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After one year, we got a response from the Journal of Population Economics about our replication of "Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: evidence from Sweden", confirming the major coding error that invalidates the main results, but not retracting the paper. 1/2

I'm hiring a predoc - more info here: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14905 #econtwitter

Why are wages in Paris or NYC higher than in other cities? In a new WP with Pauline Carry & Benny Kleinman , we decompose spatial disparities btw “location effects” and the local composition of workers and establishments. New data on firm mobility + double-mover design. 🧵⬇️

Place-based policies subsidizing investments raise wages and create jobs for young and less-educated workers, from Philipp Grunau, Florian Hoffmann, Thomas Lemieux, and Mirko Titze nber.org/papers/w33785

New study: The relative wage premium for going to college has halved for low-income Americans since 1960. What is to blame? Rising selectivity? Tuition hikes? State disinvestment? We decompose changes in the premium since 1900 to find out. 🧵#EconTwitter nber.org/papers/w33797

When Federal Reserve districts experience high inflation or low unemployment but lack voting rights to influence FOMC decisions, credit extended to commercial banks through the Discount Window declines, from Vyacheslav Fos, Tommaso Tamburelli, and Nancy R. Xu

After 10 years of doing research in Historical Political Economy, this fall I’ll finally get a chance to teach a survey course on the field. I thought this would be an opportunity to create a syllabus with an overview of many essential contributions to this growing field. (1/4)

🚀 Excited to share the draft Table of Contents for my upcoming book, "Introduction to GIS Programming: A Practical #Python Guide to Open Source Geospatial Tools." 📚 github.com/giswqs/intro-g… This book explores a variety of open-source tools for #geospatial data analysis and

Tufts University is thrilled to host the North East Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference on November 8-9, 2025! 📝 Call for Papers: Submissions start June 16, and end August 17. Submit your papers here: editorialexpress.com/conference/Tuf… 📌More details to come! #NEUDC #NEUDC2025

1/Epoch AI doubles down on preiction AI will drive 20%+ annual GDP growth. Economists remain skeptical. This is the defining debate of today: AI builders see infinite prosperity ahead. Economists see the same limits that constrained every technological revolution.🧵 1/13

Analyzing 630k paintings since 1400 to show how art complements development indicators by revealing sentiments about living standards, uncertainty, and inequality, from Clément Gorin, Stephan Heblich, and Yanos Zylberberg nber.org/papers/w33976

the way some economists advocate for industrial policy is akin to picking the performance of the top decile of hedge fund performers (ex post) as evidence that active management adds alpha in asset management, and then simply forgetting about the bottom 90%.

Half of South Africa’s gender pay gap comes from women sorting into low-paying firms, with low formality and high churn being key to understanding this dynamic. Read this week's article to learn more: voxdev.org/topic/labour-m…

📦 Can industrial policy work? Yes—the East Asian experience shows it can (at least partially). But its success rests on a key condition: labor control. 🇯🇵🇰🇷🇹🇼 Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan industrialized rapidly under authoritarian or semi-authoritarian regimes. Wages and

It all started with “How come all macro models of misallocation imply that high-markup firms should be subsidized?” The answer: firms are restricted to linear pricing! Very excited to see this paper with Gideon Bornstein come out in AER 🤩