I don't really think this was true, the empirical literature was mixed before, often finding small disemployment effects. The difference was that the empirical work was often correlational and therefore not convincing enough to change people's minds about the theory.
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I have feared that little gap for so long
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Love to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable

Amazing how stable these are and that there's been no belief convergence (in Massachusetts the answer is you can drive 79 on all highways without getting speeding tickets, even though they often say 55, which is crazy to me)
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Had a thought that the Journal of Development Economics' pre-results review would not only have the benefit of increased transparency, but also of helping authors' careers because RCTs take a long time to finish! Apparently the editors had thought of that:
www.povertyactionlab.org/blog/9-5-18/...

In today's job market post, Sarah Frohnweiler of RWI-Leibniz shows how short self-efficacy testimonial videos in Ghana which showed women overcoming challenges boosted self-efficacy and increased completion of vocational training by 8 p.p. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

In the first Trump administration, a bunch of companies just received straight up exemptions from the tariffs (Section 301 exemptions). Just for asking! Heard there's a trade paper in progress about the consequences of this too.
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Right-to-manage in action! The union and firm bargain over the wage, but then the firm chooses quantity of employment. Quite the move for a university with a $3.5 billion endowment.
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Yes, there's evidence for this, Cooper and Trivedi (2012) shows that Medicare Advantage plans cream-skim by offering gym memberships, and Adam Solomon (who's on the job market!) shows that it can improve welfare to ban bundles like this.
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This is the answer to why you shouldn’t just let the market figure it out
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My hobbyhorse: if you think each local labor market/state is an independent experiment, don't weight by population! OLS is BLUE (if you have admin data so sampling noise isn't higher in smaller states).
Interesting evidence for it really mattering here:
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Job market candidate at BSoE. His research spans Labor Economics, Political Economy, and Behavioral Economics, with a focus on how preferences and beliefs influence labor market outcomes.

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What's the implication? I show: if you have a price discrimination scheme that charges more to rich and less to poor-- you may deem it CS-reducing relative to a uniform price, but this measure actually says it's welfare enhancing, because it's progressive!

I had a great time here last summer and learned a lot, would absolutely recommend!
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Excited to share my new WP (which also happens to be my job market paper!)

How does online recruitment impact the geography of the labour market?

Full paper here sites.google.com/view/mariaba...

and a thread below:

This is so ridiculous!
Lina Khan 7 years ago: “Amazon’s charging low prices now so they gain a monopoly and charge high prices later”
Lina Khan today: “Amazon’s a monopoly!”
Commentators: “You said their prices were too low and now you’re saying they’re too high! Which is it?!”

This was an interesting piece! I wonder if the reason for the “I traveled in Europe and ate whatever I wanted and didn’t gain weight” trope is that your metabolism can speed up if you eat more calories for just a week or so.
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