Alexander Berger
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Enjoys a good applied micro paper. CEO of @open_phil. Views my own, tweets self-destruct every once in a while.
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05-03-2011 18:56:37
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This didn't happen. warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/m… (h/t Ruben C. Arslan)
“The mixing up of the words cryptogamist and cryptographer may have started as a joke among the staff at Bletchley Park.”
Internal migration data in Brazil shows that common estimation procedures underestimate the importance of expected wages in migration choices. Workers face substantial and heterogeneous information frictions, from Porcher, Morales, and Thomas Fujiwara nber.org/papers/w32413
Does work from home work for women in India? an RCT that assigned jobs shows 56% of wives started working from home, while only 27% took office jobs. Higher wages did not affect this. Enforcing office check-ins reduced job take-up Suhani Jalota Lisa Ho shorturl.at/lJK16
New paper in Ergo, with Teru Thomas: Suppose you don't care about the *total* amount of welfare in the world, but only about the *average*. Should you still care a lot about the size of the future population/long-term survival of humanity? Turns out, yes! journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article/i…