Unprecedented return migration from the US has contributed to Mexico's economic development in recent decades. In the March issue, by José R. Bucheli and Matías Fontenla zurl.co/h2IZ1

The Impact of Return Migration on Economic Development

Abstract. Mexican migration to the United States—one of the largest flows in human history—inverted in the late 2000s, and during the next decade more Mexicans returned home than those who migrated north. We exploit this historical reversal to estimate the effects of return migration on economic development in Mexico. We find that return migration leads to higher levels of development through improved income, labor, health, and educational outcomes. Our findings suggest that the benefits of migration extend beyond individuals’ tenure abroad, as accumulated capital, skills, and social norms have the potential to contribute to development back home.

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Good news for sports econ people looking for travel funds. NAASE is now offering travel grants for first time presenters at NAASE-organized sessions at the Southerns, Easterns, and Westerns.

Legalized sports betting increases the impact of unexpected losses on intimate partner violence. Just Accepted new paper by Emily Arnesen and Kyutaro Matsuzawa zurl.co/9fiG7

Sports Betting Legalization Amplifies Emotional Cues and Intimate Partner Violence

Abstract. This study explores the relationship between legalized sports gambling, unexpected emotional cues stemming from NFL home team upset losses and

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Gosh, if only someone had warned this might happen. Again, it's time to stop taking these economic impact "projections" seriously.

World Cup promises aren’t materializing for some Atlanta small businesses

A group of 30 vendors is trying to recoup thousands of dollars they claim they lost with a city-sponsored small-business activation downtown, the Welcome to ATL Experience.

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We also thank Brian Soebbing of the University of Alberta for serving as an at-large executive committee member for the past four years and Frank Stephenson of Berry College for serving as president 2024-26.

Congratulations to JC Bradbury of Kennesaw State on being elected as president-elect of NAASE and to Jeremy Losak of Syracuse University on being elected as an at-large executive committee member. And congratulations of Eva Leeds of Moravian College as she moves from president-elect to president.

Just got a notification from a college that my application for their Assistant Professor position was rejected. I applied in September 2022.

Important point: Handing out special tax breaks (not having to put $1 in the treasury) is equivalent to paying out a direct subsidy (take $1 from the treasury), and should be accounted for as such, even though they are more complicated to understand. Don't reward obfuscation.

Field of Schemes@fieldofschemes.bsky.social · last mo.

Saying the Bears megaprojects bill "didn’t provide any public money for the stadium" but did "provide property tax breaks" is nonsense that doesn't belong in any self-respecting news outlet, @crainschicago.bsky.social.

Thank emergency substitute PBP announcer John Mozena of @accountableecon.bsky.social for stepping in in my absence!

There’s a lot of good things to like about the UMBC Sports Econ conference, but I think this is my favorite. All conferences should have a play-by-play like this.

Field of Schemes@fieldofschemes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Researchers found no significant economic differences between the immediate areas around new NFL stadiums vs those around rejected runner-up sites, which is consistent with *gestures at everything everyone in this room has been publishing for years*.

Researchers found a short-term spike in hotel revenues immediately after Leo Messi’s arrival in MLS, but no evidence of any long-term structural growth in hotel stays, which should inform decisions on justifying dedicating hotel taxes to stadium projects.

Liveblog: What economists are telling us this year about sports stadiums

I unfortunately had to cancel my trip to this year's sports economics conference at University of Maryland-Baltimore County starting today, but friend of Field of Schemes John Mozena of the Center for...

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Language segmentation of the online sports labor market: The case of chess coaches: Mikhail Usanin

New WP, just in time for #ASHEcon26! What started off as a project to learn LLM use for text analysis turned accidentally into a paper about stigma. [1/n]

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Examining weight stigma shows that the "obese" cutoff increases patient mortality. Analyses of diagnostic effort and clinical documentation point to stigma as a mechanism, from Manasvini Singh www.nber.org/papers/w35277

In our newly published paper "Occupation Hazard? An Analysis of Birth Outcomes Among Physician Mothers" @davidslusky.bsky.social , Anupam Jena, and I investigate how a strenuous job affects health by studying the birth outcomes of physicians and lawyers. authors.elsevier.com/a/1nDXBAlwA2...

