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Until 2017, crossing a state border in a truck in India was like going through international customs. Truckers waited in a (long) queue to have the goods and paperwork verified by state government officials and to pay interstate customs duties and state-specific taxes. 1/6

What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too? And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates. A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N

Surreal to see my paper w/Chris Karpowitz, Jessica Preece, & Stephen D. O'Connell in print JPE! TLDR: When women are a minority in teams, they experience a significant influence penalty. Assigning a female team leader, however, reduces that penalty by 50%. Detailed 🧵below:

It's time!🥳 Women on the 2024-25 econ job market, in no particular order: /begin{verylongthread}

The academe has for a long time had a severely neglected social class problem. "Children from low-SES homes were already severely underrepresented [in the academe]." "Scientists from high-SES families have 38% higher odds of becoming stars." nber.org/papers/w33063

Couldn’t be more thrilled to see this paper land almost nine (!) years since the first iteration. If you’ve seen older versions of the paper, we got better data and expanded the analysis in response to the really insightful feedback we got, so check out the final version!

Come work with us at Haas School of Business! Laura Weiwu, Antoine Levy 🇺🇦 and I are hiring full-time RAs to start in July 2025. Topics at the intersection of urban economics, spatial economics, and political economy. More info here: docs.google.com/document/d/1ng… Econ RA Listings

Take a look at the African-American unemployment rate. Since Biden took office, it has been below 6% for 21 months. It hit an all-time low of 4.8% in April 2023. Under Trump, it was below 6% for 7 months and hit a low of 5.3% in August & September 2019. 🧵

‼️Job alert ‼️ Econ RA Listings Join us in the beautiful Bay Area Haas School of Business for projects on housing policy, intergenerational mobility after the Civil Rights Era, and the political economy of zoning regulations. You will be mentored by Olivia Bordeu Antoine Levy 🇺🇦, & me

This Friday, we are hosting the Cities and Development conference. It will be streamed. When we started this in 2016, it was barely a field in econ. Amazing work is now happening, but cities are still underrated. If you're in Cambridge and want to come, send me a DM for info.

Has pay kept up with the cost of living? Most voters say "no." Many economists, pointing to data on real wages, say "yes." But it turns out it's a surprisingly difficult question to answer. Whose pay? Whose cost of living? Over what time period? My story trying to unpack the

Lots of great research being done by these people at UBC Economics

I'm very excited to join Princeton University in the spring, w/ joint appointment Princeton Economics and Princeton School of Public & International Affairs + the Industrial Relations Section! Very grateful to wonderful mentors, colleagues, students + staff MIT Economics for an incredible time! Looking forward to the next adventure!

Spatial JMCs: Each year, I compile a list of spatial-economics job-market papers. To make sure you're on my list (& save me some work), please reply with your info in the following format: Firstname Surname (School) - JMP title - homepageURL [Trade JMCs: reply to other tweet]

Happy to be a fellow in the Stanford University IDEAL Provostial Fellowship with such inspiring leaders and colleagues. Looking forward to the impactful research that will emerge from our various disciplines!

Very neat paper on providing home buyers with information on flood risk by Daryl Fairweather ⛅ Matthew E. Kahn Robert Metcalfe Olascoaga nber.org/papers/w33119

Our paper on "Electoral Turnovers" with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet is now forthcoming at The Review of Economic Studies ! Full thread on what we do and find here: x.com/VinPons/status…

64 years ago today, six-year-old Ruby Bridges became the first Black student to attend an all-white elementary school in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her courage continues to inspire us as we fight to fulfill the promise of America.

We are very excited to release a new working paper (joint work with Ran Abramitzky, Jenna Kowalski, and Joe Price). I am especially excited as this paper has been in the making for a long time (4+ years 😬). nber.org/system/files/w…