Today I successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation and became a dr. Thank you to my amazing advisors Peter Bergman Alex Eble Dr. Judith Scott-Clayton Joydeep Roy and Christopher A. Neilson and to all who made this possible 🫶

I'm a Dr. 🥹🥹🥹💥💥💥💥💥 Thank you to my amazing advisors 🤍

📢New paper!
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞-𝐂𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐃𝐲𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲
w/ Richard Audoly Rory McGee Gonzalo Paz-Pardo

Do rich and poor people remain that way throughout their lives? Do people experience reversals of fortune? When?

Link👇 and 🧵 below

🎉 Great news to start the year!

My paper with Dominic A. Smith on the rise of *local and national* concentration is now forthcoming at AEJ Macro!!!

Concentration rose in most product markets and retail industries across locations in the US from 1982-2012

1/ 📚 Excited to share my JMP on Catholic schools, the world's largest nongovernmental school network. By leveraging Chile's lottery-based admission system, I estimate the impact of attending Catholic schools vs. voucher-secular and public schools on academic outcomes.

Breaking my silence here to tell you to check out the amazing econ job market candidates from Teachers College, Columbia University EPSA at TC here: tc.columbia.edu/education-poli…

I'm the placement director/DGS and happy to field all/any inquiries.

They are objectively great!!!

Isabela Munevar Escalante

JMP: 'Catholic schools and student performance: Evidence from Chile’s school-admission lottery'

Website: isabelamunevar.com

Our faculty is supportive of our wild imaginations and pushes us to make those a reality! Check out the job market papers of my cohort, and you will know this is not hyperbole - Fabiola Alba-Vivar Isabela Munevar, Jalnidh Kaur Julio Rodríguez, & Ying Xu xuying0506.github.io

Our session is chaired by Ina Hajdini from ClevelandFedResearch and has great presentations by Alan Olivi from UCL, Dilan Aydin Yakut from Università di Bologna, and William Diamond from The Wharton School

It will be worth waking up early for it ☕️☕️

New release of #SoFIE and document describing methodology based on Candia, Coibion and Yuriy Gorodnichenko. Firms' inflation expectations track past CPI and remain high. Check our work at the Center for Inflation Research ClevelandFedResearch and stay tuned for new releases each quarter

New summary 👀 Study by Peter Bergman, Julio Rodríguez, and E. Kopko shows algorithms considering multiple measures of student learning can help narrow key demographic gaps in college-level course placement without compromising course pass rates. learningcollider.org/research-libra…

How Can We Measure If Something Is Innovative?

Have you ever been part of an innovative product or process? Do you consider yourself an innovator? Or have you observed an innovative product or process in your organization very closely?

tinyurl.com/yyx552ca

📢Our #WealthTax paper with Fatih Guvenen Burhan Kuruscu Gueorgui Kambourov 🇧🇬 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 and Daphne Chen is now in QJE !

We couldn't be happier! Thanks to everyone who gave us comments throughout all these years! (first version was in 2013!)

Check out the paper👇
doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

A really important job market paper by UC Berkeley's Damián Vergara. Shows how we should think about minimum wage as a distributional tool even if it has no efficiency gains (like from reallocation).

dvergarad.github.io/files/JMP_DV.p…

📖Do School Shootings Erode Property values? ❓❗️

With Ruchi Singh, we provide an answer to this question in a soon to-be-published paper in Regional Science and Urban Economics. The paper is free to download for 50 days in case you are interested in the details:

authors.elsevier.com/a/1gDMzbmIc52C8

A 🧵(1/6)🔻:

📢 I will be presenting *today* in Central Bank Research Association Inflation Webinar (11am ET, 5pm CET)

Check out my work with Dominic A. Smith and #RaphaelSchoenle

How Robust are Robust Measures of PCE Inflation?

Register 👇

I'm looking for evidence on the importance of housing and housing investments; research anywhere in the world is relevant. I'll be discussing the importance of housing w/ a group who can invest hundreds of millions into housing for social impact globally. Self promotion welcome!

🚨New Paper🚨
Computing Longitudinal Moments for Het. Agent Models
w/Baxter Robinson
🔗ir.lib.uwo.ca/economicsresrp…

🔹Computing moments with large MonteCarlo simulations is costly
🔹Alternative: Use model's distribution and its evolution
🔹Follow population instead of individuals
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