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My workplace from March: Arthur Lewis Building at Manchester!

Colourful Covid December in Tuscany. Red Zone: Dec 1-5, 24-27, 31. Orange Zone: Dec 6-19, 28-30. Yellow Zone: 20-23. Are they trying to confuse the virus when to infect?

Events at the US Capitol are shameful. "When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always." - Gandhi

Today I received an email from an optometry shop in Kitsilano saying my eye examination is due since I was last checked 18 months back. Small things like this make me nostalgic about Vancouver even more.

My friend is doing a cool replication blog. Replication is important in science, dismal or not.

I was out for a walk in the rare Manchester sun. A kid, hardly 4, runs up to me and says, "As-Salaam-Alaikum". I felt proud of the diversity of my Indian upbringing when I, a non-Muslim, could reply "Wa-Alaikum-Salaam" without batting an eyelid. Hope India remains like that.

Some of us, Max Weber Fellows at the European University Institute, are organizing an online inter-disciplinary workshop on the Causes & Consequences of Inequality. Please consider submitting your work by 18 April 2021. Call for papers: dropbox.com/s/q4ems45qm457…

My barber called me a "good lad" today. Getting used to life in the UK.

Just for the record

In response to my friends' queries about what is happening with the farmers' protests in India arunimitra.com/2021/05/23/ner…

It's quite rich for Biden to order an inquiry into the origins of Sars-Cov-2 in China when Republicans in his own country block a congressional probe into the Capitol Hill riot.

Commentary during the Wimbledon final: "Italians got no style. They are horrified that we put cream in carbonara sauce." England-Italy Euro final is coming up.

Jeff Bezos in a cowboy hat in post-space-flight press conference reminded me of this: youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x_…

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I am not a CEPR fellow. So it is not every day that my paper gets accepted for presentation at a CEPR conference. It hurts when I cannot present in Paris simply because there are no Schengen visa appointment dates in the UK until July. Come on!

Thank you PSID for including our work in a great lineup of interdisciplinary speakers and being a wonderful host.

Here's some new evidence for labour unions being relevant for business cycle dynamics. doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc…

We're hosting the 3rd NXNW Applied Labour Workshop on 13 June 2024 at the University of Manchester. Please consider applying by 15 April if you're based in the north of England and work in applied labour. Details in the link: dropbox.com/scl/fi/pgyla6z…

Parents influence their kids' household income & consumption. Yet, parental income & consumption do not drive most of the cross-sectional inequality in the economic outcomes of adult children. Accepted at JoLE (doi.org/10.1086/733051) with Hamish Low and Giovanni Gallipoli

Evidence for expansionary mortgage supply shocks having a long-run negative impact on county-level wage growth and business dynamism in the US. Accepted at EER (doi.org/10.1016/j.euro…) with Mengying Wei