Submit your papers to the Women in Empirical Micro Conference Becker Friedman Institute for Economics, August 21-22! Info here: bfi.uchicago.edu/events/event/c… Please submit by Feb 28.

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Importante evidencia a propósito de la condonación al CAE. En USA: 1. Beneficiarios redujeron sus ingresos y participación laboral con el tiempo 2. Alivio de deuda aumento la propensión al consumo y endeudamiento (auto, hipoteca y tarjetas de crédito)

Reviewing the theory of monopsonistic wage setting, its empirical implications, and some puzzles the framework has struggled to explain, from Patrick M. Kline nber.org/papers/w33467

Happy for my friends 💕 And our project Pablo Zarate

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Plot twist: el paper se demoró 10 años en salir

Last month, Princeton Economics hosted Isaiah Andrews, Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He presented his paper, “Communicating Scientific Uncertainty via Approximate Posteriors,” at our annual Uwe Reinhardt Distinguished Lecture. Read the full article: bit.ly/44jWlVy

When the tax form wants to hurt you 😆

Chilenos/as que viven en el extranjero, recuerden cambiar su dirección electoral. También podemos votar en las primarias cambiodomicilio.servel.cl/auth/login

Matthei aclarando su postura respecto a la dictadura:

Today’s the day we knew would come. Every day we said goodbye to each other at the office, knowing we had one less day together. But I’m so proud of my two friends Aarti Malik @catiawithnotwitter as they start a new chapter at MIT and Harvard. Nos vemos pronto, amigas 💙

Es impresionante cómo los tramites (impuestos, obtener certificados, etc) es mucho más moderno en Chile que en USA

I recently read De Loecker et al (2020), and came away extremely impressed. I will not cover the whole paper now — that will come later — but I wanted to cover how they estimate markups. But first, let’s show why all the other ways to estimate markups fail. 1/

Update: todas las instituciones gringas decidieron que me llamo “V”.

I can't stop thinking about this figure made by Ruben Mathisen.