New working paper out with Yue Gu and Sisi Sung: The Effect of Sibling Gender Composition on Women's Education and Occupational Choice Open to feedback! ssrn.com/abstract=539...

Check out our new working paper!

New working paper out with Yue Gu and Sisi Sung: The Effect of Sibling Gender Composition on Women's Education and Occupational Choice Open to feedback! ssrn.com/abstract=539...

Excellent post exploring the immigrant fiscal contributions by visa category. Important to note that it is overall positive without even considering indirect positive effects on UK born as my own research shows: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

You know how everyone is freaking about how bad new immigrants are for public finances? I did the math and: even considering only new Boriswave immigrants, the average new immigrant salary was still higher than the average British national. On Substack: www.laurenpolicy.com/p/are-recent...

Our paper (@econzach.bsky.social Ed Kosack) is forthcoming! We use high-frequency data to identify the magnitude, timing, and persistence of conflict-induced migration during the Mexican Revolution. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very happy to see our recent research on the effects of free school meals on school attendance featured in the @unesconow.bsky.social Health and Education Resource Centre's monthly newsletter: bit.ly/3Zq9JEM For the published paper (open access) please see: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

JMP by Yannis Kastis with @hillaryvipond.bsky.social It's both an immigration paper & an adoption-of-technology paper. I didn’t know this: immigration of Jewish tailors from the Pale was very important in the rise of mass garment production in Victorian England jkastis.github.io/yanniskastis...

More and more migration-and-development economists are here! Please suggest yourself or others for me to add. #EconSky

New paper: “(In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money” with @vincentdelabastita.bsky.social and Spike Gibbs is now out in Explorations in Economic History The paper is open access and here is a summary 🧵 (1/16) doi.org/10.1016/j.ee...

How can researchers provide the nuanced, fast evidence policymakers need to make policy in real time? @trfetzer.com, Christina Palmou and I have written an ESCoE blog based on our recent working paper: www.escoe.ac.uk/evidence-for...

Very excited to see our paper (with @bodanieli.bsky.social ) on forced migration and local economic development published in the Journal of Development Economics. Link to the paper (open access) here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jd...

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Very excited to see our paper (with @bodanieli.bsky.social ) on forced migration and local economic development published in the Journal of Development Economics. Link to the paper (open access) here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jd...

Increasing the minimum income threshold to £38k ignores spillover benefits migrants can bring to UK-born workers. My research with Graeme Roy & Marco Alfano shows that migration into a lower skilled occupation can have a positive effect on UK wages in an adjacent higher skilled occupation. /1

Increasing the minimum income threshold to £38k ignores spillover benefits migrants can bring to UK-born workers. My research with Graeme Roy & Marco Alfano shows that migration into a lower skilled occupation can have a positive effect on UK wages in an adjacent higher skilled occupation. /1

Had a great time attending the CEMIR Junior Economist Workshop on Migration Research at the ifo Institute. First time in Germany and can't wait to go back!

I applied and had a really great experience -- recommended.