📕 NEW from @anacostaramon.bsky.social, Michaela Slotwinski, @ursina.bsky.social and Anne Ardila Brenøe: 'Do Mothers Respond to Information About the Long-Term Consequences of Part-Time Work?'

📕 NEW from @mariusring.bsky.social: 'Wealth Taxation and Household Saving: Evidence from Norway' Quasi-experimental variation in the Norwegian wealth tax is used to study how wealth taxation affects households’ saving and labor supply behaviour.

📕 NEW from Cailin Slattery (Assistant Professor of Economics, UC Berkley): 'Bidding for Firms: Subsidy Competition in the United States' Firms are the clear winners from subsidy competition.

New from Daniel Herbst (Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona) and Nathaniel Hendren (Harvard University): 'A better way to pay for college?' There is a better way to fund undergraduate study, according to new research on the US.

New from David Lagakos‬, @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social and Michael Waugh: 'Welfare Effects of Subsidizing Seasonal Migration' Migration experiments in rural Bangladesh offer a unique perspective on the potential benefits and costs of out-migration for rural individuals.

New from Juliana Londoño-Vélez (UCLA) and Javier Ávila-Mahecha: Based on Colombia’s long experience with wealth taxes, a new study reveals both promise and peril. Read our new article here: microeconomicinsights.org/taxing-wealt...

Taxing wealth: Some lessons from Colombia | Microeconomic Insights

Yet because few countries levy wealth taxes, relatively little is known about the actual responses of wealthy individuals when governments tax their assets – especially in countries outside Europe. Th...

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New from @davidautor.bsky.social, Caroline Chin, Anna Salomons & Bryan Seegmiller: Technological change transforms economies and labor markets, reshaping the types of jobs that are available, the wages they pay, and the skills they require

New from @frankverboven.bsky.social & Biliana Yontcheva: Comparatively little is known about the impact of geographic entry restrictions and price regulation, which go beyond general occupational licensing requirements. Read our new article here: microeconomicinsights.org/private-mono...

Private monopoly and restricted entry | Microeconomic Insights

Occupational licensing regulations are common across many service sectors, including health, education, transportation, and legal services. These regulations affect up to 20-30% of workers in both the...

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New from Chuan Yu @harvard.edu & David C. Chan and Matthew Gentzkow @stanford.edu: 'The role of diagnostic skill: How and why it matters' In many settings, expert professionals like physicians and judges make different decisions when handling similar cases.

New from Luis E. Gonzales, Koichiro Ito & Mar Reguant: 'Expanding renewable energy: lessons from Chile' The paper examines the impact of linking two major electricity markets in Chile, which were, until 2017, completely separate, with no interconnection between them.

“workers believe their outside option is much closer to their current wage than it actually is” | Worker Beliefs About Outside Options | Simon Jäger, Christopher Roth, Nina Roussille, Benjamin Schoefer | Microeconomic Insights | microeconomicinsights.org/worker-belie...

Worker Beliefs About Outside Options | Microeconomic Insights

Firms differ substantially in the wages they pay to similar workers. Standard models of the labor market assume that workers have accurate beliefs about the differences in wages across firms, includin...

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New from @simonjaeger.bsky.social Christopher Roth, Nina Roussille & Benjamin Schoefer: "Worker Beliefs About Outside Options" Standard models of the labor market assume that workers have accurate beliefs about the differences in wages across firms, but this assumption remains broadly untested.