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📢 The Department of Economics at Georgetown University is pleased to introduce our 2026/2027 Ph.D. Job Market Candidates.
🔗 econ.georgetown.edu/academic…
We’ll be sharing highlights of their work and job market papers in this thread 🧵
#EconJobMarket #econtwitter
🔷Brazil reserved half its federal college seats for disadvantaged students.
👉 @cauedobbin and co-authors find benefited students gained more than displaced ones lost, but there were 30% more displaced than benefited, leaving a modest net gain
🔗 nber.org/papers/w35893
Mihyun You is a macroeconomist who has studied quantitative macro and macro-labor. Her job market paper examines how family structure during adolescence relates to employment instability in young adulthood.
🌐 sites.google.com/view/mihyun…
Siming Ye studies how organizations should evaluate and reward employees whose work is used and revised by others. Her JMP studies how others’ purchases of unavailable goods help shape consumers’ choices among available goods.
🌐 simingye.com/
Mingao Xie is an empirical IO economist studying digital markets and online marketplaces. Her job market paper uses data from a large online used-book marketplace to study how resale platforms can set prices dynamically based on daily inventory.
🌐 mingaoxie.com/
Jinxin Wu is a macroeconomist studying fiscal policy and optimal taxation under geopolitical risk. Her job market paper studies how tax structure and government commitment shape defense provision and an economy’s ability to adapt to destructive risk.
🌐 sites.google.com/view/jinxin…
Jeremy Rosen’s research assesses whether real-world decision-makers, from admissions committees to professional tennis players, make optimal choices. He has published in the Journal of Political Economy and co-developed ESPN’s quarterback draft model.
🌐 jeremyarosen.com/
Minah Kim is an applied microeconomist studying how migration, public policy, and climate change shape labor markets and the transition to greener economies. She has also worked as a consultant at the World Bank.
🌐 minahkim-econ.github.io/
🔗 linkedin.com/in/minah-kim-a8…
Zhengrui (Mike) Cheng’s research examines how firms, sourcing relationships, and market structure shape the organization of global value chains. He has also completed a summer internship (FIP) at the IMF.
🌐 chengzhengrui.com/
🔗 linkedin.com/in/chengzr/
🟦 Congratulations to Jacob Mortenson (Georgetown PhD ’16) on his new AER paper, “Corporate Tax Cuts, Firm Growth, and Workers’ Earnings.”
Key finding: 87% of short-run private-income gains from the 2017 corporate tax cuts flowed to the top 10%.
aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12…
Georgetown Center for Economic Research retweeted
💥Really happy to see this finally out!
It will be open access!
🔗doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.20…
⚫️With sorrow and grief we announce that:
Georgetown's Economics Department has lost one of our foundational members, a pillar of our community, Marius Schwartz, who peacefully passed away on Tuesday, June 9. [1/3]
He was utterly unique - brilliant, funny, insightful, kind, irreverent, generous, and a firm believer in truth. He had an enormous impact on generations of students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, on his department colleagues, & on the profession as a whole. [2/3]
👏 Forthcoming paper from one of our very own! Congrats to Alexandre for a great paper.
Oster's δ —a go-to robustness check— can flip a coefficient's sign far more easily than zero it out, so a "large" δ can mask a smaller sign-reversing confounder.
👉Comes with a Stata fix.
Forthcoming in the AER: "The Effect of Omitted Variables on the Sign of Regression Coefficients" by Matthew A. Masten and Alexandre Poirier. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12…
Georgetown Center for Economic Research retweeted
🚨New NBER working paper alert 🚨
🤔2021–2024 was the worst U.S. inflation in four decades. The question: Did voters react to the rising prices, or to the shrinking paychecks?
😱We approached this paper with one major surprise: there is no official measure of inflation at the county level in the U.S.
🌟To study the relationship between inflation and electoral outcomes during, we first had to construct local inflation measures using county-level data on family budget costs and incomes.
The answer? -> Check it out! 👇
🔗 nber.org/papers/w35301
🔹New NBER working paper alert by Professor @cauedobbin on layoffs and quits as determinants of lower separation rates at high-quality firms
👉nber.org/papers/w35177
🔵Big news for our colleague Cauê Dobbin @cauedobbin ! 🎉
He has been appointed as a Faculty Research Fellow in the Economics of Education program at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
🔗nber.org/people/caue_de_cast…
Georgetown Center for Economic Research retweeted
Fantastic two days at the @SAISHopkins and @GCER_Georgetown #geoeconomics conference. Great papers, two insightful lectures, a terrific policy panel on the role of middle powers, and an impeccable organization. Thanks to @arebucci1, Jon and Nuno for inviting
@JSchreger @SoumayaKeynes
⭐️New from GCER collegues @Georgetown 📚
Jishnu Das & @cauedobbin's chapter "Human Capital Markets" — forthcoming in the Handbook of Development Economics — is out as NBER WP 35061.
How do private providers reshape education & health in LMICs? 👇
nber.org/system/files/workin…