🚨Postdoc position in public economics🚨 Four-year postdoc at @heclausanne.bsky.social, funded through @snsf.ch project "The Economics of Inheritance and Inter-Vivos Gifts". Application deadline: 30 December. #econsky @unil.bsky.social @eyquem2.bsky.social @izmartinez86.bsky.social bit.ly/4qWyG6G

We are hosting the Canadian Macroeconomics Study Group at @westernu.ca! This year's keynote is Kjetil Storesletten @hellerhurwicz.bsky.social Program 👉 baxter-robinson.github.io/CMSG2025_Pro... Registration is 100 CAD (70 for students!) 🔗https://economics.uwo.ca/about-us/workshops/index.html

I am hiring a Junior Economics Researcher at UPF Barcelona. Please apply if you are interested macro, market power, labor euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/332002 #EconJobs #AcademicJobs #Economics #JobAlert

Some projects, rather than using up time, feed your energy; working w/ @cortesecon.bsky.social & @stone-centre-ubc.bsky.social & all at @cleforum.bsky.social to organize the 1st annual CLEF conference is giving me that buzz. Join us April 25/26! register here stonecentre.economics.ubc.ca/clef2025/

🚨 New working paper 🚨 I investigate wealth mobility in the United States using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). #EconSky #WealthMobility

🚨PRE-DOC OPPORTUNITY🚨 If you are 🔸considering a future in #econ research, via a PhD or other paths (thinktanks, civil service); 🔸interested in studying Qs abt tax, growth & ineq; then come work w/me, @andy-summers.bsky.social + @centaxuk.bsky.social team econjobmarket.org/positions/11... #econ_ra

Our findings: 1. There is substantial health inequality by race, ethnicity, and gender. At age 55, Black men and women have frailty levels, which could be viewed as "biological age," comparable to those of White men and women 13 and 20 years older, respectively. 1/4 #Econsky

In a paper accepted by the Journal of Risk and Insurance, Laurier prof William Morrison and @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social prof Bradley Ruffle conduct a lab experiment on insurance claims and find that there is no link between dishonest insurance reporting and the amt paid for insurance.

UBC is launching a new Economics MA: Economics and Computation Stream: economics.ubc.ca/graduate/mas... Students will take grad courses in both Econ and CS. The stream is tailored for students with a BSc in CS or equivalent coursework. Prior econ coursework is NOT required. Spread the word!