"The consequences of uneven sex ratios on cultural attitudes, labour supply decisions, and occupational choices can persist in the long run, well after sex ratios are back to the natural rate."
by Pauline Grosjean and Rose Khattar
JM 📢:
We have reviewed ~650 amazing apps for our junior position. It was a tough work for all of us to come up with such a short interview list compared to the astonishing amount of talent out there.
The recruiting comm has finalised the list and is making calls this week. 📱
Thrilled to announce I will be moving to
@unswecon
later this year. A bitter-sweet decision to support my family/partner's career in Canberra. An honour and privilege to have had the past 9 yrs at
@unimelb
, a first-rate department. Excited to have another truly great opportunity.
When news about local corruption broke in Italy, shoppers became more likely to steal from supermarkets, demonstrating the contagious effect of bad behavior, say researchers at
@unitorvergata
and
@UNSW
.
#Chart
‼️Your loss is that my
@UNSWEcon
colleague Hasin Yousaf, a truly wonderful man and scholar, is not on twitter!
But he’s just got tenure and I’ll let him know of your likes and retweets 😉
🎉🎊🎉🎉🥳🥳
Peer Effects in the Supreme Court –– how does the absence or presence of one justice affect the others' voting behaviour?
New working paper by
@profholden
, Michael Keane, and Matthew Lilley
A special day every year:
the Honours Final Thesis Presentations.
There is so much talent among our students. A little thread with this year's super-interesting thesis topics:
In the same period, we were able to attract 2 incredible already... accomplished researchers.
1. Bayesian econometrician, development economist, and twitter superstar,
@economeager
ICYMI:
Returns to Experience and the Elasticity of Labor Supply ––– accounting for learning-by-doing doubles estimates of workers' willingness to work when returns to work (wage + experience) are high.
Recent
#UNSWEconWP
by Scott French and Tess Stafford
When to Drop a Bombshell –– when is fake news most likely in an election campaign? (Answer: at the end.) Early release signals credibility but increases scrutiny.
New
#UNSWEconPub
in the
@RevEconStud
by
@grattonecon
,
@profholden
, and Anton Kolotilin
Our new Master of Applied Economics:
Flexible, 1-2 years program
Face-to-face and online
Hands-on experience
Become a professional economist
@UNSWbusiness
Political Kludges ––– why policy kludges – 'band-aid' solutions to deeper policy failures – emerge and persist, especially in democratic regimes.
New
#UNSWEconPub
in the
@AEAjournals
#AEJmicro
by Keiichi Kawai, Ruitian Lang, and
@hongyi
The message from our Resilient Democracy Lab has reached the farthest systems in our galaxy.
Help me, Obi-Wan
@grattonecon
@bartonelee2
. You're my only hope! 😂
Here is an abstract of our first talk, written by ChatGPT as an exciting intergalactic story. But only
@grattonecon
will be able to reveal if these are not hallucinations. 0/9
As part of our work into the barriers to employment for Australians, we wanted to understand the wage penalty faced by those who lose their job – we find that these workers are still earning 16% less than we would expect five years after job loss () 1/9
I'm hiring for a 2-year post-doc position in applied micro-economics
@UNSWEcon
. An interest in economics of education or organizational economics is a plus but not essential. More details and how to apply here.
In lab experiments, "Moore–Repullo mechanisms fail to implement truth-telling ... even under perfect information about the valuation of the good."
New
#UNSWEconPub
in the
@EEANews
#JEEA
by Philippe Aghion, Ernst Fehr,
@profholden
and Tom Wilkening
Great to listen to Wiola Dziuda, Anthony Fowler, and
@ProfWillHowell
talk about our "When to Drop a Bombshell" paper with
@profholden
and Anton Kolotilin.
Best breakfast ever!
Women's labor force participation and household technology adoption –– how, and how much, did women's employment drive technology adoption in post-WWII US households?
New working paper by Gautam Bose,
@Hyderabadi_chai
,
@sarahwalkerecon
Upcoming
#EconSeminar
:
Pauline Grosjean (
@UNSWecon
) –– Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Combat Leadership on Collaboration in War-time France
When: Thu Nov 21, 12pm
Where: Business School, 232
#economics
#seminar
Upcoming
#EconSeminar
:
Andrea Ichino (European University Institute) –– Economic incentives, home production and gender identity norms
When: Mon Nov 18, 12pm
Where: Business School, 205
#economics
#seminar
1/10
So we (
@_garyliang
,
@ABalyanova
and I) did something cool this term in my undergrad game theory course:
We piloted an AI tutor.
I'm not at liberty to share data, but I thought I'd at least share a few highlights and things we learned. First, let me introduce you to Bloom.
Upcoming
#EconSeminar
:
Paul Seabright(Toulouse School of Economics) –– Alcohol, Behavioral Norms and Sexual Violence on U.S. College Campuses
When: Thur Oct 24, 12pm
Where: Business School, 232
#economics
#seminar
#empirical
🍾🍾🍾 Great to see our ideas on information and socials will have a little help over the next few years here at
@UNSWEcon
. With
@AntonKolotilin
@page_eco
and
@hongyi
. 🥂 Tonight it’s for celebrations. Then back at work 💪
📚 As students in NSW head back to school, the critical role of teachers in shaping their educational experience takes centre stage. E61's latest insights by
@SilviaGriseld
and
@JackBuckleyEcon
reveal new and interesting findings on the location of teachers in NSW. 1/n
Upcoming
#EmpiricalMicroWorkshop
:
Maria Cubel (Bath)
@sanpages
(King's) –– Gender, Competition and Performance: Evidence from Real Tournaments
When: Thu 18 April, 3:30pm
Where: Business School 216
Gaming and Strategic Opacity in Incentive Provision ––– deliberate lack of transparency in incentive schemes can combat gaming by better-informed agents.
