
Husnu C. Dalgic
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Husnu C. Dalgic
@HCD342
Macroeconomist at Uni Mannheim | @NUEconomics @TSEinfo @Bogazici_Econ



New working paper: "Navigating Motherhood: Endogenous Penalties and Career Choice" joint with Husnu Dalgic(@HCD342 ) and Yasemin Ozdemir. We study the link between job sorting, fertility and motherhood type, using Dutch administrative data. dropbox.com/scl/fi/4xp48v6…




Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Highway to Hitler" by Nico Voigtländer and Hans-Joachim Voth. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…


The ideal situation is to have unfettered global trade between countries, which means no tariffs from either country in bilateral trade. The United States has been pretending for decades that free trade still exists. Other countries were more sober in their analysis and realized they could levy tariffs, subsidize their producers, manipulate their currencies, and gain an advantage over America. This means the US had two choices — (1) keep pretending the new game didn’t exist and let other countries take advantage of us or (2) learn to play the game better than anyone in the world. We are rightfully choosing the second option. Free trade doesn’t exist anymore. We can only hope that America can become so good at playing this new game that it allows us to dictate a reset of the rules back towards true free trade where our trading partners participate on a level playing field. Throughout history America has proven we can dominate any game we play. This may be the most important one yet.



I think we could easily improve the world by giving parents a claim to a part of their children’s future tax returns. We can incentivize having more kids in a way which could plausibly increase tax revenue, not decrease it. It’s a win-win.









Through his teaching, Fethullah Gulen became the second-most-powerful man in Turkey, with only President Recep Tayyip Erdogan surpassing him. But for the last years of his life, the scholar-preacher was a wanted man in exile econ.st/40hzrvU Photo: Getty Images

Here is our piece on fertility in Germany, just published in IAB-Forum (joint with @HCD342). A brief summary in English👇👇👇

Es ist soweit! Ab dem 16. Dezember gibt es einmal täglich einen direkten ICE zwischen Berlin und Paris. 🇩🇪🇫🇷 Fahrzeit rund 8 Stunden. Abfahrt in beiden Städten jeweils am Vormittag und Ankunft am frühen Abend. Eine gute Entwicklung für beide Länder - und für Europa! 🇪🇺




