Once you start thinking of the safety net as an investment in future generations, it's very hard to think of it in any other way. Really enjoyed chatting about my research on this topic with Heller-Hurwicz Economics Institute.

Looking forward to another great IO workshop at RIDGE ! We will have two days of really interesting papers in Santiago in May 14 and 15! Keynote by Nathan Miller Program: dropbox.com/scl/fi/eehmcnf…

Are you interested in chain organizations, acquisitions, knowledge transfer, private equity, or IVF/fertility? Then check out the updated version of my paper joint w/ Julia Bodner papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… TLDR: Chains increase IVF volume and live birth rates! Thread below.

I very often get asked “Can I do DiD in a XYZ setup? Are there new developments there?” Please, before asking this question, try to 1) write down the causal parameter of interest 2) pretend the treatment(s) were randomly allocate and describe how you would estimate 1)

NPR covering Steve Schwab and Manasvini Singh! Race and rank affect military health care, study shows ualrpublicradio.org/2024-05-21/rac…

For our honors program, swarthmoreecon hosted a fantastic group of external honors examiners for our students earlier this week. Thank you for joining us this year - I had a great time meeting everyone!

Is it easy to get a job with an econ PhD? Of course not. But does it at least give you a great work life balance? Also no.

🚨New WP alert 🚨 We study how conflicts affect behavior using data from chess.com. Here is a link to our draft: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… Currently we focus on the Ukraine Russia war and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflicts, with Israel-Palestine conflict to be added soon.

🚨New working paper with @key_z_e addressing the data gap on property insurance markets.  We develop a new dataset with over 47 million observations of homeowners insurance expenditures. nber.org/papers/w32579 The map of 2023 premiums shows massive heterogeneity:

In my experience, the only situation in which data.table/ggplot is not the far-away best data analysis combo is when the size of the data approaches or exceeds RAM.

Rents have been driving inflation recently. Neil Mehrotra, Javier Bianchi, and I have been thinking about the implications for monetary policy. 1/9

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We Economía ITAM are hiring: econjobmarket.org/positions/10938 ITAM is a wonderful academic home, its salaries are competitive with those in the US (in absolute terms), and CDMX is truly a wonderful place to live. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. (cc Horacio Larreguy)

Wen Tian JMP: "Demand-side Policies in Electric Vehicles Adoption: Evidence from Beijing" Website: wendy-wentian.github.io

We have 12 fantastic Industrial Organization Society (IOS) sessions this year. Lots of great research with many job-market candidates presenting. If you're attending SEAs, hope to see you in a session! #EconTwitter Search Allied-IOS in program. sea.mymeetingsavvy.net/program#details

I count 14(!) papers by FTC econs in the overall SEA program this year! I'll be presenting new work asking: 1. What's a reasonable economic notion of "open source" or "open weights" AI? 2. How does "openness" affect competition & the direction and amt of innovation?

Thank you for sharing my JMP Jennifer Doleac, and for the public good!

Forthcoming in the AER: "Hedging When Applying: Simultaneous Search with Correlation" by S. Nageeb Ali and Ran I. Shorrer. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…