The scale of achievement of these two is astounding. Could any “Nobel” in economics, properly called that or not, come anywhere near?

Incredibly deserved. Important to note that Claudia's work extended far beyond women in the labor market. Also pioneered the empirical revolution in labor economics more generally, and did important work on inequality — her Great Compression paper had a profound influence

Richard Blundell noticed this interesting fact: out of the 4 women that were elected Econometric Society fellow, 3 are/were UCL faculty: congrats to maria, Uta Schönberg and Vasiliki Skreta! And also congrats to the 4th who is a stone's throw away from us (Nava Ashraf @ LSE)

🎆The Department's No Strings Attached Scholarship has been awarded to Morgane Richard and Jon Piqueras! Congrats 👏👏👏 Read more ➡️ucl.ac.uk/economics/news…

Deadline Alert | EALE Conference, Bergen, 5-7 Sept. Submission portal closes on 1 Feb. Our keynote speakers are Sandy Black (Sandy Black) and Attila Lindner (Attila Lindner). Looking forward to welcoming you all! nhh.no/en/calendar/fa…

Fantastic kick-off of the first Hungarian Summer Instititue Labor Studies in Budapest by Anna Adamecz

Second talk, straight from LA on dementia and occupation risks by Peter Hudomiet

Super inetersting talk on a very prominent DI reform from Hungary by Judit Kreko: fear from reassusment lead to reduction in labor supply!

Great finish by Robert Lieli on how to estimate ATE of treatment interactions when there are not perfect compliance. The ahort answer: it is difficult.

#EALE2024 is in full swing! 🚀 Here are some photos from yesterday's keynote by Attila Lindner. 📊Check out what's on today's agenda! 📅👇: EALE 2024 Norway (eventure-online.com) (📸: Sigrid Folkestad/NHH)

If you are interested in learning more about minimum wages, Attila Lindner and I have a new, up-to-date review of the topic, coming out in the Handbook of Labor Economics. Here's the NBER working paper. Link: nber.org/papers/w32878

A literature review on the impact of minimum wages on low-wage labor markets, from Arin Dube and Attila Lindner nber.org/papers/w32878

The 2024 Gábor Kézdi Award recognizes Attila Lindner as the best young Hungarian 🇭🇺 economist for his groundbreaking work on the minimum wage.

Deeply honored to receive this award. Gábor Kézdi was an incredible mentor who introduced me to the exciting side of labor economics and inspired me to pursue a PhD. I'm truly proud to be the inaugural recipient of an award that reflects his remarkable legacy.

Read our new Institute for Fiscal Studies working paper with Aniko Biro, Péter Elek (HUN-REN KRTK Institute of Economics) & László Sándor.

The 2024 Gábor Kézdi Award recognizes Attila Lindner as the best young 🇭🇺Hungarian economist. Presented by Daniel Horn, w/ laudation by Gabor Bekes. He presents his brand new Handbook of Labor Economics chapter Minimimum Wages in the 21st Century, coauthored with Arin Dube.

I am deeply honored to receive today the Gabor Kezdi Outstanding Young Researcher Award by the Hungarian Society of Economics! The ceremony followed by an engaging discussion on minimum wages. It was great to see this great community of economist open to new results and ideas!