I accidentally managed to delete this post, so here it comes again: I've uploaded all lecture notes to my Ph.D. course Macroeconomics II (from the first-year course sequence in Uppsala). Per request, all code used for the lecture notes is uploaded too. github.com/erikoberg/teac…

Read ARE Professor Tamma Carleton's newest article in Nature "Impacts of climate change on global agriculture accounting for adaptation" nature.com/articles/s4158… For every additional degree Celsius of global warming, food production could diminish by 120 calories per person day.

Congrats to ARE 2020 PhD alumnus Deepak Premkumar on publishing his job market paper on police behavior and public scrutiny in this issue of the Review of Economics and Statistics direct.mit.edu/rest/article-a… sites.google.com/view/deepakpre…

Is air pollution regulation too lenient in the US? Find out in Joe Shapiro and Reed Walker's new paper out in the American Economic Review: aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… Joseph Shapiro reed walker

ARE team publishes in the Journal of Development Economics!

Studying how ethnic identification varies with education among disadvantaged minorities in Romania, from Andreea Mitrut, @thetahat, Margareta Matache, Andrei Munteanu, and Cristian Pop-Eleches nber.org/papers/w34383

Joanna Harris’ research has pushed her into a very interesting and ambitious problem. What is the impact on green production and location when states enact laws limiting fossil fuel emissions? Her analysis includes extensive empirical work and a structural model to interpret the

We at UCD Economics are hiring: 3 AP positions! Apply: aeaweb.org/joe/listings or jobs.ac.uk. Join a fast growing department, with excellent PhDs, gorgeous campus, and superb broader community (e.g., Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin, Maynooth University, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI)) Have Qs? DM me.

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Check out my newest YouTube playlist walking through the process of producing a structural model!

Let me take a moment to share our new paper on #DepositInsurance in India just published as a discussion paper with CEPR. Our VoxDev piece below lays out the core takeaway clearly: the Reserve Bank of India (ReserveBankOfIndia) should raise the #DepositInsurance threshold. Doing so

I'm excited to announce I am on the job market this year! 🎉 My research explores economic barriers for people with disabilities at the intersection of labor, public, and health economics. My #JMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population.🧵

I'm on the job market! A little bit about my JMP here 👇

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Digital freelance market places offer chance for skilled labor in LMICs to sell their services to rich countries. But huge reputation barriers to new entrants. Sellers assume lowering wage to gain reputation would send more of a bad signal than it does. Great paper Rebecca Wu.

Balboni et al found poverty trap in Bangladesh due to fixed costs (eg to buy a cow) but is that unusual? Why cant ppl save up to buy the fixed asset? Ed Jee finds fixed costs of high return assets (diff by country) frequently cause traps but many ppl do save to overcome them.

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Rethinking Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from West Africa Beyond the Co-Residence Sample Bias Website: jesugnonezechiasdjima.com/research