Great start to the semester with the CDEP ColumbiaSIPA group! Eric Verhoogen Michael Best Fabiola Alba-Vivar Parijat Lal Sarita Oré Palaash Bhargava and many others no longer on #here (Many of us are also “over there!” 😉)

big kudos to Fabiola Alba-Vivar for literally seeing you on the subway, and you were with another man.

Michelle Jiang JMP: "Information Asymmetry in Job Search" Website: jiangmichelle.com

How do cooperatives respond to competition? To study this, Parijat Lal (Parijat Lal) looks at the effects of industrial reform in India on cooperatives owned and controlled by either (i) producer-members who supply material inputs, or (ii) worker-members who provide labor.

1/ 📚 Excited to share my JMP on Catholic schools, the world's largest nongovernmental school network. By leveraging Chile's lottery-based admission system, I estimate the impact of attending Catholic schools vs. voucher-secular and public schools on academic outcomes.

if you had to come up with a cool band name for a band comprised of first year PhD students, what would come up with?

WHAT

Working on a project for which I need to call an Indian number that seems to only accept calls from Indian numbers. Any ideas on how to do this (preferably cheaply)? Have looked into a lot of voip stuff with no luck.

anyone got a job market paper I can borrow

anyone got tips/services for filing RTIs? We just got rejected on a bunch of stuff that is, by program design, supposed to be publicly available.

Life update: I get to be Dr. Alba-Vivar. So grateful to have the best advisors and mentors - Thank you Alex Eble, Kiki, Sandy Black, Maria Micaela Sviatschi, Dr. Judith Scott-Clayton and Maria F Rosales. I am only wishing to be as good as your are one day 🤩

research hard !