Virna Vidal Menezes

E os microdados do censo 2022?

My Job Market Paper was quoted here! How cool?!

Three of our current students and one of our alums today at the APPAM 2025 conference (from left to right, Chris Monjaras, Virna Vidal Menezes, alum Brianna Felegi, and Emily Davis).

Breakthroughs in Historical Record Linking Using Genealogy Data: The Census Tree Project The Census Tree is the largest-ever database of record links among the historical U.S. censuses, with over 700 million links for people living in the …

Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social and graduate student Haley Wilbert (@hwilbert.bsky.social on the mkt) have a new publication in Explorations in Economic History, "Breakthroughs in Historical Record Linking Using Genealogy Data: The Census Tree Project." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Students on the Job Market A list of economics students on the job market

We are delighted to introduce our job market candidates for the 2025–26 academic year. You can learn more about them on our website:

economics.nd.edu/graduate/stu...

For more information about our students, please contact our Placement Director, Maciej H. Kotowski (mkotowsk@nd.edu).

Olá! Alguma previsão para a divulgação dos microdados do censo? :)

We invite you to join us for the BIG Lab's first academic conference, the BIG Forum at Notre Dame on September 25-26. We have a fantastic line-up of speakers focused on addressing structural barriers to inclusive economic growth in LMICs. Program & registration: buff.ly/LENJYqB

Some pictures from our graduate students' welcome back party this weekend.

The Causal Effect of News on Inflation Expectations Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

New @nber.org working paper from our colleague Jane Ryngaert and graduate student Pascal Frank (joint with Carola Binder), “The Causal Effect of News on Inflation Expectations.” Check it out: www.nber.org/papers/w34088

BIG Forum The Building Inclusive Growth (BIG) Lab seeks to address structural & barriers to equitable economic growth in different parts of the world.

The Building Inclusive Growth Lab @biglabnd.bsky.social will be hosting its BIG Forum this September 25-26. We have a great list of confirmed speakers. Check out the itinerary: biglab.nd.edu/news-events/...

BIG Lab affiliate @taryndinkelman.bsky.social asks how long it takes households to fully take advantage of electric connections. @ndecon.bsky.social @notredame.bsky.social @kellogginstitute.bsky.social @artslettersnd.bsky.social

So happy to return to my undergraduate institution, Federal University of Ceará, to talk research and doing a PhD abroad! Loved seeing old friends (especially my forever-advisor Guilherme Irffi) and meeting new ones :)

A line graph titled "Regional trends in average years of schooling, 2000 to 2022" shows the average number of years that adults over 25 participated in formal education across different regions. The vertical axis represents years of schooling, ranging from 0 to 8 years, with marked lines at 2, 4, 6, and 8 years. The horizontal axis indicates the years from 2000 to 2022. Four distinct data series are represented by colored lines: - **Latin America and the Caribbean** - **East Asia and the Pacific** - **South Asia** - **Sub-Saharan Africa** A note on the graph emphasizes that both Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia have seen significant improvements in average years of schooling. The data source is indicated as the UNDP, Human Development Report (2024).

People across developing regions are spending far more time in school than 20 years ago

It’s beginning to look like Christmas in the department

This has been a major puzzle for energy/dev: Electrification is essential for a modern economy, but WTP in developing contexts (and impacts) seem quite low.

There's a JMP this year from Abdou Cisse @ Berkeley ARE that helps explain why: ⬇️ reliability, ⬇️ WTP. Impressive paper.

www.acisse.com

Alguma previsão pra divulgação dos microdados do censo 2022? :)

A group of our current and former graduate students this weekend at the Southern Economic Association meetings in DC this past weekend.

The BIG Lab at @notredame.bsky.social is hiring 2 PreDocs to start in the summer of 2025. You'll focus on #Development #Economics with professors like Taryn Dinkelman, Lakshmi Iyer, Satosh Kumar, and Joseph Kaboski. #predoc @ndecon.bsky.social @artslettersnd.bsky.social jobs.nd.edu/postings/36391