Coauthor: Why don't you clean up your LaTeX preamble? Me: My LaTeX preamble is a relic of struggle and battles of the past, a pandora box of chaos, a constant reminder that order is often taken as granted, but uncertainty and confusion are the true nature of science.

Is there anyone who has a mapping file for occupations (1940 codes) in stata? I dont want to manually code each weird occupation to a 1940 code. #econtwitter Please RP to help out

📣New version of my paper Domino Effects: Understanding Sectoral Reallocation and its Wage Implications RQ: How do sector-specific shocks make workers move between sectors, and what are the equilibrium effects on earnings? drive.google.com/file/d/175x_8X…

🚨 New paper in the Journal of Development Econ. Are migrants from poor countries relatively high or low productivity workers? What happens to migration as incomes rise? Mariapia Mendola and I note: These are closely related questions with a counterintutive answer (thread)

i absolutely loved lina's jmp idea when i first heard it: the optical telegraph doesn't work on cloudy days, which hampered napoleon's regime's ability to control rural french regions post-1851 coup

New paper: The Mis-Education of Women in Afghanistan First, we show that the returns to schooling are higher for women than for men and that this is causal Then we estimate the potential effect of the recent bans on women’s education and employment--> We find large and

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Important new paper on immigrants being higher productivity workers - counters preconceptions with innovative empirical analysis Michael Clemens Mariapia Mendola

🚨New research in Scientific Reports We find a decline in infant mortality with increased toilet availability following the Swachh Bharat Mission program in India. Work led by Suman Chakrabarti , w/ Soyra Gune, Julie Strominger, Tim Bruckner & myself. Article link: rdcu.be/dSHN8

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Just completed a final draft of "Probability and Statistics for Economics and Business: An Introduction Using R," which I am happy to share is under contract with MIT Press. If any instructor would like to check it out (for free), send me a DM or e-mail. probstats4econ.com

New paper alert! We conduct a quasi-experimental study to investigate the association between toilet construction under India's Swachh Bharat Mission and infant and child mortality nature.com/articles/s4159…

AER paper in the 80s AER paper in 2024

Chicago labor/public folks (including me) are hiring new research professionals! We have a great program that provides a ton of opportunities to learn in a very fun environment. Candidates from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Econ RA Listings Details: job-boards.greenhouse.io/universityofch…

Congratulations to my colleagues Suman Chakrabarti and Soyra Gune for their paper on sanitation in nature India has a long way to go on improving lives and wellbeing for all but this independent peer-reviewed piece of research shows that every effort matters. IFPRI

Some ideas for how to address this quintessential externality: nyulawreview.org/online-feature… (a few have been proposed or adopted in part since this was published two years ago)

Come work with me @policyimpacts at MIT Economics ! We're hiring pre-doctoral fellows to start next summer. Work closely with me and Ben Sprung-Keyser on how to fight climate change, the returns to tax audits, and more! Apply now thru 10/13. policyimpacts.org/announcements/… PREDOC.org Econ RA Listings

Looking for a non-technical review of the economics literature on abortion policy? I've got a new review piece forthcoming at Annual Reviews covering 50 years of abortion policy, from the Roe era until just prior to Dobbs. Here's the preprint: drive.google.com/file/d/13lnSi4…

Ph.D Research Assistant/Internship wanted! Any advice? Fields: IO, Platforms, Digital, Behavioral, Competition, Regulation, Applied Micro. Econ RA Listings

Kids are wild. You turned away a bit and they grew like crazy.