Nathan Nunn
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Prof of Economics @ubcVSE , Fellow @CIFAR_News , Editor @QJEHarvard . political econ, econ development, econ history and cultural evolution. He/him. 🇨🇦🇰🇷🇺🇸
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Thinking of doing a PhD in economics? A little under 2 weeks to apply to UBC's program. Dynamic faculty, great mentorship, fun research environment, amazingly diverse group of students, great city. What's not to like?
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Even with the recent statements by the
@nberpubs
and
@AEAjournals
, the online behavior by
@haralduhlig
, member of both orgs, makes it clear to me that we aren't even close to being tolerant (let alone inclusive) to poc, women. This is why we are a narrow profession of white men
I can’t sit and watch this... Condescending much
@haralduhlig
? You voicing your views is not the problem here, but your lowly, disrespectful, and infantilizing attacks are not okay.
Seniors colleagues, you need to act.
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Melissa Dell: Harvard economist’s work focuses on the lasting effects that conflicts, economic conditions, and institutions can have on a society
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The backstory on this paper shows the importance of diversity in econ. Insight for the paper came from Leonard and his growing up in Benin. Paper would have never been written without the wisdom of someone born and raised on the African continent.
Day 6:
#BlackHistoryMonth
Title: "The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa"
"... we find that individuals whose ancestors were heavily raided during the slave trade are less trusting today."
By
@DrNathanNunn
@lwantchekon
paper:
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Hope everyone applying to Econ PhD programs will consider UBC. We have an amazingly diverse and dynamic community of students and faculty working in political economy, economic development, and economic history. We'd love to have you join our group!!!! 😀
📚 Interested in studying economics at the graduate level in Canada? 📷Chat with us on Tuesday, November 28 | 10 AM PST | Register here:
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Congratulations to my fantastic super-star colleague Melissa Dell. Extremely well deserved. Melissa is a phenomenal scholar!
Melissa Dell, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, is the recipient of the 2018 Elaine Bennett Research Prize. Click here for the full announcement:
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Using Ancestral Characteristics to Study Modern Economics
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"So the lives-versus-the-economy trade-off some have been trumpeting may actually be a false choice. If anything, it looks like the things we should be doing to save lives are also what we should be doing to save the economy."
@skominers
writes
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Congratulations to my amazing colleague Melissa Dell for being awarded the 2020 Clark Medal.
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Very much looking forward to the talk -- and getting everyone's views and thoughts on the topic.
We’re very honoured to have
@DrNathanNunn
doing our Distinguished Lansdowne Public Lecture on Thursday - should be a cracking one!
@UVicEconomics
@UVicSocialSci
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The newest art on the walls of Littauer (
@HarvardEcon
). Combining two things we all love here: dogs and masking up! Photos feature the famous Pika (
@PikaGoldin
)
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Leonard Wantchekon: Trust, slavery and the African School of Economics
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Profile of Harvard Economist Claudia Goldin – IMF Finance & Development Magazine | December 2018
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Blown away by this paper (forthcoming in QJE): Persistent Negative Effects of Tuskegee -- by Marcy Alsan &
@mwanamak
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Had an amazing time at this year's
#cesconf2018
. Saw tons of great inspiring research and met so many amazing scholars. -- I've posted slides from my plenary just in case anyone interested:
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Take a Vacation from Economics: Anthropology Books to Read This Winter
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Lots of replies to this questioning causality. On causal estimates of link between trust & growth:
Higher trust between people is positively correlated with higher prosperity.
In our entry on trust we explain why
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In case you missed it,
@MelissaLDell
is now on twitter!!! Coincides with the launch of her very impressive open-source document processing library: The repo is here:
-- A huge resource for anyone using historical data!
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My amazing colleague Melissa Dell is hiring!!!
Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Economics Department
Data Science Fellow, Harvard IQSS
Research Analyst, National Bureau of Economic Research
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For the economists out there... Opportunity to endorse statement by the NEA against racism and against police violence against black communities.
