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Thread on why most regulations have drastic negative effects on the economy: This is study from the Journal of Economical Growth found that regulations "have reduced real output growth by

Cody Cook

codyfcook

First paper —> first tweet "The Gender Pay Gap in the Gig Economy: Evidence from 1mil Uber Drivers” (with Diamond, Hall, List, @pauloyer) is forthcoming at ReStud. Uber pay doesn’t

Tara Sinclair

TaraSinc

Now that we’ve logged 2 quarters of negative GDP growth (a rule of thumb to support the NBER’s official ruling that a recession started in 2020Q1), I think it’s time

Hyun Song Shin

HyunSongShin

Corporate credit markets decoupled in March; bond issuance boomed but discretionary bank credit stalledUnequal access to credit between large firms and the rest is the topic of today's #BIS_Bulletin A

Gustavo Noguera

nogboersner

2020 was the year I explored International Macro (in a very broad sense) the most; and for someone trying to start a serious path on Macroeconomics I found it to

Andrew Perrault

PerraultAndrew

Preprint: can we contact trace with less quarantine? Reducing the duration of quarantine could increase willingness to participate. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.16.20227389v2 and https://www.nber.org/papers/w28135 .

Gorby

gorby_gorbachev

Prediction: a student debt jubilee would have a larger short run stimulus effect than predicted by its modest direct financial effects (correctly modeled as mainly an immediate reduction in debt

Michael R. Strain

MichaelRStrain

THREAD. In my latest working paper, @dwschanz and I find that EITC expansions increase employment. On average, employment increased by about 5 percentage points by the fifth year following an

Martin Fiszbein

MartinFiszbein

Rugged individualism may be the backbone of American innovativeness and resourcefulness, but it can also be dangerous—particularly during a pandemic that desperately calls for collective action. 1/n These dangers were

Chris Blattman

cblatts

it’s great that economists do lots of field work and interviews now. But think of the absolute sloppiest, terrible causal inference paper you can remember, from someone who doesn’t even

Ahmad Lashkaripour

ALashkaripour

[1/N] IMHO research may be lagging behind actual policy developments on this front. Until now, most research has shown that disrupting the global supply chain is very costly for aggregate

Tom Hancock

hancocktom

Writing this assessment of how the Trump's administration's trade war with China produced few clear wins provided a chance to read through some of the academic research on what happened.

Alex John London

AlexJohnLondon

When you make an argument like this, please show your work. Let’s think of the cases1. So we deploy an investigational vaccine that doesn’t actually confer immunity or strong immunity.

rkoijen

rkoijen

Some simple calculations to provide a perspective on the decline in the stock market and its recovery, despite the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the real economy. See

Lyman Stone 石來民

lymanstoneky

It's #NBERday !First up:Q: Did the pandemic negatively impact learning?A: In a sample of economics undergrads, yes: but the effect vanishes among professors who adapted well to Zoom's options!#NBERday https://www.nber.org/papers/w28

Timothy Layton

timothyjlayton

New Paper Alert "The Liquidity Sensitivity of Healthcare Consumption: Evidence from Social Security Payments"joint w/ @talgross and Daniel Prinz (Who is on the job market! Hire him!)@nberpubs WP released today:

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