To design social insurance, it is useful to know which households have a higher valuation of liquidity: who values an extra 💵 more? In work in progress, we offer a creative approach to measure it. How? See it at #NBERSI HF & AG (bit.ly/3wUFzrJ) or read 🧵 👇 1/

Very excited to announce the launch of #JPEMicro and #JPEMacro - new journals in the #JPolEcon family! journals.uchicago.edu/journals/jpe/p… I will be initial Lead Editor of JPE Macro, with a fantastic set of editors: Cristina Arellano, Anmol Bhandari, Ariel Burstein Chris Tonetti Joe Vavra

Lunch break in Liwonde (Malawi) for our team Augustine Harawa Albert Rodríguez-Sala Ying Feng Leandro De Magalhaes and some friends from the sociology camp Monica Grant and Ann Swidler. Great conversation on social norms as potential wedges...

Thanks to VoxDev for featuring our work. I has been an exciting project to work on since 9 years ago! In this paper, we build a new database to show that unemployment is increasing with economic development in the long run, particularly for low-skill workers.

Kudos to Xiao Ma, a proud UCSDEcon alum, for earning a well-deserved award! Check out his fascinating paper exploring China's education policy, innovation, and trade.

So great to see SWIM make a come back! Call for papers 2024 Southern Workshop in Macroeconomics (SWIM). 8-9 March 2024, Wellington, New Zealand.

A good macro/spatial person👇to check out!💥

Some detail on governance at IZA. I'm not an affiliate and the following is based on public information. IZA a for-profit company (GmbH ~= LLC); in contrast to briq, which is a non-profit LLC (gGmbH). More on this difference below.

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Check out my new working paper on automation and gender, with amazing co-authors Ying Feng, Nicolas Guida-Johnson, and, of course, Jessica Pan !!

Super excited to co-organize a conference on Trade and Development at World Bank Research. Paper submissions are due April 15th and accepted papers will be considered for a special issue of Journal of International Economics. More information at worldbank.org/en/events/2024…

Excited that our paper about fertility in Korea and the role of status externalities will be published in the AER. Very grateful for my amazing coauthors Minchul Yum and Seongeun Kim.

📢 Free virtual course on "Data in Macro Development" for PhD students & economics faculty This new course by STEG (CEPR) will provide a comprehensive overview of the various types of data being used in the field of macro development. Register here: cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

The impacts of expanding credit on firm entry and growth in Brazil 🇧🇷 Last month, Samuel Bazzi UCSDEcon, Marc Muendler, Raquel de Freitas Oliveira Banco Central BR & James E. Rauch outlined research on an economy-wide expansion of credit for SMEs: voxdev.org/topic/finance/…