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Saw a version of this by Noam at his ACES Presidential Address at the AEAs. It was an amazing and eye-opening lecture -- and obviously a very pressing and timely topic.
🚨 The Hajnal Lecture 2024 🚨
Noam Yuchtman (
@OxfordEconDept
)
"Protests on Campus: The Political Economy of Universities and Social Movements"
When: Thursday May 9, 2024 - 4pm
@ArthurLewisLab
, Manchester
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Harvard Econ is hiring a senior development economist (tenured professor). The JOE ad is here. Must apply to be considered -- application process is super easy.
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Great example illustrating how important it is for policy to have an understanding of the local cultural context. People respond to incentives and in ways you might not expect.
Great paper by
@DumanBRad
, showing what happened when India made a law in 2005 requiring equal female inheritance: more parallel cousin marriage and less labor force participation (fig below).
@DrNathanNunn
@JF_Schulz
. Fascinating implications for Islam&Christianity.
@HarvardHEB
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SIOE Day 3:
Interest talks today by
@belindaarch
@CageJulia
@emontero_CR
@JuanFelipeRiano
@florianederer
@alexeymakarin
Stergio Skaperdas, Michael Callen, and more.
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Conference on economics of Africa with good amount of African representation on the program. Super nice to see. Looking forward to it.
The BREAD Conference on the Economics of Africa is happening soon! Researchers will present new findings on topics such as gender, education, agriculture, technology and more.
Join us online on 7, 8, 9 July🌍:
#EconTwitter
@NU_GPRL
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Day 2 of SIOE starting in 30mins. Conference is free and online this year. Great sessions on norms, culture and institutions with talks by
@jaredcrubin
@Anast_Litina
@MartinFiszbein
and others:
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Amazing opportunity through
@CIFAR_News
. Great chance to build interdisciplinary connections and you get very generous research support. Just ask some of the current Global Scholars:
@EDerenoncourt
@david_yang
@yangyang_zhou
@mmuthukrishna
@sararlowes
@BauNatalie
Calling early-career faculty from anywhere in the 🌏! Break down academic barriers & collaborate with global scholars across fields to address some of the most important questions in science.
Apply by Oct 27 to the CIFAR Azrieli
#GlobalScholars
program.
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Congratulations to my brilliant colleague Melissa Dell for winning the 5th Annual Calvó-Armengol Prize!
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Just about to teach the Lewis two-sector (surplus labor) model in my undergrad development class today and came across this. Actual evidence on whether there actually is surplus labor in developing countries!
People in rich countries not only have higher incomes than citizens of poor countries, but they also work less, according to a paper in AER featured in today's
#ChartOfTheWeek
.
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Giving a free public lecture for anyone around (beautiful) Vancouver, BC on Sept 14. Should be fun!
Does culture matter? On Sept 14, join Harvard Professor & SFU alumnus, Dr. Nathan Nunn, as he presents his research.
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@DinaPomeranz
@johnjhorton
@JaminSpeer
Learn about the world and learn what we don't understand about it yet. Do what excites and interests you. That will make research fun which is super important. Plus, if you find it interesting, likely others will too. Don't chase after what you think will publish well. :)
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Well-deserved recognition to three amazing trailblazers in the field of modern political economy.
Premio Fronteras del Conocimiento en
#Economia
a Timothy Besley
@LSEnews
, Torsten Persson
@Stockholm_Uni
y Guido Tabellini
@Unibocconi
por convertir la economía política en una ciencia moderna, empírica e interdisciplinar. ¡Enhorabuena!
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Great opportunity for those interested in political economy, culture, and/or identity!!
If you're interested in Political Economy, apply now for the Summer School taught by Jean-Paul Carvalho in September!
Find out more here:
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Had
@tage_rai
as an editor on an article in Science. An amazingly positive experience. Recommend this chat to any economist interested in reaching a broader audience.
