#EconTwitter@prerna394, @kekreaishwarya, Vaibhav Ojha, @tchakravorty_, and I and excited to share an extensive Guide to Applying for Ph.D. programs in Econ. We really hope that future applicants find it useful :)
Kindly share it widely
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https://t.co/S6KBnIF5yG Undergraduate level is where economics loses talent. Fed-Minnesota partnership's BEE program proves engagement and mentorship can transform the pipeline.
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr “for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress” and the other half jointly to Aghion and Howitt “for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction.”
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We find substantial barriers to female LFP and entrepreneurship, esp. when it comes to business expansion, in India. Promoting female entrepreneurship increases FLFP, earnings, and economic growth. Female entrepreneurs hiring women is a key channel https://t.co/id1fe7cqJO
People on #econtwitter will have some more work to do from next year because Prof. Acemoglu has finally won.
Almost everyone has been predicting his name since many years now.
Congratulations to all the winners 🥂👏
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BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”
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Congratulations are due to Minnesota PhDs Costas Arkolakis ('07), Ayşe İmrohoroğlu ('88), and Diego Restuccia ('98) for being elected Fellows of the @econometricsoc! And to professor Ellen McGrattan for being elected to the Council of the Econometric Society.
New paper alert!
We conduct a quasi-experimental study to investigate the association between toilet construction under India's Swachh Bharat Mission and infant and child mortality
https://t.co/W6wGVEC2HE
"There's a lot of things you can do in the field," says PhD candidate Meghana Bhaskar. "And I think what really inspires me most now is that you're able to think about people and their lives and how different issues, different policies, affect them."
https://t.co/8F5E3uTXjx
@MeeraMahadevan Many congratulations!!
Happy to see this getting published!
I remember doing referee report on this paper as part of my MA Econ course on political economy in 2019 at Ashoka University.
NBER Summer Institute starts today!
Live streams: https://t.co/TkIQMMzDed
Programs: https://t.co/HPNVIjjOXL
- Monetary Economics
- Corporate Finance
- Impulse & Propagation Mechanisms
- Capital Markets & the Economy
- International Trade & Investment
- Development of the American Economy
Hidden sovereign debt hurts economies, but better domestic disclosure laws can help ease the pain. Read our new blog to learn more: https://t.co/O57Wa1hcwo
More on aggregate markups 👀
“The profit share has been constant at 18% of GDP because the increase in monopoly rents has been completely offset by rising fixed costs and changes in technology.”
By Thomas Hasenzagl and Luis Pérez
Congratulations to our very own @M_De_Nardi for being elected an @econometricsoc fellow! We are so proud to have her among our faculty!
https://t.co/5UmB0dpfRW
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Claudia Goldin “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.”
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