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Harrison Mitchell

@hmitchell_14

Economics PhD student at UCSD. Macalester College '19

harrisonwmitchell.github.io
Joined December 2012
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UCSDEcon@UCSDEconOct 5
Does connecting a village to markets make it richer? Studying newly created villages in Indonesia, @hmitchell_14 shows higher initial market access lowers long-run village income even as it shifts workers out of agriculture. Read more: harrisonwmitchell.github.io #EconJobMarket
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UCSDEcon@UCSDEconSep 29
Why do firm sizes vary so much? @reniabbott's JMP studies buyers and products. Buyers explain most of it, but the two are complements. Firms with 10% more buyers sell 5.6% more products. Her model untangles this link and finds spillovers. renataabbott.github.io #EconJobMarket
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VoxDev@vox_devApr 27
🆕 Where you live drives what you earn Today on VoxDev, @bh_aakash, Gavin Engelstad (@NUEconomics), @econgaurav (@GPS_UCSD) & @hmitchell_14 (@UCSDEcon) discuss how better allocation of workers across cities could raise incomes: voxdev.org/topic/labour-mark…
Where you live drives what you earn

Where you live drives what you earn

Using data on 513 million workers worldwide, we show that location plays a major role in shaping earnings – and that better allocation of workers across cities could raise incomes, especially in...

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@nberpubs28 Nov 2025
Estimating the value of 220,000 cities worldwide. High-value cities have stronger agglomeration and better worker allocation, with migration gains largest in developing countries, from Aakash Bhalothia, Gavin Engelstad, @econgaurav, and @hmitchell_14 nber.org/papers/w34503
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VoxDev@vox_dev8 Jul 2025
🆕 How climate-induced conflict is shaping rural Nigeria Today on VoxDev, @JeffBloem (@IFPRI), @amydamon_econ (@Macalester), David Francis (@wb_research) & @hmitchell_14 (@UCSDEcon) show how repeated exposure to violence shifts labour patterns: voxdev.org/topic/energy-envi…

How climate-induced conflict is shaping rural Nigeria

As climate change stretches Nigeria’s dry seasons and disrupts traditional grazing patterns, tensions between nomadic herders and settled farmers fuel violent conflict—most intensely just before the...

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Thrilled to share this draft! If you have creative ideas for using the accompanying teaching materials or suggestions for enhancing how this content is communicated, I’d love to hear from you—DMs are open!
Paul Niehaus (@PaulFNiehaus) profile picturePaul Niehaus@PaulFNiehaus18 Feb 2025
*How* did so much of the world's population exit extreme poverty? @vinnyarmentano , Tom Vogl and I wanted to know; here is what we've found.. econweb.ucsd.edu/~pniehaus/p…
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Econometrics Papers@eBlogs24 Jan 2025
Valid Inference on Functions of Causal Effects in the Absence of Microdata. arxiv.org/abs/2410.00217
Inference for the Marginal Value of Public Funds

Inference for the Marginal Value of Public Funds

Economists often estimate causal effects of policies on multiple outcomes and summarize them into scalar measures of cost-effectiveness or welfare, such as the Marginal Value of Public Funds...

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Seeing responses to this exam question is a real eye-opener on the election...
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Carlos Góes
@goescarlos25 Oct 2024
I really like @GiuliaLoForte's JMP. It takes theory+identification seriously to help motivate/inform aggregate effects, which is a micro+macro combo that I also tried to do in my JMP. In coming years, follow @hmitchell_14's work on well identified growth effects of mkt access.
Yale Economic Growth Center (@YaleEGC) profile pictureYale Economic Growth Center@YaleEGC25 Oct 2024
What are the effects of trade on domestic innovation a&nd product variety? At #FirmsTradeDev, @GiuliaLoForte discusses a new way of measuring variety when assessing the contributions from US vs China owned firms: trademarks.
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Riccardo Di Cato@CatoRiccardo24 Nov 2023
🎙️Excited to introduce the 'Backstory Podcast' where we unravel how research papers in economics get made! Join me, @CatoRiccardo, along with @bh_aakash and @SantiagoCC95, as we explore the journey from a paper's inception to its final draft: open.spotify.com/show/6C8bGP… #EconTwitter
Backstory: How Research Papers in Economics Get Made

Backstory: How Research Papers in Economics Get Made

Podcast · UC San Diego · Tune into the Backstory Podcast with hosts Riccardo Di Cato, Aakash Bhalothia, Santiago Cantillo, and Maddison Erbabian for a deep dive into the behind-the-scenes process of...

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Jeffrey Bloem@JeffBloem17 Nov 2023
New working paper with @DFDC11, @amydamon_econ, and @hmitchell_14 "Herder-Related Violence, Agricultural Work, and the Informal Sector as a Safety Net" documents.worldbank.org/en/p…
Herder-Related Violence, Agricultural Work, and the Informal Sector as a Safety Net

Herder-Related Violence, Agricultural Work, and the Informal Sector as a Safety Net

Violent conflict between nomadic herders and settled—mostly agricultural—communities in Nigeria occurs as both groups clash over the use of land and resources, in part, .

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Any of my followers know how someone could convert dashed lines (not straight) from an image into solid lines? Or at least recognize the object as a single line?
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First paper acceptance whoop whoop. Just accepted at European Economic Review, with a great set of co-authors harrisonwmitchell.github.io/…
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It started as a short paper and we filled it out. One of the additions was my fav figure from the paper: we show that yes migrants were hit hard by covid, but also non-migrant hh’s in mig dependent communities were exposed to the shock, more so than mig hh’s from low dep places
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Life comes at your fast: I just caught myself making the exact same joke my ECON 1 professor made to my class during an exam review session
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Hossein Alidaee@halidaee7 Nov 2022
Thanks @NUEconomics! A brief 🧵on my JMP. 1/n
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Kellogg School of Management PhD Candidate Hossein Alidaee’s research interests are Development Economics, Behavioral Economics. Learn more about @halidaee & other Northwestern Economics Job Market Candidates at economics.northwestern.edu/p…
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Kellogg School of Management PhD Candidate Hossein Alidaee’s research interests are Development Economics, Behavioral Economics. Learn more about @halidaee & other Northwestern Economics Job Market Candidates at economics.northwestern.edu/p…
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First Year flashbacks 🥲
Taylor Trudon (@taylortrudon) profile pictureTaylor Trudon@taylortrudon19 Oct 2022
being an adult is hard but can you imagine having to do math homework again
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Academics worried about cancel culture when like 7 people read their papers
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