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#Econtwitter #EconJobMarket @WelcomeEcon I'm a #EconJMC from @UCSDEcon. Happy to share my #EconJMP! Website: https://t.co/pyHDoaUtQ3 Many low-income countries have reached near-universal access to facility birth, while neonatal mortality remains high. Why? [1/5]

Over the past 3 decades, high-skill migrants from Asia—especially India and China—have transformed the US economy, fueling innovation, tech, higher ed, and healthcare growth, from @econgaurav https://t.co/x8oLbaREul

China’s college expansion reshaped US higher education, spurring master’s growth, drawing more American and international students, and boosting college-towns’ economies, from Ruixue Jia, @econgaurav, Hongbin Li, and @YuliXu7 https://t.co/CHhnY4k6j8

(1/2) Good things happened to U.S. higher education after China started producing more college grads and they continued their studies abroad, finds a new study by Hongbin Li, director of the SIEPR-sponsored @StanfordSCCEI, and @YuliXu7 of @StanfordSAPARC. 👇Key takeaways👇

When people (esp. degrowers) think that median Western incomes are somehow acceptable and that, if inequality were less, we could keep the current global GDP and all live at incomes around the Western median they simply do not know the facts. US median income person is at the

Health shocks within couples cause broad and lasting effects on the partner's health, including increased mortality and mental health deterioration, from @caroartc, Natalia Vigezzi, and @pilargargo https://t.co/m2lSin5CfG

Congratulations to our @UCSDEcon 2025 Graduating PhD's! We are so proud of all of you and look forward to seeing what impacts you will continue to make. See their placements here: https://t.co/ky6n7D5Qja

Please consider applying for a summer RA position in Mozambique. Project with @fulviabudillon and @walcottgray on traditional medicine. Must speak Portuguese. Job info: https://t.co/L00yDJq7A7 Send materials to fbudillo@ucsd.edu and adgray@ucsd.edu. Thank you! @econ_ra

Are you using DiD to learn about something *continuous*? If so, then new DiD tools for binary designs don’t seem to help much. But here is something that will help! An update to “DiD with a Continuous Treatment” w/ @agoodmanbacon and Brant Callaway: https://t.co/tR5H2QT9Qa

A model of female labor supply illustrating how various forces discussed in the literature affect the gender earnings gap, from Claudia Olivetti, Jessica Pan, and Barbara Petrongolo https://t.co/4FprcblwpR

How physicians' family characteristics influence physicians' practices and the health of their female patients, from @mettegoertz, @idalykkekr, and @tianyi91 https://t.co/dPNqQUK0cr

For health economists interested in physician decision making, Janet Currie's new NBER working paper includes a 22 page appendix with some of the best papers in this area, all in a tabular format. This will become indispensable to me.

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Celebrating the conclusion of the Conference and Summer School on Socioeconomic Opportunity and Inequality! Our program brought together a community of scholars to exchange ideas, create lasting intellectual links, and foster generative research relationships. Organizers: ·

In China, new official appointments increase the likelihood of local SOEs replacing executives by 3.3%, an effect not seen in private firms or national SOEs. Read on for more insights:

Stumbled on a staggering result: Starting in the 1960s, @Nestle aggressively marketed baby formula > breastfeeding in LMICs. Formula was often mixed with unclean water The result: increased infant mortality and *212,000* excess deaths per annum by 1981 https://t.co/vv6LLCUm1q

In my new article for @SCID__journal, I find that the scale of state-owned firm layoffs in the late 1990s drove the increase in social security tax of private firms in the 2000s. The need to appease potential collective action of highly organized SOE workers precipitated China's

Hi #EconTwitter, I’m using a shift-share design and assuming shocks to be quasi-random conditional on FEs, following BHJ’s paper. While it’s easy to add FEs after transforming the data to shock level, I’m wondering how to add such FEs in the conventional regression. Thanks!