Check out Kate Reinmuth and Emma Rockall’s work on the effect of non-competes on innovation. Link to working paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Very happy for my talented friend and co-author Jean-Félix Brouillette

Could not recommend it enough!

Across countries, population growth is at least as important as per capita consumption growth in contributing to growth in consumption-equivalent welfare, from Mohamad Adhami, Mark Bils, Chad Jones, and Pete Klenow nber.org/papers/w31999

Every year around grad school app season, this type of sentiment pops up...

It is flat out FALSE and unnecessarily discourages people away from econ phds.

Let's take a look at an example + data... 1/

NEEP webinar next Monday 3rd at 7pm Paris time (1pm New York time)!!!!

Chad Jones (@StanfordGSB) presents:

'Population and Welfare:
The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number'

(with Pete Klenow #Mark_Bils Mohamad Adhami).

Zoom link? Register at sites.google.com/view/welfareee…!

Yesterday, Lebanon's Parliament voted to hold national elections on March 27, 2022. So it's worth addressing a question I often return to in my research: is Lebanon a democracy? And if not, what is its 'regime type'? /1

A Chad Jones appreciation post!

Some of the very best, and most beautiful, theory on long-run growth.

forourposterity.com/best-chad-jone…