Andrew C. Johnston
@acjohnston0
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Economist, husband, daddy to little wildlings, compulsive buyer of books. Contributor @WSJ and @TheHill.
Merced, CA
Joined November 2022
🚨Updated paper alert🚨. We examine a pension reform in Texas that cut benefits and penalized early retirement. We find, somewhat paradoxically, that it increased retention and output, apparently by making early retirement less attractive.
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RT @nberpubs: Examining what happens to families after separation and divorce by following parents and kids using rich administrative data….
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RT @JohnHolbein1: What do you make of this finding?. Divorce durably lowers kids' test scores.
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RT @BradWilcoxIFS: 1. “Divorce is a Gift”, according to recent NYT story. But a big new study of one million kids from U Texas tells a ver….
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RT @grantjbailey: Does divorce actually have a long-term impact on kids? If you read outlets like The Atlantic, NYT, or WaPo, you'll might….
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RT @J_K_Wood: Divorce is the choice we’ve been told not to question. That must end. A massive new study tracked over 1 million children a….
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RT @nberpubs: How parental divorce shapes children's resources and futures, from @acjohnston0, Maggie R. Jones, and Nolan G. Pope https://t….
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RT @Noahpinion: Divorce is one of the biggest human problems, but it rarely gets talked about.
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RT @kearney_melissa: This new study supports the findings of previous studies, but with mounds of data & a look at mechanisms - after a cou….
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RT @QJEHarvard: #QJE May 2025, #11, “Teacher Labor Market Policy and the Theory of the Second Best,” by Bates (@mic_d_bates), Dinerstein (@….
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RT @RobinJessen: Check out my new voxeu column with Jonas Jessen, @acjohnston0 and Ewa Galecka-Burdziak on the hidden cost of unemployment….
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RT @nberpubs: Examining whether longer benefit durations or more generous benefit levels are more distortionary, if their effects interact,….
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RT @evavivalt: We recently added several analyses to our paper on the employment effects of a guaranteed income. 🚨. These new analyses incl….
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RT @HannoLustig: 3/Exhibit 2: from @JADHazell's paper "Do Deficits Cause Inflation? A High Frequency NarrativeApproach". The figure shows….
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RT @HannoLustig: Two (or three) graphs that should keep you up at night if you subscribe to the supply-shock view of COVID-19 pandemic infl….
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RT @Giuliano_Mana: Charles Darwin was a giant of a man who greatly advanced mankind. But he had one huge regret:. Not cultivating his appre….
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RT @AEAjournals: Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Skill Depreciation during Unemployment: Evidence from Panel Data" by Jonathan Cohe….
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RT @analisapackham: Stop making fun of people that believe in Santa, there are grown adults that still believe in Modern Monetary Theory.
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The natural world has its own magic.
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Me trying to keep up with the DID literature.
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