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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Michael Stepner retweeted
🤷🤷♀️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
🧵1/N
Michael Stepner retweeted
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
Michael Stepner retweeted
Want your university to study and improve graduate student mental health?
We have a blueprint that could be helpful:
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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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.
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Michael Stepner retweeted
"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
Michael Stepner retweeted
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…
Michael Stepner retweeted
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!
Michael Stepner retweeted
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…
Michael Stepner retweeted
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.
Michael Stepner retweeted
🚨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
Michael Stepner retweeted
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 :)
Michael Stepner retweeted
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
Michael Stepner retweeted
Hi Everyone — I’m hiring a pre-doctoral fellow to work with me to study the welfare impact of government policies and identify the barriers to economic opportunity.
Application link below:
academicpositions.harvard.ed…
#econtwitter #econra
Michael Stepner retweeted
Are you interested in doing economic research as a predoc on
--unemployment benefits
--the safety net
--the racial wealth gap
--financial resilience
apply here to work in the lab I co-run with @pascaljnoel : chicagobooth.edu/-/media/fac…
Michael Stepner retweeted
Fancy Hospital: 💗 We have an unshakeable commitment to racial equity! 💗
Me: That's awesome! It's about time we expanded our mental health services. So hard for our BIPOC patients to access.
FH: lol we can't do that. We'd lose way too much money.
Me: oh
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📊New research by @OppInsights Research Principal @michaelstepner appears in the New York Times today.
Using real-time banking data, @michaelstepner and his coauthors find that the vast majority of people who lost pandemic UI benefits in June did not find new jobs by early Aug.
26 states (all but 1 led by GOP governors) have tried to end or reduce expanded federal unemployment benefits. They argue doing so will bring ppl back to the work and boost their economies.
Has it worked? New research suggests the answer is mostly "no."
nytimes.com/2021/08/20/busin…
Michael Stepner retweeted
I’m hiring for a full time RA position! Our team is researching at the intersection of economics, health services research, & public health. Ideal for someone with a quant background + knowledge of Stata, and great prep for PhD programs. Start date ~ Jun 1
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“If we make policy in February 2021 based on economic conditions in April 2020, we risk reaching the wrong conclusions,” write Raj Chetty, @John_N_Friedman and @michaelstepner. This is “where the strength of the real-time data approach lies.” nyti.ms/3qdcPaY
