Justin Katz

PhD student at Harvard Econ & HBS | Yale Econ and Math '18

[Dominic Russel @DomRussel]

Super cool new paper by my (brilliant) friend @jdikatz.

People reacted much differently to liquidity from the CARES Act student loan pause vs direct stimulus. This changes how we should think about, for example, the effects of the pause on inflation

https://t.co/RpKr1I8YZA

[Justin Katz @jdikatz]

@tuchardonnay @joel_bkr @jburnmurdoch @sophgaston @kartikvira ... or if the question didn’t prime people to think of government dishonesty, and instead asked whether the government accurately represented impact of immigration

[Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan]

Migrants from Nigeria earn, on average, 16 times more in the US compared to their age- and education-equivalent peers in Nigeria. And so on for other countries w/the median being around 4.5 times.
Great paper by @m_clem, Montenegro, Pritchett
https://t.co/24ySmDOMYE

[Emre Ozdenoren @emre_ozdenoren]

Prediction markets could predict which psychology results would fail to replicate. https://t.co/zfIWlKcTid

[John Koblin @koblin]

For years, Conan O'Brien has tried to book one guest. That guest keeps saying no. On Conan's quest to book....Robert Caro https://t.co/HtxWaCsaRO

[José Azar @joseazar]

My paper on airlines and common ownership with Isabel Tecu and @martincschmalz is now published (including replication package): https://t.co/LPauSYhlhr @JofFinance

[Justin Katz @jdikatz]

@joel_bkr Internalizing the externality — I like the way you’re thinking

[Justin Katz @jdikatz]

I had no idea this proposal has been around for so long:

[Justin Katz @jdikatz]

@JiahuiWho The Power Broker (first Caro book)

[Justin Katz @jdikatz]

Robert Moses, the original Ray Dalio

[Justin Katz @jdikatz]

@mayasweedler 19, but I’m on page 50

[Five Dials @FiveDials]

Yet another photo of author Robert Caro wasting the entire day in front of Facebook.

[Stanford Law School @StanfordLaw]

SLS professor @HankGreelyLSJU weighs in on the controversial business of cloning dogs @VanityFair with @Duncande: https://t.co/ehQ0SbqKFY

[Brookings Econ @BrookingsEcon]

Absolute mobility is dropping across the income distribution. But which group is seeing the biggest declines? https://t.co/VNlV6uipQA

[Justin Katz @jdikatz]

Interesting paper that treats location as an asset that people sell by moving to cheaper places with fewer opportunities. So falling US internal migration means rising wealth inequality as people with no financial assets stop buying location assets https://t.co/08a2NuMf8V

[Brookings Econ @BrookingsEcon]

This recent Supreme Court ruling will further cement our nation's growing wealth divide: https://t.co/eyULyzJOns

[Anupam Jena @AnupamBJena]

The Benefit of Having the Same Name as a Police Officer

Great working w/ @CassSunstein @tannerhicks42 on @nytimes piece that used speeding tix data to show that prob of getting a ‘mercy ticket’ increases if u have same name as officer that pulls u over

https://t.co/ouwbl56rRR

[Brookings Econ @BrookingsEcon]

Three years after a newspaper closure, municipal bond yields in that county increase by 0.05 to 0.11 percentage points: https://t.co/WqqBuGwJ7t

[Brookings Econ @BrookingsEcon]

In 1979, between 11 percent and 18 percent of firms were new in any given industry; by 2014 only 4 percent to 9 percent were. What that means for the U.S. economy: https://t.co/OkIDPr2Yzi