I'm thankful that my JMP is now available at RAND onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17… Many thanks to my advisors Steven Berry Phil Haile Pinelopi Goldberg Mitsuru IGAMI Olav Sorenson

A conversation on “The Hidden Truth: How the British Empire Shaped India's Economy”. Hosted by Daniel Freeman, Institute of Economic Affairs Managing Editor, this interview with Tirthankar Roy explores the economic history of India.

Why is it so annoying and buggy to estimate GMM by Python?

It was an honor to deliver the LIDO lecture Dartmouth 🌲 DartmouthEcon in beautiful Hanover, NH. Talked about the historical origins of inequality in Latin America, with job-market candidate Francisco Eslava S. Special thanks to Diego Ramos-Toro for making it happen! economics.dartmouth.edu/news/2024/09/f…

UofSC Darla Moore School of Business Econ job market candidate, Idris Kambala's (𝕀𝕕𝕣𝕚𝕤 𝕂𝕒𝕞𝕓𝕒𝕝𝕒) job market paper is entitled "The Long-run Effects of Africa’s Wave of Democratization" iddrisukambala.com/wp-content/upl…

Live-tweeting Karthik Muralidharan's presentation on state capacity at NEUDC. Simple story of India's economy: - Top 10% drives demand and growth - Next 30-40% in service sector jobs supporting the top 10% - remaining 50% left out, supported by welfare programs Seems suboptimal 1/n

There is no correlation between workforce diversity and firm performance, regardless of whether (a) diversity is measured using gender, ethnic, or age diversity; (b) performance is measured using return on equity, gross profit, or labor productivity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/fi…

Yesterday I attended the session "Publishing in #Economics" at the #NEUDC2024 with Melissa Dell (JPE) Andrew Foster (JDE) Tavneet Suri (REStat) and Laura Schechter (JEBO) and I think everyone should benefit from the amazing insights and advice we received, here is my summary! 1/n

This paper really cool

Thanks for the opportunity to present my JMP co-authored with Felipe Parra Escobar ! I'm grateful for such a productive and encouraging discussion.

Econ folks. I have not yet updated modern diference-in-differences literature for a couple of months. Any new survey articles should I check?

📚 Exciting News: "Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700-1776)" by Jeremy Land is now available in open access! Click here to download your free copy: shorturl.at/KTNz1. Brill History

New paper alert! With #JohnAsker, #AllanCollardWexler, the great Charlotte De Cannière, and #JandeLoecker. Note that Charlotte is on the market this year, so you should hire her. #energytwitter #econtwitter #climatetwitter nber.org/papers/w33115

We are organizing the 3rd Workshop in Economic History organized in beautiful Uppsala on May 22-23, 2025 with a keynote by Elias Papaioannou! Call for papers with submission link :   shorturl.at/rCVZ7

🚨Updated working paper! 🚨 I am happy to have the latest draft of this paper out. My coauthor, Jordan Adamson, and I created a new dataset on ancient battles in the ancient Mediterranean and we used it to examine conflict between 600 and 30 BCE. 🧵below: #EconTwitter

A really interesting and value-adding experiment by UCSB PhD student on the rookie AP PhD market, Dario Trujano Ochoa . Looks at demand-side demand for better info in Mexico (almost all social media studies in US, Europe).

Interesting paper from my colleague

If Trump casts a wide net on his deportation policy (key word, wide net), his gains among Latinos this election will erode... marcelroman.com/pdfs/wps/threa…

Just read a history book mentioning there was a great migration wave in the United States especially to the western coast, related to wartime production, and there was a federal agency established to monitor this process. Any econ paper study this?