PILoSSopher
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@pilossopher
Ass. Prof. of Economics @DukeEcon💰, dog enthusiast 🐕 , baller 🏀, runner 🏃♀️, kickboxer 🥊 ; @UChi_Economics grad; Last name spelled PILoSSoph
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "The Option Value of Municipal Liquidity" by Andrew Haughwout, Benjamin Hyman, and Or Shachar. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…
New paper by @pilossopher, @davide_melc & Lewis estimates the distribution of spending responses to stimulus payments. MPCs are heterogeneous, with observables explaining 8% of the variation, highlighting the crucial role of latent heterogeneity restud.com/latent-heterog… #REStud
Low net wealth-to-income households repay debt with stimulus checks rather than consume. Debt-price schedules rising with debt explain this, altering the nature of fiscal stimulus, from @gizemkosar, Davide Melcangi, @pilossopher, and @david.wiczer nber.org/papers/w34399
🚨Excited to share our short paper “How Retrainable are AI-Exposed Workers?” w/ @BenLahey, @KarenXNi, @pilossopher, on how training programs affect workers highly exposed to AI prior to job loss, and those targeting AI-intensive jobs after training. nber.org/papers/w34174. 1/🧵
