Professor Jason Fletcher was awarded funding through our annual Kohl Competition, which he will apply to his new book on how early life conditions and policies shape U.S. longevity. Learn more about this year's winners: lafollette.wisc.edu/news/2024-kohl…

Partha Deb, Jeff Wooldridge Jeffrey Wooldridge , Jeff Zabel, and I are pleased that our new difference-in-differences paper is available as an NBER working paper.

Hamid Noghanibehambari

Very useful points for JMCs here:

I should be at the right tail of luck, then. Interesting results:

Great paper shows that US laws that allowed women to own property and wages increased child literacy rates dropbox.com/scl/fi/06qvhy2…

We have a very exciting set of speakers presenting at our CenSoc Users Conference this upcoming Friday, Dec 6th! Please consider joining us over Zoom (everyone is welcome) for some interesting research presentations. Full program: docs.google.com/document/d/1My…

1/5 Looking for a clear and gentle intro to shift-share instruments? I'm excited to release today our "practice guide to shift-share instruments" with Kirill Borusyak and Peter Hull, forthcoming at the Journal of Economic Perspectives AEA Journals 👇👇👇👇👇

A practical guide to recent econometric advances with shift-share instruments, from Kirill Borusyak, Peter Hull, and @Xjaravel nber.org/papers/w33236

The long-term effects of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission's hookworm eradication campaign, initiated in the American South in the 1910s, from Hamid Noghanibehambari and Jason Fletcher nber.org/papers/w33249

Here are the first five sets of slides: 01 Introduction: psantanna.com/DiD/01_Introdu… 02 Classical 2x2 setup: psantanna.com/DiD/02_two_by_… 03 Clustering issues: psantanna.com/DiD/03_Cluster… 04 Functional form: psantanna.com/DiD/04_Functio… 05 Covariates: psantanna.com/DiD/05_Covaria…

Five more decks: 06 Double Machine Learning: psantanna.com/DiD/06_DML.pdf 07 Repeated Cross Sections: psantanna.com/DiD/07_RCS.pdf 08 Event Study and Dynamics: psantanna.com/DiD/08_ES.pdf 09 TWFE with multiple periods: psantanna.com/DiD/09_Twfe.pdf 10 Pre-tests psantanna.com/DiD/10_Pretest…

*Call for Papers* The Advances in Social Genomics Conference Series (TAGC) May 14-16, 2025 UW-Madison UW–Madison Deadline: March 7, 2025 Funding available for presenters Keynotes: Kelly Bakulski and Daniel Belsky isg.wisc.edu/events/the-adv… Hosted by: La Follette School of Public Affairs and Social Genomics at the University of Wisconsin

African Americans who changed their racial identity and "passed" as white in the late 19th and early 20th centuries lived approximately 9.4 months longer, on average, than their non-passing siblings, from Hamid Noghanibehambari and Jason Fletcher nber.org/papers/w33394

Great to see our practical guide to shift-share instruments wiht Kirill Borusyak and Peter Hull out in the Journal of Economic Perspectives today 👇👇👇 pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10…

We are delighted to announce our next brownbag seminar on Feb 19, 12pm, w/ Jason Fletcher (Jason Fletcher), who will present on "Moving forward by looking back: New evidence that early life shapes our lifespan.” 310 Social Sciences & zoom. Do join us!

Thrilled that my JMP found a home in the Journal of International Economics!🎉 This paper examines how NAFTA-induced trade shocks affected U.S. infant 👶 health. Full paper:🔗authors.elsevier.com/a/1kktQ5330moLx #Economics #TradePolicy #HealthEconomics #NAFTA #BirthOutcomes #FetalOrigin

This paper has been in the making for so long that eight children across the co-author group were born between the time we started and now! But it is finally out, and you can check it at arxiv.org/pdf/2503.13323

Maternal early-life exposure to legal abortion improves birth weights and rates of low birth weight in the next generation, driven by educational attainment, and prenatal care, from Hamid Noghanibehambari, David Slusky, and Hoa Vu nber.org/papers/w33571

🎓Excited to share two big milestones: ✅ Defended my PhD in Economics at UW-Milwaukee ✅ Accepted a tenure-track Assistant Prof. position at Austin Peay College of Business starting this fall! Grateful for all the support. Can’t wait to keep teaching & researching! #PhDDefense #EconTwitter