Michael Lipsitz

I’m proud of this paper with Takuya Hiraiwa (his first publication!) and @MichaelLipsitz. We also had an excellent editor and reviewer team from @restatjournal, who improved the paper and turned it around quickly. Check it out!

Great to see this out in print! Firms reveal that they have a low WTP for noncompetes by not boosting workers' earnings over a legal threshold. Thanks to @restatjournal, our editor, and our referees for a fantastic (and quick!) review process!

"Compared to the shareholder-value maximizing compensation packages, executives are paid too much, too soon, and keep their jobs for too long." cepr.org/publications/d…

More great coverage of our working paper on college proximity! 😎 @KalenaCortes @CamilaNtMorales @Lois_Miller Thanks, @insidehighered & @jolonso_!

As someone who's been on both sides, these are HUGE. Incentives don't always push researchers towards caring about benefit-cost implementation. But these things are often really easy to implement--different reporting, a quick appendix, etc.--and they can make a big difference

The preliminary programme is now out for the third annual @CMAgovUK-@durham_uni workshop on 14-15 November. With contributions by @JoelStiebale, @MichaelLipsitz, @toxvaerd1 and others, and a keynote by the great @TomValletti. cma-partnership.webspace.durham.ac.uk/wp-content/upl… 1/2

This cool paper shows that robot adoption in Japan led to INCREASED employment! Nice new evidence on the debate about the effects of robots on employment.

Interesting paper on the distributional consequences of market power. Goes along with @LeistenEcon 's work on market power and inequality, though here there's an industry-specific (credit-based) mechanism

@HoffProf Why is that happening, do you think (not using arbitration anymore)?

Congratulations to the 42 new Fellows of the Econometric Society!

Diff in diff econometricians, posting their 17th paper:

C'mon, negative probabilities were one thing, but now you're just pulling my leg

The next meeting of the NBER Innovation Information Initiative (I3) Technical Working Group will be held on December 6 and 7, 2024 immediately following the NBER Place-Based Policies and Entrepreneurship meeting. There will be an in-person meeting in Cambridge, MA along with a virtual component on Zoom for those who are unable or choose not to attend in person. Presenters are encouraged to attend in-person. This meeting is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The aim of I3 is to support the production and dissemination of open data for research on innovation, science, entrepreneurship, and related fields. The Technical Working Group will feature "deep dive" presentations of novel datasets or research tools (including efforts in progress that would benefit from community feedback or collaboration) that are or will be made openly available. We are primarily interested in presentations on new data and tools rather than research findings. Please submit either (a) an extended abstract of five pages or less describing the new dataset or tool you propose to present, its potential value to the research community, and your plans for public dissemination, or (b) a research paper that fully describes data construction (or has a comprehensive data appendix) along with a short cover note describing the value of the dataset (or tool) to the research community, what you would focus on in your presentation, and your plans for dissemination. If you have a paper you would like considered for presentation, please upload it here conference.nber.org/confsubmit/bac… by 11:59 pm EST on September 27, 2024. Submissions from researchers with and without NBER affiliations, from early career scholars, and from researchers from under-represented groups are welcome. The presentations will also be livestreamed on the NBER's YouTube channel and students, colleagues or others who might be interested may watch the presentations. @I3Open

Pretty cool results on the effects of banning suspensions: schools start classifying students as having disabilities when they can't be suspended!

I'm presenting my paper on technological change and inequality at the @nberpubs Wage Dynamics in the 21st Century program. You can tune in on YouTube and see the program (which looks fantastic) here: nber.org/conferences/wa… Also - here's a Twitter 🧵 summarizing the paper:

My first time on-air (and hopefully not the last). Thanks @joedowntownlv for having me on! knpr.org/show/knprs-sta…

🚨 Excited to announce our paper in @AnnualReviews! 🚨"Monopsony Power in the Labor Market: From Theory to Policy", w. a typology of policies and monopsony models (oligopsony, job differentiation, and search). Co-authored w. @joseazar. annualreviews.org/content/journa… #Monopsony #Antitrust

@LeistenEcon True but giving these things a little time to trickle through I guess

@MichaelLipsitz Yeah, though the BLM protests don't quite align with 2021-22.

Not an IO topic, but I saw this recently. Something I care about and depressing as all heck. Does anybody know what's going on (especially with the younger age demo?)

@LeistenEcon Interesting. Wouldn't be tough to test!

@MichaelLipsitz I kind of feel like climate change has become a "procyclical" issue: something people care about most when there's less to be worried about in general.

@LeistenEcon Yep. BLM protests too. Maybe fueled by the media or maybe just cultural consciousness, but I feel like there's limited capacity for "causes" and only a couple can stay afloat at a time. If factors push back (e.g. gas) then maybe people drift towards a different one

@MichaelLipsitz Yeah, Monmouth reports the biggest dropoff was 2021-2022. So maybe it got crowded out by other issues on the Left that became salient here, namely Dobbs. Also, Ukraine + inflation meant people probably wanted cheap gas, whatever the cost