🚨 New paper in the Journal of Development Econ. Are migrants from poor countries relatively high or low productivity workers? What happens to migration as incomes rise? Mariapia Mendola and I note: These are closely related questions with a counterintutive answer (thread)

Women remain underrepresented among entrepreneurs and inventors. In a new paper, we look at whether women researchers are more likely to engage in commercialization if they can have social impact rather than just commercial. Ina Ganguli 🇺🇦 🌻🪷 Nilanjana Dasgupta 🧵 nber.org/papers/w32885?…

Registration is open for the 2nd Innovator Diversity Pilots conference on Sept. 20 Emory Law co-organized by the USPTO, @margobagley, and Jill Grennan, featuring remarks by Petra Moser, Deputy Director Derrick Brent and many more. Please join us! law.emory.edu/impact/confere…

Excited to participate in the Innovator Diversity Pilots conference in a few weeks! Presenting joint work with April Burrage, Ph.D. Nilanjana Dasgupta on gender differences in social impact and commercial motives for academic entrepreneurship: nber.org/papers/w32885

NEW PAPER ALERT: Forthcoming in Journal of Development Economics, my new paper coauthored with Dany Bahar 🌎🎗️, Sara Signorelli & Ernest Miguelez on Global Mobile Inventors. GMIs play an important role in technology diffusion across borders. Link to paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I'm excited to introduce my upcoming book to be published by Yale University Press #ChangetheWallpaper on the science of positive social change. If you've wondered: How can we as ordinary people fight for justice? Can one person's action have any impact on larger structural inequalities?

Much has been said about the declining numbers of black students in the incoming cohorts in selective private schools, the first cohort admitted after the SCOTUS ban on race-based admissions. Affirmative action was banned in Michigan in 2006. A🧵on recent trends in at UM. 1/11

🔔New paper🔔 In the era of AI and rapid Natural Language Processing (NLP) advances, how should economists choose the right NLP model? Our work provides insights focusing on a patent analysis application. With Jeffrey Lin Ina Ganguli 🇺🇦 🌻🪷 Nicholas Reynolds 🧵1/13 nber.org/papers/w32934?…

🚀 the team at @ifp has been working on this for a long time, and today, we're finally launching "metascience 101"! it's a nine episode podcast series designed to be a crash course into the big ideas motivating metascience first episodes dropping today: macroscience.org/p/announcing-t…

At the end of this podcast, tylercowen jumps in to tell me and Patrick Collison why we’re both wrong.

Thank you John Cawley Sebastian Tello-Trillo Michael Kofoed Anne M. Burton and Todd and Sammy for working with me. This issue turned out great with your thoughtful contributions. Gina Pieters, PhD you are an amazing editor!

A big chapter of my career came to a close last week: I defended my PhD in Toulouse on machine learning for economic history🥳 The past 3 years were a fantastic ride w/ everyone Center for Collective Learning, especially w/ César A. Hidalgo & V. Could not have wished for a better team! 💪

Thrilled to see PaECTER’s success validated in study of NBER researchers! 🎉A recent NBER working paper confirms that our #PaECTER model is best-in-class in #patent similarity #analysis 🔍 (1/7)

I’m proud to share the exciting news that all undergraduate students from households earning $75,000 or less will be able to attend any UMass campus tuition-free starting next fall: bostonglobe.com/2024/10/29/met… @umassamherst @umassboston @umassd @umasslowell #umass #highered (1/4)

Nice to see that my paper on welfare weights is now in print at the AER.

Just opened: the call for papers for this years Migration & Orgs conference in New York May 27-28 - we aim for a fun, interesting & inclusive 2 days drive.google.com/file/d/1SVyBvj… Dan Wang Britta Glennon Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury Zeke Hernandez Astrid Marinoni & Elena Kulcina

Professor of Economics Ina Ganguli 🇺🇦 🌻🪷 will be research lead for the new UMass Amherst NSF I-Corps Hub partnership, supporting #entrepreneurship among researchers to translate their results to the marketplace. buff.ly/3NP9Ov7 #Innovation #UMass UMass Economics

So proud of April Burrage, Ph.D. and excited for her next chapter! 🎉