Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Can You Erase the Mark of a Criminal Record? Labor Market Impacts of Criminal Record Remediation" by Amanda Agan, Andrew Garin, Dmitri Koustas, Alexandre Mas, and Crystal S. Yang. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Can You Erase the Mark of a Criminal Record? Labor Market Impacts of Criminal Record Remediation

(Forthcoming Article) - We investigate whether removing a previously-obtained criminal record improves employment outcomes. We estimate the causal impact of criminal record remediation laws that have ...

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How does sharing salary history in a job application impact salary offered? In a randomized audit study, @amandayagan.bsky.social, Bo Cowgill & @laurakgee.bsky.social found that ⬆️ disclosed salaries led to ⬆️salary offers & ⬆️perception that a candidate had more options. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Salary History and Employer Demand: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit

(July 2025) - We study how salary disclosures affect employer demand using a field experiment featuring hundreds of recruiters evaluating over 2,000 job applications. We randomize the presence of sala...

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We are pleased to announce the 9th Potsdam PhD Workshop in Empirical Economics, which will be held September 24–25, 2025. The workshop aims to allow talented young researchers to present and discuss their research. For details and the CfP, follow this link: www.uni-potsdam.de/en/cepa/even...

Sounds like no one is currently doing this - this might be a great opportunity for a junior scholar in the crime space to network and do a public service for the crime sub-field by organizing several sessions!

Jennifer Doleac@jenniferdoleac.bsky.social · 2y ago

Is anyone organizing crime sessions for APPAM this year?

🥳 The 16th #TWEC Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime is coming to Berlin in 2025! 🎓 @chtraxler.bsky.social and I are excited to host the workshop on 26-27 September, with keynotes by Paolo Pinotti and Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard. ⏱️ Deadline to submit your papers: 02 May 2025! More👇

Just had to do this this morning while panic prepping for a 10am class. Thanks goodness for the backup and generally remembering my TexShop days... good luck out there #econsky with Overleaf down...

Ebehi Iyoha@ebehi.org · 2y ago

With @overleaf.com down, here's a quick tip to keep working. If you're already syncing overleaf with Dropbox, you can still find your files in Dropbox/Apps/Overleaf Install the latex extension in vscode or download an editor like texstudio. Should take 15 mins or less to get set up! #econsky

Had an amazing time mentoring PhD students for @AEA CSWEP, and then bouncing between #2024APPAM #2024SEA and seeing so many great colleagues and friends 📈📉#econsky

Ok, trying this thing out. Sorry my first thing is an ask but... favorite event study plots, go! Just looking for nice examples for a PhD methods class. I've got some of the obvious ones, but feel free to give those too. #EconSky

Finally. . . Bo Cowgill, @nberpubs.bsky.social member @amandayagan.bsky.social , and @laurakgee.bsky.social look at voluntary income disclosure in the context of salary history bans for job seekers.