We have now looked carefully at the Arin Dube-Reich “response” (DRBS) to our forthcoming JPE Micro replication of DLR (2010). DRBS is not a response to my paper with Jha and David Neumark. Instead, it is a misleading piece of obfuscation, deflection, and goalpost shifting. 1/19

A reminder that Mexico’s huge trade surplus with the U.S. is an illusion. In value-added terms, trade is nearly balanced. Unfortunately, this is an argument unlikely to have any impact when Mexico is someone’s favorite piñata.

Absurdo ver a comentócratas — enemigos de la patria, que aplaudían o callaban mientras el ecocida AMLO destruía instituciones, dejaba la economía con alfileres y entregaba la seguridad del país a los narcos — indignados por la falta de unidad nacional. x.com/HernanGomezB/s…

Todo en este video es perfecto: la canción, la interpretación, el arreglo, el manejo de cámaras, la presentación, las rosas volando al escenario, el traje verde, las mangas, el final apoteósico, la cara de estupefacción de Marco Antonio Muñiz, todo. Ese día nació una leyenda.

That's a way to increase exports.

A replication in REStat of Arin Dube’s 2019 AEJ: Applied Econ paper finds that minimum wages do not reduce poverty after all. x.com/restatjournal/…

Economists studying monopsony and the minimum wage need to account for labor market size and the urban wage premium, from Priyaranjan Jha, Jyotsana Kala, David Neumark, and Antonio Rodriguez nber.org/papers/w33862

15% tariff. 12% dollar drop. Brutal for European exporters.

A synopsis of our work on minimum wages and monopsony. We find evidence that frictions impact jobs effect of minimum wage, but properly accounting for city size, impact on jobs is negative almost everywhere. promarket.org/2025/09/18/acc…