With the support O-Lab's Place-Based Policy Initiative, Andrea Cerrato of Berkeley Economics dedicated his job market paper to examining the effects of a large-scale regional development program in Italy. 🇮🇹 Andrea, we can't wait to see what you'll do next at Boston Fed!

💧 ICYMI, check out this episode of Resources Magazine's Resources Radio featuring O-Lab alum Simon Greenhill’s research with Hannah Druckenmiller, which uses machine learning to predict which US waterways are regulated under the Clean Water Act: buff.ly/49tCTVe

We thought we'd 'soft launch' but someone must have noticed - glad people are looking at academic websites 😅 Silvia Farina A.A.

We owe Silvia Farina an apology — we should have recognized her in our initial tweet! Silvia, thank you for investigating the important, ongoing issue of gender dynamics in the workplace.🌟

🌟 Through O-Lab's Initiative on Equity in Energy and Environmental Economics, run jointly with Energy Institute at Haas, Aaron Watt of Berkeley Agricultural and Resource Economics is developing new tools to optimize placement of air pollution monitors. Learn more about his project:

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What an incredible honor! The work continues. Apply here to join our team studying regional patterns and drivers of racial wealth inequality: tinyurl.com/y68st2p8

On Monday, the #minwage for CA’s fast food workers increased to $20/hr, with critics predicting that firms will respond with layoffs + price increases. In CalMatters, Michael Reich of IRLE UC Berkeley + Justin C. Wiltshire unpack evidence against these predictions: calmatters.org/commentary/202…

We're excited to announce that applications for our 2024 Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) are now open! Join us in Berkeley from June 5-7, 2024 to learn tools and practices for transparent and reproducible social science research:
go.cega.org/rt2-2024

Black workers in large US cities live closer to jobs and “good” jobs than whites, suggesting that spatial mismatch is unlikely to be a major source of racial earnings gaps, from David Card, Jesse Rothstein, and Moises Yi nber.org/papers/w32252

“If low-wage workers do not know that they could make more elsewhere, then these workers stay put in low-wage firms.”

Check out this article to hear O-Lab alum Nina Roussille of MIT Economics discuss results from a paper examining worker perceptions of wages: news.mit.edu/2024/study-fin…

In the latest episode of Poverty Research IRP’s Poverty Research and Policy podcast, Jesse Rothstein unpacks his recent National Academies report focused on reducing intergenerational poverty through education reform.

Listen below:
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Elizabeth Warren, Pramila Jayapal, and Brendan Boyle recently announced new measures to strengthen the Ultra-Millionaire tax, including stronger rules against tax evasion. Read more about the proposal, ft. commentary from Emmanuel Saez + Gabriel Zucman:
commondreams.org/news/ultra-mil…

📢 Funding opportunity!

If you’re a UC Berkeley PhD student researching:
🗺️ geographic dimensions of poverty & inequality, or
🚉US infrastructure development, apply by April 5 to receive support for living expenses, data purchasing, + more:
olab.berkeley.edu/funding-opport…