This may be due to incomplete information, the availability of remote work, or wage rigidity despite greater sectoral reallocations in the US labor market than EU countries.
Our latest research on “Do Workers Undervalue COVID-19 Risk – Evidence from Wages and Death Certificate Data” has been accepted in the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty! Joint work with @RyanSul03070993@DrSumedhaGupta, @KosaliSimon and @coady_wing
https://t.co/shKKd0vI2u
It's well known that lower income people tend to suffer much worse health. Is poverty at the heart of this disparity, and, if so, could a large cash transfer help close this gap? We examine an RCT that provided 1000 low income participants $1000/month for 3 years. We find…
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Thrilled to share our latest work with @AdrienBilal! Check out our new working paper:
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲: 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝘃𝘀. 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲
Read here: https://t.co/TWtYiH5M9b
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🧵 1/ What’s at stake with race-based equations for lung function? Clinical, occupational, and financial reclassifications for millions of patients.
I’m delighted to share this labor of love, published today in @NEJM and unveiled at #ATS2024.
https://t.co/9V0Bck071g
We have an update to our Unexpected Compression paper. Data is still through June 2023, but there are additional analyses and improved estimates. I list a few of these in the thread below.
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https://t.co/0rmIYbbNjy
Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Ant and the Grasshopper: Seasonality and the Invention of Agriculture,” by Andrea Matranga (@andreamatranga): https://t.co/zJKcSRREXs
Done another semester teaching causal inference🙂. Updated my course slides, added survival data, labs, corrected more typos this time. Close to 800 pages now. Always more to update next year.
https://t.co/Bpy7uYRKVq
Our first meta paper is out!! This paper combines our first 110 completed reproductions/replications. This is joint work with 350+ amazing coauthors.
We summarize our findings below.
https://t.co/L2YwDDFMcE
Evidence of widespread "tunneling" in the nursing home industry: providers extract profits by making inflated payments for goods and services to commonly owned related parties, effectively hiding 63% of profits in 2019, from @ashdgandhi and @andrewolenski https://t.co/D3r3ZtjN06
Black workers in large US cities live closer to jobs and “good” jobs than whites, suggesting that spatial mismatch is unlikely to be a major source of racial earnings gaps, from David Card, @rothstein_jesse, and @MoisesYi3 https://t.co/PmKIp0PvzM
@arindube@NidhishKSugumar And it saved lives, too. I estimated that workers would have observed 10% increase in COVID mortality rate had they worked in the same job as pre-pandemic. And the live-saving impact is larger among the disadvantaged.
I announced 2 packages for Stata that speed up Sergio Correia's amazing reghdfe by ~10X. "jl" bridges to Julia. reghdfejl runs on top. It mimics reghdfe, but calls Julia. See https://t.co/RfS9puwG9H…. Please follow directions under Installation in "help jl".
In latest @CapAndFreedom ep, Steve Levitt talks his career & retiring as @UChicago prof while still leading RISC & Freakonomics. We talk applied economics, Chicago econ dept (price theory failure, macro success, personalities), Freakonomics origin & more https://t.co/bdBKovL7PF