GCER brings together economists at Georgetown University and the Washington DC area to inform policy and foster an environment of open and rigorous research.
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⚫️With sorrow and grief we announce that:
Georgetown's Economics Department has lost one of our foundational members, a pillar of our community, Marius Schwartz, who peacefully passed away on Tuesday, June 9. [1/3]
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He was utterly unique - brilliant, funny, insightful, kind, irreverent, generous, and a firm believer in truth. He had an enormous impact on generations of students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, on his department colleagues, & on the profession as a whole. [2/3]
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He will be sorely missed. [3/3]
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👏 Forthcoming paper from one of our very own! Congrats to Alexandre for a great paper.
Oster's δ —a go-to robustness check— can flip a coefficient's sign far more easily than zero it out, so a "large" δ can mask a smaller sign-reversing confounder.
👉Comes with a Stata fix.
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Forthcoming in the AER: "The Effect of Omitted Variables on the Sign of Regression Coefficients" by Matthew A. Masten and Alexandre Poirier. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12…
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Georgetown Center for Economic Research retweeted
🚨New NBER working paper alert 🚨
🤔2021–2024 was the worst U.S. inflation in four decades. The question: Did voters react to the rising prices, or to the shrinking paychecks?
😱We approached this paper with one major surprise: there is no official measure of inflation at the county level in the U.S.
🌟To study the relationship between inflation and electoral outcomes during, we first had to construct local inflation measures using county-level data on family budget costs and incomes.
The answer? -> Check it out! 👇
🔗 nber.org/papers/w35301
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🔹New NBER working paper alert by Professor @cauedobbin on layoffs and quits as determinants of lower separation rates at high-quality firms
👉nber.org/papers/w35177
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🔵Big news for our colleague Cauê Dobbin @cauedobbin ! 🎉
He has been appointed as a Faculty Research Fellow in the Economics of Education program at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Georgetown Center for Economic Research retweeted
Fantastic two days at the @SAISHopkins and @GCER_Georgetown #geoeconomics conference. Great papers, two insightful lectures, a terrific policy panel on the role of middle powers, and an impeccable organization. Thanks to @arebucci1, Jon and Nuno for inviting
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⭐️New from GCER collegues @Georgetown 📚
Jishnu Das & @cauedobbin's chapter "Human Capital Markets" — forthcoming in the Handbook of Development Economics — is out as NBER WP 35061.
How do private providers reshape education & health in LMICs? 👇
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The Hopkins-Georgetown Geoeconomics Conference starts today! 🌐
🎤 Keynotes:
Helen Milner (Princeton)
Jesse Schreger (Columbia)
📍 Hopkins Bloomberg Center, DC
📺 Stream on Zoom:
Apr 17: jh.zoom.us/j/98657975181?pwd…
Apr 18: jh.zoom.us/j/94671600428?pwd…
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🎓The 25th Carroll Round is here! Today and tomorrow, @Georgetown hosts the world's top undergraduate economists presenting original research on multiple areas. Featuring students from @Stanford, @LSEnews, @Princeton, @Yale, @Vanderbilt, @warwickuni, @Columbia, @UCBerkeley & more
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📍 Hariri Building & Healy Hall 🗓️ April 17–18
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🔋Why won't your Google search be carbon-free anytime soon? 🔌
@ArikLevinson breaks it down in @mercnews: A must-read on data centers, AI, and the limits of clean electricity claims. 👇mercurynews.com/2026/04/07/o…
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We are so excited to have David McKenzie @dmckenzie001 joining us at Georgetown!!!
🎉 Exciting news! @dmckenzie001 has accepted the offer to join @GCER_Georgetown as the new Edmond D. Villani Chair Professor of Economics!
We can't wait to welcome him to the
Hilltop! 🙌
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Georgetown Center for Economic Research retweeted
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Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @JuanFelipeRiano @Georgetown who works (quite prolifically!) on topics related to development, political economy and economic history
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Continuing a proud Georgetown Economics tradition, the 30th Annual Razin Prize & Economic Policy Lecturehonors excellence in economic research and policy.
🎤 Keynote: Sir Timothy Besley (LSE)
🏆 Razin Prize: Luke Miller (Georgetown)
📍 Healy Hall, Riggs Library
🗓 March 19, 4-6pm
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🎉 Exciting news! @dmckenzie001 has accepted the offer to join @GCER_Georgetown as the new Edmond D. Villani Chair Professor of Economics!
We can't wait to welcome him to the
Hilltop! 🙌
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Our very own Becka Brolinson, congratulations!!
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📢 Join us for the first Washington Area Immigration Symposium (WAIS)
📍 Georgetown University | Fisher Colloquium, Rafik Hariri Building
📅 March 13
🔗 RSVP: sites.google.com/georgetown.…
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A full day of cutting-edge research on migration, refugee policy, and labor markets—featuring scholars from @WorldBank, @BrookingsInst, @IMFNews, @CGDev, @MigrationPolicy, @GWtweets & more.
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Co-sponsored by the Georgetown Center for Economic Research (GCER), the Center for Business and Public Policy, and the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM).
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