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W/ Judit Krekó (HUN-REN KRTK Institute of Economics) & Andrea Weber (Central European University) forthcoming @ Labour Economics (EALE): Take-Up & Labor Supply Responses to DI Earnings Limits. In HU🇭🇺, earnings limit decrease had little impact on take-up but significantly reduced labor supply. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Come work with us at the World Bank! The Young Professionals Program application for the World Bank Group, including the World Bank, IFC and MIGA, will open on September 1, 2024 and remain open until 11:59pm UTC on September 30, 2024. 👇 worldbank.org/en/about/caree…

Very happy to see our paper with Leemore Dafny and Kate Ho make it to print. I started on this project as a first year grad student and have learned more than a ton about research from Leemore and Kate!

Happy to have a new NBER working paper this week, in which @payson_julia, Stan Veuger, and I analyze the effects of federal pandemic aid to state and local governments on the electoral outcomes of incumbent parties in statewide races: nber.org/papers/w32962 1/n

Join my fantastic department - we're hiring in health economics & health policy! This is a tenure track assistant prof job. If you are going on the market with a PhD in economics, health policy, public health, or a related field, it's likely a great fit. 🔗aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

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If you want to be Yunan Ji’s colleague at Georgetown University, you should apply. I can attest to the fact that she is a great colleague!

I can attest to this as well!

🚨We are hiring at UMD Public Health Health Policy & Management! Please apply and spread the word about the opportunity to join our exciting and supportive department in the DC metro area. Happy to answer any questions! jobs.academyhealth.org/job/assistanta…

🚨 What happens when the gov't cuts prices on medical technologies? New research (w/ Yunan Ji) finds a 61% price cut led to: 75% drop in innovation (may fully offset savings) 49% fewer new firms 28% more production moved overseas 3x repair/replacement rate 🧵(1/n)

Amazing paper by Yunan Ji and Parker Rogers on the impact of government price cuts on innovation in medical technologies out as working paper. When Medicare reduced reimbursements for durable medical equipment, innovation decreased and outsourcing increased.

This week you will hear from Institute for Fiscal Studies as we scrutinize the budget & implications for households, firms and the nation’s finances. Want to be part of this? IFS is recruiting at UG, Masters & PhD levels. Be where econ research & policy come together. Four recruitment streams below👇

New NBER study by CBPP’s Yunan Ji & co-author Parker Rogers finds #Medicare’s aggressive price cuts reduced medical device innovation: new products down 25%, patents down 75%. Balancing cost-savings with innovation is key for future tech & patient care. shorturl.at/dtFCV

Medicare price cuts reduced innovation, increased outsourcing, and worsened product quality, underscoring the need to balance short-term cost containment with long-term impacts, from Yunan Ji and Parker Rogers nber.org/papers/w33083

I am on the job market! Under policies of "stepped-up basis", many countries exempt inherited assets from previously-accumulated capital gains tax liability. My paper w/ Ole-Andreas Elvik Næss examines how this type of policy distorts sales, inheritances, and overall tax collections.

Thrilled to announce “From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China” is released! (amazon: tiny.cc/35zuzz or 30%off with code P327 at tiny.cc/2ouuzz via Princeton University Press) A decade in the making, my book presents how the world’s largest

How do states build vital institutions for market development? Now available, Lizhi Liu @lizhiliu.bsky.social's From Click to Boom examines how the world’s largest e-commerce market highlights a digital path to development. Learn more: hubs.ly/Q02Xnch_0

Hey #EconTwitter, I'm on the job market with a paper about open source software. OSS is a global public good, widely used and provided by the private sector, but the target of recent industrial policy. Paper: jeffgortmaker.com/files/Open_Sou… 1/

Read World Bank World Bank Research working paper: documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099…. Research was made possible by HUN-REN KRTK Institute of Economics Databank & benefited from comments from @pierrebachas, Anne Brockmeyer @annebrockmeyer.bsky.social, Nicolas Gavoille, Daniel Horn, Yunan Ji, Attila Lindner, Oyebola Okunogbe, Anna Zasova & many others.

1/ The cost of health care has been in the news a lot lately. Since 2021, all hospitals have been required to publicly post the (previously secret) negotiated prices charged to each insurer. Back then, Yunan Ji and I tried collecting these data for all US hospitals...