Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social [A thread 1/8🧵]

Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever, analysis of new data @epi.org from me & Adam Reich of Columbia Labor Lab. In data back 60 years, Americans' sentiments are both warmer toward unions & cooler towards big business than ever before. www.epi.org/blog/america...

We ask: Why do South African women earn less than men? ~Half the gap is due to women "sorting" into lower-paying firms, beginning in their late 20s. New in JDE w/ @ihsaanbassier.bsky.social . Conversation piece:

Our paper is now out at the Review of Economics and Statistics, "Vacancy Durations and Wages" A simple paper using annual firm & union pay increases to get ~recruitment elasticities. Unsurprisingly, when firms raise wages they get workers more quickly! direct.mit.edu/rest/article...

One is really astonished and frankly enraged every time these intergovernmental organizations walk into a global south forum to deliver a "country report" with clear "recommendations" that of course have zero clues about anything and yet all the power and arrogance to demand everyone's attention.

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Economist: The cup reveals how much the consumers like to drink given his budget constraint.

Churning numbers w/ @ihsaanbassier.bsky.social & @rosaabraham.bsky.social from India's economic census for a project: From the set of non-agri enterprises in India, >98% are informal or micro enterprises (with no hired or hired but < than 10 workers) + they acc for 79% of all workers in the set.

Got a longish read in @phenomenalworld.bsky.social on the budget, Labour's economic strategy and UK political economy. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bey...

After all, 99% of RCTs are information interventions with huge effects, who needs hospitals when we have lectures!

Nice presentation by Imran rasul on race-related research in econ: 2% of publications related to race, pretty flat since 1970 but rising for top 5 journals -- still way below eg sociology at 12%.

Very happy to be International Economic Association's @IEA_economics featured economist for the month of October 2023. In this profile, I reflect on why I do economics, relevance of my work, and how to think about the issue of diversity in the discipline. iea-world.org/Featured%20E...