UGA Sport Management is hiring! We are seeking applications for an Assistant Professor for Fall 2025. All-subdisciplines welcome. Application deadline is Oct. 19.
Link: https://t.co/gXeUatsK04
Congrats to Berrynomics grad @ClayCollins94 and Prof Stephenson for their new article "How does having a football program affect enrollment at small private colleges?" The paper was supported by Berry's Richards Undergraduate Research grant program.
https://t.co/ztPhOvA5ep
Excited to share the publication of "State abortion bans and talent acquisition: evidence from NCAA women’s college basketball."
Results suggest women's programs located in states enacting immediate abortion bans experienced a significant drop in recruiting rankings.
I wanted to show how pervasive leadership dominance of the legislative process has gotten. After discovering the excellent data provided by @Libgober, I whipped up this graph—and, wow, it’s even more dramatic than I realized.
It's extremely crazy looking back—at the end of 2022, the average professional forecaster expected the unemployment rate to rise nearly a full percentage point in just a year!
Instead, it only rose 0.1%.
What happens to companies when their workers unionize?
Workers and managers become more liberal in their campaign contributions as a direct result.
https://t.co/zkSW1mx0TJ
Excited that my paper, "Descriptive Representation in an Era of Polarization," is forthcoming at the Journal of Politics! This project started as a very rough draft in my first semester of grad school, and after many rewrites, it's finally out! https://t.co/yH0yfUqJ9g
My wife Christina Patterson’s new paper (w/ her excellent co-authors @JADHazell@ChenLian92@jptguerreiro) is now out at @nberpubs, so I’m excited to share more about what I (biased though I am) think is a very nice insight on the nature of inflation and why people hate it (1/n)
Restaurant labor productivity is up a ton since COVID as a downstream effect of acute labor shortages and drastic shifts in food service operating patterns—it actually grew faster over the last 3 years than throughout the prior 30!
Recent study that gives some sense of the scale of corruption at the individual “tiger” level (vs. “flies”) in China:
Avg. $14M at the national level and $3-4M at the local/provincial level.
This is based on studies of ~800 criminal corruption cases gleaned from public data.
Automating AI research is exciting! But can LLMs actually produce novel, expert-level research ideas?
After a year-long study, we obtained the first statistically significant conclusion: LLM-generated ideas are more novel than ideas written by expert human researchers.
Very happy to finally see this in print! @TomZ_Econ and I started this project in 2015 and it took us some time figuring out banks and municipal finance 🙂. A short thread 🧵
Pleased to introduce the own-wage elasticity repository for minimum wage studies: quantifies the employment effect in an economically interpretable way. Most studies suggest small effect on jobs.
Will be regularly updated. Joint with @benzipperer
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https://t.co/KSymrOBNQb