Rohan
Rohan
@rohanecon.bsky.social
Labour | Economic history | Experimental Economics
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Y’all, I wrote a book!

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June 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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"In The Famous Magician, author César Aira considers the entanglements of fiction and reality, including the tremendous power that an author holds in creating the world of make-believe while borrowing liberally from real lives," writes Sayari Debnath.

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#BookRecommendation
June 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Everyone should read this wonderful book by @christinamartin.bsky.social - it's about life rather than death, beautifully-written, funny, touching without being sugary, and a really excellent picture of public service. Best thing I've read this year so far.
June 20, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Took advantage of a very long-haul flight to read @aptshadow.bsky.social’s latest, Shroud. Demands intense focus and concentration but more than rewards it. More thoughts in next Monday’s newsletter.
May 14, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Why are tech people talking about the idea that as something (compute) gets more efficient/cheaper people will use more of it as a paradox?

Is it just that “jevons paradox” is sexier than “downward sloping demand curve”?

www.npr.org/sections/pla...
Why the AI world is suddenly obsessed with a 160-year-old economics paradox
The primer on Jevons paradox that you didn't know you needed.
www.npr.org
February 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Market design gives economists opportunities to be helpful. #Econsky

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The NBER celebrates market design
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January 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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This Christmas, we had the 26th monthly meeting of the Delhi Science Fiction Reading Circle.

We read Alastair Reynolds’ fabulous House of Suns, debating questions around species memory, machine civilisations, and whether you’d follow a lover into the Andromeda Galaxy.
December 25, 2024 at 1:15 PM
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when your wife really, really gets you
December 25, 2024 at 3:05 PM
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It’s that time of year for thinking deeply but with popcorn: Philosophical Movies That Are Actually Fun to Watch! (Happy to take nominations, but if you’re whispering to yourself “But I find Bergman fun to watch” I adore you and I agree but this is not that list!) 🧵

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Philosophical Movies That Are Actually Fun To Watch: A Guide
Somewhere between mindbending and mindless — you can’t go wrong with these titles.
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December 15, 2024 at 7:31 PM
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Much research on monopsony focuses on the low-wage labor market, examining, say, the effect a Walmart supercenter on a town’s wages. This study looks instead at high-wage jobs: tenure-track professors in the UC system’s powerhouse Research 1 universities. #ASSA2025
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Universities use monopsony power to push down wages: ASSA research focus
New research shows that universities can use their market power to keep wages artificially low. Alfonso Flores-Lagunes of the Upjohn Institute and Zhanhan Yu of the University of Glasgow find that a…
buff.ly
December 23, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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In October, I gave a talk titled How to speed up medical breakthroughs.

It's now available on YouTube.
How to speed up medical breakthroughs
YouTube video by Roots of Progress Institute
youtu.be
December 24, 2024 at 4:22 PM
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"In the silence the state mandates, all we can hear are the justifications of the perpetrators."

Loved this @thebafflermag piece by Jack Sheehan about the Troubles, which goes far beyond the Irish context, in its discussion of silence and the silenced.

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Codes of Silence | Jack Sheehan
Patrick Radden Keefe’s bestselling 2019 book “Say Nothing” has been adapted into a miniseries. It repeats the sins of its source material.
thebaffler.com
December 24, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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Important new paper "Does Job Search Assistance Reduce Unemployment? Evidence on Displacement Effects and Mechanisms" by Maria Cheung, Johan Egebark, Anders Forslund, Lisa Laun, Magnus Rödin, and Johan Vikström in @jlaborecon.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.... #EconSky
December 18, 2024 at 5:26 PM
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🔬 Published in the @jpolecon.bsky.social written by Stefano DellaVigna, Woojin Kim, and @elizabethlinos.bsky.social: "Bottlenecks for Evidence Adoption." We analyzed RCT adoption across US cities.

Discover the key barriers here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Bottlenecks for Evidence Adoption | Journal of Political Economy: Vol 132, No 8
Governments increasingly use randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to test innovations, yet we know little about how they incorporate results into policymaking. We study 30 US cities that ran 73 RCTs wi...
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December 19, 2024 at 9:33 PM
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📢 Our belief elicitation tool is now available for oTree and Qualtrics! 🎉

It lets you elicit parametric belief distributions with just two sliders.

👉 Try it out or download here: tmeissner.com/tools

Big thanks to my coauthors @pgonzalezfernandez.bsky.social and @boschrosa.bsky.social

#econsky
December 20, 2024 at 9:25 AM
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Here is the paper!

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What do #workers think of #unions? @awhf.bsky.social, William Kimball & Thomas Kochan @mitiwer.bsky.social show that workers are willing to join and financially support organizations currently unavailable under US law and practice beyond traditional unions.
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December 19, 2024 at 10:45 PM
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Move over WORMS, there is a new contender for SHORTEST ECON PAPER TITLE OF ALL TIME.
December 16, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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You can read @hopkinsonben.bsky.social's full piece on Madrid’s metro expansion here, with plenty of detail on how the anglosphere currently fails to build cheaply and what to do about it. worksinprogress.co/issue/how-ma...
How Madrid built its metro cheaply - Works in Progress
Madrid tripled the length of its metro system in just 12 years — faster and cheaper than almost any other city in the world. What can its expansion teach other cities?
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December 17, 2024 at 10:43 AM
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Replications and PhD students may be complements. #econsky
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Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics invites papers from Ph.D. students
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December 13, 2024 at 2:18 PM
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42. The Impact of Wage Differentials on R&D Offshoring and Invention Value
Link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/77yfv...
December 13, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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At Readings, Carlton: discovered so much Ursula Le Guin non-fiction that I never knew existed.
December 12, 2024 at 3:49 AM