Seth Neller

Hey #EconTwitter! I am beyond excited to share my JMP 🚨 "Following in the family footsteps: Incidence and returns of occupational persistence" 🚨 Do children gain from following their parents in the same occupations?👨‍👩‍👧 Here is a short thread to find out!🧵

#Stata #spider v1.3 is now out: - completely reworked for long data support - the package is much faster - label rotation options - better legend control Examples + installation on #GitHub. Up soon on #SSC 👇 github.com/asjadnaqvi/sta…

So thrilled to see this paper accepted at AER: Insights, a top journal in my field. During the Fall of 2020, @WestPointSOSH allowed my team to use the random assignment of cadets to a F2F or online class to study the effects of remote learning during COVID.

Thrilled to see this out soon in the @QJEHarvard!

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🚨New paper alert! 🚨 Democracy and the Opioid Epidemic w/ @Viquibarone 👉shorturl.at/npvHK We find that the opioid epidemic substantially increased the Republican vote share and conservative views, and polarized communities. 1/12

Today, @ipogadog, @wesyin, Jeff Zhang & I are launching Briefing Book, a newsletter about economic policy. We’re ex-CEA senior economists, loved the work, and wanted to keep doing it. Now we’re sending you the memos we used to send the Chair. Check it out! briefingbook.info/p/welcome-to-b…

I’m excited to share American Stories, a new billion-scale dataset of structured texts/layouts from public domain newspapers (1780-1960) that we’ve built using our deep learning packages. #EconTwitter (1/13) Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2308.12477 Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/dell-…

Excited to share our paper with @Eunsik_Chang just published at the Journal of Labor Economics! Check it out: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72… Exposure to violent crime in the weeks prior to a high school admission exam creates gender disparities in test scores and high sch placement.

🚨🚨New Paper Alert!🚨🚨 We study how the minimum wage affects the child care sector - earnings and employment, yes, but also other firm-level margins of adjustment, service quality, and consumer satisfaction. (joint with @ChrisMHerbst)

New Paper Alert 🚨 We estimate the returns to IRS tax audits across the income distribution. We find $1 of IRS spending on audits of top earners delivers more than $12 of tax revenue. Along the way, we provide new evidence of the strong specific deterrence effects of audits. 1/:

🚨🚨New Paper 🚨🚨 @toddrjones and I have a new @iza_bonn paper out today on peer effects on #FirstGen college students. #FirstGen students have the most to gain from college but yet drop out at higher rates and earn lower grades. iza.org/publications/d…

One day I will write something longer about the value of qualitative research methods for quantitative (esp. applied micro) researchers. But 👇 is a short thread TLDR: Qual methods super useful even if you never present/analyze qual data in published work #ResearchMethods

And now, here's yet another purposely-kinda-vague slice of life report from FOIA-land. (vague, b/c the legal stuff is still ongoing, takes months) We're in the process of getting a certain database extract from a big federal agency. This is data that has never been publicly...

(In case it wasn't obvious:) I just updated this spreadsheet of crime/CJ-related papers in top econ journals: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Very excited to give this talk! Check out the stream or the recording to see how we think we can use LLMs for market research and what I think are the first estimates of customer preferences coming purely from GPT-3.

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "The Impact of Youth Medicaid Eligibility on Adult Incarceration" by Samuel Arenberg, Seth Neller, and Sam Stripling. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

🚨🚨New working paper! 🚨🚨 @IsraeliAyelet, @NgweDonald and I have a new paper out which uses GPT-3 to estimate consumer preferences. We show that GPT-3's responses to conjoint-like questions are internally consistent, consistent with econ theory, and of reasonable magnitudes! 1/

Today the @WhiteHouseCEA released the 2023 Economic Report of the President, including the Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers. There's a lot of great content and interesting analysis, and I have a particular fondness for Chapter 4. 1/3 whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…

Please join us for the first annual Development Economics in the South Workshop (DevSouth) on May 19th! Hosted by the University of Tennessee at the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains in Gatlinburg, TN. Submit your paper by March 29th! haslam.utk.edu/event/developm…