Great to see our paper “Unemployment insurance reforms and labor market dynamics” out in the The Review of Economic Studies . With Philip Jung & Ben Hartung, we revisit the old question of labor market research of the effects of unemployment insurance reforms on unemployment rates. 1/10

PhD students: The call for the next summer school is out. It has a timely topic, great speakers, and a wonderful location in the middle of the Tuscan countryside. Info: dagliano.unimi.it/twenty-fourth-…

Join us this Thursday (10 April) as Ye Lyu, from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, presents his Paper: 📢"Climate-induced Citizen Noncompliance Undermines State Capacity in Africa". Register here: sites.google.com/view/phd-evs20………… #climateshock #Taxation

Very happy to co-organize this conference ! Great opportunity for PhDs and Postdocs + Two amazing keynotes ! Deadline on July 1st

Rather than protecting working women from harm, "protective labor laws" protected working men from competition, from Matthias Doepke, Hanno Foerster, Anne Hannusch, and Michele Tertilt nber.org/papers/w33720

New Opinion Piece out! Matthias Doepke LSE Department of Economics, Hanno Foerster Boston College, Anne Hannusch Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and Michele Tertilt Department of Economics, University of Mannheim: 'Protection for whom? The political economy of protective labor laws for women'. wol.iza.org/opinions/prote…

"We provide a guide for researchers on how to estimate gene-environment (GxE) interplay, using school-starting age as a case study. We argue that gene-environment (G x E) studies can help (i) assess treatment effect heterogeneity, (ii) test theoretical predictions, and 👇 1/

🆕 Saving face or saving money? How household dynamics hold back women Today on VoxDev, Nina Buchmann (Yale Economic Growth Center), Pascaline Dupas (Princeton Economics) & Roberta Ziparo (AMSE → 🦋 @amseaixmars.bsky.social) outline research on Malawi: voxdev.org/topic/technolo…

Forthcoming in the AER: "The Negligible Effect of Free Contraception on Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso" by Pascaline Dupas, Seema Jayachandran, Adriana Lleras-Muney, and Pauline Rossi. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Home charging and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles: A strategy for real-world emissions reductions Johannes Gessner Department of Economics, University of Mannheim, Wolfgang Habla (DHBW), Ulrich Wagner Department of Economics, University of Mannheim ow.ly/uPVO50W38jS

Forthcoming in the AER: "Drivers of Change: Employment Responses to the Lifting of the Saudi Female Driving Ban" by Chaza Abou Daher, Erica Field, Kendal Swanson, and Kate Vyborny. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

🚨 New working paper 🚨 In large cities, wages are higher. But so are inequalities. In fact, low-wage workers earn lower real earnings there. Why? What drives spatial wage disparities? Why some workers work at lower real wages in large cities?

Thrilled this is finally out in the JPE: "German Long-Term Health Insurance: Theory Meets Evidence" journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/7KFY929… Thanks to my fantastic coauthors Hanming Fang, JP Atal & Martin Karlsson for making this work. PM for a copy once the link above expires.

US Foreign Aid Cuts: Malaria Funding Reduction Hurts African Growth Prospects • Malaria eradication raises per-capita GDP in sub-Saharan Africa by about 7% Press release by Minki Kim is available now: crctr224.de/newsroom/press…

Join us this Thursday (3 Jul), as Tiago Bernardino from IIES, Stockholm University, will present his paper, "Structural Transformation and Monetary Policy Transmission" . Register: lnkd.in/dz_ByYGP #Jobmarketpaper #Monetarypolicy #Transmission #NewKeynesian

How does agricultural policy reshape the economic consequences of climate change? Allan Hsiao (Stanford Economics), Jacob Moscona (MIT Economics) & Karthik Sastry (Princeton Economics) on food policy in a warming world: youtu.be/dWA3hhAibag

🆕 Measuring poverty using mobile phone data: Implications for targeting and impact evaluation Emily Aiken (Carnegie Mellon University Africa), Suzanne Bellue (ENSAE Paris), Joshua Blumenstock (Berkeley School of Information), Dean Karlan (Kellogg School NU Global Poverty Research Lab) & Christopher Udry (Northwestern Economics): voxdev.org/topic/methods-…

Can private insurance fill gaps from public disability insurance (DI) cuts? Studying a German reform, Seibold, Seitz & Siegloch find modest private DI take-up, no adverse selection & efficiency gains, but an equity case for public DI. econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

🚨New Working Paper w/ Martí Mestieri & Johanna Schauer Why is 🇿🇦 still one of the most unequal countries in the world—30 years after Apartheid? We build a dynamic spatial GE model to understand why inequality persists—and why it's increasingly within the Black population 🧵1/8

Firms, family-friendly policies, and fertility Olympia Bover, Nezih Guner, Yuliya Kulikova Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Barcelona School of Economics, Alessandro Ruggieri, Carlos Sanz Banco de España CEMFI ow.ly/kAKQ50WvSoo