Zur Causa Veronika Grimm und Sachverständigenrat Wirtschaft: Wenn Mitglieder des Rats wirklich so besorgt über Befangenheit sind, sollten wir es schleunigst beenden, dass DGB und Arbeitgeber faktisch über Berufung UND Verlängerung je eines Mitglieds entscheiden.#SVR

Deadline for applying to work as a pre-doc at Centre For Macroeconomics is on Thursday Feb 29. Join a small team that works with Ethan Ilzetzki, Ben Moll, Joe Hazell, Matthias Doepke, and I on macro, international, and finance topics. Link: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/68…

Come work with us in London - application deadline is on Thursday!

The JM is now over for me. I am so excited to be joining the econ department at HEC Paris in Sept '25! Before then, I will spend one year as a postdoc at MIT, within the Science for Progress Initiative. I am so grateful to friends, advisors, colleagues & family for their support

Ok, I have had enough wine to engage with this insane piece. It’s time to get started.

Here are my slides: benjaminmoll.com/EJ_Lecture/ Thanks so much for listening and for the great discussion and comments!

Having to assert allegiance to a viewpoint and describe how you have advanced it and will continue to do so really is insulting to the whole enterprise of higher ed. Not to mention the performative aspect of the required essays…

Fantastic conference in Paris. Learned a lot on how families make decisions. Thanks to the organizers for the 2024 edition of their “New Advances in Family Economics” Workshop.

A fantastic choice from the EEA! Michele's work spans big questions in macro and micro and how they are linked, and she has also made many public service contributions to economics. Many congrats Michele! 👏

Congratulations Michele Tertilt! A well-deserved award and also a great recognition for the family-macro research program and the extended family of economists working on this.

Excited to see our paper on low birth rates in Korea finally in print. Fits well with the current discussion on low birth rates around the world. The difficulty to combine a career with a family is clearly one reason, but the “obsession” with education also plays a role.

Quelles priorités pour la politique économique ? On en parle avec Nathalie Silbert dans Les Echos : politique de l'offre via l'éducation et la formation, redistribution intergénérationnelle, crédit d'impôt recherche... 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Employment protection is the key to understanding differences in the college wage premium across countries, say researchers at LSE and UTMManagement. They can explain close to half of the divergence between the US and Germany. #ResearchHighlight aeaweb.org/research/colle…

Excellent summary by Tyler Smith AEA Journals of our recently published paper in AEJ Macro with Matthias Doepke

Macro at LSE is hiring pre docs for September 2025! Come and work in the best city in the world, on cutting edge macro with me, Ethan Ilzetzki, Ricardo Reis, Matthias Doepke and Ben Moll. Past predocs have gone to places like Harvard, LSE and Northwestern. jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/14…

Thrilled to see The Child Penalty Atlas come out in The Review of Economic Studies! This has been an incredibly exciting and important project to work on, joint with my amazing co-authors Henrik Kleven and camille landais. The Atlas data is available on our website: childpenaltyatlas.org

Macro at LSE is hiring pre docs for September 2025! Come and work in the best city in the world, on cutting edge macro with Joe Hazell, Ethan Ilzetzki, Ricardo Reis, and Ben Moll. Past predocs have gone to places like Harvard, LSE and Northwestern. jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/14…

Given that this place will soon be run out of a government ministry, I am giving the other place a try: Matthias Doepke I hope to see many of you there!

🚨 Excited to share my job market paper! “Cash transfers and women’s labour supply: evidence from the world’s largest programme” (drive.google.com/file/d/1ksDE04…) It has been awarded the EEA/UniCredit Foundation’s Best JMP Award. A thread summarising my findings 👇(1/13)

New Research! "Bad Bank, Bad Luck? Evidence from 1 Million Firm-Bank Relationships" We build a large novel dataset on US bank-firm relationships to ask the question “How do bank failures affect small businesses?” This is my job market paper! #econtwitter #finance #banking