Robert Metcalfe (Robert Metcalfe) joins SIPA as professor of international and public affairs, with a professorship of energy policy. Metcalfe, who most recently was a professor of economics at the University of Southern California, studies applied microeconomics, with a focus on

Congrats, Rob! This is awesome. Best wishes for all the journeys ahead of you in NYC :)

Congrats Augustin! Best of luck for everything :)

I am deeply heartbroken. YingHua was a wonderful coauthor, teacher, mentor, and a friend. Always full of generosity, kindness, courage, and positivity despite his terminal illness. May he rest in peace, and please keep him in your prayers.

Very sad news for our community. YingHua made great contributions to market design. Our thoughts are with his friends and family.

My friend and co-author YingHua He died of kidney cancer this past week. YingHua was among the most brilliant economists I have the good fortune to have met. He was kind, funny and full of good ideas. I miss him and will always cherish the time we had together.

Just received a youtube recording of #YingHua on his research on school choice, sharing his smiles, laughter and wisdom with the world: youtube.com/watch?v=yMD3_G…

Very excited to see this paper with @sacher_szymon finally accepted! We have lots of results interesting to anyone curious about health care, machine learning, Bayesian econometrics, and especially their intersection! 🧵(1/N)

🚨 New paper 🚨 Our RCT shows that in Uganda the returns to vocational training survive the pandemic: skilled workers accumulate more sector-specific experience pre-pandemic and are more mobile across firms, thus increasing their resilience to the shock

So happy to see in print!🧵Main q: how does adjusting the size of local gov't units affect service delivery? Ex-ante, not obvious! Smaller population=easier to cater to local prefs, monitor leaders, etc but may be more susceptible to elite capture, miss out on econ of scale, etc

Please, check out our NEW PAPER with Markus Möller on Robust Market Design under Opacity! drive.google.com/file/d/1cPfMdW…

Hi #econtwitter ! Haven't we all dreamed of analyzing the output of a structural model just like we do with a linear regression table? It is now possible! Simon Lee, Yongchan Kwon and I just put out a paper producing Shapley values for structural models. arxiv.org/abs/2410.06875

Come work with us! We (Trade Diversion (Jonathan Dingel) Gautam Gowrisankaran, Pietro Tebaldi, and I) are hiring pre-docs to start in summer 2025. Econ RA Listings PREDOC.org

Interested in a PhD in economics at USC Economics? Join Vittorio Bassi and I for a program overview+answering your q's on Wed Nov 13 at 7am PST/10am EST/3pm GMT/830pm IST/11pm China: usc.zoom.us/j/93660736254 . More on USC's PhD program: dornsife.usc.edu/econ/doctoral/ Life in LA is good!🌴🌞

A review of recent research on spatial economics, from @ReddingEcon nber.org/papers/w33125

🚨 JMP thread: Peers and Social Mobility🚨 On the Academic JM 2024/2025!🔜 How do social interactions shape economic opportunity? In my JMP, I uncover how school-based peer networks influence lifetime earnings. 🧵👇 pietro-campa.github.io/CampaJMP.pdf

1/ 🤔Ever wondered if pairing socially isolated students with popular peers helps or hurts their outcomes? My job market paper explores this through a large-scale RCT across Indian schools. Thread below 🧵 #EconTwitter #EconJobMarket #JMP

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Teacher Labor Market Policy and the Theory of the Second Best,” by Bates (Michael Bates), Dinerstein (Michael Dinerstein), Johnston (Andrew C. Johnston), and Sorkin: doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

📢Call for papers: 🚀3rd CESifo/ifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education🥳 12-13 May 2025, Munich Keynote: Alexander Willén PhD students & early postdocs, please apply! cesifo.org/en/event/2025-… Deadline: 16 Feb 2025 Co-organizer Caterina Pavese CESifo

🚨 Our paper on same-race matching in college is now online at Economics of Education Review! We talk a lot about the benefits of same-race matching in K-12 and higher ed but haven't stopped to ask: Who even has access to same-race matching/how often (and where) does it occur?