martalachowska.bsky.social
martalachowska.bsky.social
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Happy Labor Day! I am happy to share that tomorrow I will join the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago as a Senior Economist in the Microeconomics group.
September 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Great news!

IZA (the German labor economics institute that had lost its main source of financial support) has found a new home and will continue as a convener and disseminator of knowledge.

Hurrah!
August 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Really very happy to attend the NBER SI, and for our paper on the role of firms in explaining the gender wage gap - with harmonized data from 11 countries - to be included in the joint Gender & Labor session this morning!

Come say hi and enjoy @marcogpalladino.bsky.social's presentation!
July 22, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Upjohn Institute's @martalachowska.bsky.social ’s paper will be presented at the @nberpubs Summer Institute 2025 Labor Studies conference in Cambridge, MA., on 7/22. The findings are based on “Firms and the Gender Wage Gap: A Comparison of Eleven Countries.” Conference runs 7/21–23.
#NBER #econsky
SI 2025 Labor Studies
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July 21, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Employers and Unemployment Insurance Take-Up" by Marta Lachowska, Isaac Sorkin, and Stephen A. Woodbury. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Employers and Unemployment Insurance Take-Up
(Forthcoming Article) - We quantify the employer’s role in unemployment insurance (UI) take-up. Employer effects on claiming and appeals are substantial, and those effects are negatively correlated, c...
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May 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The deadline to apply to the W.E. Upjohn Institute’s dissertation award is soon! Please apply if your dissertation is on policy-relevant & employment-related issues! Link: upjohn.org/sites/defaul...
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July 12, 2024 at 12:33 AM
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Join us today in welcoming Alfonso Flores-Lagunes as our new Vice President and Director of Research. Flores-Lagunes was previously a professor of economics at the Maxwell School, and a senior research associate in the Center for Policy Research, at Syracuse University.
Alfonso Flores-Lagunes joins Upjohn Institute as Vice President and Director of Research
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May 1, 2024 at 7:09 PM
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David Roodman has written a new Stata package that replicates `reghdfe` using Julia. The new implementation requires installing Julia but is about 10x faster. Details available here:
www.statalist.org/forums/forum...
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reghdfe 10X faster - Statalist
I'm excited to announce a pair of packages that radically speeds up reghdfe--at least for hard problems where speed is an issue. The spark for this project is
www.statalist.org
November 28, 2023 at 3:05 PM