David Atkin (@davidgatkin) 's Twitter Profile
David Atkin

@davidgatkin

ID: 58934511

calendar_today21-07-2009 21:53:26

62 Tweet

617 Followers

112 Following

UCLA Anderson School of Management (@uclaanderson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Why Remote Work Could Lead to Less Innovation A new study by Professors Keith Chen (UCLA Anderson School of Management), David Atkin & Anton Popov (MIT Sloan School of Management) suggests that when employees from one company run into employees from another company, creative sparks fly. wsj.com/articles/remot…

International Growth Centre (@the_igc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨 Call for papers! 🚨 IGC and Yale Economic Growth Center are co-hosting the 'Firms, #trade, and #development conference' on 19 and 20 October, 2023. Submit your papers by 14 August. More information below ⏬ theigc.org/events/igcecg-…

Richard Blundell (@r_blundell_ucl) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Inequality: The Deaton Review. The whole evidence volume of the Review, with clickable links to the remarkable set of commissioned articles across the many dimensions of inequality, is available here ifs.org.uk/inequality/the…

VoxDev (@vox_dev) 's Twitter Profile Photo

While countries can specialise in "good" sectors conducive to growth, opening to trade might in fact push them away from these sectors. David Atkin outlines key takeaways for policymakers from research on the relationship between international trade & development. Listen here:

Kevin A. Bryan (@afinetheorem) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Atkin, Schoar & Shinde have what I believe is first work from home field experiment w/ worker learning. India data entry firm. WFH causally drops productivity 12% at day 0, 6% more from slow learning over time. If workers self-select, it's much worse. nber.org/papers/w31515

NBER (@nberpubs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The productivity of workers randomly assigned to working from home is 18% lower than that of coworkers in the office, from David Atkin, Antoinette Schoar, and Sumit Shinde nber.org/papers/w31515

The productivity of workers randomly assigned to working from home is 18% lower than that of coworkers in the office, from <a href="/davidgatkin/">David Atkin</a>, Antoinette Schoar, and Sumit Shinde nber.org/papers/w31515
VoxDev (@vox_dev) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Globalisation and the ladder of development. Does international trade always push countries up the ladder of development? Last month on #VoxDevTalks, David Atkin MIT Economics joined Tim Phillips Talk Normal to discuss research with Arnaud Costinot and Masao Fukui: voxdev.org/topic/firms-tr…

QJE (@qjeharvard) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Measuring Welfare and Inequality with Incomplete Price Information,” by Atkin, Faber, Fally, and Gonzalez-Navarro (MarcoGonzalezNavarro): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

Mark Muro (@markmuro1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

City agglomeration fosters innovation. Is remote work undercutting it? Concerned reflection from Emily Badger with observations from Ed Glaeser, Enrico Moretti, Karen Chapple Glenn Kelman David Atkin Kanjun 🐙 Jenny Schuetz nytimes.com/2023/10/20/ups… cc Richard Florida

VoxDev (@vox_dev) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Does international trade always push countries up the ladder of development? #top5voxdevtalks2023 David Atkin MIT Economics joined Tim Phillips Talk Normal to discuss research with Arnaud Costinot and Masao Fukui on globalisation and the ladder of development: voxdev.org/topic/firms-tr…

NBER (@nberpubs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Foreign market power is rife in determining Argentina’s import prices, as revealed by firm level responses to widespread import licenses, from David Atkin, Joaquin Blaum, Pablo D. Fajgelbaum, and Augusto Ospital nber.org/papers/w32037

Foreign market power is rife in determining Argentina’s import prices, as revealed by firm level responses to widespread import licenses, from <a href="/davidgatkin/">David Atkin</a>, <a href="/joaquinblaum/">Joaquin Blaum</a>, Pablo D. Fajgelbaum, and <a href="/aospital/">Augusto Ospital</a> nber.org/papers/w32037
Noah Greifer (@noah_greifer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

There is a kind of "equity" study that seems popular in medical research where you adjust for all mediators between group membership (e.g., race) and an outcome to claim that a disparity exists. The direct effect of group is interpreted as the magnitude of the disparity. ...

tom cunningham (@testingham) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I wrote a note about peer effects and the implications for policy (🧵): 1. The majority of variation in preferences appears to be acquired from influence: tastes for food, alcohol, tobacco, music, art, and leisure, all vary as much between societies as within societies.

I wrote a note about peer effects and the implications for policy (🧵):

1. The majority of variation in preferences appears to be acquired from influence: tastes for food, alcohol, tobacco, music, art, and leisure, all vary as much between societies as within societies.
David Atkin (@davidgatkin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Some thoughts on trade and price index inequality pulled together as part of the IFS Deaton Review on Inequality: academic.oup.com/ooec/article/3…

David Atkin (@davidgatkin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Reminder, the IGC and the Yale Economic Growth Center are hosting a two-day conference on 24-25 October, 2024 on the theme of “Firms, Trade, and Development.” Its a great conference! Please submit by Monday, 16 August at 5 PM EST @ lse.tfaforms.net/f/IGC-EGC-Call…

International Growth Centre (@the_igc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Firms, Trade, and Development Conference 2024 is fast approaching. Join IGC and Yale Economic Growth Center in one week for an exciting two-day programme ⌛ theigc.org/events/firms-t… Ahead of the event, Russell Morton writes about the latest research insights here ⏬ theigc.org/blogs/new-rese…

Treb Allen (@treballen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Trade economists: The World Bank Development Research Group group is hiring a research economist to work on international trade issues. Posting here: worldbankgroup.csod.com/ux/ats/careers…