I am a huge fan of the working paper culture. As you said, all work must be read carefully and evaluated for how convincing the claims are. So, why ignore a massive amount of information that is available in working papers that have been released.
Just received the great news that I'll be presenting my paper at the NBER Race and Stratification Working Group this Spring!
www.nber.org/programs-pro...
Webcasts of select sessions from the #ASSA2025 meeting in San Francisco on January 3-5 are now available to the public for viewing. #econsky aeaweb.org/conference/w...
Fannie and Freddie: Single Family and Multi-Family Serious Delinquency Rates Increased in November calculatedrisk.substack.com/p/fannie-and...
Multiple Equilibria in Quantitative Spatial Models.
Slides of my talk at the Econometric Society in San Francisco on Friday. Leads to a numerical algorithm that provides counterfactual maps of cities. PDF version: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/sacbe...
New RePEc feature for Bluesky! Get new paper announcements from NEP in 100 different fields. Find them all on this starter pack bsky.app/starter-pack... and soon the links to the accounts will be at nep.repec.org
#RePEc #EconSky
Our penultimate #econjmp is by Luisa Cefala (Berkeley), who shows how farmer workers can be reluctant to share skills when technology is rival - workers don't share row planting skill but do share composting knowledge. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
#Econsky is anyone working on the use of economics in (micro)biology going to be at the #ASSA #AEA meetings in SF? I've been writing a review on economics in microbiology (eg microbial trade, public econ in systems bio, cooperative metabolism) and would love to connect with you if so! #biosky
We’re hiring predocs at VSE with a start date of summer 2025. Come work with me on industrial policy and industrialization past and present. Not your thing? A number of my wonderful colleagues are also hiring! Listing is here: economics.ubc.ca/news/pre-doc...
Holy crow Belarus is HAMMERED
After falling for decades, the childhood mortality rate has started to rise.
What’s killing kids? Trauma, drugs and firearms.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/b...
The Race and Stratification Working Group at NBER will have its annual meeting on Friday, April 4, 2025! Dania Francis, Vicki Bogan, Ellora Derenoncourt and I are organizing the program. Submit your paper before the December 19, 2024 deadline! conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...
Interesting finding. Eric, Ebonya and myself, Brunner et al. 2011 did find that experiencing Economic shocks changed political beliefs over a broad set of issues so dispositions can change - look at recent role of inflation, but gov't action may not change views.
direct.mit.edu/rest/article...
Preparing two new courses for a master's program in health economics based in Europe.
Would anyone be willing to share good examples of syllabi and/or readings for:
* Intro to Health Economics (assume minimal previous knowledge)
* Health Policy Planning and Evaluation
Thanks 🙏
Please sign a petition, which I was proud to sign, asking the AEA to make reasonable adjustments to its plans to enable people to make their own decisions about how to handle the picket line.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Big fan of Mellisa Kearney's new book The Two Parent Privilege. Have focused on family structure for years in my Econ of Poverty class, but most books view that issue as tangential when for the U.S. it is likely one of the central issues.
See for example this recent working paper Humphries et al.
www.nber.org/papers/w33038
Vietnam has a lot going on
• High speed rail
• Large metro buildout
• Production spillovers from China
• Structural transformation through services and higher education
Great thread. If balanced already, only reason for DiD is efficiency. If unbalanced, enter world of strong assumptions. Many top DiD/event study papers have many trend controls beyond baseline 2 way FE that influence outcomes and few show stability of estimates as such controls are added.
By itself, post-registration of RCT is a really weird policy unless the journal requires disclosure of the fact that the pre-analysis plan was post-reg. Otherwise, just misleads readers while making the journal look good for requiring PAP.
🎯JOB ALERT!🎯
I am looking for a RA to work with me and my team on several projects. You should be interested in poverty in developed economies, labour, gender or meta-analysis.
🚨Call for Papers🚨
The next Digital Economy Workshop will take place in Berlin on March 23-25, 2025
It brings together researchers from economics, information systems, law, marketing, strategy, and related fields who study #digitization.
Paper submission & info: www.digitalecon.org/workshop/ber...
Thrilled to share that my paper “Spatial Diffusion of Local Economic Shocks in Social Networks: Evidence from the US Fracking Boom” was accepted at JOLE earlier this year.
Full article here👉 doi.org/10.1086/732300.
A short 🧵 below - my first on 🦋!
@jlaborecon.bsky.social @sofi.su.se #econsky 1/7
AEA at submission asks about pre-analysis plan if submitting an RCT based paper. But surprisingly never asks the author to upload the pre-analysis plan. So, it is up to the co-editors or the referees to dig these up. It should be standard for the plan to be sent to the referees along with the paper.
How do firms respond when faced with climate shocks? Tarikua Erda's research examines how firms adjust physical capital investment and entry/exit decisions, providing key evidence to a long-standing puzzle. (Among other interesting projects: www.tarikuaerda.com)
🚨 Our new working paper is out👇 We explore male backlash against female empowerment and how policies can help mitigate it. Grateful to collaborate with @sarthakjoshi.bsky.social (who's on the job market!), Joe Vecci, and Julia Talbot-Jones. 🔗 docs.iza.org/dp17450.pdf
Looks like a very interesting paper. It reminds me a bit of the Air Force Academy experiment Carrell, Sacerdote, West where the modified squadron test score distribution to help weaker peers, which backfired apparently due to an increase in within squadron isolation.
Now heading to UNSW for ESCoE conference to present « Same-sex teacher effects in education » with @econfeld.bsky.social @nsalamanca.bsky.social @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social — paper here 👉🏽 adegendre.github.io/papers/deGen... — we even made a website with interactive effects ! www.role-model-effects.com
I’m interrupting your break to remind you that you have one more day to submit nominations for AEFP awards! Nominate yourself or someone you know. Plus it’s AEFP’s 50th so the celebration will be grand (whatever that means in academic language lol).