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/
The Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF) is a network of Canadian academic researchers focused on the analysis of labour markets, including issues of human capital and skills development, labour sho...
Nice thread by my coauthor
@socampdi.bsky.social
on a short paper connecting mobility and inequality measurement
Kelly Foley
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
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
Rory McGee
🚨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
🚨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
How can we account for inequality when measuring economic mobility❓
Many mobility measures focus on rank changes across generations or time.
But ranks only capture relative positions regardless of income/wealth differences.
New paper w/
@mcgeeconomics.bsky.social: ifs.org.uk/publications...
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!
🚨 New working paper 🚨
I investigate wealth mobility in the United States using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID).
#EconSky #WealthMobility
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.
