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And to wrap it up here's one on Alabama that goes back millions of years. This ex-coastline area throughout history has had larger farm sizes, a larger slave population and now strong democratic credentials in a red state. More here: starkeycomics.com/2021/06/11/how…

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I’m excited to be at the 2024 Jobs and Development Conference hosted by J-PAL MENA AUC in Cairo. I will present work on displacement insurance in Ethiopia with Stefano Caria, Girum Abebe, and Francois Gerard. 🔗 Tune in online from Tuesday: bit.ly/j4dreg #Jobs4Dev_2024

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Come join us in Berlin for a 4-year postdoc! We’re planning exciting work on how to counter far-right extremism. Happy to answer any questions.

Using the Mercator Projection on a sphere is bold

We have new post-doc positions at the MPI in Bonn. We look forward to receiving many applications.

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Attention those estimating child penalties! How you measure outcomes over parental leave matters. A lot! Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen barbara petrongolo & I put facts on birth timing, spacing & PL together in a new paper. Child penalties can vary by >50% depending on your approach 👇1/n

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Very neat paper on providing home buyers with information on flood risk by Daryl Fairweather ⛅ Matthew E. Kahn Robert Metcalfe Olascoaga nber.org/papers/w33119

Oof, this chart! That sharp decline in infant mortality from the mid-80s is basically my lifetime. That modern India, and much of Asia and Africa, could achieve this in just a few decades is a signature achievement of the late 20th century!

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Because most trade is in intermediate goods and the Diamond-Mirrlees production efficiency lemma shows that taxes should not be levied on intermediate goods.

This Zvi Mowshowitz post on AI cheating is worthwhile and asks many of the right questions. But he's wrong to conclude that AI means what you learn in college doesn't matter. This really misses the point. College builds brainpower like going to the gym builds muscle. 🧵

This is a very nice paper which clarifies something that many people working on close elections get wrong. Most of the time, close election RDs do not identify the causal effect of candidate characteristics.