Wise words from Jean Tirole on faculty recruiting (nobelprize.org/prizes/economi…)

Excited to launch the "Policy Insights" section within Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, created to accelerate the dissemination of short articles focusing on urgent policy matters and facilitating prompt and impactful discussions with a diverse range of contributors while ensuring rapid dissemination.

Sole mentoring program, round #2. If you are Post PhD, early stage of your career, consider signing up #SOLE sole-jole.org/mentoring#:~:t…

Grateful to our editing team Erik Hurst Jonathan A. Parker Nina Pavčnik Timothy Taylor and especially our authors for this issue, which includes fantastic symposia on immigration and taxation. All articles available open-access here: aeaweb.org/issues/752

Great information and very useful templates! My advisor's advice when I was a PhD student was to play the "desperate grad student" card ("I really really need the data for my dissertation"), but that doesn't always work and sometimes FOIAs are going to be necessary

In this episode of The Pie, Chicago Booth's Matt Notowidigdo discusses how economic downturns can lead to valuable health gains that may even offset some of the negative consequences of recessions. Listen now: bfi.uchicago.edu/podcast/recess…

Read our affiliate spotlight of Bill Evans (co-founder of Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)), where he discusses holistic approaches to reducing poverty in the US: povertyactionlab.org/blog/5-1-18/af…

Today's wisdom from Overleaf: "Things are pretty mixed up, but I think the worst is over"

To further strengthen equity & diversity in our research network, we are once again accepting self-nominations for invited researchers. The application process is currently open and will close on August 1st. Learn more about the self-nomination process: j-p.al/invited-resear…

Over the last decade, cities, states and even John Oliver have embraced a popular health care charity: forgiving people’s medical debts for pennies on the dollar. It’s been seen as a quick, cheap way to help some of the 100 million people in the U.S. stuck with medical bills.

It's well known that lower income people tend to suffer much worse health. Is poverty at the heart of this disparity, and, if so, could a large cash transfer help close this gap? We examine an RCT that provided 1000 low income participants $1000/month for 3 years. We find…

I'm excited about this amazing line-up of J-PAL North America-funded studies that will be presented this week at the NBER Summer Institute:

In other J-PAL North America news: we are continuing to accept self-nominations for invited researchers (application deadline is August 1st): povertyactionlab.org/invited-resear…

ChatGPT 4o gets this wrong, too, though it does a nice job parsing the PNG

Had a great experience earlier this year using Standard Error Research Editors (Maybe: Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🥭 / stderr-editors.com) The company makes an admirable effort to keep their services affordable to students -- keep in mind for your JMPs!

Chicago labor/public folks (including me) are hiring new research professionals! We have a great program that provides a ton of opportunities to learn in a very fun environment. Candidates from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Econ RA Listings Details: job-boards.greenhouse.io/universityofch…