Matthew E. Kahn
@mattkahn1966
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Provost Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California. Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined October 2012
A video of my son's first dunk on a real basketball court. @uchicago is importing a talented freshman to both its basketball team and its economics department!
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I own (and have read Crisis Cycle) and I bought the Money and Power book for my son.
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I couldn't find myself belonging to this life. My perspective on my own existence often led me to nostalgia, longing, and existential contemplation. Questioning why I live and what the purpose of my life is didn't lead to complete satisfaction; it didn't reveal a fulfilling
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I am in Tribeca at a hip bookstore. The Piketty book is on a low shelf and I see the great new book by @lugaricano and @JohnHCochrane in a prime shelf location.
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Inside the NBA on Chauncey Billups & Terry Rozier arrests in FBI gamblin... https://t.co/HVk3YTBs9U via @YouTube
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Far from LA. In LA, such a billboard would highlight a new variety of stinky weed.
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A celebration of a great economist and a good friend. I will speak about Pat's contributions to environmental and Urban Economics.
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This is a very strong cohort of job market candidates for us in an ever-improving department. We hope you'll take a look so that they find their way to good places in this year's market:
dornsife.usc.edu
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A prominent economist has two of my books in his collection.
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Will the demand for Amazon's "Help Me Decide" be driven by high value of time people or by those who are overwhelmed by choice? As Amazon tries to engage in first degree price discrimination, how do their efforts depend on the underlying data generating process?
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Too many modern applied economics papers simply focus on estimating a short run causal estimate without exploring the "feedback loop". How does the economy respond to the challenge? In aggregate is the challenge a large enough challenge to merit, new innovative effort?
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I do believe that behavioral economics experiments identify subgroups of the population who exhibit this or that "behavioral bias" but the costs they suffer from this bias shrink sharply if there are enough of them to trigger a supply side response. Demand creates supply!
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If workers value comfort and if the firms who hire them gain from having and retaining outdoor workers who feel more comfortable then the firm may provide this cooling equipment to their workers (their $ wages will be lower!). Kahn and Tracy 2025; https://t.co/vk88pq03PM
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Abstract During the Biden Administration, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) proposed new rules to protect workers from heat exposure. The intent of this regulation was to...
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If J-PAL ran a field experiment and randomly assigned this NIKE gear to some outdoor workers, a smaller average treatment effect of the causal role of weather insulation on productivity would be recovered.
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Which outdoor workers will self-select to invest in these pseudo spacesuits? Returning to Heckman's work on essential heterogeneity; workers know how susceptible they are to the heat and those who gain the most from buying the NIKE gear will do so.
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