Tom Hierons
@tom_hierons
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Economics Postdoc @Princeton interests in urban and spatial economics, international trade, and econometrics.
Joined December 2018
Do poverty traps exist? @ed_jee's study of 27 RCTs finds they're real but rare. Though fixed costs make traps common, forward-looking behavior & productivity differences mean they only affect 25% of households. Read more: https://t.co/dIx7XdnJoO
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My student Michael Cuna is on the econ job market this year. He has an excellent paper showing the impact of the hidden curriculum on educational outcomes, particularly in the case of first-gen students. The paper also demonstrates the potential for AI tools to close these gaps.
@CunaMichae77590’s JMP studies the hidden curriculum—unwritten rules for success. Combining data and field experiments, he finds first-gen students engage less in key actions, e.g. networking, due to low awareness. Read more: https://t.co/vi1XlIj8S3
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What happens when overlapping jurisdictions tax the same homes? @_FRuggieri's JMP uses new data on all U.S. local governments to estimate fiscal spillovers and proposes symmetric transfers to internalize them. Read more: https://t.co/2OJj6XgRRE
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Spatial JMCs: Each year, I compile a list of spatial-economics job-market papers. To make sure you're on my list (& save me some work), please reply with your info in the following format: Firstname Surname (School) - JMP title - homepageURL [Trade JMCs: reply to other tweet]
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Aditya (@ARBhandari97) has written a surprisingly revealing and useful paper on when promoting industrial clusters is desirable. Read his paper! He is on the market.
When should governments target industries in specific places? @ARBhandari97 shows that optimal industrial policy is place-based when productivity is Hicks-neutral, but uniform when it is Harrod-neutral. Read more: https://t.co/J6itbei88s
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When should governments target industries in specific places? @ARBhandari97 shows that optimal industrial policy is place-based when productivity is Hicks-neutral, but uniform when it is Harrod-neutral. Read more: https://t.co/J6itbei88s
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So good. Can’t believe not one of the people I follow forwarded this in the past four days.
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Everybody is going through some rough times these days due to Covid19 and struggling with the transition to online education/communication. As someone from academia (and DGS), I would like to share some of my experiences and provide some suggestions:
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