Carl Kitchens

[Carl Kitchens @kitchct]

What has happened to the urban wage premium over time? In this new paper with @kylefbutts and Taylor Jaworski, we show that high skill individuals sorting into cities explains a larger portion of the raw gap over time:

https://t.co/CUXciOfIh1

[NBER @nberpubs]

Examining how the World War I agricultural commodity price boom affected human capital accumulation during the early decades of the high school movement in the US, from Taylor Jaworski, @kitchct, and Luke P. Rodgers https://t.co/K5JmKySLVD

[Carl Kitchens @kitchct]

# EconTwitter
The Cliometric Society and EHA will sponsor sessions at the Southern Economic Association annual conference in Houston, TX, November 21-23, 2026. Authors interested in presenting should fill out this form (https://t.co/3QA9KX52wD) by March 22, 2026.

[Carl Kitchens @kitchct]

#econtwitter - the job ad for a tenure track Assistant professor job (https://t.co/GjwRoPVtra) with a joint affiliation @fsuigc has a 11/7/2025 deadline.

[Carl Kitchens @kitchct]

@fsuigc Spatial Science Data Center - focus on spatial econometrics (interdisciplinary search)

https://t.co/kbY0HXKtda
position ID - 61348

[Carl Kitchens @kitchct]

#econtwitter - Link to Associate/Full Professor position in economics with an affiliation in FSU's IGC @fsuigc

https://t.co/v9UahH4hSr

[Carl Kitchens @kitchct]

@fsuigc Link to tenure track Assistant Professor - preference for structural methods

https://t.co/waJtpelTkb

[Carl Kitchens @kitchct]

@fsuigc Link to specialized teaching faculty - econometrics focus
https://t.co/dlxPgBq2XF

[Carl Kitchens @kitchct]

#Econtwitter - FSU is inviting candidates with expertise in spatial data science to apply for faculty positions in the new Spatial Data Science Center. Spatial Econometrics/GIS uses could be a good fit for this interdisciplinary search

https://t.co/6v5XJl3vDR
position ID - 61348

[Carl Kitchens @kitchct]

Congratulations to Joel Mokyr!

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

What creates sustained economic growth? This year’s laureates used different methods to answer this question. Through his research in economic history, Joel Mokyr – awarded the 2025 prize in economic sciences – has demonstrated that a continual flow of useful knowledge is necessary.

This useful knowledge has two parts: the first is what Mokyr refers to as propositional knowledge, a systematic description of regularities in the natural world that demonstrate why something works; the second is prescriptive knowledge, such as practical instructions, drawings or recipes that describe what is necessary for something to work.

Mokyr used historical sources as one means to uncover the causes of sustained growth becoming the new normal. He demonstrated that if innovations are to succeed one another in a self-generating process, we not only need to know that something works, but we also need to have scientific explanations for why. The latter was often lacking prior to the industrial revolution, which made it difficult to build upon new discoveries and inventions. He also emphasised the importance of society being open to new ideas and allowing change.

#NobelPrize

[Carl Kitchens @kitchct]

@fsueconomics will have 7 students on the Ph.D. Job Market: https://t.co/ukJ8rJ4n6D

4 of the students broadly use tools of causal inference
3 use laboratory experiments

It's a great group.

[Carl Kitchens @kitchct]

4. Associate/Full Professor (joint with Institute of Government and Civics) - Applied with public policy focus

Specialized Lecturer Positions
1. Economic Education - large format principles focus
2. Economic Education - econometrics, statistics, machine learning focus

[Carl Kitchens @kitchct]

FSU's Department of Economics will be actively hiring this year. We expect to have 4 tenure/tenure track lines and 2 specialized teaching lines. I will link the ads from the AEA JOE as they populate so you have official details:

[Carl Kitchens @kitchct]

Tenure/Tenure Track Positions
1. Assistant/Advanced Assistant - Theory

2. Assistant/Advanced Assistant - Applied with a structural methods focus

3. Assistant/Advanced Assistant (joint with Institute of Government and Civics) - Applied with public policy focus

[Carl Kitchens @kitchct]

https://t.co/w6DgDscDzK

[Carl Kitchens @kitchct]

#econtwitter
We have a late opening for a visiting assistant professor (1 year) at FSU. The AEA JOE ad is in the hopper and should appear next week.

Mid August Start date.

[The JHR @J_HumanResource]

1/7

What happens when a child loses a parent—not emotionally, but economically? Goldstein examines sons of early 20th-century miners who died in work accidents, compared to those whose fathers survived, and their long-term impacts.

[Carl Kitchens @kitchct]

@FSUCOSSPP Link on AEA website: https://t.co/GSTcnsm00E

[Carl Kitchens @kitchct]

#econtwitter @FSUCOSSPP is hiring a new lecturer in Economics. Come to Tallahassee, FL and inspire minds that Economics is the best.

https://t.co/wHtSHgToxW