I will present the latest work, 'A Remote Work Baby Boom? Remote Work and Fertility in the United States,' MIT IWER from 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm on May 7th. It will be a hybrid seminar. If you would like to attend virtually, feel free to email me, and I'm happy to share a link.

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Use our migrant child labor data!

More children are crossing the border on their own than ever before, and thousands are ending up doing dangerous, illegal jobs.

We sued the government for a huge trove of data about these kids, and shared it all here: github.com/nytimes/hhs-ch…

i have never been as sad about the algo penalizing outbound links as I was when sharing someone's NBER paper a few minutes ago

🚨 New Working Paper! 🚨

Do labor market conditions affect the hiring discrimination of union supporters?

Short answer: Yes they do. I find that discrimination is pro-cyclical and mainly observable among firms without a collective agreement.

The paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Excited to get the revised version of this paper out!

This is still one of my favorite papers I’ve worked on, which combines rich descriptives, theory, and causal reduced form analysis to help resolve some important puzzles in measured self-employment trends

**New Paper** The US spent $6.3 billion dollars to revitalize hundreds of public housing projects between 1993-2010. Did these investments transform high-poverty neighborhoods into mixed-income communities? Did subsidized renters benefit? #EconTwitter matthewstaiger.github.io/matthewstaiger…

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Available on Amazon, Barnes, and other major bookstores. You can also find excerpts and some of the book's major themes in this recent The New York Times guest essay:

nytimes.com/2024/04/16/opi…

Announcing my new book with Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s!

The empirical economics literature on climate impacts has exploded in recent years.

'Slow Burn' attempts an accessible synthesis, highlighting some of the more subtle human consequences of a warming world.

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Very pleased to see the article we wrote with S. Harnay and A. Rebérioux published in Industrial Relations

We study codetermination, i.e. the inclusion of employee representatives on company boards, and examine their power within the boardroom

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ir…

Great addition to the policy-relevance debate from Jakob — whose group at the CMA is doing stellar work at the intersection of policy and research

Soumaya Keynes with some good thoughts on the recent discussion of how economists can be more useful to policymakers, triggered by Jed Kolko's recent article.

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How is this leveled playing field in terms of marketing of work, networking opportunities, and promotion decisions!!??? My career depends on these opportunities but the level of fighting/planning it takes to do anything is unreal! The constraints are impossible to meet!

Do Firms Have an Incentive to Comply with the US Federal Minimum Wage?

A thread 🧵, w/ results from my updated WP (with newly-FOIA-ed data on liquidated damages and hot good violations, for all the enforcement nerds out there).

docs.iza.org/dp16882.pdf

Excited to share this resource with the world - new website includes our pandemic focused unemployment research, resources for other researchers, and projects we're currently working on focused on unemployment. capolicylab.org/publications/u…

One thing I'm particularly proud of from my time at LinkedIn is being an enabler of this awesome paper by Jessica Jeffers on the negative impact of non-competes.

(Link downthread)

Endorse. This is a super useful book!

#US firms have little financial incentive to comply with the #minimumwage
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This great paper by Sammy Young & Sean Wang deservedly highlighted.

Documents union avoidance behavior by multi-site employers: shifting employment to other nonunion locations.

Also uses clever RDD extrapolation methods to avoid the problem of only looking at close elections

Don't miss the new MIT IWER newsletter, now available online; this issue's theme is 'Generative AI and the Future of Work': mailchi.mp/dd82ba1d0b55/g…