Reminder: I am teaching a MixtapeSessions Advanded DiD session on Friday! This will be my last one for a while. As usual, all my proceeds go to Ukraine relief

When I graduated from undergrad, my great uncle (preacher, not economist) gave me his old copy of "Progress and Poverty" by Henry George, which turned out to be weirdly appropriate

Apply now for pre-doctoral positions in environmental and development economics at Wharton! You'll join a cohort of RAs, build an academic network, and work with Shing-Yi Wang, Susanna Berkouwer and myself.

🚨New paper🚨 I am excited to share my new paper, "Roe v. Rates: Reproductive Healthcare and Public Financing Costs" with Zihan Ye!! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… (1/4)

Who would have guessed that social policies could have fiscal impacts on local governments?

The Stanford Initiative on Business Taxes and Society is hiring a pre-doc to join our growing team! Come work with me, Becky Lester, and Joshua Rauh on topics spanning state, federal, and international taxation. Oct 16 deadline (application link below). gsb.stanford.edu/programs/resea…

Pumped to be participating in The Wharton School's "Climate Prof" event tomorrow evening, where I will join Susanna Berkouwer, Arthur van Benthem, Sanya Carley, Dan Garrett and others in a series of rapid-fire research talks on climate change. #ClimateWeek #ESG esg.wharton.upenn.edu/events/2023-cl…

Since it’s interview season, here’s a thread about how to nail that first RA interview. These are based on my experiences interviewing for different jobs/research institutions and helped me land my RA gig at the Atlanta Fed.

Thanks to immigrants, the US won 75% of Nobel prizes in 2023. Without them, we only would have won 25%. High skilled immigration is a policy lever for more innovation unlike anything else. Oh and its free.

I resubmitted my job market paper today

We want to clarify two things about our working paper on the investment and tax revenue effects of the 2017 tax reform (conference.nber.org/conf_papers/f1…) Gabriel Chodorow-Reich

Come work with Sylvain Catherine (Sylvain Catherine) and me as a pre-doc at Wharton, on exciting topics in household finance, wealth inequality, housing and mortgage markets, and demographic change! Please share, we'll review applications by Dec 1. Econ RA Listings @econtwitter

‼️ JOB MARKET PAPER ALERT ‼️ I show that payment technology can have a positive effect on banking competition. More specifically, instant payment systems reduce deposit market concentration by increasing payment and transfer convenience of small banks. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

The Virtual Municipal Finance Workshop is BACK tomorrow 11am ET! The first talk this semester will be Matthias Fleckenstein presenting "Do Municipal Bond Investors Pay a Convenience Premium to Avoid Taxes?" (joint with Francis Longstaff) Paper+zoom: muni-workshop.com

I'm sorry I have missed posting Virtual Municipal Finance Workshop updates the last few weeks!! Marcelo Sena will be presenting "Local Government Valuation" joint with Oliver Giesecke and Haaris Mateen at today at 11am. Paper and Zoom info: muni-workshop.com

Well, I think I've finally arrived! There is a fake conference scam going around with my name on it... If you get an invite to this fake conference, please don't click on any links >.< (and if you know how to make them stop, I'd love advice)

A new Virtual Municipal Finance Workshop today at 11am ET! Ji Yeol Jimmy Oh of SKKU will present "Mutual Fund Flows and the Supply of Capital in Municipal Financing" (with Manuel Adelino, Sophia Chiyoung Cheong, and Jaewon Choi) Paper + Info: muni-workshop.com

Apropos of nothing in particular, here's a warning I give to students regarding estimating Stata regressions with fixed effects...

We will have a new Virtual Municipal Finance Workshop today at 11am ET! Zihan Ye of University of Tennessee will present "Roe v. Rates: Reproductive Healthcare and Public Financing Costs" (joint with Runjing Lu of University of Alberta) Paper + Info: muni-workshop.com