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Forthcoming in the AER: "The Price of Power: Costs of Political Corruption in Indian Electricity" by Meera Mahadevan. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Looking to hire full time RA July - December. Excited about trade, firm-to-firm networks , and industrial policy? Have experience with Python, R, Stata, Databricks, SQL? Come work at the research unit, world Bank. Email [email protected] and [email protected]

The deadline to apply to the W.E. Upjohn Institute’s dissertation award is soon! Please apply if your dissertation is on policy-relevant & employment-related issues! Link: upjohn.org/sites/default/… Upjohn Institute (not active on X) Alex Mas @rothstein_jesse IZA #EconTwitter

Passionate about improving the lives of migrants in the Global South? IPL is seeking a talented Data Scientist to work on #migration & #development projects with real-world impact. Help shape policies for a better future: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/data-scie… #Hiring #DataScience #Refugees

Monster hiring year at Univ. of Delaware Lerner College Economics Department! We have 4 (4!) new tenure track faculty: #NishaChikhale (macro/labor) #ValerieMichelman (labor/public) Maria F Rosales (human capital/development) @bartonwillage (labor/health/public).

1/ New micro-to-macro paper alert! 👇👇👇👇 How much does inflation matter for inequality? To address this question, I'm very excited to share new inflation series by income, age, race and other socio-demographic characteristics in the United States. 👉xavierjaravel.com/_files/ugd/bac…

PostDoc posting: Sabrin Beg Christina Brown #JimBerry Dr Anne Fitzpatrick & I are hiring a 18 month post-doc for a super rad development/education project in India. In person NBER or virtual. Jan 10 preferred start. Apply now! (and/or pls share) aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

Check out the December 2024 issue (22,6) of JEEA Journal of EEA Oxford Academic academic.oup.com/jeea/issue Teaching materials available: eeassoc.org/teaching-mater…

Alex Persaud shows that a 1911 criminalization of select castes in Madras imposed new restrictions and reduced the share of indentured labourers returning home from Fiji at the end of their contracts. Open access in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review doi.org/10.1111/aehr.1…

Hard to overstate the impact the NIH rate has at an institutional level. I took this data, dropped in the lat/lon and congressional districts. Not many legislators are actively looking to deprive their communities of 10s of millions of dollars, and yet ...

We call B.S. on this. Instead, for an authoritative look at IES Research - its many accomplishments and key challenges - read National Academies report nationalacademies.org/our-work/the-f…

I am excited to share that our paper “Responses to Extreme Temperatures: Migrant Networks and International Migration from El Salvador” with Ana María Ibáñez, Juliana Quigua and Jimena Romero has been conditionally accepted at the AEJ: Economic Policy! #econtwitter

New paper out in Science Magazine! Brain drain or brain gain? Effects of high-skilled international emigration on origin countries doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

I’m sharing my slide deck on the demographic future of humanity, 🔗 Slides: sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Slide… prepared for the keynote address I will give tomorrow to the 7th EBRD and CEPR Research Symposium on “The Economics of Demographic Change”: 🔗 Symposium: ebrd.com/home/news-and-…

Chamath Palihapitiya I worked at BLS for years and can tell you that revisions are completely legitimate. Many field-reported stats simply come in *late* after the close of the month. Would you prefer that they just ignore the newer stats that come in? In fact, as a senior BLS economist I myself led

It must be amazing to have this much confidence and this little worry about being wrong about something you know nothing about

Amazing. Expects to find bias. Finds none. Which is what you would expect if BLS is doing their job well. Reverses course and claims BLS lack of bias means their forecasts have no “signal” and that is bad? Incoherent. Ends with gratuitous call for better methods.