, Sebastian & Wobbe, Clara, 2024. "Refugee Migration and Business Registrations," VfS Annual Conference 2024 (Berlin): Upcoming Labor Market Challenges 302393, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
    2. Hessami, Zohal & Schirner, Sebastian, 2024. "Immigration Shocks and Shifting Social Group Boundaries," IZA Discussion Papers 17343, IZA Network @ LISER.
    3. Jeremias Nieminen & Sanni Kiviholma & Ohto Kanninen & Hannu Karhunen, 2024. "Regulating Labor Immigration: The Effects of Lifting Labor Market Testing," Working Papers 344, Työn ja talouden tutkimus LABORE, The Labour Institute for Economic Research LABORE.
    4. Rama Dasi Mariani & Anna Maria Mayda & Furio Camillo Rosati & Antonio Sparacino, 2025. "How do immigrants affect local public finances? Evidence from Italian municipalities," Temi di discussione (Economic working papers) 1494, Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area.
    5. Andri Chassamboulli & Xiangbo Liu, 2024. "Immigration, Legal Status and Fiscal Impact," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, vol. 54, October.

  2. Mark Colas & John M. Morehouse, 2022. "The environmental cost of land‐use restrictions," Quantitative Economics, Econometric Society, vol. 13(1), pages 179-223, January.

    Cited by:

    1. Rainald Borck & Peter Mulder, 2024. "Energy policies and pollution in two developing country cities: A quantitative model," CEPA Discussion Papers 78, Center for Economic Policy Analysis.

  3. Mark Colas & Kevin Hutchinson, 2021. "Heterogeneous Workers and Federal Income Taxes in a Spatial Equilibrium," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association, vol. 13(2), pages 100-134, May.

    Cited by:

    1. Mark Colas & John M. Morehouse, 2022. "The environmental cost of land‐use restrictions," Quantitative Economics, Econometric Society, vol. 13(1), pages 179-223, January.
    2. Colas, Mark & Saulnier, Emmett, 2023. "Vertical migration externalities," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 101(C).
    3. Hanson, Gordon H. & Rodrik, Dani & Sandhu, Rohan, 2025. "The U.S. Place-Based Policy Supply Chain," SocArXiv 2bg7a_v1, Center for Open Science.
    4. Furbach, Nina, 2025. "Non-homothetic housing demand and geographic worker sorting," Working Paper Series 3018, European Central Bank.
    5. Coen-Pirani, Daniele, 2025. "Tax progressivity and mobility costs," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 114(C).
    6. Mark Colas & Dominik Sachs, 2024. "The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association, vol. 16(2), pages 515-550, May.
    7. Mark Colas & Robert McDonough, 2021. "Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions," Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers 54, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
    8. Colas, Mark & Sachs, Dominik, 2022. "The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration," Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series 352, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition.
    9. Laurence Ales & Christopher Sleet, 2022. "Optimal Taxation of Income‐Generating Choice," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 90(5), pages 2397-2436, September.

  4. Mark Colas & Sebastian Findeisen & Dominik Sachs, 2021. "Optimal Need-Based Financial Aid," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 129(2), pages 492-533.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  5. Mark Colas & Suqin Ge, 2019. "Transformations in China’s Internal Labor Migration and Hukou System," Journal of Labor Research, Springer, vol. 40(3), pages 296-331, September.

    Cited by:

    1. Feng, Shuaizhang & Lu, Jingliang & Shen, Leilei, 2024. "Hukou Matters: The heterogeneous local labor market effects of export expansions in China," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 52(1), pages 321-340.
    2. Tian, Guangjin & Duan, Jinlong & Yang, Lan, 2021. "Spatio-temporal pattern and driving mechanisms of cropland circulation in China," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 100(C).
    3. Thomas Vendryes & Jiaqi Zhan, 2023. "Hukou-Based Discrimination, Dialects and City Characteristics," Documents de recherche 23-04, Centre d'Études des Politiques Économiques (EPEE), Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne.
    4. Ge, Suqin & He, Quqiong & Sarangi, Sudipta, 2024. "Reaping what you sow: Historical rice farming and contemporary cooperative behavior in China," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 217(C), pages 581-613.
    5. Zhang, Lin, 2022. "Age matters for girls: School entry age and female graduate education," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 86(C).

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NEP is an announcement service for new working papers, with a weekly report in each of many fields. This author has had 11 papers announced in NEP. These are the fields, ordered by number of announcements, along with their dates. If the author is listed in the directory of specialists for this field, a link is also provided.
  1. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (8) 2017-12-11 2018-04-23 2019-07-15 2020-11-02 2021-05-24 2022-01-24 2023-01-23 2025-09-08. Author is listed
  2. NEP-INT: International Trade (4) 2018-04-23 2020-11-02 2021-05-24 2023-01-23. Author is listed
  3. NEP-ENE: Energy Economics (3) 2019-07-15 2023-07-24 2024-12-02. Author is listed
  4. NEP-ENV: Environmental Economics (3) 2019-07-15 2023-07-24 2024-12-02. Author is listed
  5. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (3) 2020-10-26 2020-11-02 2025-09-08. Author is listed
  6. NEP-MIG: Economics of Human Migration (2) 2018-04-23 2020-10-26
  7. NEP-DGE: Dynamic General Equilibrium (1) 2018-04-23
  8. NEP-LMA: Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages (1) 2017-12-11
  9. NEP-PBE: Public Economics (1) 2017-12-11
  10. NEP-REG: Regulation (1) 2024-12-02

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