Alex Mas
@AMLabEcon
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Professor at UC Berkeley. Labor economics.
Joined May 2021
1/11 🧵Two results discussed in a new VoxEU column: (i) why workers stay even when outside jobs pay more; (ii) what happens when pay is set by individual bargaining. Links below. https://t.co/4wZ5FPkg3p
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Information and the labour market Sydnee Caldwell @UCBerkeley, Ingrid Haegele @LMU_Muenchen @ECONMunich, Joerg Heining @iab_news
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Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "The Impact of Unions on the Wage Distribution: Evidence from Higher Education" by Michael Baker, Yosh Halberstam, Kory Kroft, Alexandre Mas, and Derek Messacar.
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(Forthcoming Article) - We estimate the impact of unionization on the wage distribution of Canadian university faculty using longitudinal administrative data on salaries and exploiting the staggered...
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🆕 Chapter of the Handbook of Labor Economics in our Discussion Paper Series: Alexandre Mas reviews the analysis of non-wage amenities in the workplace. https://t.co/ad1ITTJXiC
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At today's Congressional hearing: the Haas School of Business is “not a hotbed of anything but excellence.” I think this one will stick.
DeSaulnier also referenced the chancellor’s background at the Haas School of Business, saying it is “not a hotbed of anything but excellence.” DeSaulnier moved on to applaud UC Berkeley as “the best public university in the country, and probably the world.”
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Berkeley Haas mourns the sudden loss of professor Przemyslaw Jeziorski, passionate teacher and leading marketing scholar. Read more: https://t.co/BSdz7mkJlo
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In these challenging times, please help us support Ukrainian defenders with life-saving medical aid! https://t.co/yzcxvnBPGV
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Economists for Ukraine are coordinating an initiative to help ship life-saving medical aid to the front lines in Ukraine.
Economists for Ukraine have just mailed a shipment of 250 tourniquets to Kharkiv. With your help, we could double this aid to 500 tourniquets by the end of the week. Our support is more critical than ever. Please donate here: https://t.co/4ANyoQ5Beh
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I am excited to be on the job market this year! Here is a quick thread on my JMP 👇
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I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at Microsoft Research. I will be joining The Ohio State University as an Assistant Professor in Economics in Fall 2026. I study how non-wage amenities affect job choice and...
Carolyn Tsao's job market paper investigates whether public school teachers earn rents. Her novel approach to quantifying rents explicitly takes both pay and the value of non-wage amenities into account. https://t.co/adqXZUrqk7
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‼️Job alert ‼️ @econ_ra Join us in the beautiful Bay Area @BerkeleyHaas for projects on housing policy, intergenerational mobility after the Civil Rights Era, and the political economy of zoning regulations. You will be mentored by @OliviaBordeu @LevyAntoine, & me
Come work with us at @BerkeleyHaas! @laurayww, @LevyAntoine and I are hiring full-time RAs to start in July 2025. Topics at the intersection of urban economics, spatial economics, and political economy. More info here: https://t.co/WXfBmrL9Vg
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It was a pleasure and a privilege to welcome President Victor Yushchenko and @KatyaYushchenko this week! We were thrilled to showcase the great innovation ecosystem at @UCBerkeley and the programs we have in support of Ukraine. #StandWithUkraine
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The deadline to apply to the W.E. Upjohn Institute’s dissertation award is soon! Please apply if your dissertation is on policy-relevant & employment-related issues! Link: https://t.co/tlLV8LI6oi
@UpjohnInstitute @AMLabEcon @rothstein_jesse @iza_bonn #EconTwitter
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"I couldn't be more excited for Berkeley's next decade and beyond. And what we will build together." –Chancellor Rich Lyons Rich Lyons has come a long way. First, he was a student, then an alum, and now UC Berkeley's 24th leader. As he assumes his new role, he reflects on the
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Employment probabilities after an initial felony conviction.
Sealing criminal records from employer background checks has a limited impact on employment rates and earnings, from @amandayagan, @andy_garin, @dkoust, @AMLabEcon, and Crystal Yang https://t.co/c9aZ9f3z4i
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Hope you enjoy this podcast covering our new NBER WP on criminal record remediation policies and employment: https://t.co/6OnFCmuXp5 I am trying for the Probable Causation 5-timers club jacket, which @jenniferdoleac promises will be a thing!
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Episode 105: @AmandaYAgan on how sealing criminal records affects employment. https://t.co/pDyF9pUmOg
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Sealing criminal records from employer background checks has a limited impact on employment rates and earnings, from @amandayagan, @andy_garin, @dkoust, @AMLabEcon, and Crystal Yang https://t.co/c9aZ9f3z4i
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I rather not be interrogated about my beliefs by masked individuals at checkpoints when walking around campus.
Wristbands are being used to identify anti-Israel students at @UCLA so that they are allowed to enter Royce Quad, Royce Hall, and Powell Library. Some students are allowed in and out, others are kept out. This is ILLEGAL and UCLA is not just tolerating it but facilitating it.
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So proud of my fantastic student @tsaocaro
We had a fantastic couple of days at the 2nd CESifo/ifo Junior Workshop on Economics of Education!🥳 Thanks everyone for making this such a terrific event!🫂 Congratulations to @tsaocaro (@PrincetonEcon) for winning the best paper award! Travel well! https://t.co/Di0GoUZQeE
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Habemus cancellarium! Our wonderful colleague and former Haas Dean Rich Lyons will be leading UC Berkeley. Great news for our great university. Thank you, Rich.
Please join us in congratulating @richlyons, the first UC Berkeley undergraduate alum since 1930 chosen to lead our university. #FiatLux #GoBears
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The highest cited paper in economics ever (I believe) was co-written by a graduate of an excellent small liberal arts college in Minnesota @macalester. cc @agoodmanbacon @mushfiq_econ @WestSarahE
His 1976 paper with William Meckling in the Journal of Financial Economics is by far the most cited corporate finance paper of all time (130,906 citations). It's a classic that starts off with a quote from another classic.
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A study of the effects of unionization of faculty at Canadian universities from 1970 to 2022 finds that unionization leads to salary gains and compression of the salary distribution, from Baker, Halberstam, @KoryKroft, Mas, and Messacar https://t.co/tRFXyQ8bpL
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