New
#UNSWEconPub
in RAND by
@florianederer
,
@profholden
, and Meg Meyer
ICYMI:
Costly Voting: A Large-scale Real Effort Experiment ––– in a real-effort voting experiment run on Mechanical Turk, a bandwagon effect emerges in large, lopsided elections.
Recent
#UNSWEconWP
by Marco Faravelli, Kenan Kalayci, Carlos Pimienta
Optimal Taxation with Risky Human Capital and Retirement Savings –– how should retirement savings plans be designed to increase human capital investment by present-biased agents?
New working paper by Radek Paluszynski and Pei-Cheng Yu
Great to see this paper by my wonderful
@unswecon
colleague Hasin Yousaf published in
@JEEA_News
. Sticking to One’s Guns: Mass Shootings and the Political Economy of Gun Control in the United States
Upcoming
#EconSeminar
:
Nathaniel Lane(
@MonashUni
) –– Manufacturing Revolutions - Industrial Policy and Networks in South Korea
When: Thur Oct 3, 12:00pm
Where: Business School 232
#empirical
#micro
Finally, now Patrick Vu, an applied and theoretical econometrician, focusing on how statistical credibility affects evidence-based policy decisions and development policies.
📢JUST ACCEPTED at
@restatjournal
with
@fede_curci
Millions of americans were poisoned by lead. We show this determined the distribution of crime in the US.
In response rich and white Americans moved to the suburbs still shaping racial segregation today.
A short thread 🧵
Comparing Deep Neural Network and Econometric Approaches to Predicting the Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural Yield
New working paper by Michael Keane and Timothy Neal
Upcoming
#EconSeminar
:
Ethan Kaplan(
@UofMaryland
) –– The long run impacts of busing in the U.S. on political partisanship and participation
When: Fri Aug 23, 11:00am
Where: Business School 115
Upcoming
#EconSeminar
:
John P Tang (
@unimelb
) –– The Samurai Bond: Credit Supply, Growth, and Structural Transformation in Pre-War Japan
When: Thu Sept 5, 12pm
Where: Business School 232
#economics
#seminar
Upcoming
#EconSeminar
:
Peter Siminski (
@UTS_Economics
) ––Rethinking Specialisation and the Sexual Division of Labour in the 21st Century
When: Thur Sept 12, 3:30pm
Where: Business School 232
#empirical
#micro
📣📣LIBERTY, SECURITY, AND ACCOUNTABILITY📣📣
---------The Rise and Fall of Illiberal Democracies---------
With
@bartonelee2
Still hot from the oven!
Thread: 👇👇👇 (1/11)
How can we measure inflation with higher frequency data on trancactions? From our very own Kevin J. Fox and his coauthors: a systematic comparison of methods towards more accurate, timely, measures of inflation. 👇
When institutions fall into dysfunction, sometimes it's because lawmakers are overloading bureaucrats with Kafkaesque policy, say
@grattonecon
, Luigi Guiso, Claudio Michelacci, and Massimo Morelli.
#ResearchHighlight
A new Stigler Center working paper proposes a mechanism linking legislative gridlock to voters’ support for candidates who hold extreme policy positions.
By Marc S. Jacob,
@bartonelee2
(
#StiglerAffiliate
Fellow), and
@grattonecon
More:
Seemingly Exploitative Contracts ––– In credit markets where consumers are present-biased, regulations to ban "exploitative" contract features such as teaser rates and late fees may backfire.
New
#UNSWEconWP
by Pei-Cheng Yu
This week's OVERSeminar
May 15 - 17:00 AEST
Live! From Barcelona:
Ruben Durante (UPF)
The Virus of Fear: The Political Impact of Ebola in the U.S.
(with F Campante and E Depetris-Chauvin)
ICYMI:
Do Refugee Camps Help or Hurt Hosts? The Case of Kakuma ––– refugee inflows to a Kenyan camp increased local economic activity over the past 20 years.
New
#UNSWEconPub
in the
#JDE
by Jennifer Alix-Garcia, Anne Bartlett, Harun Onder, Apurva Sanghi and Sarah Walker
🍾 Great to see this on REStud's website! Fruit in part of long zoom sessions with
@bartonelee2
during lockdowns, writing this paper was a great experience. A short thank you 🧵:
Upcoming
#WednesdayEconSeminar
:
Pei-Cheng Yu (UNSW) –– Optimal Taxation with Risky Human Capital and Retirement Savings
when: Wednesday 1 May, 12pm
where: Business School 105
Upcoming
#EconSeminar
:
Kaiyin Hu (
@UNSWecon
) –– Natural Gas Transmission Project and Air Pollution in China
When: Thur Aug 29, 12:00pm
Where: Business School 232
#empirical
#micro
ICYMI:
Persuasion meets Delegation –– under general assumptions, the persuasion problem and the delegation problem are equivalent.
Recent
#UNSWEconWP
by Anton Kolotilin and Andriy Zapechelnyuk
Upcoming
#EmpiricalMicroWorkshop
:
Rustam Hakimov (U Lausanne) –– Iterative Versus Standard Deferred Acceptance: Experimental Evidence
When: Thu 14 March, 12pm
Where: Business School 232
Excited to start my new job at
@UNSW
today, albeit from quarantine. Thanks to
@OxfordEconDept
and
@ChCh_Oxford
for a great four years! New and old offices, which is which? 🤔
Upcoming Special
#EconSeminar
#PoliticalEconomySeminar
:
Andrea Mattozzi (EUI) –– Voter Turnout with Peer Punishment (with David K. Levine)
when: Tuesday 9 July, 12pm
where: Business School 220