David Jinkins Economist

Selected work

Research

Work in international trade, urban economics, labor, and economic geography.

01

Working papers

  1. Working paperRevise & resubmit, JPE

    Two-sided Search in International Markets

    With Jonathan Eaton, Jim Tybout, and Daniel Xu

    Revision resubmitted, second round, at the Journal of Political Economy

  2. Working paperRevise & resubmit, EJ

    Assessing the Aggregate Price Effects of Trade Using the Food Engel Curve

    With Farid Farrokhi and Chong Xiang

    Revision requested at The Economic Journal

  3. Working paperResubmitted, AEJ Applied

    Welfare spillovers

    With Elira Kuka and Claudio Labanca

    Revision resubmitted at AEJ: Applied Economics

  4. Working paper

    The Geography of Public Housing and the Dynamics of City Structure

    With Filip Sangild Beck and Ismir Mulalic

02

Publications

  1. 2025Journal of International Economics

    A Search and Learning Model of Export Dynamics

    With Jonathan Eaton, Marcela Eslava, C.J. Krizan, and Jim Tybout

  2. 2025Applied Economics

    Immigrants and the Benefits of Urban Experience

    With Jesper Hybel and Ismir Mulalic

  3. 2024Regional Science and Urban Economics

    Root Growing and Path Dependence in Location Choice: Evidence from Danish refugee placements

    With Farid Farrokhi

  4. 2022Real Estate Economics

    Job Match and Housing Tenure

    With Ed Coulson and Walter D'Lima

  5. 2020Economics Bulletin

    The Self-Perpetuating Student Loan Debt Crisis

    Python simulation file ↗

  6. 2019Journal of Urban Economics

    Wage Inequality and the Location of Cities

    With Farid Farrokhi · Replication files (4.6 GB) ↗

  7. 2018Labour Economics

    Job-to-Job Transitions, Sorting, and Wage Growth

    With Annaig Morin

  8. 2018Applied Economics

    Winners and Losers from an Announced Excise Tax Hike: Tesla in Denmark

    With Marcus Asplund, Chandler Lutz, and Gyorgy Paizs

  9. 2016Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

    Conspicuous Consumption in the United States and China

03

Research in progress

  1. In progress

    Compulsory auctions and the hold out problem

    With Wen-Tai Hsu, Tommy Leung, and Wen-Chi Liu

04

Other

  1. Errata

    External Validity in a General Equilibrium Setting