Interesting new NBER paper out by Giovanni Peri and Caiumi. They find evidence of strong immigrant-US-born complementarity among college-educated workers in the post-2000 period. nber.org/papers/w32389

Related to Daniel Litt's excellent problem a while back: Suppose Bob and Alice play a new game where they flip a fair coin N times. Alice wins if more than 24% of the coin tosses are 3-streaks (HHH or TTT). As N gets large, how much of the time does Alice win?

Individual managers impact retail business productivity substantially. Replacing a low-quality manager w/ a high-quality manager could increase a store’s productivity by between 50%-100%. Chicago Booth's Chad Syverson, Robert Metcalfe, Alexandre Sollaci ow.ly/3Ls450QYQRg

My recent paper update got a fair amount of attention and so I decided to make a twitter thread! The paper studies recruitment at major US and European multinationals to quantify the salience of hiring discrimination in access to top jobs and identify its source…🧵 (1/24)

External validity: seeing this more and more in my journal editing. Note that every result is valid to some setting, no result is externally valid to all settings. Let's think about how preferences, beliefs, or constraints differ across the experimental and target setting(s)

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Excited to share a new working paper “A Theory of the Visible Hand: Intermediation and Coordination in Markets for Relational Contracts” (with Duoxi Li) 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 (1/8)

New research paper alert! 🚨 I've combined economics with ideas from biochemists and medical doctors to explore what's driving obesity and other metabolic diseases. The main finding? Vegetable seed oils seem to play a big role. 🌱🛢️ (1/25) tyleransom.github.io/research/obesi…

Our fast growing School of Data Science and Society, UNC School of Data Science and Society, is hiring. Economists of all flavors (fields, applied/methodological, etc), should absolutely apply. Please share #EconTwitter. aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

New fact: 75% of the differences in productivity across cities reflects plant-level idiosyncrasies. In the September issue, by Benjamin Schoefer (Benjamin Schoefer), Oren Ziv (Oren Ziv) zurl.co/YrxQ

The NBER Organizational Economics workshop will continue today. We have an amazing line up of papers and discussants. Join us live on youtube, link to the livestream here: youtube.com/nbervideos

A somewhat common (though unsurprising) reaction I have seen to this paper is "oh caste is important for India, not for US." This is partly due to US-centrism in econ academia, and is also intellectually limited. Unlike Western settings, where socioeconomic status often must be

The call for papers for the NBER Organizational Economics Working group (April 10-11 2025) is out! If you have a paper you would like considered for presentation, please upload it to this link by 11:59 pm ET on February 14, 2025: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/bac… Pls retweet

🌟🌟Pre-doc opportunity 🌟🌟 Join Ronni Pavan and I at the U of Rochester for some super fun labor econ projects! Data work conducted in Ithaca, NY at the Census RDC details: forms.gle/fWcHqZsMZubHKe… Econ RA Listings #econtwitter PREDOC.org

Our study shows that people behave more morally in uncertain situations than in certain ones. This may be because they simply feel less anxious by acting morally when faced with uncertainty, or believe in karma where moral actions lead to better outcomes. econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

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. 🧵⬇️

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Forthcoming in the AER: "Supply, Demand, Institutions, and Firms: A Theory of Labor Market Sorting and the Wage Distribution" by Daniel Haanwinckel. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Fantastic group with high concentration of micro/macro labor economists in Chapel Hill, and the day before in Durham as well! 👇

UNC Econ is hiring 3 tenure-track positions (unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307461) and 1 teaching-track position (unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307482). We are interested in new PhDs as well as advanced assistant professors/associates. Please apply and feel free to reach out!

Very excited to visit!