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Thanks to immigrants, the US won 75% of Nobel prizes in 2023. Without them, we only would have won 25%. High skilled immigration is a policy lever for more innovation unlike anything else. Oh and its free.

🚨We are hiring!! CSSI is seeking applicants for a postdoctoral fellow with a start date of Summer 2024!! Please help us spread the word!! 📣 Applications are due December 10th. Apply at the link below 🔽 facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MTk0Ng== #scienceofscience #postdocjobs

We are excited to host the Rice Conference on Firms, Productivity and Growth today and tomorrow. Keynote talks by Pete Klenow and Hugo Hopenhayn, presentations by Bruno Pellegrino, Chris Tonetti, David Argente, Huiyu Li, Paco Buera, Shihan Shen, Tommaso Porzio, Yueyuan Ma

In their new working paper, "One Giant Leap: Emancipation and Aggregate Economic Gains," Chicago Booth's Rick Hornbeck & Dr. Trevon D Logan challenge the longheld notion that slavery was economically productive by incorporating the immense costs imposed upon enslaved people.

For aggregate outcomes, CES modeling used in trade approximates surprisingly well standard IO predictions. Just Accepted new paper by Keith Head Keith Head and Thierry Mayer zurl.co/7kDT

Applications open! NBER Innovation Research Boot Camp in Cambridge, MA July 12-18. Classes with Pierre Azoulay Kevin A. Bryan Ina Ganguli 🇺🇦 🌻🪷 Ben Jones Chad Jones Kyle Myers John Van Reenen + me/Caleb Watney, as well as keynotes by Bill Kerr + David Wessel.

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Re-posting this as a reminder: the deadline to apply for this one-week PhD summer school on the economics of innovation is midnight EST this Thursday February 1. Travel, lodging, and meal costs for participants generously covered by Open Philanthropy.

President Biden President Donald J. Trump, would you hold your word, and hold Putin accountable? Speaker Johnson Speaker Mike Johnson, would you do your job and hold the vote on the aid to Ukraine on your floor? We need your leadership.

Really nice article by Stephen Gandel, with a brief cameo of mine. I would add that I think this is the first real test that the expected loss model (CECL) is facing since its adoption Bad property debt exceeds reserves at largest US banks ft.com/content/411445… via Financial Times

NEW in JPE, a look at the life cycle of products, and the implications for economic growth and innovation policies. By David Argente (David Argente), Munseob Lee (Munseob Lee), & Sara Moreira (Sara Moreira): economics.yale.edu/research/life-…

Products don't last very long in the market. And this may be good for the economy. David Argente , Munseob Lee and Sara Moreira buff.ly/4c0SKNG

Misinformation is on a massive rise, and social media platforms are scrambling to figure out what to do about it. In The Atlantic today, my Harvard University colleague Jesse Shapiro and I offer a surprising answer: 👇👀

Why do we dislike inflation? 🚨New paper for The Brookings Institution revisits this long-standing question, already asked by Robert J Shiller in 1997, with current data and survey methods. Some key findings:🧵 1/10 socialeconomicslab.org/research/worki…

Next week, the Reimagining the Economy Project will bring together researchers & practitioners from around the world to take stock of the current thinking on productive development policies & how these tools are being applied to a range of domains. Agenda: hks.harvard.edu/centers/wiener…

The pay gap between older and younger workers has widened because the larger supply of older workers due to population aging has crowded out younger workers from higher-paying jobs, from N. B. and Matteo Paradisi nber.org/papers/w32340

Part of the closure in the gender pay gap was driven by older workers crowding out younger men from top jobs. Now that effect is gone, the gender gap is not expected to close, from Jaime Arellano-Bover, Nicola Bianchi, Salvatore Lattanzio, and Matteo Paradisi nber.org/papers/w32612

This coming Tuesday and Wednesday (July 16-17), Adam Jaffe, Ben Jones and I are co-organizing the NBER Summer Institute Productivity/Innovation meeting: nber.org/conferences/si… All of the talks will be live-streamed here: youtube.com/nbervideos

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "How Do Entrants Build Market Share? The Role of Demand Frictions" by David Argente, Doireann Fitzgerald, Sara Moreira, and Anthony Priolo. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…