Our paper on Medicaid work requirements is now published in the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control and available at: t.co/7PMyhzOqJY

Our new working paper about the effects of the ACA-Medicaid expansion on maternal and infant health outcomes in the American South is now available at SSRN: ssrn.com/abstract=536... or dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

New article: "Risk loving and fat tails in the wealth distribution" by Aloisio Araujo, Juan Pablo Gama, and Timothy Kehoe. In a dynamic general equilibrium model risk-loving behavior by some investors generates unequal distributions of income and wealth.

rdcu.be/d7RG4

Just back from giving a talk to 2nd year students on how to approach research, how to write a paper. Abhijit was coming after me (good thing he didn't go first, tough act to follow!)

Here are my slides...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0pm2m...

It's a treat to have a paper highlighted in the NBER Digest!

Couples' choices about when to relocate offer a lens into how they value each person's career success. In both Sweden and Germany, they seem to prioritize men's careers, even when the woman has similar earning potential. bit.ly/MTO-T

A policy summary of our paper, featured in @voxdev.bsky.social. This is useful evidence for future reforms to public teacher hiring systems, like the one that should take place soon in Colombia!

Modern American planning is kind of the worst of both worlds: rigid micromanagement of development on private land combined with virtually no plan whatsoever for the public realm, e.g. streets and parks. Not how I would have designed the system!

Several members of our team @ourworldindata.org are here on Bluesky!

Follow us here: bsky.app/starter-pack...

These 18-year-olds were high school freshmen when COVID hit

They should be college freshmen now

The FAFSA disaster decreased enrollment overall (down 5%)

The affirmative action ban decreased black enrollment at selective schools (down 17%)

www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi...

We've created a starter pack for all of the economics journals on Bluesky. Please nominate other journals to join the list.

go.bsky.app/4kR21vX

I put together a starter pack of all the academic macroeconomists I could find on the platform.

It's short. Please message me if you would like to be added.

go.bsky.app/RYnjd8k

#econsky etc.

Open Calls for Papers, Proposals, and Applications

In general, people who are not members of NBER can submit papers to be considered at NBER conferences. Here's the link to the current calls for papers: www.nber.org/calls-papers...