In just a few short days, 400 students, faculty, staff, parents, alums/donors have already signed a petition to restore the retirement benefits @Middlebury plans to claw back, despite decades of repeated promises. Add your name! go.middlebury.edu/savetheben…
For background, see this op-ed, penned by twelve senior members of @middecon:
middleburycampus.com/article…
@middecon @Middlebury's own @AmandaGregg711 has been awarded the Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History. A wonderful and well-deserved honor ... but we're not surprised! Bravo, AG!
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In a few weeks, @willhpyle will present @BOFITresearch at the Bank of Finland on democratic values in Russia.
Sure to be fascinating.
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Read all about it! Read all about it!
Thanks to the efforts of @middecon colleague @D_Munro_Econ, we have an annual newsletter!
Vol. 1 is sure to become a collector's item:
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Forthcoming in Economics Letters with @MariannaKudlyak: We compile a high-frequency, detailed geographic dataset and find that local stay-at-home orders issued March 16-22, 2020 triggered mass layoffs in the United States.
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Congratulations, @EconSargent!
Thrilled to announce my final dissertation chapter is (finally!) out!
Unpacking migration costs: Heterogeneous effects in EU labor markets sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
So proud Amanda is one of us!
Now on Early View: 'Finance capitalism in industrializing autocracies: Evidence from corporate balance sheets in imperial Germany and Russia'.
By Caroline Fohlin and Amanda Gregg. @CarolineFohlin @AmandaGregg711 @EmoryEconomics @middecon
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@middecon and @WilliamsEcon join forces, in the form of @AmandaGregg711 and Steven Nafziger, to tell us all we need to know about corporations in late imperial Russia in the pages of @EJ_RES!
Forthcoming in EJ: ‘The Births, Lives and Deaths of Corporations in Late Imperial Russia’ by Amanda Gregg, Steven Nafziger doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueae011 @AmandaGregg711 @RoyalEconSoc @OUPEconomics #EconTwitter
@middecon @Middlebury's own @EconSargent was interviewed by @stephanie_h of @Marketplace on inflation. Did you hear the story?
marketplace.org/2024/05/13/c…
Middlebury Economics retweeted
Florida's 6-week ban abortion ban is big deal. Appreciated the chance to talk about it--and all the things we don't yet know about how many folks with get in under the threshold, drive 11+ hours, or mail-order pills--with @ailsachang @NPR
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Congratulations to @middecon's @Caitlin_K_Myers who was named an @nberpubs Research Associate, an extraordinary achievement.
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In a new episode of the Brookings Podcast on Economic Activity, Janice Eberly, @A_Fieldhouse, @D_Munro_Econ, @Lsheiner, and @JonSteinsson discuss how states' economic cycles have become increasingly similar, and what that means for worker migration.
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I'm thrilled to see innovation cited as one of the key reasons behind the FTC's vote to ban non-compete agreements earlier today. It's inspiring to see research impacting policy -- and I'm honored to see my WP with @EmmaJRockall discussed alongside other exciting academic work.
Forthcoming in AEJ: Policy: "The Long-Run Effects of California’s Paid Family Leave Act on Women’s Careers and Childbearing: New Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design and US Tax Data" by Bailey, Byker, Patel, and Ramnath. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12…
The work of current (@D_Munro_Econ) and former (@A_Fieldhouse) members of @middecon @Middlebury is featured by @BrookingsEcon!
A new historical dataset of state unemployment rates shows that, apart from the COVID recession, states' downturns have been increasingly similar in length and severity.
Read more from @A_Fieldhouse, @D_Munro_Econ, @ChristofferKoch, and Sean Howard:
brookings.edu/articles/the-e…
@middecon @Middlebury’s @AndreaRobbett will visit @umsi to share her newest work with colleague Jeff Carpenter!
Our next Social, Behavioral and Experimental Economics seminar speaker is @AndreaRobbett of @middecon. Join us! RSVP: myumi.ch/nyyDb
“Measuring Socially Appropriate Social Preferences”
Tuesday, April 9, 11:30 am-12:45 pm
Ross School of Business B1590 (Corner Commons)
You know you want to go …
Super excited to giving a Carol Rifelj Lecture at Midd this afternoon (4:30 in Hillcrest 103). I'll be presenting some new work on the nineteenth century VT economy, focusing on a pilot about a particularly interesting location: Middlebury!
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