socae2025

Southern California Graduate Conference in Applied Economics 2025 (SOCAE). Organized by Econ PhD students at @UCLA @EconomicsUcsb @USC_Econ @UCSDEcon @ucisocsci

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Thanks to all of our attendees who came out for #socae2025 yesterday! See you next year!

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Congrats to our Best Paper Award winners! Sneha Nimmagadda (@USC_Econ) was selected by her applied micro peers as the Best Microeconomics Paper. Katya Gurkova (@UCLAEconomics) was selected by her applied macro peers as the Best Macroeconomics Paper. #socae2025

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It was great to have such a diverse and talented group of presenters yesterday at #socae2025! Here are our presenters from the macro and micro sessions, representing @UCLAEconomics, @UCSDEcon, @EconomicsUcsb, and @USC_Econ.

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Great full day at #socae2025 with my fellow @RANDschooledu colleagues hosted at @UCLA @socae2025

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Our #socae2025 participants have been engaged all day, despite some unusually dreary LA weather. ☔️

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We're down to our last presentations! Ekaterina Gurkova (@UCLAEconomics) talks about human capital accumulation in Spain, while Shu-Chen Tsao (@EconomicsUcsb) merges ecology and economics in his paper on dengue fever. #socae2025

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Minwoo Hyun (@EconomicsUcsb) talks about "dirty jobs" in his JMP, how the clean energy transition affects workers in the fossil fuel industry. #socae2025

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Juan Nicolas Herrera La Rotta (@EconomicsUcsb) examines how a VAT on housing affects prices, quantity, and property size. #socae2025

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Getting closer to our Best Paper awards this afternoon! Excited to hand these out to our best presenters from each session. #socae2025

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Paula Donaldson (@UCSDEcon) discusses how and when heterogeneous exposure to GE effects biases estimates, and how to solve this problem. #socae2025

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Riccardo Di Cato (@UCSDEcon) discusses traditional vs. modern Chinese banks and the effect of missionary education. #socae2025

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Yangkeun Yun (@uclaanderson) shows some fun visuals in his presentation on the commons via the 19th century whaling industry. #socae2025

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Kurtis Gilliat (@UCSDEcon) presenting joint work with Jacob Brown on the effects of peers on political identity, specifically within the LDS population in Utah.

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Staying cozy on this rainy LA day with an incredible line-up of presenters at @socae2025, hosted at @uclaanderson. Grateful to have helped organize it together with the support of @UCLAEconomics.

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Participants in our micro session enjoying bagels from Baked Bar in Culver City and listening to their colleagues present their work. #socae2025

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Lapo Bini from @UCSDEcon talking about how global supply chain shocks affect business cycle fluctuations. #socae2025

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Torsha Chakravorty from @UCSDEcon soliciting feedback and presenting her work on the role of brokers in public service delivery in India. #socae2025

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Nicolas Fuertes-Segura from @EconomicsUcsb fielding lots of great questions during his presentation on friendship networks in Ecuadoran elementary schools. #socae2025

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Janet Liu from @UCLAEconomics presents her work on the bond market in China. #socae2025

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Sneha Nimmagadda from @USC_Econ kicked off our micro session with her JMP on beliefs and perception of child malnutrition in India. #socae2025