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#WBGMeetings : Leading economists will answer questions from journalists about the #G20 's roadmap to tax the super-rich. Joseph E. Stiglitz, Esther Duflo, Jose Antonio Ocampo, Gabriel Zucman.
๐Wed 17th April
๐ท 3-3.45pm (EDT)
Room: HQ2-10B-248
So excited to announce that @natasharsarin and Danny Yagan and I are launching @the_budget_lab at Yale Law School. Budget scoring is an incredibly important part of the policy process and our hope is to bring a new perspective, with a focus on innovation and transparency. 1/
TLDR: A new study identifies and measures which large U.S. companies engage in hiring discrimination against Black people.
They name names and find that some of the most discriminatory companies include CVS, Gap, Best Buy, Autozone, and Costco. ๐คฏ #econtwitter #economics
O-Lab alum Arlen Guarin + coauthors examine a program that randomly assigned physicians to hospitals to understand the effect on birth outcomes, finding that physician skill can impact the probability of giving birth to a healthy baby: buff.ly/43PNx7A
With the support O-Lab's Place-Based Policy Initiative, Andrea Cerrato of Berkeley Economics dedicated his job market paper to examining the effects of a large-scale regional development program in Italy. ๐ฎ๐น Andrea, we can't wait to see what you'll do next at Boston Fed!
๐ง ICYMI, check out this episode of Resources Magazine's Resources Radio featuring O-Lab alum Simon Greenhillโs research with Hannah Druckenmiller, which uses machine learning to predict which US waterways are regulated under the Clean Water Act: buff.ly/49tCTVe
We owe Silvia Farina an apology โ we should have recognized her in our initial tweet! Silvia, thank you for investigating the important, ongoing issue of gender dynamics in the workplace.๐
๐ Through O-Lab's Initiative on Equity in Energy and Environmental Economics, run jointly with Energy Institute at Haas, Aaron Watt of Berkeley Agricultural and Resource Economics is developing new tools to optimize placement of air pollution monitors. Learn more about his project:
On Monday, the #minwage for CAโs fast food workers increased to $20/hr, with critics predicting that firms will respond with layoffs + price increases. In CalMatters, Michael Reich of IRLE UC Berkeley + Justin C. Wiltshire unpack evidence against these predictions: calmatters.org/commentary/202โฆ