New publication alert! My paper “Buying Loyalty at the Track? Formula One Grands Prix and Civil Unrest” has just been published in the International Journal of Sport Finance.

Metter, Georgia. Spooky place

jen ramos-eisen@jenramose.online · 3mo ago

what's a random city you have inexplicable beef with?

Now that our paper has been accepted, a quick thread for #EconSky on what happens when governments remove their taxes on gasoline to curry political favor. A timely paper⛽😤 First, it seems rather obvious why you would want to bring down prices when they're doing something like this 📈 1/

Zachary Bartsch at Ave Maria University shows how coffee became a substitute for alcohol during prohibition in the US between 1920 and 1933. #alcohol #coffee #prohibition onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Prohibition and Percolation: The Roaring Success of Coffee During US Alcohol Prohibition

During US alcohol prohibition, 1920 to 1933, alcohol consumption fell dramatically. Less well known is that coffee consumption surged as a legal alternative. Using import data and a variety of textua...

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"Our baseline estimate implies that preserving trust in the integrity and quality of official statistics generates economic benefits of about $25 for every $1 spent on the agency’s budget." www.nber.org/papers/w35135 HT @ericagroshen.bsky.social

The Value of Reliable Statistics

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! I work on questions about women’s health, family, & labor. In my #JMP I study how changes in abortion access affect infant and maternal health, finding that reductions in access harm health at birth. Read the full manuscript here: lillyspringer.com

🚨Working Paper Alert! “Refugee Immigration and Natives’ Fertility” by Aya Aboulhosn, Cevat Giray Aksoy & @berkayozcan.bsky.social 📈Discover how native fertility rates rise in response to forced migration: www.cesifo.org/en/publicati... 📚 Explore more: www.cesifo.org/en/publicati...

This should be required reading for any reporter investigating the neighborhood development effects that stadiums have. It was written before the Braves moved to Truist. The area has since rebounded to become one of Atlanta's up-and-coming areas.

The Other 284 Days - Atlanta Magazine

The story of Turner Field and its neighbors is one of stunted vision, cynical opportunism, halfhearted reform efforts, and misguided renewal schemes. Millions of dollars have been squandered and hundr...

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Your reminder that sports events impose significant negative externalities from crime. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Prime Time for Crime? A Multi-City Analysis of Sporting Events, Sports Venues, and Crime - Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Journal of Quantitative Criminology - This study examines the relationship between sporting events and crime near sports venues based on a sample of Major League Baseball (MLB) and National...

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You're going to be hearing a lot about the massive economic impact of the NFL Draft. New study from Frank Stephenson finds this isn't the case. Also examines a few other events, including Taylor Swift concerts, finding similarly small effects. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Gov. Mike Kehoe: "If the Royals were not here, we'd have zero. So these tools are about keeping those income flows here. So that makes it a net positive to the state." (That sound you just heard was a hundred economists banging their heads against their keyboards.)

Field of Schemes@fieldofschemes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Would the Royals lease a Crown Center stadium site and it would pay property tax? Or would the Royals or a government body buy the land, and if so who pays for it? And what of John Sherman's desire for a ballpark district around a new stadium? More soon.

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones' per-year lease subsidy falls well short of a record, but paying the owner of the NFL's most valuable team $18.2m/year to keep playing in what remains the gold standard for stadium design can't be seen as too much of a bargain.

Arlington council approves $273m in tax money for Cowboys stadium upgrades

Lost a bit amid all the Kansas City news was that down I-35 by Dallas, the Arlington city council voted 7-2 yesterday to approve $273 million in public money for upgrades to the Cowboys' 17-year-old s...

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A great table from Glen Wright’s Academia Obscura

Gosh, if only there was 50 years of research on this subject, which had reached a definitive conclusion that public stadiums are universally awful public investments....

The Legacy of Growing Up in a Recession on Attitudes Towards European Union: Despina Gavresi; Anastasia Litina

WP Alert: "Forecasting the Economic Effects of AI."