Skilled immigration in developing countries upgrades firms' technologies and production methods. This improves the quality of their goods, allowing them to access high-income export markets 🚀
Check out our @CESifoNetwork Working Paper w/ @lpenalozap!
🔗https://t.co/l0kDtnuMPI
More children than ever grow up without siblings. Does this affect their development? We find that siblings have little impact on first-borns' cognitive development and personality. New working paper with @PetterLundborg, Erik Plug, and @AstridWurRas: https://t.co/qolDt4w1ZJ
🚨 New Working Paper 🚨
w/ Sascha Becker + @joachim_voth
Do you run regressions on spatial data? Then keep reading!
We present a guide and Stata package for methods by Müller and Watson (2024) to deal with Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions.
Link in🧵(1/n)
los 10 municipios españoles con mayor tasa de robos con violencia en 2023 estaban todos en cataluña
barcelona ciudad lidera con una tasa >6 veces la media nacional
los datos abiertos del ministerio (antes en formato infumable) ahora accesibles en 👉 https://t.co/vGlsV5Jf4u
🚨Thrilled to share our new paper "Causal Claims in Economics"! 🚨
@fetzert and I analysed over 44,000 economics papers using AI to create a knowledge graph of economics and map out causal relationships.
Here's what we found 🧵👇
I'm excited to share my Job Market Paper “Knowledge and Freedom.” I study the role of knowledge on both the side of policymakers (“Choice Architects”) and decision-makers (“Choosers”). Please share widely 🔁 #EconJMP#econtwitter
🚨 Call for Papers 🚨
The 13th Warwick Economics PhD conference will take place 3-5 June 2025.
We welcome applications from every field in economics. We offer free accommodation and travel funding!
Keynotes by @caria_stefano@AmritaKulka
The deadline is 31st January! Link in🧵
Bruno Souza's (@brunoss42) is an applied and labour economist.
What happens to you when one of your co-workers is absent from the workplace? His JMP finds it can boost your wages and career trajectories in the medium run.
Website: https://t.co/2AphqZbuDl
#EconJobMarket
🚨 JMP alert
Worried about the exogeneity of a macro structural shock with respect to omitted variables?
⚠️Testing the correlation between past of omitted variables and present of shocks might mislead conclusions.
↪️ Add a correction term!
🧵 #EconTwitter#EconJobMarket
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See-Yu Chan’s (@ChanSeeyu) job market paper examines how the endogenous response of recruitment activities reconciles the puzzle of rising U.S. college wage premiums alongside declining job skill requirements for graduates since 1980.
Visit: https://t.co/wRyk7PRiP9
#EconJobMarket
Amedeo Andriollo's (@amedandr) JMP proposes a test for exogeneity of macroeconomic structural shocks, robust to omitted variable dynamics. Do shocks to uncertainty about economic policy leads to higher/lower future inflation? To find out: https://t.co/wfwNUiu297
#EconJobMarket
¿Qué efectos tuvo la regularización de 600.000 inmigrantes en España en 2004?
1⃣No tuvo efecto atracción.
2⃣Aumentó empleo formal de inmigrantes.
3⃣No afectó empleo nativos.
4⃣Aumentaron ingresos públicos en 4.000€ por inmigrante, sin aumentos de gasto público significativo.
📢 I am happy to support @TheoKouro who is on the job market this year.
👉Theo received the 2023 Young Economist Award from the Czech Economic Association
👇See below his JMP and check out his fantastic work
🧑💻 https://t.co/eeGgclqpa7
#EconTwitter#EconJMP#EconJMC
🧵 spain has some of europe's best neighbourhood-level income data, but it's buried in the statistical office website
i scraped and structured the data to make it accessible with one line of code
check out my new R package:
https://t.co/2FmsJ4Dxah
I am on the Job Market 🙌
Thanks to all my friends and colleagues for the feedback and support throughout this process, and thanks @jenniferdoleac for the service you do for all women year after year.
Check the amazing work of women in the Econ JM in Jen's thread below🙂
La pobreza laboral existe fundamentalmente por la baja intensidad laboral (periodos de desempleo y jornadas parciales) y el autoempleo.
De hecho, prácticamente no hay hogares pobres si todas las personas trabajan al 100% de su potencial.
Lo explico despacio🧵
in spain, ~16% of total population is foreign-born. but among prime-age population (25-54), it's 24% – and in madrid or barcelona, it's almost 1 in 3
explore fully disaggregated data by country of origin, province and municipality in my updated app: https://t.co/w8qTwStNXV