Vivek Moorthy

Every Day Is Earth Day: Evidence on the Long-Term Impact of Environmental Activism (January 2023) - We use variation in weather to study the long-term effects of activism during the original Earth Day on attitudes, environmental outcomes, and children's health. Unusually bad weather...

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Coverage of our recent working paper studying how the salience of social/religious norms impact fertility

Additionally, historical institutions and differential human capital investments contribute to the Nigerian case. Interesting example of how a comprehensive understanding of economic, cultural, and historical factors is needed to explain within country differences
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Babies are small.

Macroeconomies are big.

Put 'em together and you get an absolutely fascinating paper from Claudia Goldin.

TLDR: Economic growth that outpaces social growth can dramatically lower fertility rates.

Macro = dynamic microeconomics. So basically is there a Bellman Equation or not

Excited to see my paper "Agricultural Technological Change, Female Earnings, and Fertility" out in press alongside these other fascinating papers.

So far, both my publications have made January issues of their respective journals. Let's see if I can somehow keep this up.

Was the session recorded by any chance?

Same with economists' view about IV.

Always enjoy that deep dive into new contexts when working on a project. But then eventually I have to actually write up and contribute something tangible to that context

Am I reading the output of timer correctly-- areg faster than reghdfe?