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"Men who lose access to Medicaid eligibility are 14% more likely to be incarcerated in the subsequent two years relative to a matched comparison group. The effects are entirely driven by men with mental health histories." by @elisajacome elisajacome.github.io/Jacome/Jacome_…

When undocumented immigrants get an amnesty—they create new firms. From a paper on Venezuelan migrants to Columbia by @dbaharc and coauthors papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… Immigrants to U.S. are more entrepreneurial than natives; we should stop standing in the way of the undocumented.

My niece just drew me an arm tattoo. My kind of family reunion. Original: xkcd.com/552/

Wrote down some of my personal opinions abt diff-in-diff, event studies, falsifications, parallel trends and no anticipation. But also wanted to showcase Laura Wherry , Sarah Miller and Johnson (2021, QJE) as a prototype of "good diff-in-diff" evidence causalinf.substack.com/p/falsificatio…

This is Scott Galloway at his best. Straightforward, fearless candor splashed with industry, tech and life wisdom. Highly recommend, he nails it in two minutes.

Wanted to follow up w/a short + belated 🧵about the fascinating set of papers presented at our recent workshop analyzing the gendered effects of globalization Columbia's Initiative for Policy Dialogue JGD Bilge Erten #EconTwitter x.com/leightjessica/…

Ridwan Karim analyzes import + export boom in Brazil driven by China shock (⬆️ exports of commodities, ⬆️ imports of manufactured growth) + finds that both increase birth weight, reduce infant mortality in affected local labor markets, thus also ⬇️ fertility

Carlos charris Bladimir Carrillo Surprising finding, but consistent w/a second paper by Ridwan Karim (forthcoming in a special issue of JGD coedited by Bilge Erten+ me!) that shows that both import + export growth ⬇️ child mortality papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

As in Ireland or Kosovo (or a dozen other conflicts undiscussed & unnoticed), I think the only reasonable position is to be conflicted and pained, to vociferously condemn terroristic acts, but to also condemn self-serving and often short-sighted policies by the powerful.

JGD Bilge Erten Kevin P. Gallagher Joseph E. Stiglitz Bob Rijkers Selin Secil Akin Juan Antonio Montecino Sarah Shaukat Cynthia Kinnan Shruti Sharma Christian Volpe Martincus Haneen Mansour Pamela Medina Quispe Andrea Velasquez And Ridwan Karim analyzes import + export boom in Brazil driven by China shock (⬆️ exports of commodities, ⬇️ imports of manufactured growth) + finds that both increase birth weight + reduce infant mortality, thus also ⬇️ fertility degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Congratulations to Nikolai M. Cook, Ridwan Karim, @antomancino, and Zijian Wang for their recently announced SSHRC Insight Development Grants. Looking forward to your research! Laurier Research Lazaridis School of Business & Economics

Short paper on citizen compliance and party identity using a close election regression discontinuity design. Accepted at the Applied Economics Letters :) Link to working paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, issued a statement on the seriousness of the violations of human rights committed by the #Bangladesh government. “There must be full accountability for the numerous instances

Paper on voter buying and public goods provision. Conditionally accepted at the Journal of Development Economics :) Link to working paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Adios to this platform. I'll be here: bsky.app/profile/ridwan…