Sharon Traiberman
@straiberman.bsky.social
Reposted by Sharon Traiberman
In the early US, greater state capacity led to complex tariff codes and more specific tariffs-curbing evasion and raising revenue. Developing a model to explain this pattern, then and now, from Erik Madsen, Martin Rotemberg, Sharon Traiberman, and Shizhuo Wang https://www.nber.org/papers/w34143
August 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
In the early US, greater state capacity led to complex tariff codes and more specific tariffs-curbing evasion and raising revenue. Developing a model to explain this pattern, then and now, from Erik Madsen, Martin Rotemberg, Sharon Traiberman, and Shizhuo Wang https://www.nber.org/papers/w34143
New paper on the importance of modeling field choice to understand labor market shocks. We use Danish data to estimate a model of occupational choice on the labor market and field of study choice in college. Three big findings:
Field-of-study choices shape economic resilience as flexible college programs ease adaptation to trade and AI shocks, boosting GDP and aiding lower earners, from Valerie Smeets, Lin Tian, and Sharon Traiberman https://www.nber.org/papers/w33728
May 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
New paper on the importance of modeling field choice to understand labor market shocks. We use Danish data to estimate a model of occupational choice on the labor market and field of study choice in college. Three big findings: