Associate professor, University of California-Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Joined April 2009
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When some workers arrive late, the whole production line waits. In an RCT with 92 Indian factories, Shreya Chandra shows on-time incentives raised output 24%, even among workers already on time, and firms have 40% fewer delayed orders. 🏭 #EconJobMarket shreyachandra.com
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Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @jaug1022 @WFUEconomics who works on topics relate to urban economics, crime + development
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We’re very proud to announce that the student prize winner of 2026 North American Meeting is Micah Baum for his paper “When Opportunity Moves to You: Housing Deregulation and the Distribution of Child Outcomes”!
If you have a paper on "Escaping the middle-income trap" consider sending it to this conference and special issue of the Journal of Development Economics.
Call for Papers | Escaping the Middle-Income Trap
The Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) and the Journal of Development Economics (JDE) are inviting submissions for a conference in Tokyo and a related JDE Special Issue on the determinants of sustained growth in middle-income economies.
The call welcomes both completed working papers and research proposals on topics including:
• Firm productivity and innovation
• Industrial policy and government interventions
• Competition, market structure, and structural transformation
📅 Submission deadline: September 15, 2026
📍 Conference: Tokyo, Japan | May 6–7, 2027 (travel support available for one author of selected papers)
📖 Selected conference papers will be invited to submit to the JDE Special Issue through an expedited review process.
This is an excellent opportunity for researchers working on economic growth, productivity, industrial policy, and development. I encourage interested scholars to submit their work and share this opportunity with colleagues.
Link here: adb.org/adbi/research/call-f…
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The Board of Regents has the authority to reinstate the SAT/ACT requirement in the UC system. I hope they follow the recommendation from more than 3000 faculty who signed the letter to return to testing, the 2020 faculty-led Standardized Testing Task Force that confirmed the value of standardized testing in admissions, and the unanimous Academic Senate vote to maintain the requirement.
Listen to the faculty, and keep politics out of higher-education.
NEW: UC’s admissions board has abruptly shelved its plan to study bringing back SAT/ACT -- in a move that leaves the direction of one of the university’s most closely watched debates unclear a day before the Board of Regents meets in San Francisco:
latimes.com/california/story…
Best part of the job! Seeing our Ph.D. students complete their studies and spread their wings! Congrats Lucy, Shreya, Elif and all who got hooded yesterday at the Greek Theater
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I'm very happy that the BREAD Development conference will take place in Mexico City this year (on October 23-24), hosted by ITAM. The deadline to submit a paper is June 19. Selected papers will be invited to submit to a special issue of the JDE. Website:
bread-mexico-2026.github.io/
This was my first time going to the UEA meetings in Europe and it was an awesome conference. Great hosts at Pompeu Fabra, awesome city, and great talks. It was great to catch up with co-authors and friends and meet new people.
Thanks to everyone who came to the UEA European Meetings in Barcelona and to all those from CREI, BSE, and the program committees who worked behind the scenes to make it happen.
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May 21 is the deadline to submit a paper to this year's Urban Economics Association Meetings in Chicago. The conference itself is Sept 25-26 at the Chicago Federal Reserve. Looking forward to a fantastic conference. Call for papers here: urbaneconomics.org/meetings/…
The 2026 call for Ph.D. student applications for the Urban Economics Summer School is out. This year the event is hosted by LSE from May 11-13. Deadline for applications is March 12.
urbaneconomics.org/workshops…
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Forthcoming in EJ: ‘Does Combating Corruption Reduce Clientelism?’ by Gustavo J Bobonis, Paul J Gertler, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Simeon Nichter doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaf082 @marcogleznav @paul_gertler @RoyalEconSoc @OUPSocSci #EconTwitter
Thanks @claudferraz ! It was very interesting to dive into the citizen's perspective of how anti-corruption audits affected clientelistic interactions with local politicians.
Surprising fact: In 2025, 3 out of every 4 vehicles sold by GM in Mexico were made in China (150k out of 200k) motorpasion.com.mx/industria…
Check out the VoxDev coverage of our new working paper on the differential impacts of slum upgrading in place vs relocation:
@vox_dev @NatureAtCal #econtwitter #AcademicTwitter
🆕 Upgrading vs relocating: Policy lessons on slum renewal
Today on VoxDev, @paul_gertler (@BerkeleyHaas), @marcogleznav (@AreBerkeley), Raimundo Undurraga (@uchile) & @jaug1022 (@WFUEconomics) outline research on Chile: voxdev.org/topic/migration-u…
Submit your papers to this Berkeley conference in honor of Betty Sadoulet! @econtwitter
Call for papers: UC Berkeley conference honoring Elisabeth Sadoulet — October 17, 2026. Abstract submission deadline: March 15. Conference papers will be invited to submit to a special issue of the Journal of Development Economics in her honor.
are.berkeley.edu/news/announ…
Two more days to submit to the European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association in Barcelona this year at CREI:
urbaneconomics.org/meetings/…
Meetings take place on May 8 and 9.
Keynote Speakers: Edward Glaeser (Harvard) and Monika Piazzesi (Stanford)
Huge thanks to our outgoing leadership for your dedication, leadership, and incredible work: Henry Overman, Elisabet Viladecans Marsal, Jonathan Dingel and Janet Kohlhase @henryoverman @TradeDiversion @eviladecans
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Thrilled to be part of the new Urban Economic Association leadership with Jessie Handbury, David Nagy, Milena Almagro, and Jonathan Hall. Excited for what’s ahead in urban economics! @jessiehandbury @MilenaAlmagro @jonathanhall2 @UrbanEconomics urbaneconomics.org/
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In-situ upgrading of slums improves housing quality and socioeconomic status and produces positive spillovers in nearby neighborhoods, increasing housing investment and lowering crime, from @paul_gertler, @marcogleznav, Raimundo Undurraga, and @jaug1022 nber.org/papers/w34560
