Now at @michaelstepner@social.coop Public economist studying health and economic inequality. (he/him) 👨🏼🏫 @UofT Professor 👨🏼💻 Harvard @OppInsights
Toronto, Ontario 🇨🇦
Joined December 2012
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Our new study is in the NYT this morning: nytimes.com/2021/08/20/busin…
And my coauthor @arindube is tweeting the details 👇🏼
In short: the vast majority of people whose pandemic unemployment benefits were cancelled in June did not find new jobs by the beginning of August.
With Elon Musk’s Twitter slowly falling apart, it seems we have no choice but to return to social media sites run by older and more experienced operators.
@AlexAmared, do you still have the credentials for the CUSIDnet phpBB?
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🤷🤷♀️New data: SHRUG 2 is out!! @devdatalab has been working on this for two years, a HUGE update to India’s coolest data platform:
1. Maps of *every* 2011 town and village, with ids
2. All data at every geography (villages, districts, ACs, etc)...
devdatalab.org/shrug
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FYI to my professor friends with very common names who have wanted a professional site with a simple domain name (like michaelstepner.com).
As of today, you can put your website at "yourname .prof" or "yourname .phd"
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As a company from eastern Germany, we know that building a wall to try and keep people from leaving isn't a good idea.
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Gonna see how close I can get to dropping the pachyderm site link without getting banned and call that Masto baiting
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Want your university to study and improve graduate student mental health?
We have a blueprint that could be helpful:
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Inspired by @KelsiGHobbs' question and many excellent answers 🙏 Here is a list of open data sources I just shared with the undergraduates in my Health and Economic Inequality class gist.github.com/michaelstepn…
I'm sure her students and mine would be grateful for other suggestions 😊
Screenshot here for those who don't like to leave Twitter for even a moment 😉
Working links on the Github Gist: gist.github.com/michaelstepn…
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CFPB is proposing to crack down on "junk fees", such as hotel resort fees, concert ticket convenience fees, debit card overdraft fees, and credit card late fees.
See: nytimes.com/2022/01/26/busin…
This is a research area of mine so I wanted to chime in with a few thoughts.
Begin 🧵
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"Had just these two specific items not increased in price over the past year, Canada’s inflation rate would have been close to normal..."
What's driving Canada's high inflation rate? The answer, it turns out, is simpler than you think.
My latest for @TheHubCanada: thehub.ca/2022-01-25/making-… #cdnecon #cdnpoli
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Applying for pre-docs? I'm still accepting applications and will start to review shortly. RTs appreciated :)
The position has a flexible start-date (sometime between February - June).
JOB OPENING: Want to do research in education policy and labor economics? I'm hiring a full-time pre-doctoral scholar at Tufts University and NBER to join me in studying a historic school integration program. sites.google.com/site/elizab…
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I'm hiring a full time Research Associate at @uclaanderson. The position entails working with government administrative data to analyze economic questions related to policy and regulation: ra.ashvingandhi.com
The app is easy (email resume & transcript).
RTs are appreciated!
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Thanks @michaelstepner great to see these consumption patterns hold in a side by side view. Individual income is a powerful predictor of not just spending trends but also income and balance trends during COVID.
jpmorganchase.com/institute/…
When studying consumption responses, yes. We don't have individual-level consumption data, and study ZIP-level heterogeneity. But JPMCI have individual income and find the same pattern: jpmorganchase.com/content/da…
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Academic job search with two bodies? Maybe not a problem! @usfca are looking to hire two tenure-track faculty in digital economy/computational social science, three in statistics/data science, and one in computer science.
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🚨New Predoc Job Posting Alert!🚨
David Arnold, Will Dobbie, & I are looking for a full-time predoctoral research fellow, to start in Summer 2022 at @Kennedy_School
nber.org/sites/default/files…
Come help us develop new tools to study discrimination and bias in algorithms!
@econ_ra
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I'm hiring a pre-doc to work with me on empirical IO/applied micro projects starting in Fall '22!
Details below and instructions here: shoshanavasserman.com/files/…. International students (who need J1) are welcome & non-econ bgs are fine given interest + curiosity.
Please apply :)
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Short advice thread for budding economists applying now for predocs
TLDR: Being a predoc is/should be a major human capital investment that you and your PI will make together.
Look for someone who will invest in you rather than simply someone who is a big name. cc @econ_ra