#QJE May 2024, #9, “How the 1963 Equal Pay Act and 1964 Civil Rights Act Shaped the Gender Gap in Pay,” by Bailey (Martha Bailey), Helgerman (Thomas Helgerman), and Stuart (Bryan Stuart): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

#CallForPapers: Firms, Trade, & Development Submission deadline: Aug 16 #FirmsTradeDev 2024 will be held in person Yale University Oct 24-25, hosted by EGC & International Growth Centre. Info & submission link ⬇️ egc.yale.edu/events/firms-t…

Submit your work!! Bs As in December will be a treat :)

One of my favorite papers on trade and innovation!

What are firms actually doing with R&D subsidies in developing countries? How does it affect long-run growth? Let me tell you a story of how industrial policies interact and lead to unexpected results.

Some thoughts on trade and price index inequality pulled together as part of the IFS Deaton Review on Inequality: academic.oup.com/ooec/article/3…

Motivated by the recent AI boom, Danilo Cascaldi-Garcia and I empirically show that positive news to future U.S. productivity could lead to a stronger dollar as productivity gains expected in the U.S. might not spill over to other advanced economies.

We're excited to have Indermit Gill, the Chief Economist of the World Bank, kick off the Growth Academy with an insightful overview of the World Development Report 2024! World Bank Growth Academy Becker Friedman Institute for Economics

🚨New paper on the unequal incidence of markup distortions and its implications for global policy. Main result: the burden of global markup distortions falls disproportionally on consumers in low-income countries. alashkar.pages.iu.edu/DLL_June2024.p… (🧵) Thread Below

What happened to U.S. Manufacturing? Here are some highlights from the essay I wrote for the American Worker Project that backup my comment in the quote below 1/

Reminder, the IGC and the Yale Economic Growth Center are hosting a two-day conference on 24-25 October, 2024 on the theme of “Firms, Trade, and Development.” Its a great conference! Please submit by Monday, 16 August at 5 PM EST @ lse.tfaforms.net/f/IGC-EGC-Call…

.International Growth Centre has a new call for proposals out. It's a good source of funding for work on firms in developing countries (#1 in theme list below), with an increasing focus on sustainability.

📢New STEG Podcast: How will a new #malaria #vaccine shape #Africa’s economic future? Tim Phillips and Minki Kim explore the economic impact of the malaria vaccine on Africa’s growth and development. 🎧Listen here: steg.cepr.org/podcasts/how-w… #Economics #Growth

Had a great time teaching about cost of living inequality at UChicago | Stone Center on Inequality & Mobility Summer School! Check out the slides: Part 1: Price Indexes for Population Subgroups 👉 drive.google.com/file/d/1ti1PTh… Part 2: Price Indexes for Countries 👉drive.google.com/file/d/1HJaMxL…

Short articles on cost of living inequality: 1. Do Black Households Face Higher and More Volatile Inflation? Richmond Fed Research richmondfed.org/publications/r… 2. Measuring the cost of living in Mexico and the US VoxDev w/ David Argente & Chang-Tai Hsieh voxdev.org/topic/methods-…

Tim Phillips kicks off the 2024 Conversations on Transformation series at the STEG Annual Conference by discussing South Korea's economic growth with Yongseok Shin WashU Listen now: steg.cepr.org/podcasts/indus… #IndustrialPolicy #Podcast #STEG

Jonathan Eaton was an exceptional scholar and a wonderful mentor. Cecilia Fieler and I wrote an intellectual obituary describing his academic work and legacy that was just posted on VoxEU. cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…

thomas chaney and I updated our working paper on "Trade and the End of Antiquity" (which recently got some airtime here). A short re-cap: 1/n