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📢New paper alert! +🧵 "Supply-side drug policy, polydrug use, and the economic effects of withdrawal" w/Alexander Ahammer NBER link: nber.org/papers/w32804 IZA link: docs.iza.org/dp17192.pdf

Job-market candidates: - Download 10 JMPs in your field, read them in ≤5 hours, and rank them from best to worst. Now you know why recruiting committees value readability. - Editing improves paper quality. See RCT: doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo… (More at jdingel.com/teaching/advic…)

Super smart play by SSRC. If your university admin is a nightmare, you can run your grants through them instead! #competition ssrc.org/how-we-work/fi…

It's that time of year again! WBEC (Marriner S. Eccles Institute) is accepting papers for our annual ski conference at Snowbird February 27 - March 1, 2025! Please send us your papers on topics in business economics, public, labor, and theory. Hope to see you there!

My piece in The Atlantic today: Break Up Big Econ The economics profession has become insular and status-obsessed, and not focused enough on making a positive impact on the world. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

5 things to know about Mike Mueller-Smith Mike Mueller-Smith 🏳️‍🌈 UM Population Studies Center CJARS ⬇️: 🐢 Comparing his circular migration to that of a rare turtle returning to its breeding grounds, Mike was conceived in Ann Arbor and settled here after living in Florida, Baltimore, and New York. 📊

"In Texas, a woman whose water broke at 18 weeks—far too early for her baby to survive outside the womb—was unable to get an abortion until she became septic. She spent three days in the ICU, and one of her fallopian tubes permanently closed from scarring. In Tennessee, a woman

Call for paper Al Capone (economics of crime) !!!

Black Americans get audited more, even among individuals claiming the EITC. It's because the IRS chooses who to audit based on who it suspects of overclaiming tax credits like the EITC or CTC, instead of who it suspects underpaid the most.

CHEPS & SDSU ECON welcome Mike Mueller-Smith 🏳️‍🌈 to present his paper, "The Direct and Intergenerational Effects of Criminal History-Based Safety Net Bans in the U.S." Paper: shorturl.at/EMNfN Join us on Thurs 10/10 at 3:30PM PT in AL 660 or via zoom: sdsu.zoom.us/j/88923406625

That’s a wrap on the 7th #JusticeAndInjustice! Many thanks to Yale ISPS Dara Strolovitch @AlliPatter Ariel White And thanks to an outstanding community 🙏

Wolverines, you can now vote early! The nine days of early voting began yesterday, and Michigan Students can swing by the UMMA and Duderstadt voting hubs from 11am-7pm each day between now and November 3rd to vote. myumi.ch/JwZj7

I have a new working paper posted today, which argues that U.S. local labor markets (LLMs) should be redefined. I present new LLMs which I argue (1) better match local planning areas, & (2) have higher average internal spillovers. research.upjohn.org/up_workingpape…

Upcoming conference deadline of December 2 for TxECW!

BACK-TO-BACK-TO-BACK-TO-BACK!!!!!! #GoBlue

Does Medicaid reduce involvement with the criminal justice system? In this new paper we find no effect of Medicaid on criminal charges and convictions using experimental variation in Medicaid coverage from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment.

The reason clearance rates are measured using arrests is that is what current data infrastructure allows. Police depts have access to reported crime and arrest data. Conviction data live in court data systems, which they usually can't link to. We need better, integrated data!

Congratulations to Andrei Levchenko for being appointed as AER coeditor, handling papers in international economics and starting on February 1. I’m delighted to have him on our team. AEA Journals

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