Learned so much from the 2022 Remote Work Conference. So excited for all this insightful research to continue to be available in videos and slides.

A 🧵 about an important and amazing paper by Ro'ee Levy, my MIT Sloan School of Management colleague Alexey Makarin and Luca Braghieri on: The *Causal* Link between Social Media Use and Mental Health... Now forthcoming in AER. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

New paper: proximity supports feedback. A big tech firm had two buildings on one campus. Pre-pandemic employees got more feedback if they were in the same main building as their team. @WFH no difference: feedback for all employees was the same as being in the auxiliary building.

Interesting paper on the unintended consequences of remote work, by Natalia Emanuel, Emma Harrington, & Amanda Pallais: "The Power of Proximity: Office Interactions Affect Online Feedback and Quits, Especially for Women and Young Workers" drive.google.com/file/d/1Qo47nc…

Call for papers on remote and hybrid work! We're excited to announce the second Remote Work Conference on Sept 27-29 at Stanford! Submit papers by June 15: remoteworkconference.org Excited to co-organize with @I_am_nick_bloom Jose Maria Barrero Emma Harrington Steven Davis & Raj Choudhury

Call for papers: Remote Work Conference 2023 Stanford is hosting the second conference on remote and hybrid working. Please submit a paper by June 15th. The conference will also be Zoom broadcasted for those that cannot make it in person. Submission: wfhresearch.com/wp-content/upl…

#EconTwitter plz rt. On July 26th (straight after NBER EEE/DEV) Clare Balboni, Namrata Kala, and I are hosting a PEDL workshop on Climate & Environment at MIT Sloan School of Management. Please share and submit your best firms and environment papers! More details here tinyurl.com/PEDL23

Despite huge advents in IT, it took the pandemic to unlink office work and the office. Why were workers so tied to the office? How does the office impact on-the-job training & output? 🧵 on work w/ Emma Harrington and Mandy Pallais Presented at NBER SI Mon @ 9AM

To me, this is the killer chart indicting fully remote work. About 50% less feedback on code after remote work. Individuals might be more productive fully working from home, but at what cost to mentorship? More on the latest The Indicator: npr.org/transcripts/11…

How does going to prison affect your earnings and employment? Happy to have this working paper with Andy Garin, Dmitri Koustas, Sam Norris, Jeff Weaver , Carl, Matt, and Yotam ShemTov with available now. ekrose.github.io/files/incar_lm… A short(ish) thread 🧵

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Claudia Goldin “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.” #NobelPrize

My personal top-5 favorite graphs/exhibits from Claudia #Goldin papers 1. Gender pay gap is present in (almost) all occupations, even controlling for age, race and education. Why? Because of the "value placed on the hours and job continuity of workers" aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Job Market Candidate: Benny Goldman Benny studies the impact of residential segregation on interclass and interracial marriage. benjamindgoldman.com

Evaluating how proximity to coworkers impacts software engineers' training and output as firms grapple with return-to-the-office policies, from Natalia Emanuel, Emma Harrington, and Amanda Pallais nber.org/papers/w31880

I’m excited to share News Déjà Vu (newsdejavu.github.io), which uses a custom large language model to retrieve historical news articles that are the most similar to modern news articles. (1/4)

I may be a little biased but this is my favorite conference of the year. Would encourage those with research on remote or hybrid work to submit your papers!