AI will reshape the global economy, especially in the realm of labour markets: how can we best reap the benefits?
G. Melina and M. Mendes Tavares, economists at the IMF, present a 2024 report in amphi S. Veil on April 30th.
Register online before 4/26 : ⤵️
shorturl.at/qC046

Save the Date! The NBER Working Group on Race and Stratification in the Economy will hold its fourth conference Friday April 5, 2024. Stream via YouTube! Thanks to Ellora Derenoncourt Bradley Hardy Marcus Casey for helping me organize! The program is here: nber.org/conferences/ra…

The National Academies report is here: nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27058/…

📚How can education policy reform reduce intergenerational poverty? I joined Poverty Research IRP's podcast to discuss the National Academies report I helped write on Reducing Intergenerational Poverty. Dive into our findings here 👇bit.ly/IRPPodcast

Please submit your paper for the 2024 NBER Development Economics Summer Institute!

The deadline for all NBER Summer Institute submissions is March 21, 2024, and the call for papers is here:
nber.org/calls-papers-a…

Impressive and insightful work on the ask gap and the gender wage gap for high-level workers by Nina Roussille now in the QJE

academic.oup.com/qje/advance-ar…

*Call for Papers*

With Emilio Borghesan and Garima Sharma, we are organizing a conference for early career labor economists at the IR Section Princeton Economics on Apr 4-5. More details on the submission at shorturl.at/avPU4.

Feel free to circulate and reach out with q's :)

O-Lab's Racial Equity in the Labor Market initiative w/ WorkRise supports @ederenoncourt + Claire Montialoux's work building a new database on racial disparities in unemployment insurance.

Don’t miss our Dec. 1 webinar showcasing preliminary findings: berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

#SNAP + Farm Bill reauthorization are at the center of current Congressional funding debates. What does evidence tell us about nutritional support & what will the future of these programs entail?

Learn more at our Nov. 30 event: olab.berkeley.edu/olab-events/sp…

📢On Dec. 1, Join O-Lab for a webinar unpacking racial equity implications of key elements of the US social safety net.

Don’t miss new work from Ellora Derenoncourt, Claire Montialoux, & Hadi Elzayn, + a policy-oriented discussion between Danny Yagan + Damon Jones!
👉berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

In just under a month (September 25th) I'll be leading an online course on shift-share IV and related methods. The course will include lectures, live discussion, and coding practice -- should be a lot of fun!

Sign up here, and please share/RT:
mixtapesessions.io/session/shift_…

Reminder: The deadline is Sunday for our Dissertation Award honoring the best Ph.D. dissertation on employment-related issues.

First prize is $2,500, with up to two honorable mention awards of $1,000.

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🚨Deadline Sunday🚨
Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award

Dissertation on employment-related issues & accepted 7/1/21-6/30/23?

Past winners include Joonas Tuhkuri Anna Stansbury Claire Montialoux Sydnee Caldwell Andy Garin Simon Jäger Pascal Michaillat Matt Notowidigdo David Albouy 🇺🇸🇫🇷(🇨🇦)🌐 @AlexMasPton

Apropos of nothing, here’s a brief thread on a key point about “negative weights” in regression analysis

The development groups at UCSD and UCLA are organizing a one-day workshop for advanced graduate students and junior faculty in the Southern California area to present work related to Economic Development, Political Economy, and Culture. Natalie Bau UCSDEcon UCLA Economics

A great opportunity: this virtual PhD-level course is designed to provide a comprehensive review of the economic questions relevant to climate change and economics of the environment.

Please RT to help spread the word!
Pascaline Dupas Karthik Muralidharan Ben Olken Romesh Vaitilingam

Paul Hünermund DiNardo (2008) defines a natural experiment as a 'serendipitous randomized trial' (link.springer.com/chapter/10.105…). In our recentered IV paper (dropbox.com/s/a40ksnsi0geb…), Kirill and I interpret that as saying you know something about the 'design' of observed shocks -- i.e. that you can…

Slides for the rest of the course are now posted!

Chapters 8-10 cover shift-share/recentered IV, regression discontinuity, and some topics in nonlinear models

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Feedback welcome, as always!

Chapters 6 and 7 have some of my favorite material: a deep dive into the mechanics of linear IV / 2SLS and IV identification (again both design- and model-based)

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Next up, in Chapters 4-5, an overview of recent findings on 'negative weights' in regression and a brief interlude on clustered standard errors

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