🚨Come join us! The Department of Economics at Wake Forest is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We’re a young and dynamic department eager to grow, and we welcome candidates specializing in Urban/Regional - Apply by Nov 15th! 1/n aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?J…
Since people keep asking us, “Is JEEM top 6? Is JEEM top 6?”
We want to clear the air and say: statistically, yes, we are.
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Busy presentation day! You can check out @rjisungpark present our paper on Worker Transitions at @iza_bonn or you can see me present research with @real_eric_ohrn and @danacandersen on Stimulus Policies and Emissions to @uscensusbureau at 10:30 EST( zoom link on request)
Come work with us @StanfordGSB by helping direct exciting research on housing policy, urban economics, business taxation, and environmental regulation!
.@J_C_Suarez and I are hiring an executive director for our labs. If you'd like to be involved building out our labs and overseeing research on cities, housing, taxation, and inequality apply here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jo…
We're hiring an assistant professor in Development! We're especially interested in someone excited and well-equipped to teach an advanced undergrad course in econometrics. Please apply! bit.ly/3PDfMkq
10) Order dessert! H/t David Autor. Everyone else probably wants dessert, so if you order first, they'll follow you. Plus, you'll have dessert (and soon, you'll have a job). Win-win-win!
How will the clean energy transition affect workers? Exploring transitions into and out of green and dirty jobs using data from over 130 million online work profiles, from @MarkCurti, Layla O'Kane, and @rjisungparknber.org/papers/w31539
🚨🚨 Working Paper Alert! 🚨🚨
Excited to share new @nberpubs WP with @MTranchero -- we examine the impact of access to confidential admin data via @uscensusbureau data centers on economics research.
A short đź§µ with key findings ...
I heard Spencer tell this story 10 years ago when I took his env Econ PhD class. I loved it and have re-told it to every undergrad environ Econ class I have ever taught.
The final draft of Spencer Banzhaf's forthcoming book "Pricing the Priceless" is online, and it's the best history of valuation and pricing in 20th century mainstream environmental econ I've read
spencerbanzhaf.wordpress.ncs…
Today on my Substack:
Around 1 in 270 people in India die from snakebites by the age of 70.
Here's why that statistic is so surprising, and why it's a sign of one of the most underrated problems in global health: missing data.
salonium.substack.com/p/14-h…
Related: Here's some new(er) results from myself and coauthors showing purchases of capital have limited productivity effects but do lead to higher employment levels at firms. nber.org/system/files/workin…
"So-so technologies" replace workers but do not yield big gains in productivity. As examples, Daron Acemoglu cites self-checkout kiosks in grocery stores and automated customer service over the phone.
nytimes.com/2022/01/11/techn…