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Public funds to Italian firms in disadvantaged areas (ex. Law 488/92) permanently increased employment, but allocation matters: Firms selected by objective rules create more jobs per € than those favored by local politicians. buff.ly/jcc6d6U

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Big: The final version of a randomized, controlled World Bank study finds using a GPT-4 tutor with teacher guidance in a six week afterschool program in Nigeria had "more than twice the effect of some of the most effective interventions in education" ("equating to 1.5 to 2 years" of standard school)

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Thanks for visiting, Tim! It was great meeting you and learning from your cool research! 🙂

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I'm seeing a huge spike in interest in tariffs from people who normally don't work in the economics of international trade. Here are a few useful things to know about them. (1/14)

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The effects of a political program in Brazil that addresses selection bias from program screening, self-selection into candidacy, and the need to quantify the contributions of selection and training in a holistic evaluation, from Dal Bó, Ferraz, Finan, and Pessoa https://www.nber.org/papers/w33251

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Greetings #EconSky!

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