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🚨🚨 New working paper with Casey Pender (Casey Joe Pender): Rethinking Deflation and Its Effects: Lessons from Canada Under the Classical Gold Standard🚨🚨 Long 🧵 incoming. 1/n papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

New working paper with Casey Joe Pender (on the job market this year -- hire him) and Jamie Bologna Pavlik. It concerns resource booms and economic growth. More precisely, we look at Canada's first (post-confederation) boom which is the wheat boom (circa 1896). The boom has long been

While people are at the AEA and talking about what is going wrong with the profession, let me tell you about one place I know is going well: Texas Tech University.   In 2016, I joined the team that Ben Powell had been building there since 2013 as part of the Free Market Institute

THE MARCH IS ON. #GoDukes | #MarchMadness

“Bribe-switching” with Jamie Bologna Pavlik now online at Public Finance Review. Link below:

Its worth remembering that Jamie Bologna Pavlik and I showed that Cuba was able to perform as well on indicators like infant mortality as it would have without the Revolution thanks to massive Soviet Aid. Thanks to that, it was able to get the perception of legitimacy from many

New working paper with Justin Callais and Alicia Plemmons -- Do Big Liberalizations Hurt the Environment? I wish I could have written an abstract that said only "No" because that is essentially what we found. We tie this result to the degrowth movement that argues that

New paper with Jamie Bologna Pavlik forthcoming in the Review of Development Economics! Full paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

.Jamie Bologna Pavlik of Texas Tech Agricultural & Applied Economics, & Benjamin Powell & Andrew Young of Rawls College, examine whether aid affects recipient countries' economic freedom. #economifreedom #foreignaid #politicaleconomy doi.org/10.1002/soej.1…

Please RT to help convince Stephen Curry to reach out to his biggest fan. Lorenzo suffered a severe spinal injury two weeks ago and faces a long road ahead.

He's wrong here. Andy Young and I find that large scale market liberalizations (the type that Robinson is talking about) has a negligible effect on inequality, but vastly improves incomes across the entire income distribution. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Justin Callais This is an important rejoinder as well! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Thank you, Vlad Tarko 🌐 🏗️! Was very happy to receive the acceptance email this morning.

New job opening at University of Arizona in Department of Political Economy and Moral Science - the home of the PPEL major. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, philosophers, political scientists, economists, or legal scholars all eligible to apply. arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/careers…

Very soon, this will be available

Key result in one graph

For those who didnt see it— new working paper showing the causal effects of Fidel Castro’s revolution on Cuban living standards. TLDR: he made Cubans poorer

I did a write up of my working paper with Jamie Bologna Pavlik and João Pedro Bastos 🧉 on how the embargo explains little to nothing of Cuba's divergence since 1959. The Revolution explains nearly all of the divergence. The Revolution is the root of Cuban poverty thedailyeconomy.org/article/social…

✨New Article ✨ Ever wondered about the distribution of economic freedom within a country? This article by Christina Peters, Maria Tackett, and Alexandre Padilla examines the role of foreign education on gender disparities in economic freedom.