This is a very cool paper.

This paper is great. Besides proposing a new explanation for endowment effect—cautious utility, a mechanism with independent empirical support—the model can explain the otherwise puzzling lack-of relationship between WTA and WTP.

I hate this genre of tweet because it frames lack of European growth as an intentional tradeoff for welfare instead of a recent macro policy failure, thereby excusing it As if having a better subway network is the reason the German economy hasn’t grown in 5 years. Ridiculous

I'm hiring two Research Assistants based Busara Center in Nairobi! We will work on a number of exciting topics in development and behavioral economics. This two-year position is good preparation for a PhD in Economics. Details here: povertyactionlab.org/careers/resear… Please RT and apply!

Really cool paper

Jurre Thiel en ik hebben onderzocht waar in Nederland woningen bijgebouwd moeten worden om de betaalbaarheid te verhogen 👇

Join us at DEMM for a postdoc! The conditions of the contract are great and Milan is a very nice city to live in! inomics.com/job/post-docto…

After 4 years and ~1000 replication packages, I am stepping down this month as Code/Data Editor at Management Science. It's about time, but also the role/process has become untenable. Management Science is at a critical turning point here. A longer thread. 1/17

Every novel IV paper

We are happy to release the first results of a RCT of a US program that provided $1,000/month unconditionally for 3 years to 1,000 individuals in the treatment group, with a group of 2,000 people receiving $50/month serving as the control. These are sizable transfers. 1/ 🧵

This is an impressive study on an important policy topic: guaranteed income! I’m seeing many people interpret the results as “negative” or “bad” from an *economic* policy standpoint I don’t think those conclusions are warranted using economic arguments 🧵

🚨 New publicly available dataset on housing regulations across US municipalities With AlexBartik and Daniel Milo, we highlight a novel AI-based method for accurate categorization of regulations in unstructured text, which we use to establish 5 facts about housing regulation:

Nice to see that my paper on welfare weights is now in print at the AER.

do not be fooled by the classic polish self-deprecation this is a great paper and step towards peace in the worm wars. check this out. peace in our time!!

A while ago I refereed a paper with a pre-registered RCT for a top 5 journal. I checked the pre-registration, and the paper didn't do what the pre-registration said it would do. I was the only referee (out of four) who had checked (out who included this issue in their report).

On the #EconJobMarket ! In my JMP, I show that women disproportionately take blame for team failures and claim less credit for successes, even after accounting for performance, self-evaluations, and promotion motives. More details about it here :) drive.google.com/file/d/1qCV2op…

A few more words about the "Practical Guide to Shift-Share Instruments" that we just posted (w/ Peter Hull, Xavier Jaravel) We tried to make it useful to wide groups of readers: new users of shift-share IVs, experienced users, and those who didn't even know they were users (1/N)

Give people housing and they'll have kids! Obtaining housing increases the average probability of having a child by 3.8% and the number of children by 3.2%. For 20 to 25-year-olds, the corresponding effects are 32% and 33%.

A spicy datacolada post on the challenge of evaluating papers where the data are proprietary and experiments are difficult to replicate. My main thought: re-analysis like this is vastly under-supplied. Link and some thoughts in thread. 1/

It's almost as if economics....actually works.