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Wake Forest University announced today that undergraduates from North Carolina with annual family incomes less than $200,000 per year will attend tuition-free, beginning for students admitted for the 2026 fall semester.
Read more: wakefo.rest/3KeRLzT

so proud of my school @wakeforest.bsky.social 🖤💛 for making this big step!

Great seminar today with Robert Garlick from Duke,
presenting "Flexibility versus Performance: The Determinants of Labor Contracts in Nairobi, Kenya"

Thank you for visiting us, Rob!

This week, our faculty members @eriknesson.bsky.social, @falbav.bsky.social and our newest hire Prof. Joaquin Urrego participated in the @nber.org Summer Institute in Cambridge, MA. Thanks to our friend Matthew Johnson from Duke for capturing the moment!

🚍 Our very own Dr. Alba-Vivar is shedding light on how limited access to public transportation affects commuter students in Peru. Important insights on mobility and educational equity! @wakeforest.bsky.social

How does unreliable urban transport disproportionately limit women’s access to higher education—and can infrastructure fixes close the gap? @falbav.bsky.social , @wakeforest.bsky.social , discusses: faculti.net/transport-ba...
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How does unreliable urban transport disproportionately limit women’s access to higher education—and can infrastructure fixes close the gap? @falbav.bsky.social , @wakeforest.bsky.social , discusses: faculti.net/transport-ba...
#economics

Seminario MAP July 2025: "Dear Brothers and Sisters: Pope's Speeches and the Dynamics of Conflict in Africa". M Couttenier (Université de Lyon) presents evidence on papal peace speeches reducing conflict, with variation across Popes. Monday July 21, 12PM (Lima time). Moderates: A Ferreira (SMU) 1/2

If you are a Peruvian researcher, work on Peru or Latam - please consider presenting with these amazing group of Peruvian economists. Strongly recommended for job market candidates or junior faculty! Send us your papers 📝

Hey grad students - don’t miss this!!

I am going to be giving a keynote lecture (online) on April 28 at 12:30 (EDT--New York) with my advice for young economists.

Register here for the keynote and get more information about the conference, which looks like a great lineup!

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@econmentoring.bsky.social

Thank you to Francesco Bianchi (Johns Hopkins) for visiting Wake Forest and presenting “Smooth Diagnostic Expectations” (with Cosmin Ilut & Hikaru Saijo) this past Tuesday!

We appreciate all your advice and the engaging discussions with our faculty!

Huge thanks to Mike Dinerstein @mikedinerstein.bsky.social (Duke) for visiting Wake Forest last Friday and presenting his paper "Student Loan Forgiveness" (with Earnest, Koustas & Yannelis). A super insightful talk — it was great to have you with us!

El aumento de las temperaturas globales influye en el momento en que ocurren ciertos eventos naturales, como la siembra y cosecha de cultivos, o la floración de árboles y plantas.

Can community information raise state capacity to provide property titles? State capacity to provide property titles is limited in developing countries. Evidence from Tanzania suggests that community information on the willingness-to-pay for titles can help low-capacity gove...

📜improving property titling in Africa’s cities with community information and better targeted fees

new @voxdev.bsky.social article with Martina

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Schooling mobility across three generations in six Latin American countries - Journal of Population Economics This paper presents new evidence on schooling mobility across three generations in six Latin American countries. By combining survey information with national census data, we have constructed a novel ...

Hi everybody!
Our paper *Schooling Mobility Across Three Generations in Six Latin American countries*,
published at the Journal of Population Economics,
is available *open access* here link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Amazing news!! Can’t wait to have Joaquin with us this Fall 🤩

I just had the most wonderful days visiting Montana State - a top applied micro group and wow, such a beautiful place on earth! Thank you @carlyurban.bsky.social and everyone there! Also happily reunited with my WEAI mentor Mark Anderson 🤠

Just learned that my RA got admitted to his dream program. I am
not crying, you are crying 🥺

Sharing the latest article on @voxdev.bsky.social by my brilliant colleague and mentor at @wfueconomics.bsky.social & @wakeforest.bsky.social Leah Lakdwala. Check it out! 📚🔥

🆕 Reducing child labour: Lessons from Bolivia’s legalisation experiment

Today on VoxDev, Leah Lakdawala and Diana Martinez Heredia explore the impacts of a Bolivian law that legalised and regulated the work of young children: voxdev.org/topic/labour...

Congrats Sandy! Columbia has been SO lucky to have you - its the end of an era 🥺

By far the high point of my career—thank you to everyone who made this happen!❤️

Congrats Sandy!!! 😁

The 22nd Midwest International Economic Development Conference (MWIEDC) will be held at UIUC March 28–29, 2025. Co-hosted by Ag Econ and Econ. Mushfiq Mobarak @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social keynote. Always one of my favorite conferences.
Deadline for submissions Jan 8, 2025.

Grades submitted - it’s over. Must sleep several weeks to recover.

Are you planning to attend the 2025 ASSA meetings in San Francisco? All ASSA activities have been planned for three ASSA headquarters hotels. Employees at two of these hotels – the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and the San Francisco Marriott Union Square – are on strike and asking people to not meet, eat, nor sleep in the hotels. At the third headquarters hotel – the Parc 55 by Hilton – employees voted to authorize their leaders to call a strike at any moment. Yesterday, ASSA stated that allied associations can move planned sessions to alternative physical locations in San Francisco at their own expense and ASSA will facilitate updating of location information within their program system. This means there is a path to meaningful participation in the conference without crossing picket lines. Did you book your housing through ASSA? If so, then you are booked at a hotel where workers are either currently on strike, where they authorized a strike, or where the union says there’s a real risk employees will be on strike in early January. All the ASSA’s preferred hotels for housing are in one of these three categories, as detailed below. The hotel workers union has asked people not to patronize these hotels. What can a social scientist do as we face a conflict between our desires to: participate in the ASSA annual meeting in San Francisco taking place at hotels—both for meeting space and lodging—where workers currently are on strike or at risk of striking, respect the people employed by the hotels and their request of each of us to not meet, sleep, or eat in striking hotels as part of their wider local and national campaign to lift the industry’s job quality? This blog walks through background and different strategies available to each of us.

Attending #ASSA2025?

Want to know how to navigate your options with respect to hotels, food, & sessions given SF hotel workers' strike?

@shirkandsteal.bsky.social @jennifercohen.bsky.social & I have you covered. Blog w/sign up for email updates.
#EconSky
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The AEA/ASSA meetings are in SF in January. Workers at several conference hotels, including 2 headquarters hotels, are on strike. @aaronsojourner.org put together a very useful explainer. aaronsojourner.org/hotel-worker...

1/ Excited to share my JMP! I study how the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA)—which taxed nonprofit salaries over $1M—reshaped college leadership. Using a natural experiment, I explore how financial incentives impact presidents’ pay, exits, and priorities. 🧵

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