Andy Garin
@andy_garin
Economist, interested in making work work for workers. Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz College.
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http://www.andygarin.com 18-03-2012 00:09:29
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Episode 105: Amanda Agan on how sealing criminal records affects employment.
probablecausation.com/podcasts/episo…
Hope you enjoy this podcast covering our new NBER WP on criminal record remediation policies and employment: nber.org/papers/w32394
I am trying for the Probable Causation 5-timers club jacket, which Jennifer Doleac promises will be a thing!
Sealing criminal records from employer background checks has a limited impact on employment rates and earnings, from @amandayagan, Andy Garin, Dmitri Koustas, Alex Mas, and Crystal Yang nber.org/papers/w32394
The 'increase in gig work' apparent in tax data seems to reflect a change in taxpayer reporting behavior, not an actual change in the amount of gig work happening in the economy.
New NBER paper by Andy Garin Emilie Jackson & Dmitri Koustas.
nber.org/papers/w32368
The increased share of reporting self-employment in US tax data post-2000 is not due to the rise of platform gig work. Rather, more taxpayers report self earnings to benefit from the Earned Income Tax Credit, from Andy Garin, Emilie Jackson, and Dmitri Koustas nber.org/papers/w32368
I'm disappointed to see that IMF took the data we shared with them and are now using it without citing us. We produced the statistics they were interested in based on this WP: osf.io/preprints/soca… . Nathan Lane Emily Oehlsen Verónica C Pérez
New NÉBER JÁNOS wp w/ Colleen Carey and Michael Daly uses #Medicare claims and CMS #OpenPayments Data to study effect of #cancer drug marketing payments to docs.
Special thanks to Aaron Mitchell for helpful insights!
UW School of Pharmacy #UWCHOICE Health Economics & Policy at Cornell
So excited to announce that @natasharsarin and Danny Yagan and I are launching @the_budget_lab at Yale Law School. Budget scoring is an incredibly important part of the policy process and our hope is to bring a new perspective, with a focus on innovation and transparency. 1/
Former Kevin McCarthy: 'I'll give you the truth why I'm not speaker. It's because one person, a member of Congress, wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17-year-old ... Did he do it or not? I don't know.'
Is cheap chicken worth it? The great Debbie Berkowitz delivers the goods on why the people who process your chicken face routine injury on the job—from carpal tunnel to amputations. Must-listen edition of Unconfined podcast. clf.jhsph.edu/unconfined-pod…