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Stephen Redding
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Kleinheinz Family Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Stanford University
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💡 Why would a firm spend millions teaching workers it doesn’t even employ?
From open-sourcing to free certifications, superstar firms often train the workforce of their customers.
My JMP explains why. 🧵👇 1/n
November 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Excited about Friday’s upcoming NBER Conference on the economics of transportation in the 21st century: www.nber.org/conferences/.... Many important issues surrounding automation in transport sector. Tune in on NBER YouTube open to all: youtube.com/@nbervideos?... @nber.org @treballen.bsky.social
Economics of Transportation in the 21st Century, Fall 2025
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October 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Join us online today for the NBER - Sloan Transportation and the Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity Conference: www.nber.org/conferences/.... On the NBER YouTube Channel: youtube.com/@nbervideos?...
Transportation Networks and the Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity, Fall 2025
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October 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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#QJE Nov 2025, #1, “The Economics of Spatial Mobility: Theory and Evidence Using Smartphone Data,” by Miyauchi, Nakajima, and Redding (@reddingecon.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
The Economics of Spatial Mobility: Theory and Evidence Using Smartphone Data*
ABSTRACT. We develop a tractable quantitative framework for modeling the rich patterns of spatial mobility observed in smartphone data. We show that travel
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October 12, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Excited to see the new Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics (Volume 6), edited jointly with Dave Donaldson come out: www.sciencedirect.com/handbook/han.... Fantastic set of chapters on recent advances and pointing the way to exciting further research @treballen.bsky.social @siepr.bsky.social
Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics | Volume 6, Issue 1: Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Read the latest chapters of Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
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September 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Call for proposals:

CA labor economists are invited to submit papers for this year's All-California Labor Economics Conference, to be held Sept 11-12 at @siepr.bsky.social, and organized by @maya-rossin-slater.bsky.social and Isaac Sorkin. #EconSky

Apply by May 31: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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April 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Recently accepted by #QJE, “Insurance Versus Moral Hazard in Income-Contingent Student Loan Repayment,” by Tim de Silva (@timdesilva.me): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Insurance Versus Moral Hazard in Income-Contingent Student Loan Repayment*
Abstract. Student loans with income-contingent repayment insure borrowers against income risk but can reduce their incentives to earn more. Using a change
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August 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Economics of Spatial Mobility: Theory and Evidence Using Smartphone Data,” by Miyauchi, Nakajima, and Redding (@reddingecon.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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Pending Publication
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August 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Excited to see this paper coming out. We develop a tractable framework for modeling the rich patterns of spatial mobility observed in smartphone data, including travel itineraries and the resulting consumption externalities between locations
Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Economics of Spatial Mobility: Theory and Evidence Using Smartphone Data,” by Miyauchi, Nakajima, and Redding (@reddingecon.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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Pending Publication
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August 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Economists are combining modern tools and old ideas to make sense of today’s trade war. It is a good time to revive Albert Hirschman’s work
What economics can teach foreign-policy types
Hegemons should care about even puny countries
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July 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Call for submissions for the NBER International Trade and Investment Program Meeting on November 21-22, 2025, at Stanford: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b.... Submission deadline 11.59pm ET on Monday September 15, 2025.
Submission: International Trade and Investment Program Meeting, Page 1 of 2 - MyNBER
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July 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Call for Papers for NBER Economics of Transportation in the 21st Century Virtual Conference, October 24, 2024, organized with Ed Glaeser and Jim Poterba: stephenredding.github.io/Call_for_Pap.... Submission Deadline Weds Sept 3, 11.59 ET. @nber.org @siepr.bsky.social @treballen.bsky.social
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July 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Open call for papers, Gender in the Economy: Structural Transformation and Women's Time-Use. Conference to be held in Cambridge, MA on March 27, 2026. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on Decem... https://www.nber.org/calls-papers-and-proposals/gender-economy-structural-transformation-and-womens-time-use
July 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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#CallforPapers for the conference 'The New Global Economy: Trade Wars & De-dollarisation?'
Deadline: 1 July
Organisers: @meredith-crowley.bsky.social @uniofcam.bsky.social , Lu Han @bankofcanada.ca, Dmitry Mukhin , Ben Tomlin @bankofcanada.ca

