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Jesse Anttila-Hughes

jesseXjesse

.@rebaker64 and I have a new paper, "Characterizing the contribution of high temperatures to child undernourishment in Sub-Saharan Africa" out in @scireports last week. Here's a brief summary for #ClimateTwitter

Jason Abaluck

Jabaluck

COVID was a preventable disaster. Many ideas existed that could have helped that were not tried because no one had an incentive to test them. The government can provide incentives

Corey Hoffstein 🏴‍☠️

choffstein

1/ Some random thoughts on the reflexive impacts of commoditization of access in finance…In other words, “what happens when we make something easy to invest in?" 2/ In 1991, Goldman

Corey Hoffstein 🏴‍☠️

choffstein

1/ A quick thread highlighting some of my favorite papers of the year, picking just one paper per month based upon when they were published!(Warning: There will be a quant

(((Frances *Cassandra* Coppola)))🕷️

Frances_Coppola

For balance of payments obsessives. Here are two scenarios.1) trade surplus £1bn, total exports £50bn, total imports £49bn2) trade deficit £10bn, total exports £140bn, total imports £150bnWhich is better? Here's

Hyun Song Shin

HyunSongShin

Inflation tail risks have risen, mostly to the downside but some also to the upside Today's #BIS_Bulletin sorts through the caseshttps://www.bis.org/publ/bisbull28.htm Phillips curve reasoning carries us a long way: subdued

Cody Christensen

SeeChristensen

Judging colleges based on the amount of economic mobility they produce is an increasingly popular way to gauge college quality. There’s just one problem: Data that measure mobility have limitations

Francis McRae

FrankMcRae

High rents are a disgrace & I love anything that gives landlords a kicking but the case for rent control is not overwhelming. It has serious unintended consequences & can

Shosh Vasserman

shoshievass

I have had little to add to the cabinet picks thus far, but I do have some experience with transportation infrastructure and I would like to express my strong enthusiasm

Tankarchist-Posadist

Tankarchist

#ImVoting4BidenBecause I don't want anything to meaningfully change so I'm going to set up the same trap the DNC has used for the past 30 years of using a present

Michael R. Strain

MichaelRStrain

THREAD. It’s a slam-dunk case that a $15 federal minimum wage would lead to significant declines in employment opportunities for workers with few skills or little experience.My latest Bloomberg column:

Doug Campbell

TradeandMoney

Terrible NY Times article arguing against simply sending people checks. Full of disinformation. @NelsonSchwartz & @gillianreporter, you can do better.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/business/economy/600-dollar-stimulus-check.html?act

Post-Liberal Pete 🇬🇧

post_liberal

Unmarried men aged 40-60yrs x3.5 more likely to die by suicide compared to married men/women of same age. Unmarried men 40-75yrs 2-fold risk of suicide compared to married men of

Arindrajit Dube

arindube

New paper providing *overall* impact of minimum wages on low-wage employment with Cengiz, Lindner and @dzentlermunro. We use ML to create a demographics-based low-wage group capturing ~75% of all likely

Timothy Layton

timothyjlayton

Not sure anyone's actually on here anymore, but just in case, here's a NEW PAPER ALERT "The Behavioral Foundations of Default Effects: Theory and Evidence from Medicare Part D"w/

Aaron Chalfin

ajc730

New working paper joint with @benconomics, @emilyweisburst and @MWillJr that considers the race-specific effects of a larger police force in the U.S. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28202/w28202.pdf We find that, in most c

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