Lost in the new DID literature? These help big time: -DID lit survey by De Chaisemartin and d’Haultfoeuille academic.oup.com/ectj/article-a… - What’s trending in difference-in-differences? by Roth et al. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

To be a good geospatial data scientist, you need good tools. My tool of choice is R. Here are the packages I can't live without: #rstats

Via VoxDev, Pascaline Dupas and Radhika Jain study the BSBY health insurance program, launched in Rajasthan in December 2015, to understand why gender inequalities in the use of social service may persist despite large subsidies: bit.ly/49ZB6YZ

Government-led plant construction during WWII had persistent impacts on local labor markets and increased upward mobility for local children, who had increased access to high-wage jobs as adults, from Andy Garin and Jonathan L. Rothbaum nber.org/papers/w32265

Edmund Crawley Edmund Crawley FedResearch and I wrote a short review of the literature that measures #MPCs and #pass-#through of income #shocks into #consumption We've included tables listing parameter estimates from last 20 years 🧮 Comments welcome! dropbox.com/scl/fi/y8v40df…

Using prostitution regulations in Victorian-era Britain to study the trade-off between improving health and protecting individual rights that is often involved in public health interventions, from Grant Goehring and W. Walker Hanlon nber.org/papers/w32505

Super excited and nervous to present at my first ever #NBERSI urban economics session! (Joint work with Narae Lee). It means a lot, as it was my job market paper w/ South Korean data. Stay tuned tmr, Friday at 2 PM EST. Check out the awesome program nber.org/conferences/si…

A review of deep learning for economists that introduces foundational models, covers various applications, and provides a website with technical details, software, and demo notebooks, from Melissa Dell nber.org/papers/w32768

What a fantastic paper. Well done Simone Lenzu!!!

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Railroad network expansion in Germany (1835-1914) increased creation of new ideas and formed specialized knowledge clusters. New ideas were formed by combining ideas coming from cities connected by the railroad. But denser network meant that new ideas diffused less on average.

Common knowledge is that ⬆️ access to education allows workers to move from less productive ➡️ more productive sectors. But where do the jobs in the productive sectors come from? New Working Paper 🧵

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP19635 Spatial #Economics Stephen Redding Stephen Redding Princeton Economics ow.ly/CO2H50U08zb #CEPR_ITRE

The Fall 2024 issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives (38, 4) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/783.

Spatial economics JMPs (2024-2025) tradediversion.net/2024/11/06/spa…

The “million” dollar questions are: If, when and how will Trump admin implement the 60% tariff against imports from China. The related question is: what is the tariff supposed to accomplish? 1/n ft.com/content/aee57e…

variation is a grift…