Excited for this year’s Human Capital in Macroeconomics ⁦St. Louis Fed⁩ #EconTwitter

Just published in Journal of Public Economics: "Should I Stay (in School) or Should I Go (to Work)" By @LeeTHendry (University of Bath) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our paper encouraging researchers to avoid ableist language just reached a new milestone- 1,000 citations! We had no idea our paper would have such an impact, but we’re so grateful that it has! liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/au…

Recommended for those in Canberra. Lisa Paul will give a public lecture on NDIS Review implementation at the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU this evening. Look forward to seeing you there! anu.edu.au/events/ndis-pa…

Some news coverage today suggesting the COVID-19 SME Cashflow Boost measure has never been formally evaluated- it has been! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

My truly wonderful friend and mentor – Geoff Carmody – has passed away. This lovely story by John Kehoe – afr.com/policy/economy…– gets to the heart of it: Geoff had an absolute passion for a better Australia. That meant no phone call from Geoff was ever short: he brimmed

#TTPI #Seminar Parenting Payment Single is a welfare payment for low-income single mothers in Australia. Does changing the payment eligibility have employment and earnings effects? Kristen Sobeck taxpolicy.crawford.anu.edu.au/news-events/ev…

📢Very important new research from @unimelb's Dr @_yi_yang, Peter Summers, Zoe Aitken Anne Kavanagh BMBS PhD FAFPHM FASSA FAHMS George Disney looking at mortality inequalities between people with and without disability. Targeted interventions and policy reforms are needed now. thelancet.com/action/showPdf…

I live in a world not built for me, here is what I have learned buff.ly/4itPlKm

TREASURY HAS RELEASED ITS LATEST ESTIMATES OF THE COST OF TAX CONCESSIONS Exciting, huh? (I have a low excitement threshold. I am, after all, an economist.) To me the standout is that Treasury has hugely revised up its estimates of the cost of superannuation tax concessions.

Don't miss out on this guide on how to run surveys: on creating your own identifying variation: more than 80 pages and an Appendix with examples including social desirability, vignettes, information treatments and more.

DeepSeek and what happened yesterday: Probably the largest positive tfp shock in the history of the world.

🚨 New Paper and Public Good🚨 "The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset", joint with Chenzi Xu, Mohammed Lehbib, and Ziliang Chen. We built the most comprehensive macro database ever—covering 243 countries from 1086-today, integrating 110 sources. 🧵

Forthcoming in the JEL: "How Do Central Banks Control Inflation? A Guide for the Perplexed" by Laura Castillo-Martinez and Ricardo Reis. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…