We are switching things up
@AEACSWEP
's virtual fireside chats! Next up, social science editor
@tage_rai
interviewed by
@judy_chevalier
&
@DaniaFrancis
on how economists can publish in
@ScienceMagazine
!!
#EconTwitter
Feb 3rd @ Noon EST!
Register here:
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A History of Plough-Based Farming Leads to Fewer Girls
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Mark Koyama (
@MarkKoyama
) is giving the next Epstein Lecture at LSE. I am sure it will be amazing:
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Great paper -- in my view, best hard evidence we have about patronage and its effects.
In today's job market post,
@edoardoteso
uses RDD with pretty amazing Brazilian data to show how politicians reward supporters with public sector jobs - and how this hurts public services
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Call for applications for RA work in the DRC is still open (myself, James Robinson, Sara Lowes & Jon Weigel). Project is about politics and the dynamics of ethnic identity.
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@_alice_evans
Definitely most interesting book (at least to me) published in the past few years is "Secret of our Success" by Joseph Henrich (
@JoHenrich
): -- must read for anyone interested in human behavior or comp. dev.
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Congrats to
@jamesfeigenbaum
and
@juhreka13
for the best dissertations in economic history this year
#EHA2016
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On the historical effects of globalization -- best evidence we have to date.
The 1st wave of globalization had a largely negative effect, says
@PascaliLuigi
of
@barcelonagse
#ResearchHighlight
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Another great read (book) along these lines: "The Creation of Inequality" by Flannery and Marcus (was a great rec. by James Robinson)
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@ronanlyons
@Noahpinion
@AllenBolar
@AdamMiettinen
Also... here's a micro-level study of some of the worst forms of extraction & exploitation on the continent during the colonial period:
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Sadly not a joke. Charged for making officers fist swell when being punched in the face unprovoked. System is seriously messed up.
The
@ManhattanDA
charged this man being punched in the face with violent felony assault on the cop. The claimed injury was the *swelling to cop’s fist.* Read that again. Take it in. Then read this: This happens routinely. Prosecutors are shameless enablers of police violence.
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FYI for recent Ph.D. graduates (in 2020 or 21). Deadline for this year's SIOE Ronald Coase Dissertation Award is March 23.
Link for submission:
This year's SIOE conference is in Toronto:
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This looks super interesting. We don't know near enough about collective ownership vs. inividual ownership.
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Great paper from Nathan Lane (
@straightedge
), on the econ job market now. How important was industrial policy for the S. Korean miracle?
Fascinating paper evaluating Korea's big-push industrial policies of the 1970s . Hirschman was right!
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@JoHenrich
One more for your list
@JoHenrich
- age sets and the effect this has on redistribution. Great research by current PhD students Jacob Moscona (MIT) and Ambra Seck (Harvard):
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FBI warned of white supremacists in law enforcement 10 years ago. Has anything changed?
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Getting the Job Done: How Immigrants Expand the U.S. Economy
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What Really Happened on Easter Island?
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Great summary of impressive and important research by Marcy Alsan (with Owen Garrick and Grant Graziani). Nice follow-up to her Tuskeegee paper with
@mwanamak
.
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For those who grew up listening to Bad Religion and are into evolution. Pretty cool:
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Couldn't agree more!
I enjoyed learning from wonderful academics in NYC.
But on reflection, I'm not flying to any more academic conferences after this year.
Polluting so much, to present to so few is absolutely unjustifiable.
Instead I'll be doing teleconferences, podcasts, & twitter threads. 🤗
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@DinaPomeranz
One thing I would add to this great advice is don't blindly follow what profs say or go with the majority. I.e., don't take a poll and go from there. But take advice and then think for yourself. We `profs' are often wrong.
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Awesome!! Congratulations Natalie! It's a really great paper!
Excited that a paper that began with my *gulp* second-year PhD paper requirement is now forthcoming at the AER! (Only six years after I finished my PhD!)
