Apologies for the confusion: the NOĒMA article and the NBER working paper are one and the same (except for formatting diffs and a slightly different title, due to last minute changes). The NBER working paper includes a live link to the NOĒMA article.

Join Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and me for the launch of the MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative, this Monday at MIT and online:
1) Engaging workers in shaping technology
2) Using AI for social good
3) Building better jobs twitter.com/MITshapingwork…

Join us next Monday, January 22 (2–6pm EST) for our official launch event.

We will host discussions with leaders and researchers who are Shaping the Future of Work. Join in-person (MIT Samberg Conference Center) or online.

Learn more and register today:

shapingwork.mit.edu/events/mit-sha…

The US Interstate highway system linked cities w/ suburbs, bulldozed minority neighborhoods, deepened Black segregation. Monumental work tinyurl.com/jmplauraww by MIT job candidate Laura Weiwu combines archival data + frontier tools to quantify the grossly unequal welfare impacts

Why did the Japan trade shock of the 1960s + 70s have vastly disparate impact on jobs, incomes of Black men? Powerful scholarship by MIT job candidate Brandon Enriquez with Fidan Kurtuluş provides direct evidence + answers using firm-level EEOC data: x.com/brandonriquez/…

Masterful analysis of the US Low-Income Housing Tax Credit by MIT job candidate Evan Soltas, which provides about 2% of all US housing units. Economists have long suspected that LIHTC is a pure handout to developers. Turns out: nope!

economics.mit.edu/people/phd-stu…

I want to commend Armin_Falk for taking the difficult decision to step aside from IZA leadership. This is _itself_ an act of leadership

As of now, 678 IZA Fellows have pledged to resign from IZA on 1 Jan 2024 if Armin Falk becomes its head bit.ly/47dfWFv

Armin Falk brushes off these concerns bit.ly/49UNhaf

His view appears to be that the ship must go down with its captain. Is that leadership?

See the resignation letter of Josh Dean of Chicago Booth, who served on the briq task force meant to address the crisis x.com/josh_t_dean/st…. Dean resigned because briq and IZA had lost his trust

See briq's initial public response to the charge, which, under Falk's leadership, threatened to sue Falk's accuser (who is now deceased)

An open letter from 436 Fellows of IZA to the Deutsche Post Foundation + the Rectorate of the University of Bonn objecting to the appointment of Armin Falk as IZA's head. If the appointment stands, all 436 Fellows will resign from IZA on 1 Jan 2024

bit.ly/47dfWFv

x.com/MITshapingwork…