Register now: 14–17 September 2025
The VfS Annual Conference at the University of Cologne focuses on the Revival of Industrial Policy.
Keynotes by Réka Juhász, Pol Antràs & John Vickers.
EU, US, China – industrial policy in global competition.
More info: https://www.socialpolitik.de
#VfS2025 #IndustrialPolicy #EconomicPolicy #EU #EconResearch #VfS_conference2025 #VfS
🎉 "Public Pre-Primary and Maternal Employment in Algeria: Evidence from a Natural Experiment." with Moundir Lassassi just published in World Bank Economic Review! https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhad024
The American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economic Profession (CSWEP) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) invite proposals to evaluate cost-effective and scalable interventions designed to increase the presence and success of women throughout the economics discipline.
https://www.ssrc.org/programs/cswep-women-in-economics-research-consortium/
Submissions close August 31, 2023. #EconResearch #Funding
The CSWEP-SSRC Women in Economics Research Consortium will support research that tests, replicates, and scales interventions designed to increase women’s representation in economics, and will work with university, disciplinary, and departmental leaders to secure the implementation of effective interventions.
🎉 New paper! “Socioeconomic Status and the Changing Nature of School-to-Work Transitions in Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia.” with Ragui Assaad and @colettesalemi in ILR Review
What are the best *written* #econ journal articles? Looking for examples for students (and others) of how to do it well. Particularly the intro!
Anyone have favorites?
30% of first-time homebuyers get downpayment assistance from parents...
How much of the homeownership rate among young households is accounted for by parental transfers?
This paper finds:
(1) parental transfers account for 15 p.p. (31%) of the young adult homeownership rate
(2) "parental transfers account for 30% of the black-white homeownership gap"
(In short, 30% is a key % in this paper)
Paper by Eirik Eylands Brandsaas here: http://papers.eebrandsaas.com/Homeownership_BankOfMomAndDad.pdf
"Is International Trade Always Beneficial to Labor Markets? A Case Study from Egypt" by Raymond Robertson, Mexico Vergara, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo
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Caroline Krafft
Alex A. Smith
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
Alex Albright