This is a repost of my original thread about Trump's election, which has since disappeared. This time I am reposting it is a single message. I feel anxious and saddened by Trump’s election. Years of turmoil and uncertainty await us. I have also come to believe that this is not

``Child support & alimony provide insurance to divorcees, enable couples to specialize, but distort divorcees' incentives. Optimal policy analysis in a life-cycle model, estimated w/ Danish register data.” New paper from Hanno Foerster Boston College Economics Department Boston College restud.com/untying-the-kn…

Deadline approaching this Friday! Come join me at UCL Economics & Institute for Fiscal Studies to work on job search models using RCT data. Postdoc doesn’t have to travel for RCT. Just doing research in London, but of course traveling for conferences to build career would be encouraged and supported.

Happening now on our beautiful campus ❄️☃️ Tilburg University

Hi #EconJobMarket 🚨Job Market Paper alert🚨 "Parental personality and child skills formation" ❓How does parental personality affect the development of a child's skills over the life cycle? JMP: gaston-fernandez.github.io/files/JMPGFern… Website: gaston-fernandez.github.io 1/10 #EconTwitter

Athens Winter Econ Meeting:

Andrew Shephard of Penn Economics Department and @FEBkuleuven was on campus earlier this week. Andrew develops an equilibrium model of the #marriage market to study how divorce laws affect household formation, dissolution, and behaviour in Mexico. sas.upenn.edu/~asheph/

"Economists view the gains of trade as coming through imports, and tariffs frustrate that process." Peter Levell and Paul Johnson discuss why economists generally don't like tariffs as a means of raising tax, from our latest podcast. Listen here: tr.ee/yDa4MiOr5U

I put together an overview of recent developments in the literature on gender-based violence for AEA Journals There's enough material for 2x 1.5hr lectures. I've covered the material in labor & gender economics classes I hope they can be helpful! dropbox.com/scl/fi/ea7v96g…

Deadline approaching!

Happy and excited to welcome Susan Athey to Tilburg!

Happy to showcase our new work evaluating how raising drinking age affects behaviours of teens & their peers. We apply Diff-in-Discontinuities to reform in Spain.

Edoardo Ciscato of Economics KU Leuven was on campus last week to talk about matching on gender and sexual orientation Data from the US & Germany reveal that same-sex couples, in particular between men, experience lower gains from live-in relationships

Good to see Liyang and Ao in Tilburg University!

Lukas Mahler of Economics KU Leuven was at Tilburg University for a seminar on the aggregate and long-run consequences of school tracking == the practice of allocating students to different types of schools lukasmahler.github.io

🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨 -- 1st Aarhus Workshop on Labor Markets -- We welcome empirical and structural work with applications on labor market dynamics, policies, and outcomes. 📍Where? Aarhus University, Denmark 📆 When? Wen 22 - Fri 24 October ⏰ Deadline: 22 August

NEW in the AER, Taha Choukhmane, Lucas Goodman 🏳️‍🌈, and Cormac O'Dea study how couples allocate retirement-saving contributions across each spouse's account. Read the full publication here: aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Great to have Jeff Wooldridge Jeffrey Wooldridge at Tilburg. Learned a lot! 🙏🏽

New Advances in Family Economics workshop in Bruges currently under way. An amazing lineup of papers & speakers, as always! Economics KU Leuven ECARES

And here is a picture from the event. Many thanks to the organisers paula gobbi, Edoardo Ciscato, Fabio Blasutto, Bram De Rock, Laurens Cherchye and Frederic Vermeulen!