Arin Dube
@arindube
Provost Prof. of Economics (UMass Amherst). Inequality, labor market policies, and competition. Book project: The Wage Standard. @nberpubs @MITshapingwork
If you are interested in learning more about minimum wages, @attilalindner and I have a new, up-to-date review of the topic, coming out in the Handbook of Labor Economics. Here's the @nberpubs working paper. Link: nber.org/papers/w32878
Thanks and congrats, Arin! Have been using it for a while now! I also think a nice feat is that you guys bridge micro- and macroeconometrics to show folks have been using the same estimators even if they hadn’t formally proved it yet.
Congratulations! It is the method I use on my JMP. Very useful and intuitive.
Very pleased that our local projections dif-in-dif paper is now out in the Journal of Applied Econometrics. It's a tool that we think many applied economists will find useful (indeed many already have). 🧵
🚨🚨🚨 NEW WORKING PAPER: "The Benefits of UI for Marginally Attached Workers" with @BrendanDMoore ➡️ We find that UI minimally delays re-employment, but substantially improves labor market outcomes for low-income workers 🧵1/13
Interesting paper out as editor's choice in the latest QJE
Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @ihsaanbassier @economicssurrey who works on topics related to labor + political economy, particularly in South Africa
One of the most effective and informative think tanks in the economic sphere.
Employ America was launched in 2019 to confront the policy failures in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis. Policymakers learned from their mistakes and avoided another jobless recovery after COVID, but shortages and inflation have revealed the limits of the old playbook 1/8
I think it is interesting to compare the right and left populist diagnoses and prescriptions, as this piece is doing. However, I would argue that the the left/right differences are not primarily about redistribution/pre-distribution. It's true right-populists tend to be…
My latest @unherd on our populist era and the competing visions for taking on the elites from Left and Right: Protectionist Populism, which prizes autonomy, vs. Redistributionist Populism, which is based in paternalism: x.com/unherd/status/…
Over 16k Americans weighed in on the click-to-cancel rule, overwhelmingly supporting our effort to end subscription traps. The rule was set to go into effect in May but this @FTC slow-walked it—and now a court has tossed it out, claiming industry didn’t get enough of a say.…
Why does every basic product now require a subscription?? Former FTC Chair Lina Khan says she received letters of support across the aisle for the "Click to Cancel" laws, which are now being postponed by the new administration. 😧
I just spent hours reviewing the final version of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” which he will sign into law in the coming days. There's a lot of important stuff related to EVs, renewable energy, and more. Here's everything you need to know: • $7,500 EV credit for new vehicles:…
Here’s a short guide if you’re talking to family and friends this weekend about the GOP budget bill. 1/
🚨HOUSE PASSES RECONCILIATION BILL, HEADS TO W.H. FOR TRUMP'S SIGNATURE VOTE WAS 218-214 GOP NO VOTES: FITZPATRICK MASSIE