Dr Amrita Kulka @amritakulka.bsky.social draws on some of her US research to comment on today's announcement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer that rules will be changed to "unlock untapped land" around railway stations to deliver more housing.
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Carmen Villa @carmenvillaecon.bsky.social specialises in Public Economics and Law and Economics.

Her JMP shows that the closure of youth clubs, due to austerity cuts, led to decreases in educational performance and rises in youth offending.

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Sarthak Joshi's job market paper shows how the changing spatial distribution of work can exacerbate gender employment gaps when women face higher barriers to commuting than men.

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Angelica's job market paper explores how preferences for shorter working hours drive women into informal employment due to the limited availability of part-time jobs in the formal sector. buff.ly/3ZgJEIi

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Xueying Zhao's JMP shows that a monopolist data seller can design and price information via a mechanism, which fully extracts the first-best surplus by strategically leveraging data correlations.

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Edoardo Tolva's job market paper uses the Russian airspace closure as a quasi-experiment to estimate the elasticity between transport modes and develops a model to measure its impact on welfare.

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Bruno Souza is an applied and labour economist.

What happens to you when one of your co-workers is absent from the workplace? His JMP finds it can boost your wages and career trajectories in the medium run.

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Samuel Marshall’s job market paper quantifies the roles of labor market power, job search costs, and migration costs on the distribution of labor in sub-Saharan Africa. buff.ly/4eD7baM

Gavin Hassall's job market paper studies how information gaps in central bank communications explain variation in financial markets and the macroeconomy. buff.ly/3V05mh9

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Meet Puru Gupta!

His JMP derives a liquidity adjusted Black-Scholes equation for derivative pricing when underlying market is dominated by institutional investors, and implements a numerical algorithm for pricing European options in illiquid markets. buff.ly/3Zh8Puk

See-Yu Chan’s job market paper examines how the endogenous response of recruitment activities reconciles the puzzle of rising U.S. college wage premiums alongside declining job skill requirements for graduates since 1980.
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Amedeo Andriollo's @amedandr.bsky.social Job Market Paper proposes a test for exogeneity of macroeconomic structural shocks, robust to omitted variable dynamics.

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“One thing you can expect from our work is that it will be agenda-setting, not just responsive. A major part of where we can add value is in setting out the issues and the evidence in areas that people are not already talking about.”

Dr Arun Advani sets out the @centaxuk.bsky.social mission.

“Rigorous research is critical to this government’s decision-making process...I want to make sure that collaboration between CenTax, Treasury and HMRC continues for many years.”
💼Remarks by Exchequer Secretary James Murray MP at last night's @centaxuk.bsky.social Parliamentary launch.

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