New from HCEO members Mariana Laverde & @aaronsojourner.org: Assigning teachers to alternative classrooms & schools within school districts can lead to better student outcomes without making teachers worse off. With Elton Mykerezi & @aradhyasood.bsky.social. hceconomics.uchicago.edu/research/wor...

Awesome news--more municipalities need to do this!

Can assigning teachers to alternative classrooms & schools within same school district lead to better student outcomes? Alternative assignment that makes no teacher worse off ⬆️ student scores 7% of standard deviation! Check out my new paper w/ @aaronsojourner.org, Mariana Laverde & Elton Mykerezi👇

More depressing (but important to be aware of) news on the pollution-haven front: Indian firms have been increasing battery recycling in Africa, with (alas) predictable health consequences: grist.org/accountabili... A new job mkt paper by Gerald Ipapa documents this: sites.google.com/view/geraldi...

🏘️ Just accepted 🏡 in @jaereaere.bsky.social: "The Effect of Natural Disasters and Extreme Weather on Household Location Choice and Economic Welfare" by Douglas H. Wrenn Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The call for papers for the next NBER Organizational Economics Working Group is out! We will meet on April 11-12, 2024 in Cambridge, MA. Submission deadline is 11:59 pm ET on Monday, February 12, 2024. Link for submissions below: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...