

❗️A 🧵 on my NBER WP paper with @TahaChoukhmane ❗️ Draft: tinyurl.com/47mt6m2k More details: ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Cormac O'Dea
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@cormacodea
Assistant Professor at @YaleEconomics. Research Fellow @TheIFS.


❗️A 🧵 on my NBER WP paper with @TahaChoukhmane ❗️ Draft: tinyurl.com/47mt6m2k More details: ⬇️⬇️⬇️





Economic models often assume households behave as a single decision-making unit. Does this mirror reality? @TahaChoukhmane (@MITSloan), @goodmanl (@USTreasury) & @cormacodea (@YaleEconomics) on the retirement savings of U.S. couples: youtu.be/eHowMVi5MoA







The May 2025 issue of the American Economic Review (115, 5) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/802.









Samuel Solomon's (@SamuelMSolomon) job market paper examines the underlying drivers and aggregate implications of occupational following—when children enter into their parent’s occupation—for the labor market, social mobility, and total output. Website: samuelmsolomon.com





Matthew Schwartzman's JMP studies how modern service firms contribute to growth in developing countries. Growth is driven by the labor productivity gap between modern & traditional services, and is amplified by income effects on consumer demand. Website: matthewschwartzman.com