jeffreypclemens.bsky.social
@jeffreypclemens.bsky.social
Professor of Economics at UC San Diego
Director of CEPA: https://cepa.ucsd.edu/
Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
Research Associate at NBER
Editorial Boards at JPUBEC, JHE, JEP, and AEJ: Policy
I read this article with great interest, as the unsuccessful US effort to suppress Afghan opium production was the subject of some of my earliest research.

Readers of this article might be interested in the thread below:
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Jeffrey P. Clemens on X: "An underrated mistake in US policy in Afghanistan was its long-running effort to suppress the cultivation of opium poppy and, in turn, the production of heroin and other opiates. A thread. 1/19" / X
An underrated mistake in US policy in Afghanistan was its long-running effort to suppress the cultivation of opium poppy and, in turn, the production of heroin and other opiates. A thread. 1/19
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November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Through administrative data linkages, this new work on minimum wages and careers provides a more comprehensive picture:
www.nber.org/papers/w34405
Careers of Minimum Wage Workers
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
October 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
@michaelrstrain.bsky.social and I recently published a narrower paper using CPS data to understand the role of minimum wages in shaping wage gains over 12-month intervals (reflecting the limits of what one can do in CPS data):
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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October 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Reposted
Many thanks to the economists who signed on, including @dacemoglumit.bsky.social, @kylepomerleau.bsky.social, @michaelrstrain.bsky.social, @danieldbunn.bsky.social‬, @kclausing.bsky.social, and @jasonfurman.bsky.social, and to our magnificent counsel.

Full brief here: www.aei.org/articles/ami...
www.aei.org
July 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM