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Economic historian. Assistant professor at @PittEcon

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My research team (w/ Sam Bazzi, Eric Chyn, Martin Fiszbein, Thomas Pearson, and Pat Testa) is hiring a full-time economics pre-doc for the 2025-26 academic year! If you know someone who might be interested, see the link below:
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Frontline Union Army captains cut desertions and boosted cohesion through leading by example, earning postwar-wage gains and greater recognition, from @Andreas_Ferrara, Christian Dippel, and @StephanHeblich https://t.co/iDD0NpJckC
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@lise_vesterlund
Lise Vesterlund
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The Economics Department at the University of Pittsburgh is hiring! We have an Open Rank position. You can find details and application instructions here: https://t.co/lmVnLn76DL
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Priyoma Mustafi
1 year
On the #EconJobMarket ! 🚨 JMP Alert 🚨 Individuals fail to incorporate information held by their spouses. Is it because they are generally reluctant to learn from their spouse? In my #JMP, I show: NO! Because communication is challenging in the absence of expertise. 🧵[/10]
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Bea Ahumada
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I’m on the Job Market! 🚨 Ever wondered how does uncertainty about sources of inequality affects redistribution? In my jmp, Excuses and Redistribution, I explore how people use excuses to distort beliefs about merit and luck, justifying self-serving behavior. 🧵(1/7)
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@restatjournal
The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat)
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Places with higher anti-German sentiment during WWI lost skilled German workers, depressing wages of Americans. In the September issue, by Andreas Ferrara (@Andreas_Ferrara), Price Fishback
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Abstract. This paper examines the individual and aggregate costs of ethnic discrimination. Studying Germans in the United States during World War I, an event that abruptly downgraded their previously...
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NBER
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New population-based crosswalks to harmonize US county boundaries from 1790 to 2020, map county-level data across US censuses as well as from counties to congressional districts, from @Andreas_Ferrara, @patesta, and @LiyangZhou6 https://t.co/SlCNMqFREA
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@voxeu
VoxEU
2 years
Considering the case of women and Black workers in the #US during the two World Wars, this column argues that #labour shortages can create lasting job opportunities for previously disadvantaged workers. @Andreas_Ferrara @PittTweet @PittEcon https://t.co/CNOd5gHFGY
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Francesco Fasani
2 years
#EconTwitter working on #migration and #forced #displacement submit your papers for the 8th edition of the conference “Understanding Voluntary and Forced Migration” hosted in Lille on the 23-24 May 2024 submission deadline: 1 March, 2024 Looking forward to this conference!
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Juan S. Muñoz-Morales
2 years
📢 Call for papers on migration economics ‼️ Join us next May in the 8th Conference on Understanding Voluntary and Forced Migration. The conference will take place in the beautiful city of Lille, with wonderful keynote speakers. https://t.co/jHIGixmXPq
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@NobelPrize
The Nobel Prize
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"Today, we celebrate your path-breaking academic achievements. They are more than a baton to be passed. They are giant shoulders from which coming generations will be able to see very far." Watch Claudia Goldin receive her 2023 prize in economic sciences - congratulations!
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Jennifer Doleac
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Madison Arnsbarger JMP: "The Political Economy of Women’s Suffrage and World War I" Website: https://t.co/VqDx1vcBhh
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@AlthoffLukas
Lukas Althoff
2 years
I am hiring a full-time Pre-Doctoral Research Assistant at Yale starting in the Fall of 2024. Details:
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Lise Vesterlund
2 years
In grad school I was told ‘not to become another woman studying women’ Thrilled by the award given today!! Heartfelt congratulations to @PikaGoldin. Thank you for making all of us wiser. https://t.co/YlKTVPXTIl
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Michael Clemens
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"The Other Great Migration: Southern Whites and the New Right" New in @QJEHarvard by the powerhouse team of @SamuelBazzi et al. —> https://t.co/azNXSVzKHy
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@J_HumanResource
The JHR
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With the #CivilWar being the deadliest conflict in US history, @ydpz & @andreas_Ferrara tracked 30,000 children from their teens to adulthood who lost a father to war. They find economic outcomes worsen, but not for those in the top quartile of wealth. https://t.co/5mXY6ZVpAj
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QJE
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Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Other Great Migration: Southern Whites and the New Right,” by Bazzi (@SamuelBazzi), Ferrara (@Andreas_Ferrara), Fiszbein (@MartinFiszbein), Pearson (@tpearson_tweets), and Testa (@patesta):
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Abstract. This article shows how the migration of millions of Southern whites in the twentieth century shaped the cultural and political landscape across t
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