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Excited to be mentioned side by side with so many talented women! Thank you Jennifer Doleac for this public service.

Tilman Graff Arvind Subramanian Ninon Moreau-Kastler Maulik Jagnani Lastly, Giulia Lo Forte highlights the gains from trademark variety via multinationals. She finds that trademark-measured varieties correlate with US imports from Chinese-owned firms in China, offering insights into Chinese import competition's impact on product innovation.

Presenting my JMP at Yale Economic Growth Center was a fantastic experience, thank you! So many comments and an incredible line up of presentations. Looking forward to attending day 2.

Federico (Federico Ricca) is an economist with 6+ years of experience in applied causal inference research, and broader expertise in Data Science, Machine Learning, reduced form and structural methods. Profile: federicoricca.github.io.

Xiaojun (@XiaojunGuan) studies Macroeconomics and Development Economics. Her job market paper is titled “The Cost of Compliance: Informality, Technical Change, and Structural Transformation in Brazil”. Profile: xiaojunguan.github.io

Francisco's (Francisco Eslava S) research interests are in development economics, political economy and economic history. His JMP studies how female leaders affect conflict violence. Currently, he's a 2023-24 PhD Fellow at the Stone Centre for Wealth and Income Inequality at VSE.

Pablo (Pablo Valenzuela-Casasempere) is an urban economist interested in history and public economics. His job market paper studies the long-run consequences for individuals displaced by the construction of the highway system in the US. Profile: pvalenzuelac.github.io

In his Job Market Paper, Jan Rosa (Jan Rosa) uses administrative Brazilian data to study how the expansion of large, multi-establishment (national) employers influences the wage and hiring policies of smaller, local firms. Profile: janrosa.org

Pascuel (Pascuel Plotkin) studies how alternative work arrangements impact inequality. His job market paper links employer-employee data with delivery platforms to examine how platform adoption affects restaurants, their employees, and gig workers. Profile: pascuel.github.io

Daniel (Daniel Jaramillo) is an applied microeconomist specializing in public, development, and political economy. His job market paper studies how released offenders influence the criminal behavior of individuals in their neighborhoods. Personal webpage: djaramilloc.github.io

Max (Max Norton) is an applied microeconomist focused on public, urban and education economics. His JMP, "Who Benefits from Local Bonds?" evaluates California’s 2001 school bond reform, uncovering household responses to school facilities investment. maxnorton.com

Phil (Phil Solimine) studies industrial organization and networks. His job market paper investigates firms' incentives to develop infrastructure in regulated energy transmission networks. Profile: psolimine.net

Valentina (Valentina Rutigliano) studies Labor Economics, Corporate Finance, and Entrepreneurship. Her job market paper is “Minding Your Business or Your Child? Motherhood and the Entrepreneurship Gap”. Profile: valentinarutigliano.com

Ieda (Ieda Matavelli) is a development and behavioral economist who does large-scale field experiments on gender, public health, and labor markets. Her job market paper explores how adolescents form their perceptions of masculinity norms. Profile: iedamatavelli.com

1/ We have a number of great job market candidates coming out of UBC Economics this year. I am going to highlight here the work for those that I am directly involved advising doing research on development and/or political economy

Thank you Claudio Ferraz for sharing my paper and all your support throughout the project!

Economists interested in gender norms typically focus on norms that constrain the behaviour of women. But what about those that constrain men? Ieda Matavelli is spearheading this work on masculinity norms, and she is on the job market this year (iedamatavelli.com). A 🧵

Nice thread by my friend and co-author Pablo Valenzuela-Casasempere on his impressive JMP!

Honored to be one of the 5 winners of the Econ JM Best Paper Award by EEA and UniCredit Italia. Thrilled to be in the company of such talented young scholars! Check out my work at loforteg.github.io