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Nat Bullard

NatBullard

It was not until 1955 that the U.S. had more tractors than horses and mules working on farms. A brief thread (from this awesome paper) on what mechanization did for

Michael J. Hicks

HicksCBER

Great new study out by @NeumarkDN and Peter Shirley @nber. This should change the current debate about the minimum wage effects since it gives a very even handed account of

Vitor Constâncio

VMRConstancio

Replying @dandolfa @farmerrf Thanks for your follow-up, revealing your provisional approach. Several scattered comments from me. First, you’re right that a big difficulty with monetarism is to identify what is

Rafael Dix-Carneiro

dix_rafael

Let me add: learn Fortran or C. These are substantially faster than Matlab, unless you are a vectorization wizard. And even then, it is not going to be as fast

Zaid Jilani

ZaidJilani

Two things being conflated on the question of whether rallies (right or left) can spread COVID. Yes these rallies are dangerous to go to, doesn't matter if you have a

Josh Smith

smithtjosh

This will neither serve the needs of American workers nor solve the immigration problems that the US faces.https://twitter.com/SenatorRomney/status/1361722325436141569 E-verify is not an effective way to improve the wages or employment

Kevin Rinz

kevinrinz

Three figures from today's @ChloeEast2 and @David_E_Simon paper illustrate some longstanding shortcomings of safety net programs (especially UI) and why the CARES Act UI supplement was such a big deal.

Hayden Winks

HaydenWinks

I've seen a lot of minimum wage talk recently. My econ professors argued that the loss jobs and/or inflation counterarguments to raising minimum wage were largely myths.Here's a real-world case

Lyman Stone 石來民

lymanstoneky

Henrik Kleven is out with a paper using 60 years of the entire population of Austria with a ton of family policy changes and he finds that childcare and parental

Charles Fain Lehman

CharlesFLehman

New from @ajc730, Hansen, Weisburst, and Williams: added police cut major crimes, including homicides, with blacks seeing larger effects. They also lead to an increase in the number of "quality

camille landais

landais_camille

Do Family Policies Reduce Gender Inequality? Evidence from 60 Years of Policy Experimentationhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w28082#.X7Z1HLbjhvc.twitter First, what we do: we look at all parental leave and child care reforms in Austria since

Sam Bowman

s8mb

Toby misrepresents this paper. It doesn't look at the effects of lockdowns, it looks at the *pandemic*.The paper says (a) the economic effects are NOT only due to lockdown and

Anupam Jena

AnupamBJena

Really Interesting @nberpubs paper by @PerssonPetra, Qiu, & @maya_rossin that shows how marginal diagnoses of ADHD spread w/in families. Threadhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w28334 2/ Doctors often ask patients about family history b

Donald Schneider

DonFSchneider

Setting aside the big measurement issues, the EPI chart shown here is actually not about rising payments to capital (they acknowledge small role for decline of labor share) really this

Trevon D Logan

TrevonDLogan

New work with @drlisadcook @jmparman on "The Antebellum Roots of Distinctively Black Names" is out today @nberpubs Very excited about this project-- more interesting facts about the history of Black

Ivan Werning

IvanWerning

This morning, you can choke on your cereal watching this...http://conference.nber.org/sched/SI20EFBEM Non-rational expectations, yes. Overconfidence, hell yeah!As usual you can find the streams herehttps://www.nber.org/si2020livestrea

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