BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”

Christelle Zozoungbo JMP: "How Gender and Birth Order Affect Educational Attainment Inequality within Families: Evidence from Benin" Website: sites.google.com/view/christell…

Thank you for sharing my JMP Jennifer Doleac, and for the public good!

Does anyone have a good review or paper that compares the impacts of different interventions on college student outcomes? I am trying to compare the effect size of an intervention I'm studying to other interventions on college student GPA.

Black and Hispanic college graduates have been steadily earning degrees in relatively lower-paying majors since 2000. The main reason is new GPA-based restrictions on major choice, from Zachary Bleemer and Aashish Mehta nber.org/papers/w33269

I should add: if you install ollama with e.g. deepseek coder you can avoid the Github link. In case you are worried -- and you should -- that any interaction you have with OAI will be used by them either for model optimisation or, well, for other things. So here is a short 🧵

One challenge for trade policy, is that the benefits to consumers (like lower prices) feel vague & abstract—it's hard to see what we'd lose without free trade. Job threats feel immediate, driving support for protectionism. More recent on views on trade👇 x.com/S_Stantcheva/s…

What do multiple-choice tests really measure? We explore this in a new NBER paper with Kala Krishna & Esma Özer Öztürk. We find time pressure affects sorting—and impacts men and women differently. More in my chat with Matt Nolan.👇 nber.org/papers/w33679

🌱 Can environmental regulations change how firms behave? A new NBER working paper by J-PAL affiliate Namrata Kala & Michael Gechter uses a randomized place-based policy in India to study this. nber.org/papers/w33707

New study: The relative wage premium for going to college has halved for low-income Americans since 1960. What is to blame? Rising selectivity? Tuition hikes? State disinvestment? We decompose changes in the premium since 1900 to find out. 🧵#EconTwitter nber.org/papers/w33797

Yesterday, I argued that Turkey’s TFR was 1.48 in 2024, well below replacement level, and has been falling fast since 2014. Today, I want to highlight a few additional points. First: Turkey has the highest within-country TFR variance I’m aware of. In Şanlıurfa, TFR was 3.28 in