@juejung.bsky.social
Professor of Economics at Towson University in Maryland - Working on issues in macro and health economics Web: juejung.github.io/
Our paper on Medicaid work requirements is now published in the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control and available at: t.co/7PMyhzOqJY
26.08.2025 18:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our new working paper about the effects of the ACA-Medicaid expansion on maternal and infant health outcomes in the American South is now available at SSRN: ssrn.com/abstract=536... or dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
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New article: "Risk loving and fat tails in the wealth distribution" by Aloisio Araujo, Juan Pablo Gama, and Timothy Kehoe. In a dynamic general equilibrium model risk-loving behavior by some investors generates unequal distributions of income and wealth.
rdcu.be/d7RG4
Just back from giving a talk to 2nd year students on how to approach research, how to write a paper. Abhijit was coming after me (good thing he didn't go first, tough act to follow!)
Here are my slides...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0pm2m...
It's a treat to have a paper highlighted in the NBER Digest!
Couples' choices about when to relocate offer a lens into how they value each person's career success. In both Sweden and Germany, they seem to prioritize men's careers, even when the woman has similar earning potential. bit.ly/MTO-T
A policy summary of our paper, featured in @voxdev.bsky.social. This is useful evidence for future reforms to public teacher hiring systems, like the one that should take place soon in Colombia!
03.12.2024 12:45 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Modern American planning is kind of the worst of both worlds: rigid micromanagement of development on private land combined with virtually no plan whatsoever for the public realm, e.g. streets and parks. Not how I would have designed the system!
02.12.2024 21:04 — 👍 294 🔁 46 💬 4 📌 0Several members of our team @ourworldindata.org are here on Bluesky!
Follow us here: bsky.app/starter-pack...
These 18-year-olds were high school freshmen when COVID hit
They should be college freshmen now
The FAFSA disaster decreased enrollment overall (down 5%)
The affirmative action ban decreased black enrollment at selective schools (down 17%)
www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi...
We've created a starter pack for all of the economics journals on Bluesky. Please nominate other journals to join the list.
go.bsky.app/4kR21vX
I put together a starter pack of all the academic macroeconomists I could find on the platform.
It's short. Please message me if you would like to be added.
go.bsky.app/RYnjd8k
#econsky etc.
In general, people who are not members of NBER can submit papers to be considered at NBER conferences. Here's the link to the current calls for papers: www.nber.org/calls-papers...
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