MEBDI will launch a new initiative focusing on the economies of Muslim-majority countries (MENA + TUR, IRA, PAK, AFG, INDO, BNG, etc). If you do research in this area, please DM or follow, and we will get in touch.

Please RT to spread the word. Thanks!

OIC #EconTwitter

We are excited to announce that UChicago Economics’ Michael Greenstone has been appointed the inaugural leader of UChicago’s new Climate and Energy Institute, and Erik Hurst (UChicago Economics) has been appointed director of BFI!

news.uchicago.edu/story/erik-hur…

Be sure to check out UMN Liberal Arts's recent feature on MEBDI (Minnesota Economics Big Data Institute). As Fatih Guvenen puts it, “income inequality can vary remarkably around the world, and the world is not just the United States.” 🌎
cla.umn.edu/news-events/st…

Lisa Camner McKay and Jeff Horwich provide an incredible and readable summary of papers presented at the recent Minneapolis Fed / MEBDI (Minnesota Economics Big Data Institute) minimum wage conference, including our paper finding small efficiency gains of minimum wages from addressing monopsony power in labor markets.

After yesterday's minimum wage conference we're excited to launch episode 5 of the Office Hours pod today, which features Fatih Guvenen on income inequality. Listen here: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/helle…

Excited to be heading to MSP today to discuss our #minimumwage paper!

CONFERENCE ALERT!

MEBDI Minimum Wage Conference

is taking place next Tuesday (May 9) in Minneapolis. All-star line-up of economists will present latest research on minimum wage.

If you are a local & would like to attend, send us a DM.

mebdi.org #econtwitter

CONFERENCE ALERT!

MEBDI Minimum Wage Conference

is taking place next Tuesday (May 9) in Minneapolis. All-star line-up of economists will present latest research on minimum wage.

If you are a local & would like to attend, send us a DM.

mebdi.org #econtwitter

Call for papers alert! Please submit to Human Capital in Macro, this year co-sponsored by LAEF (at UC Santa Barbara) and ⁦⁦St. Louis Fed Economic Research⁩. Please share w/ your colleagues. #econtwitter

Happening TODAY 🗓️ Fatih Guvenen, Luigi Pistaferri, and Gianluca Violante are all joining us at 2 p.m. EST to give an introduction to accessing and using statistics from their new open-access, cross-country database.

Register to get on the GRID: web.cvent.com/event/88047bd0…

📢 SED 2024 will take place in Barcelona 📢

Our Program Chairs are Alessandra Fogli and Elena Manresa

afogli001 Elena Manresa #SED2024 NYU Economics Department Minneapolis Fed Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute

As I am preparing my slides for my PhD class, I thought I would post my yearly reminder that broad measures of US income inequality did not rise since 2003. Almost all the rise happened between late 1970s & early 2000s.
Data can be downloaded from grid-database.org
#GRID

Call for papers: We're organizing a macro-labor conference in Gerzensee, Switzerland on Oct 13-14. The selected papers will be published (following the standard refereeing process) in a special issue of the JEDC. Please submit your paper to [email protected] by Feb 28.

📣 📣 Do you use micro data to answer macro questions? Call for papers for the NBER Summer Institute workshop on “Micro Data & Macro Models”, on July 17-20, 2023. Co-organized with Erik Hurst and Greg Kaplan. Submit your work here by March 22:
conference.nber.org/confsubmit/bac…

Global trends in income inequality and income dynamics: New insights from grid-database
L Pistaferri Stanford University, Gianluca Violante Princeton Economics, Fatih Guvenen MEBDI (Minnesota Economics Big Data Institute)
ow.ly/iiJY50Mh9um

Adrien Auclert (Stanford U) and I are organizing the Minnesota Macro Conference this year. Time: August 2-4. Place: University of Minnesota. Submission deadline: April 28. We welcome submissions from a variety of areas. Please submit at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

ICYMI, a summary from last year of the grid-database—an open-access, international database project led by Gianluca Violante ( #PrincetonU ), Luigi Pistaferri (@SIEPR), and Fatih Guvenen (@Mebdi8). bit.ly/3jMh5QL

Income inequality increased substantially in the US since 1970s. How about in Canada? Time to find out.
🧵 on' 'Four decades of Canadian earnings inequality and dynamics across workers and firms'
By Bowlus, Gouin-Bonenfant, Liu, Lochner, Park
doi.org/10.3982/QE1846

Great read in VoxEU featuring work by Fatih Guvenen and collaborators. Kudos to our sister institute MEBDI (Minnesota Economics Big Data Institute)

Global trends in income inequality and income dynamics: New insights from grid-database
L Pistaferri Stanford University, Gianluca Violante Princeton Economics, Fatih Guvenen MEBDI (Minnesota Economics Big Data Institute)
ow.ly/iiJY50Mh9um