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Documenting the pioneering role that Black men drafted into the National Army during World War I played in the early civil rights movement, from Desmond Ang and Sahil Chinoy nber.org/papers/w33460

A 2023 analysis of the U.S. racial wealth divide shows that progress in reducing disparities has slowed over time. Understanding this history is crucial for shaping more effective economic policy solutions for the future. 📊💡#BlackHistoryMonth More ➡️ equitablegrowth.org/examining-the-…

How did the US become a land of opportunity? In a new paper, we show that the country's pioneering role in mass education was key to its rise in intergenerational mobility from 1850 to 1950. "America's Rise in Human Capital Mobility" with Harriet Brookes Gray & Hugo Reichardt

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Voluntary Minimum Wages: The Local Labor Market Effects of National Retailer Policies,” by Derenoncourt (Ellora Derenoncourt) and Weil: doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

Economists often say firm discrimination cannot withstand market competition. The discriminating firm is unprofitable. But what happens when it’s consumers that have discriminatory preferences? In this case, the market doesn’t solve the problem. A 🧵nber.org/papers/w33547

This is now out at the Review of Economics and Statistics: Vacancy Durations and Wages. direct.mit.edu/rest/article/d…

Proud to have our work featured by AEA Journals. cc Desmond Ang Panka Bencsik Jesse Bruhn

Thrilled to have this paper out in this month's AER:Insights + have it also be covered by the AEA's homepage too! 🎉🎉 aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

My book is here! Thank you so much to UChicagoPress for making sure it arrived in time for Organization of American Historians roundtable tomorrow. Excited, grateful, and a little nervous to hear what gabrielwinant Elizabeth Herbin-Triant, Julie Greene, and David Brundage have to say about it.

The Paris School of Economics Stone center on Global Wealth Dynamics is offering fully-funded PhD fellowships for students working on inequality. Deadline May 4. Details and applications here 👇👇👇 stone-center-pse.eu/grants/phd-fel…

Applications are now open for the next RFBerlin Handbook Masterclass! Join Arin Dube and Attila Lindner in Berlin on for two days of in-depth teaching on Minimum Wages in the 21st Century. Apply now: rfberlin.com/event/rfberlin…

Very much looking forward to co-teaching this with Attila Lindner in just over a month in Berlin!

Congratulations to Stefanie Stantcheva (Stefanie Stantcheva s-stantcheva.bsky.social) of Harvard University, winner of the 2025 John Bates Clark Medal! aeaweb.org/about-aea/hono…

Congratulations ⁦Stefanie Stantcheva⁩! aeaweb.org/about-aea/hono…

Research Associate Stefanie Stantcheva wins John Bates Clark Medal. For more info: nber.org/news/stefanie-…

This spring, Princeton Economics welcomed four new faculty members! Simon Jäger Pauline Carry Kevin Dano Fedor Sandomirskiy From labor markets to econometric design, we're thrilled to have their incredible research shaping our community. Read more: bit.ly/4izsgVu

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

Now out, JHPE 5(1): special issue on the Historical Political Economy of Race. Papers by Ellora Derenoncourt, Randall Walsh, @aspaglayan on bsky, Dr. Trevon D Logan, Nico Napolio, Thomas Gray & Jeff Jenkins. nowpublishers.com/HPE

New in JHPE: Ellora Derenoncourt tests the hypothesis that slavery contributed to modern economic growth in Europe using data on European participation in the Atlantic slave trade. nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…

Estimating labour market power: the long and short of it By: Ihsaan and alan manning Read at: ow.ly/hgOt50WjCIC