Alexandra (Lexi) Schubert JMP: "Self-Detrimental Avoidance of Rest" Website: lexischubert.github.io

Meet our #Econjobmarket candidates! Learn more about Nicola Benigni on his personal website 👉 nicolabenigni.info

Meet our #Econjobmarket candidates! Learn more about Maite Deambrosi on her personal website 👉 sites.google.com/view/maitedeam…

#JMP Alert #EconTwitter Restful activities can boost productivity, allowing you to earn more by working less. But do people get this trade-off right? In my JMP, we show they don’t. lexischubert.github.io/uploads/Schube…

How do people learn about their ability to learn? In my JMP, I show they struggle. Past learning experiences could help predict future learning and guide better skill investments. But do people use this information effectively?

🚨🚨 I’m thrilled to support four outstanding students on the Economics Job Market this year! Here’s a brief thread about their Job Market Papers. Feel free to reach out with any questions. In alphabetical order: 🧵 (1/5)

Jeffrey Yusof: Behavioral Economist presenting important evidence on why, despite the large role of “market luck,” there remains resistance to income redistribution. Website: sites.google.com/view/jeffreyyu… JMP: drive.google.com/file/d/1vVwBe6… (5/5)

🚨 Job Market Paper Alert 🚨 Why do big companies like the minimum wage? Why do they lobby to pay workers more? 🤔 Salvatore Lo Bello and I found the answers you're looking for: The Concentration Channel of the Minimum Wage is out! A 🧵 #EconTwitter #EconJobMarket 1/14

Hello! Excited to share my job market paper with #econtwitter I study how barriers to social assistance disproportionately screen out people with poor mental health—despite their high need. Summary below Paper: 🔗(canishknaik.github.io/pdf/MHSA_CN_JM…) Welcome Economists!

How the far-right in Switzerland convinced voters that immigration from the EU — which is mostly highly skilled and evidently boosted the economy — is actually a bad thing

New on inequalitylab.world: "Firms as tax shelters: The disguise of personal expenses as business expenses", by D. Leite Key finding: individuals who control firms shift 36% of their monthly personal expenditures to firms Conclusion: inequality is underestimated;

Excited to see my job market paper with Simona Sartor featured in the German news! 🔥 Read the article here (in German): faz.net/aktuell/wirtsc… Find a thread about the paper below. ⬇️

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Officer-Involved: The Media Language of Police Killings,” by Moreno-Medina, Ouss, Bayer, and Ba: doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

Very excited to see my (first!!!) publication with Alain Cohn, Ray Fisman, and Michel Maréchal in print!🎉 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

Wealth inequality in the USA has risen sharply in recent times and has reached a new historic record. Sources: Forbes 400 Rich list; total wealth denominator: US Financial Accounts via Gabriel Zucman

The contact hypothesis is a leading theory in social psychology--the idea is that interpersonal contact between groups, under favorable conditions, reduces prejudice. What do we learn from the new wave of pre-registered contact experiments? 🧵

We knew it, but seeing the data laid out – it's still shocking: higher taxes for most, deep cuts to Medicaid & SNAP—all to fund tax breaks for the top 1%. It's difficult to fully grasp the scale of the con being perpetrated on Americans right now by the Trump administration.

🚨 Updated paper alert! 🚨 Switzerland, the world’s most infamous tax haven, has seen a strong shift in tax compliance. How? A global crackdown on offshore tax evasion: the Automatic Exchange of Information (AEoI). 🌍💰 Here’s what I found 👇 (🧵)

Happy to attend the CEPR Workshop on People’s Understanding of and Support for Economic Policies workshop at Universität St.Gallen (HSG). I ll share some thoughts on this carefully curated workshop in this thread.

Next up, we have Jeffrey Yusof presenting joint work with Ricardo Perez-Truglia Billionaire Superstar: Public Image and Demand for Taxation. They use an experiment where they used luxury queues -- pictures of their luxury homes -- in an informational experiment. Again, drawing links...