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Economics PhD student at MIT studying labor—interested in unions and worker representation. nathanlazarus.com
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I don't really think this was true, the empirical literature was mixed before, often finding small disemployment effects. The difference was that the empirical work was often correlational and therefore not convincing enough to change people's minds about the theory. bsky.app/profile/john...

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I have feared that little gap for so long bsky.app/profile/opin...

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Love to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable

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Amazing how stable these are and that there's been no belief convergence (in Massachusetts the answer is you can drive 79 on all highways without getting speeding tickets, even though they often say 55, which is crazy to me) bsky.app/profile/aedw...

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Had a thought that the Journal of Development Economics' pre-results review would not only have the benefit of increased transparency, but also of helping authors' careers because RCTs take a long time to finish! Apparently the editors had thought of that: www.povertyactionlab.org/blog/9-5-18/...

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In today's job market post, Sarah Frohnweiler of RWI-Leibniz shows how short self-efficacy testimonial videos in Ghana which showed women overcoming challenges boosted self-efficacy and increased completion of vocational training by 8 p.p. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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Right-to-manage in action! The union and firm bargain over the wage, but then the firm chooses quantity of employment. Quite the move for a university with a $3.5 billion endowment. bsky.app/profile/paul...

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Yes, there's evidence for this, Cooper and Trivedi (2012) shows that Medicare Advantage plans cream-skim by offering gym memberships, and Adam Solomon (who's on the job market!) shows that it can improve welfare to ban bundles like this. adam-solomon.com/BundlingPape... bsky.app/profile/jame...

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This is the answer to why you shouldn’t just let the market figure it out www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... bsky.app/profile/pres...

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My hobbyhorse: if you think each local labor market/state is an independent experiment, don't weight by population! OLS is BLUE (if you have admin data so sampling noise isn't higher in smaller states). Interesting evidence for it really mattering here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Meet @aikoschmeisser.com 🔍 Job market candidate at BSoE. His research spans Labor Economics, Political Economy, and Behavioral Economics, with a focus on how preferences and beliefs influence labor market outcomes. More on👉 www.aikoschmeisser.com #econjobmarket #laboreconomics #politicaleconomics

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I had a great time here last summer and learned a lot, would absolutely recommend! bsky.app/profile/dyna...

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