Alexis Ghersengorin

Recently accepted by #QJE: “"Compensate the Losers?" Economic Policy and the Origins of U.S. Partisan Realignment,” by Kuziemko, Longuet-Marx, and Naidu: doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

Data-driven research, at its best, presents you with results that surprise you. 😲 When I began studying Seattle's minimum pay standard for delivery drivers, I personally expected to see high-attachment delivery drivers making more money after the policy went into effect. 1/13

Imperfect Recall and AI Delegation, the new working paper by Eric Olav Chen, @Alexghersen and Sami Petersen is now available to read here: globalprioritiesinstitute.org/imperfect-reca…

Our paper on state-building and the French Revolution is forthcoming in the AER! In 1790, a radical administrative reform laid the foundations of the modern French state. We study its consequences for state capacity and economic development in the short and long run.

Should Europe worry about being left in the dust by US economic growth? My first piece for @CER argues that a cool-headed look at why the US has grown faster shows that Europe has actually done fairly well, given its circumstances. (1/x)

Can property taxes work as a corrective tool to foster investment in financial assets? I provide answers in my job market paper “Wealth Taxation and Portfolio Allocation” A short 🧵 #EconTwitter #EconJobMarket

📢Please share! I am looking for a research assistant to work on a project evaluating the role of education in reducing poverty and inequality worldwide since the 1950s. Start date, duration, and modalities are very flexible. More info: amory-gethin.fr/files/pdf/Geth… @econ_ra

@grattonecon @PhilippDenter If we start talking about Europe, I would also add Paris then, simply for Font ;-) Also: Manchester for Peak District; Toulouse (don't exactly how far are the spots though); Marseille; Geneva, Lausanne & St-Gallen (more for mountains). Munich maybe? Anyway, great criterion!

@PhilippDenter Absolutely! In Europe I would think Madrid would be among top destinations in the economist*sport-climber ranking. I’d surely like that one. Barcelona also very good. Bolzano and Collegio Carlo Alberto would get a big mention. Lausanne? Maybe Innsbruck?

Consensus: 1. Colorado Boulder wins; 2. Big mentions for CalTech and USC; 3. interesting trad/>50km mentions for UCSD, NYC area, and Darthmouth. Suprised nobody mentioned Utah or UT Austin at all. Lots of talk about UBC of course, but that is Canada. France, Spain, etc: same.

@PinchOfData That said, I agree that titles often sound like the paper is opening and finishing a new strand of literature at the same time =)

@PinchOfData What's more, it allows linking different pieces of research that address, through different contexts or dimensions, similar phenomena.

There is a tendency in the economics literature towards "generalism". A short analysis of the symptoms in a thread (for the greatest pleasure of my 3.5 followers)👇#EconTwitter

Got it, choosing my next title to maximize -∑P(x)log(P(x)).

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40 years ago I published this paper. Although it is my most cited paper, I think I did better in many of my other papers (some of them hardly cited). In any case I am proud about the "clarification" which starts the paper (making clear it is not a prediction).

In a recent draft with @phinifa and @ellliottt, we develop a novel method to mine narrative statements from text. To make things easier, we also provide an open-source package for social scientists. Hope this will come in handy for some ! Thread, draft and package below 👇

There are many guides to grad school and the job market. But the one I return to, again and again, is Eric Zwick's guide. Just so good. If you read these and nothing else, and really follow them, you'll be in great shape. ericzwick.com/public_goods/l… ericzwick.com/public_goods/t…