We’re just sayin’. To abolish mask -wearing laws in some States while the rest of the Nation keeps theirs is like designating a peeing section of the swimming pool.

Good read on this International Women's Day: Zambello's Road to Leadership operaamerica.org/magazine/sprin…

The New York Times This is such an irresponsible soft-racist headline. Hamster ovary cell lines are how labs all over the world make proteins. I repeat: they are universally used. They were developed in a Boston lab in 1957. Please STOP implying that the Chinese do weird things with animals

At least four of the eight victims are Koreans. But this guy here is talking about CCP are the bad guys ---- during a hearing about the violence against Asian "Americans".

Last summer after the killing of George Floyd, I organized a flash webinar series w short summaries of research related to (1) the effects of police & (2) how to improve policing. Those webinars are sadly still very relevant. You can find recordings here: jenniferdoleac.com/flash-webinars…

Derek Chauvin found guilty of third-degree murder in George Floyd’s death. bit.ly/3gskG2y

Here’s my trick.

The new LBD is here! Details on all the input datasets, the matching and retiming algorithms, consistent industry codes, and the BDS construction available here: census.gov/library/workin… Please read, enjoy, and send us comments. And most importantly, start using the data!

"My fear is the biggest cost in the long run is all the single men come in 5 days a week, and college-educated women with a 6-year-old and an 8-year-old come in 2 days a week. Years down the road there’s a huge difference in promotion rates and you have a diversity crisis."

1. A year and a half ago, President Macron asked Jean Tirole and me to form an international commission to study future major challenges facing France and think about policies. We decided to focus on three issues, global warming, inequalities, and aging. The report just came out.

Great news about videos being kept on YouTube!!

Evidence Masks Work - actual evidence

Bruegel Sebastian Steffen By Wang Jin as well.

Thrilled to be presenting in "Using Text Data to Understand the Labor Market" at the ASSAs tomorrow at 10am ET/7am PT We have an all-star group of presenters, discussants, and chair Erica L. Groshen Danny Tannenbaum presenting "The Geography of Job Tasks" discussed by Adrien Bilal

A new paper suggests that bitcoin mining will always tend towards oligopoly, not decentralization. Stanford Digital Economy Lab #BTC HT: Ethan Mollick pubsonline.informs.org/doi/pdf/10.128…

New working paper! "Estimating the Value of Offsite Data to Advertisers on Meta," with Nils Wernerfelt, Anna Tuchman & Robert Moakler We ask, "how much would it hurt advertising efficiency if Meta couldn't use 3rd party data for ad targeting?" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Finally out as working paper: "Competition and Innovation: The Breakup of IG Farben" IG Farben used to be the world's largest chemical company, and its post-WW2 breakup ranks among the major antitrust events in history. What happened to innovation? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

We are deciding if we should move to R to estimate did2s (it is pretty slow on Stata) Has anyone compared speed across these two softwares + the currently existing packages?

📕 NEW WORKING PAPER📕 "Information Technology, Firm Size, and Industrial Concentration" by Erik Brynjolfsson, Wang Jin and Xiupeng Wang. nber.org/papers/w31065

It's truly an honor to have our research featured on ProMarket, a publication by the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago.