Associate Professor of Economics, Wake Forest University | Fields: Environmental, Labor and Public mark-curtis.net

Joined March 2010
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Mark Curtis retweeted
🚨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…

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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. x.com/DurRobert/status/14884…
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One more paper on environmental regulation by you to be presented too! This is your week. ;)
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25 Apr 2024
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)
🗓️Save the date: on April 25th 2nd IZA/OECD Workshop, this time on climate change and the labour market w @S_Stantcheva @rjisungpark @Selma_Mahfouz @stescarpetta @stephancarcillo @AndreaBassanini @AlexanderHijzen Info 👉conference.iza.org/conferenc… @iza_event @iza_bonn @OECD_Social
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Excited to be presenting @MarkCurti @laylaokane and my paper on Workers and the Clean Energy Transition in tomorrow's the IZA/OECD Workshop on Climate Change and the Labor Market! @iza_event conference.iza.org/conferenc… nber.org/papers/w31539

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Mark Curtis retweeted
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…
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11 Apr 2024
Look what arrived in the mail! Congrats @rjisungpark, look forward to reading it!
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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

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Mark Curtis retweeted
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!
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15 Aug 2023
We are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction in the history of the planet. What are the social costs of losing a particular species? @Eyal_Frank (@HarrisPolicy) & @anantsudarshan (@warwickecon) on the decline of vultures in India: youtu.be/HwbhEL-6zCU
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14 Aug 2023
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 @rjisungpark nber.org/papers/w31539
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Mark Curtis retweeted
14 Aug 2023
A study in @nberpubs by SP2’s @rjisungpark & coauthors @markcurti of @WakeForest & Layla O’Kane of @LightcastData shows the #GreenEnergy transition may leave some workers behind. Analysis shows both potential & unequal opportunity in #GreenJobs market. bit.ly/3Yz4gte

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🚨🚨 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 🧵 with key findings ...
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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.
Replying to @Undercoverhist
I mean look at this prologue (it *had* to be about ubiquitous Schultze)
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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…
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Mark Curtis retweeted
11 Apr 2023
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…
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11 Apr 2023
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…
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27 Feb 2023
The note my 10-year left the tooth fairy a few months back…
Holy inflation (via @axios)!
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Congrats to Spencer and @NCStateCEnREP!!!
We are excited to welcome Spencer Banzhaf as the new CEnREP Director! cals.ncsu.edu/agricultural-a…
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