TLDR: A new study identifies and measures which large U.S. companies engage in hiring discrimination against Black people. They name names and find that some of the most discriminatory companies include CVS, Gap, Best Buy, Autozone, and Costco. 🤯 #econtwitter #economics

This study in nature addresses an important issue but erases the discrimination experienced by Asians in academia by lumping them in with white academics. And in this way, it elegantly pulls a racism while pointing out racism (1/7) nature.com/articles/s4156…

Using Türkiye's May '23 elections to study whether enduring authoritarian regimes are in part rooted in the population's misperceptions about their social and economic costs, as opposed to a general preference for authoritarianism, from Daron Acemoglu, Cevat Giray Aksoy,

한 강 Han Kang – awarded the 2024 #NobelPrize in Literature – was born in 1970 in the South Korean city of Gwangju before, at the age of nine, moving with her family to Seoul. She comes from a literary background, her father being a reputed novelist. Alongside her writing, she

Hi #econtwitter ! Haven't we all dreamed of analyzing the output of a structural model just like we do with a linear regression table? It is now possible! Simon Lee, Yongchan Kwon and I just put out a paper producing Shapley values for structural models. arxiv.org/abs/2410.06875

Victor Ambros was denied tenure at Harvard. But he was not a usual PI. The Harvard Crimson describes: 1⃣ He took an especially hands-on role in mentorship: “Duan recalled the experience of arriving in the U.S. for his Ph.D. as a non-native English speaker. Ambros spent time

Amazing new study on racial discriminations against Black workers in the US out in the AER. Pulling out this study the next time someone says that "all the companies/universities only want to hire Blacks and women and white men are disadvantaged now..." 1/n

7... smallest program in econ 🙄🙄🙄

I look forward to presenting at the Economics of Violence Against Women Workshop organized by Sonia Bhalotra at University of Warwick next week! Fantastic speakers and exciting research on all aspects of violence against women. #EconTwitter

If there was a Nobel Prize for advising, Daron Acemoglu would likely win that too. In 2018, Donghee Jo and I mapped out his past advisees. 117 since 1994, or roughly 5 per year (~1/4 of a typical cohort!) [1/2]

From Yale Ph.D. to Nobel laureate in economics: After learning that he had been awarded the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences this week, the first person James A. Robinson ’93 Ph.D. texted was Truman Bewley, who was his thesis advisor at Yale more than 30 years ago.

We are organising a workshop on measurement and survey methods with keynotes by Andrew Caplin (NYU Economics Department) & Basit Zafar (U-M Economics) Apply before Jan 15 & join us in Napoli next spring ☀️ Please spread the word! CSEF Unina Federico II Yale Department of Economics

Important paper for anyone doing quantitative macro

We just posted a revised draft of our Xenophobia paper 🤩🤩🤩 Please check our new draft! 👇👇👇 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Fall break 😇 West Maryland is a gem This weekend is a perfect time to see fall foliage

Caught my lunch for tmrw 😇🤭 Bluegill steak 🤣🤣🤣

📢Call for papers! We are organising 6th Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration on 22-23 May 2025 in Madrid! Keynotes: Leah Boustan (Princeton) and Dean Yang (Michigan) Submit your papers before January 26, 2025: tinyurl.com/y2cd98kk