More and submit your paper
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May 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Don’t forget to submit your papers for this NBER-Sloan conference on Transport Networks and the Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity! Submission deadline June 30, 2025. Organized with Myrto Kalouptsidi: stephenredding.github.io/Call_for_Pap... @nber.org @harvard.edu @sloanfoundation.bsky.social
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June 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Call for papers for NBER-Sloan conference on Transport Networks and the Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity: www.princeton.edu/~reddings/Ca... Deadline: June 30, 2025. Organized with Myrto Kalouptsidi. @nber.org @treballen.bsky.social @jintlecon.bsky.social @indorgsociety.bsky.social
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May 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Excited about the NBER Economics of Transportation in the 21st Century Conference on Friday starting at noon Eastern time: www.nber.org/conferences/.... Live streamed on NBER YouTube: m.youtube.com/channel/UC79...
Economics of Transportation in the 21st Century, Spring 2025
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May 2, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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🚨 We’re hiring! The Digital Reskilling Lab at Harvard is looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join our research on workforce development, labor markets and AI.

Apply here 👉 academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14918

#EconJobs #Postdoc #FutureOfWork #AI #LaborEconomics #Harvard
Postdoctoral Fellow with the Digital Reskilling Lab - Digital, Data, and Design Institute
The Digital Reskilling Lab, led by Professors Raffaella Sadun and Jorge Tamayo, is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow. The mission of the Digital Reskilling Lab is to conduct research on workplace initiati...
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April 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Fantastic to have @cselmendorf.bsky.social and many others at the @siepr.bsky.social Economics of Wildfires event last week. Check out his 🧵 for takeaways and questions.

(ICYMI, we’ll be posting videos and summaries in the coming days.)
A 🧵 of takeaways, and my lingering questions, from last Thursday's excellent SIEPR program on The Economics of Wildfires.

(This is from recollection and my recollection may be faulty, so I've tagged sources where possible.)

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The Economics of Wildfires
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April 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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What’s happening with tariffs, why is there so much upheaval, and how do we get out of this?

SIEPR Senior Fellow Alan Sykes, an expert on the law and economics of international trade, joins Stanford Law School podcast Stanford Legal to break it all down.
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Trade Wars, Economic Chaos, and Law: Unpacking Trump’s Trade Tactics with Alan Sykes | Stanford Law School
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April 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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New paper on "Geoeconomic Pressure" leverages LLMs to measure the effect of tariffs, export controls, and sanction on firms worldwide". We find a massive increase in 2025 Q1 in tariffs (thread follows)
April 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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We are sad to announce that former faculty member and Minnesota Econ Ph.D. alum Patrick Bajari passed away on Monday.

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Remembering Patrick L. Bajari (1969-2025)
Patrick L. Bajari was a pioneer spanning the academic and business worlds.
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April 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Join us tomorrow (online or in person) for @mmaggiori.bsky.social lecture on "Geoeconomics and the US-China Great Power Competition" - register at events.stanford.edu/event/2025hs...
GCAP Co-Director @mmaggiori.bsky.social will give the 2025 Dr. Sam-Chung Hsieh Memorial Lecture on "Geoeconomics and the US-China Great Power Competition" at Stanford GSB on April 15. This event is open to all, register for online or in-person attendance here: events.stanford.edu/event/2025hs...
Matteo Maggiori: Geoeconomics and the US-China Great Power Competition
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April 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Thank you @harvardmagazine.bsky.social for covering our research on zero-sum thinking and how it informs current policy developments (with a video too)! www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/04/harv...
Democrats, Republicans, and Zero-Sum Thinking | Harvard Magazine
Founder of Harvard’s Social Economics Lab on a mindset held across the bipartisan divide
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April 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Looking forward to the next @nber.org Organizational Economics Working Group meeting on April 10/11, coorganized with @andreaprat.bsky.social. We have a great line-up of new research papers in Org Econ!

Program and livestream link:

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Organizational Economics Working Group, Spring 2025
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April 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM