
Ran Gu
@lionupran
Assistant Prof. @UoE_Economics and Research Associate @theIFS. Research in Labour, Macro, Household Finance, Education #econtwitter
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https://rangu.org/ 27-09-2013 20:29:42
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I am hiring a Junior Economics Researcher at UPF Barcelona. Please apply if you are interested macro, market power, labor euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/332002 Econ Job News #econjobs #econtwitter

🚨🆕📜In a new NBER working paper out today (tinyurl.com/2vv3vnhf), with Wayne Sandholtz we ask a 🔥question: Can controversial public policies end up being political successes even when they cause lots of backlash? And if the answer is yes, what drives pol success? A thread 👇



I'm really excited that this paper, coauthored with Christian Stoltenberg and Swapnil Singh (Swapnil Singh), is coming out in the Journal of Monetary Economics. I think we've got a pretty neat result, which I would like to try to explain.



"I think we know how to define and design a tax base that would be less distortionary to investment." Helen Miller on tax and investment, from our latest podcast on corporation tax. 🎧 Listen here: ifs.org.uk/articles/whats…


NEW #IFSWorkingPaper: The impact of labour demand shocks when occupational labour supplies are heterogeneous Michael Boehm, Ben Etheridge & Aitor Irastorza-Fadrique's model quantifies the heterogeneous impacts of labour demand shifts on wages and employment: ifs.org.uk/publications/i…





NEW: On average, working helps women in their 60s maintain cognitive function and delay the onset of physical disability. Not all types of work are beneficial, however. James Banks, Jonathan Cribb, Carl Emmerson and David Sturrock summarise their new research:



Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is Shunsuke Tsuda University of Essex who works on topics related to development, environment + conflict


