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#EconJobMarket candidate Bernardo B. Ribeiro's (@bbribeiro_22) job market paper examines how public housing affects intergenerational mobility, drawing evidence from a large-scale program in Brazil. Profile: bbribeiro.github.io

#EconJobMarket candidate Spreeha Aggarwal’s (@AggarwalSpreeha) job market paper studies how changes in the demand for women’s domestic labour affect their marriage timing and outcomes in rural India. Profile: spreehaaggarwal.com

#EconJobMarket candidate Vibhu Pratyush's job market paper studies the effect of land ownership on intergenerational mobility in rural agrarian India. Profile: vibhupratyush.github.io

#EconJobMarket candidate Sara Benetti’s job market paper studies the impact of early U.S. electrification on social cohesion between immigrant and native workers. Profile: sarabenetti.com; Job Market Paper: sarabenetti.github.io/Benetti_JMP_El…

@arkdevghosh Congratulations! Such a great paper

My job market paper is done :) Religious Divisions and Production Technology: Experimental Evidence from India | Journal of Political Economy journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Health Effects of Cousin Marriage: Evidence from US Genealogical Records" by Sam Il Myoung Hwang, Deaglan Jakob, and Munir Squires. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Applications for our MA and PhD in Economics program are open until December 15th, 2024. Learn more at economics.ubc.ca/graduate/admis…

Prejudice is often rooted in misperceptions: that the outgroup are lazy, unpatriotic, etc. Our new field experiment asks: to reduce misperceptions, is it better to become close with one outgroup member (deep contact), or to have brief encounters with many (broad contact)?

@abbati haha, thanks Alhamdu! Love to you and your family ❤️

@munirsquires Wonderful Munir, as an Egyptian I think you’d have gotten away with calling it what it is. “The Black Tax” but “Kinship Taxation” works too. Looking forward to reading it and well done on doing the work on how this impacts wealth creation for many on the continent.

Many years later... my JMP is finally out! A thread. Ungated PDF: dropbox.com/scl/fi/ci0sixt…

Thank you to my PhD advisors at LSE for their help many years ago @maitreesh @gharadbryan @GregFisch Also to the incredible team who helped with fieldwork - some of the best months of my life were spent travelling Garissa with you ❤️🙏

So, the business owners with the highest ability face the highest kinship tax rates. This seems to lead them to under-invest in their businesses. Relaxing credit constraints wouldn't help them.