Most department seminar series are budget constrained. But presenting work in other departments is a crucial way for speakers to get feedback on their work and disseminate their ideas, and for everyone (speakers and the audience) to broaden their networks. This is most important

🚨 This year, UCLA is hosting the All-California Labor Economics Conference on September 12-13. Submit your applied micro papers here by July 31st ⏰: ccpr.ucla.edu/2024/07/02/acl…

On my way back to LA after presenting at a brilliant NBER Political Economy conference. Very helpful feedback on my paper w/ Pawel Adrjan Allison Shrivastava Svenja Gudell Evan Starr Find all the excellent papers here: nber.org/conferences/si… Such a great group!

"You have to be living under a rock (or be an economist who's never looked for a job like a normal person) to not have heard of Indeed and Glassdoor" 🤣 Great job Emily Nix on presenting our paper with Allison Shrivastava Svenja Gudell Jason Sockin Evan Starr at the NBER Pol Econ SI

Back @NBERpub and psyched to present "The Ms. Allocation of Talent" with Moritz Lubczyk dropbox.com/scl/fi/4bq6446… (1/6)

Back in Boston for NBER SI and attending the NBER Gender program today. Packed room with standing room only for some exciting and important papers.

Looking forward to presenting my paper on Dating and Breaking Up with the Boss w/ Jerry Montonen & D Mac tomorrow at at 10:45 a.m. in the NBER Personnel group. Look forward to seeing many of you there! Find the full program and location here: nber.org/conferences/si…

Emily Nix, MacDonald & Montonen on the effects of workplace relationships: Dating your colleague (blue) increases your earnings a bit - maybe learning more skills? Dating a manager at your workplace (red) increases your earnings a lot more (favoritism?)

Very happy the Journal of Labor Economics is now on Twitter! (Better late than never?) Follow here: Journal of Labor Economics

Thank you European Research Council (ERC) for helping to make this agenda possible! We will be making teaching slides & tips on how to address these topics with students available later in the autumn

So incredibly happy to be part of this team.

Proud of this work and amazing to see at such an amazing journal. This is a difficult but important topic. For a short summary, see Washington Post Opinions op-ed: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/… Up next, plan to focus even more on an agenda to produce solutions for these difficult problems.

I didn't know this paper... >300 people refereed the same economics paper, with author listed as 1. an early career scholar 2. anonymous 3. a Nobel laureate (from same university as 1) Recommendations: 65% reject for early career scholar, 23% reject for Nobel laureate 😑

📢New paper alert! +🧵 "Supply-side drug policy, polydrug use, and the economic effects of withdrawal" w/Alexander Ahammer NBER link: nber.org/papers/w32804 IZA link: docs.iza.org/dp17192.pdf

Hi everyone - the Empirical Management Conference call for papers is posted below. This will be at Harvard Business School in December (date and location chosen for the fantastically hot sunny weather :-). Please submit your papers using the link below.

One of my favorite conferences of the year! Great place to submit management and personnel papers.

Despite 8 top finance pubs, a dozen working papers, and the support of his department, my brother Michael Sockin was passed over for tenure at UT Austin. Although his department is appealing the decision, he is excited to consider other opportunities. sites.google.com/site/michaelso…