Un experimento en escuelas de América Latina muestra que resaltar a los estudiantes sus “rachas” de éxito (secuencias de tareas correctas) aumenta el esfuerzo sostenido, incrementando la entrega de tareas y los puntajes de pruebas. Por @RAulagnon et al.
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#EconJobMarket#EconTwitter (7/7)
What if firms could choose their capital intensity, α?
@GeraudDm's JMP show, with theory, data and simulation, it explains every trend:
↗ markups dispersion, ↘️aggregate labor share
↗median labor share, investment weakness,
divergence of sales/employment concentration..
🚨 Job Market Paper
❓ Dispersion in firms’ capital intensity has widened. Why, and does it matter?
⚙️ Firms unevenly update the capital-intensity of their technology as capital goods get cheaper.
📊 This helps explain major US trends.
Paper: https://t.co/gqNc7uJ4FX
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My wonderful PhD student, @haruka__uchida, is on the market this year. Haruka is brilliant, ambitious, and a great team player. I am confident that she will change the world with science and make everyone else around her better.
If you want someone like that as a colleague please take a look!
We are thrilled to welcome Martin Koenen (
@HarvardEcon), Amalia Repele (@Unibocconi) and Canishk Naik @CanishkNaik (@LSEEcon) as new Assistant Professors following this year's Job Market! For more: https://t.co/qNlsFf5C8R
CID PhD fellow @RAulagnon and @GriesTimm from @Bocconi preview findings from their recent working paper in this week's #CIDVoices. How do beliefs about our performance—our confidence—shape our preferences for fairness and redistribution? https://t.co/etm3P3g9Qo
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📅 Duration: January–March 2025
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🚨Paper alert! Tax systems are complicated. Many countries try to simplify theirs. But does this actually simplify taxation or just make it easier to evade taxes? Our updated paper w/P. Aghion, @M_Gravoueille, Matthieu Lequien looks at this question https://t.co/TyYER2BWTf 🧵 1/
You know those streaks Duolingo uses to motivate you?
More generally, could they help students engage more in learning when school is out?
https://t.co/w6njWbDjp4
In Peru, highlighting streaks boosted engagement (for those who logged on) & boosted math achievement.
Maj : L'écart filles-garçons dans le choix de faire spé maths est ultra stable le long de la distribution des IPS du lycée. Une fille d'un lycée du dernier décile en termes d'IPS (très favorisé) a moins de chance de faire des maths en Tle qu'un garçon d'un lycée du 1er décile