What is the alternative to a criminal justice policy based on sanctions? A new study by Yotam ShemTov, S. Raphael, and Alissa Skog on the effects of Make-it-Right, a restorative justice program, finds large and lasting reductions in recidivism econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

Great advice on applying to LACs

A second chance to sign the iza letter if you still want to (and are an iza affiliate or felow). Contact Michele Belot for the link to sign!!!

Collective action WORKS Falk is OUT at IZA Kudos to those who led the way deutsche-post-stiftung.org/wc/files/DPS-I…

🚨These are good news. Thank you, IZA, for listening, and thank you President of the Deutsche Post Stiftung! Actions matter. Thank you also to the broad community of #Labor #Economists. Change is in the air! deutsche-post-stiftung.org/wc/files/DPS-I… #EconTwitter #MeToo #EconMeToo

Very happy to see great work by Tufts Economics and #Fletcher JMC Ernesto Tiburcio featured in The Washington Post ! washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/… Ernesto's JMP studies the political and social impacts of unauthorized Mexican migration to the United States.

When news about local corruption broke in Italy, shoppers became more likely to steal from supermarkets, demonstrating the contagious effect of bad behavior, say researchers at Università di Roma Tor Vergata and UNSW. #Chart aeaweb.org/research/chart…

Cool well paid pre-doc position alert!!!

📢Job announcement!📢 My team and I are seeking a research assistant with OCR/text recognition experience for projects on US racial inequality. This is a fully remote position (though candidates must be eligible to work in the US). Apply here: forms.gle/F2ibM5nxSdQSot…

Sole mentoring program, round #2. If you are Post PhD, early stage of your career, consider signing up #SOLE sole-jole.org/mentoring#:~:t…

We’ve spent over a year *heavily* updating this paper (including using of a trove of better outcome data), so very excited to get this out Even if you saw older drafts, check this out!

Forthcoming article by Hannah Illing Johannes Schmieder and Simon Trenkle "The Gender Gap in Earnings Losses After Job Displacement" EEA Oxford Economics doi.org/10.1093/jeea/j…

Feeling deeply honored and very happy about receiving the H. Gregg Lewis Prize by Society of Labor Economists together with nadineketel for our work on the labour market effects of crime victimization. If you’re interested, you can find the paper here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/71…

If you’re a PhD student/early postdoc working on crime/criminal behavior, consider applying to the workshop below MPI-CSL, Freiburg , organized by Hannes Rusch. Including a short course and keynotes by Wladislaw Mill, Christian Traxler and myself. It’ll be fun - apply & join us in Freiburg in fall!

Wow! My job market paper, with Simon Trenkle, is (finally) done done and out in the world (hiding safely behind the journal’s gate)!!! 😃 😫 🙌 🫠 😴 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

Pls share for reach: Come be the dean of Arts & Science at Tufts! For real, I'm on the search committee and I'd love for people in my network to throw their hat in the ring imsearch.com/open-searches/…

Paper (w Steve Schwab) finally out in Science!! TL;DR: Power has tangible benefits. Using data from military hospitals where both docs and patients have rank (a measure of power), we find that "powerful" patients get more care and have better outcomes. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

In the actual “paper” paper today. Thanks The Boston Globe for covering my work with kristy buzard Olga Stoddard on how moms get interrupted more than dads and how that affects labor market gender gaps bostonglobe.com/2024/06/18/bus…

Now in JPE. Combat deployments increase injuries and combat deaths, but have little effect on suicide, credit, incarceration, or education. Deployments do not explain recent surges in veterans’ noncombat deaths or disability compensation: doi.org/10.1086/729450

Sleep is an important input in the education production function for both short- and long-run outcomes. In the July issue, "Children's Sleep and Human Capital Production" by Maulik Jagnani Maulik Jagnani. zurl.co/9qZH