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Ben Hyman
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Economist @UCLA / @CAPolicyLab, formerly @NYFedResearch. @Wharton PhD. Research: Labor, PF, urban/spatial. Futbol: @OL, @ChelseaFC. W: benhyman.com
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🚨Excited to share our short paper “How Retrainable are AI-Exposed Workers?” w/ @benlahey.bsky.social, @karenxni.bsky.social, @pilossopher.bsky.social, on how training programs affect workers highly exposed to AI prior to job loss, and those targeting AI-intensive jobs. nber.org/papers/w34174. 1/🧵
How Retrainable are AI-Exposed 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...
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🚨Excited to share our short paper “How Retrainable are AI-Exposed Workers?” w/ @benlahey.bsky.social, @karenxni.bsky.social, @pilossopher.bsky.social, on how training programs affect workers highly exposed to AI prior to job loss, and those targeting AI-intensive jobs. nber.org/papers/w34174. 1/🧵
How Retrainable are AI-Exposed 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...
nber.org
August 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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An accessible summary of my recent research on housing, climate risk, and insurance:

www.nber.org/reporter/202...
Housing, Climate Risk, and Insurance
www.nber.org
June 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
CA spends three times as much on film tax credits as it does on discretionary business incentives for all remaining industries, ***combined***. One day, my paper on film tax credits will come out...
May 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Any good IO Papers on lawsuit competition as deterrent? Asking as a consumer, not producer
February 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
An important and awesome paper:
January 28, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Reposted by Ben Hyman
Open call for papers, Fiscal Dynamics of State and Local Governments. Conference to be held in Cambridge, MA on September 11-12, 2025. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on February 27, 2025. More information: https://www.nber.org/calls-papers-and-proposals/fiscal-dynamics-state-and-local-governments
January 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
First post where the sky is blue, so I figured I'd share some good news. Happy to have received two hard-earned R&Rs over the last few weeks.

Been around long enough to know that R&Rs are only half the battle, but to all my juniors / late bloomers, just a message to keep your head down & spirit up!
January 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Krugman's best pieces:

• The babysitting co-op
slate.com/business/199...

• On modeling
web.mit.edu/krugman/www/...

• Japan liquidity trap
web.mit.edu/krugman/www/...

• on zoning
www.nytimes.com/2015/11/30/o...
archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blog...

• how I work
web.mit.edu/krugman/www/...
THE FALL AND RISE OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
web.mit.edu
December 6, 2024 at 11:31 PM