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UT Austin jumps to #21 in the latest US News rankings of Economics programs. 🤘 usnews.com/best-graduate-…
Read more about how #inflation made the labor market appear 🔥 (Research via @Columbia_Biz's Hassan Afrouzi, Andrés Blanco of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, @DrenikAndres of @UTAustinEcon, and @ChicagoBooth’s Erik Hurst) ms.spr.ly/6010s6e5u
New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20455 Informed Communication Equilibrium Frédéric Koessler @HECParis, Vasiliki Skreta @UTAustinEcon @EconUCL ow.ly/QraM50WpL67 #CEPR_IO #EconTwitter
The latest issue of the Quarterly Journal of Economics features a paper by @EricChyn and his co-authors, "The Long-Run Effects of America’s Largest Residential Racial Desegregation Program: Gautreaux."
#QJE Aug 2025, #11, “The Long-Run Effects of America’s Largest Residential Desegregation Program: Gautreaux,” by Chyn (@EricChyn), Collinson (@racollinson), and Sandler: doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…
News about the US economy drives global financial conditions find Christoph Boehm of @UTAustinEcon and @KronerNiklas of @federalreserve blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2025…
AFTER THE SPIKE is available today! Discover Dean Spears and @MikeGeruso's lively and compelling case for stabilizing the population—without sacrificing our dreams or societal progress. reason.com/2025/07/08/the…
Congratulations to @MikeGeruso and Dean Spears on the release of their new book, After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People. amazon.com/dp/1668057336/…
So excited that this will be out in the world tomorrow! And grateful to everyone who helped make it happen.
News about the US economy drives global financial conditions find Christoph Boehm of @UTAustinEcon and @KronerNiklas of @federalreserve blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2025…
Medicaid has grown in Republican congressional districts by 8.46 million or 32% since 2013. Cutting Medicaid in the Republican budget would mean cutting benefits for Republicans' constituents. Link to our new Briefing Book post in the thread.
𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬: 𝐀𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐔𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑 (MIT Press) has an official publication date of 11/25/2025! Instructors can use it for free in fall--DM me. probstats4econ.com
🆕 One Laptop per Child: Lessons from a long-term follow up Today on VoxDev, Santiago Cueto (@GRADEPeru), Diether Beuermann (@the_IDB), Julian Cristia (@the_IDB), Ofer Malamud (@sesp_nu) & @franciscopardop (@UTAustinEcon) outline research on Peru: voxdev.org/topic/educatio…
We have a new working paper: 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 with Sebastian Link, @APeichl, Chris Roth and @JoWohlfart Short thread below ⬇️ @EMPCT_MacroTX @ifo_Institut @UniCologne @ECONMunich @UTAustinEcon
Congratulations to Economics major Kevin Chen, who is a co-author on the recently published Nature Human Behavior paper, "The global landscape of academic guidelines for generative AI and LLMs." nature.com/articles/s4156…
The 28th annual Texas Econometrics Camp was held this past weekend at the Canyon of the Eagles (Burnet, TX). Great talks by PhD students and faculty, and some s'mores too! @SMUEconDept @RiceEcon @TAMUECON @UH_Econ @DallasFed
We're excited that Rafael Veiel will be joining the department as an Assistant Professor in the fall! 🤘 @rveiel
Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Long-Run Effects of America’s Largest Residential Desegregation Program: Gautreaux,” by Chyn (@EricChyn), Collinson (@racollinson), and Sandler: doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…
How much would people pay to avoid business cycles? Professor Olivier Coibion and his collaborators answer this question in a new @nberpubs working paper. @EMPCT_MacroTX @LiberalArtsUT
Studying how much individuals would be willing to pay to eliminate business cycles, from Dimitris Georgarakos, Kwang Hwan Kim, Olivier Coibion, Myungkyu Shim, @mhandrewlee, @YGorodnichenko, Geoff Kenny, Seowoo Han, and Michael Weber nber.org/papers/w33476
"Examiner and Judge Designs in Economics: A Practitioner’s Guide" by @EricChyn and his co-authors is forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Literature. @AEAjournals aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…
Americans are stockpiling ahead of Trump’s tariffs, according to consumer data collected by @UTAustinEcon’s Olivier Coibion, @UCBerkeley’s @YGorodnichenko, and @ChicagoBooth’s Michael Weber. ms.spr.ly/6011UneMb #tariffs
The February 2025 issue of AEJ: Economic Policy features articles by both Marika Cabral and Jackson Dorsey. @JacksonDorsey6 @AEAjournals
The February 2025 issue of AEJ: Economic Policy (17, 1) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/792.