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On now!
LIVE:
@bill_easterly
(
@NewYorkUni
), Dr Mo Ibrahim (
@Mo_IbrahimFdn
) and
@CelestinMonga
(
@Harvard
@Kennedy_School
) discuss
#foreign
#aid
as part of African History through the Lens of Economics.
#EconTwitter
WATCH NOW:
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Martin was a visiting student at Harvard last year. Got to know him well. Great scholar and fantastic research.
Check out this fascinating job market paper by
@MartinFS13
: "Mass Emigration and Human Capital over a Century: Evidence from the Galician Diaspora"
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Paper on this issue, though in a very different setting than the Maasai in Kenya: (
@emontero_CR
)
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Amazing finding...
Unintended consequences of killing Bin Laden: drop in vaccination rates in Pakistan. Our new paper explains why:
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Great paper! Everyone should check out
@JonathanWeigel
, who is on the job market this year!
No participation without taxation? The first in our blog your job market paper features
@JonathanWeigel
randomizing tax collection in the DRC
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Video summarizing the research of promising PhD student, Duman Bahrami-Rad, on kinship and corruption:
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What I love about Canada... that this is a major controversy...
Justin Trudeau finds himself deep in doughnut drama after photo takes off online: A photo of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a Winnipeg-based doughnut shop has proved to be a lightning rod among pastry-enthusiastic onlookers online.
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Lead article is amazing.
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The long-run effects of the ‘Scramble for Africa’ via VOX:
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New NBER working paper estimates of the effects of the Nestle infant formula marketing scandal. Among mothers without access to clean water "the introduction of infant formula increased infant mortality by 9.4 per 1000 births". Ungated version here:
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Georgia Teen With No Prior Record Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Stealing a Pair of Sneakers When He Was 15 via
@TheRoot
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Great advice.
Advice to young social scientists: (1) Work on important social problems, even if unfashionable. If you follow that rule, your work will retain relevance even as fads come and go. (2) Follow multiple disciplines. Where they intersect, you will find low-hanging fruit in abundance.
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This is great.
Inspired by years of reading
@ProfAndyField
here comes the first pop-up book on outliers!
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Maybe relevant to this...
@pseudoerasmus
@PrateekRaj_
@EvonomicsMag
Yes. But we need to talk about how long things persist for, & why, & why sometimes they don't persist. Otherwise what's the point?
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Dogs!
This good boy bet a bundle on the last race at Churchill Downs...
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@HarvardEcon
will be providing info on our interviews/flyouts call using
#EJMInfo
-- watch this space for more information.
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Short forthcoming paper in the AER P&P with Raul Sanchez de la Sierra (Haas, Berkeley)
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@kurtislockhart
@AfEconHis
@BlogBroadstreet
@lwantchekon
For validation of the map and the Ethnographic Atlas, there's this forthcoming paper. Only actual "test" that I know of:
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The Ties that Bind: Matrilineal Kinship and Spousal Cooperation -- summary of research by Sara Lowes: via
@WorldBank
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Great paper!
Ironically, this of mine paper is published in the 500 year of the Protestant Reformation:
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Interesting innovative paper on research and political ideology: "Economists Aren't As Nonpartisan As We Think"
http://t.co/UCn9tOKwa3
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@antonhowes
For first years, there are many accessible summaries on vox. Example is recent 3 vol e-book by Stelios & Elias:
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The impact of the Green Revolution on structural change
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When Teamwork Doesn’t Work for Women (article about research by promising Harvard PhD student, Heather Sarsons)
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Note the flash of the white power sign given by the cop, which is the reason for the pat on the back by the white supremist...
An interaction between a cop and a Proud Boy in Salem, Oregon today.
Defunding the police is defunding white supremacy.
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@seema_econ
Seema, this is broader than what you are thinking, but I would try LIWC. Super cheap and easy to use: -- will quantify many dimensions of your letters that can then be compared across gender of student:
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