PhD student at Harvard Econ & HBS | Yale Econ and Math '18
Cambridge, MA
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Super cool new paper by my (brilliant) friend @jdikatz.
People reacted much differently to liquidity from the CARES Act student loan pause vs direct stimulus. This changes how we should think about, for example, the effects of the pause on inflation
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Migrants from Nigeria earn, on average, 16 times more in the US compared to their age- and education-equivalent peers in Nigeria. And so on for other countries w/the median being around 4.5 times.
Great paper by @m_clem, Montenegro, Pritchett
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Prediction markets could predict which psychology results would fail to replicate. theatlantic.com/science/arch…
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For years, Conan O'Brien has tried to book one guest. That guest keeps saying no. On Conan's quest to book....Robert Caro nytimes.com/2018/08/24/style…
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My paper on airlines and common ownership with Isabel Tecu and @martincschmalz is now published (including replication package): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… @JofFinance
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Yet another photo of author Robert Caro wasting the entire day in front of Facebook.
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SLS professor @HankGreelyLSJU weighs in on the controversial business of cloning dogs @VanityFair with @Duncande: stanford.io/2OjodyV
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Absolute mobility is dropping across the income distribution. But which group is seeing the biggest declines? brook.gs/2mHpfc8
Interesting paper that treats location as an asset that people sell by moving to cheaper places with fewer opportunities. So falling US internal migration means rising wealth inequality as people with no financial assets stop buying location assets nber.org/papers/w24867.pdf
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This recent Supreme Court ruling will further cement our nation's growing wealth divide: brook.gs/2tzVkqh
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The Benefit of Having the Same Name as a Police Officer
Great working w/ @CassSunstein @tannerhicks42 on @nytimes piece that used speeding tix data to show that prob of getting a ‘mercy ticket’ increases if u have same name as officer that pulls u over
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Three years after a newspaper closure, municipal bond yields in that county increase by 0.05 to 0.11 percentage points: brook.gs/2uuRkrE
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In 1979, between 11 percent and 18 percent of firms were new in any given industry; by 2014 only 4 percent to 9 percent were. What that means for the U.S. economy: brook.gs/2sTy9qy
Good to know that natural experiments aren’t substitutes for structural modeling
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I am pleased to announce that it is actually time for some game theory nitter.cf/brianstelter/status/10…
CNN scoop: Michael Cohen "claims that then-candidate Trump knew in advance about the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower in which Russians were expected to offer his campaign dirt on Hillary Clinton." @jimsciutto, @carlbernstein live on @ChrisCuomo's show now cnn.com/2018/07/26/politics/…
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Big tax cuts can sometimes be worse for the fiscal health of states and localities than previously estimated: brook.gs/2LpdWjL