Economics, social policy, and new socks. @BeckerFriedman/@uchi_economics. Formerly @UCBerkeley, @MSFTResearch.
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Another nice extension from living science! And a great starting point for exploring china shock empirics yourself.
People with strong views on the underlying DiD here will be interested in the choices our agent made, as well as the results on non-manufacturing outcomes.
I saw a lot of discussions on the China syndrome yesterday here. Coincidently, we chose the same paper for this week's living science update.
Our extension focused on manufacturing jobs per 100 working-age adults. We find that the damage kept growing long after the shock ended. Manufacturing losses in exposed places deepened for another decade, reaching the size of the paper's headline estimate around 2018. Most of that gap was still there in 2023. Average local wages have recovered, but the manufacturing jobs did not come back.
Learn more in the link below.
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I saw a lot of discussions on the China syndrome yesterday here. Coincidently, we chose the same paper for this week's living science update.
Our extension focused on manufacturing jobs per 100 working-age adults. We find that the damage kept growing long after the shock ended. Manufacturing losses in exposed places deepened for another decade, reaching the size of the paper's headline estimate around 2018. Most of that gap was still there in 2023. Average local wages have recovered, but the manufacturing jobs did not come back.
Learn more in the link below.
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You guys! Our hiatus is over! I'm excited to bring you this interview w @evankrose, about the costs & benefits of using incarceration as a consequence for breaking probation rules. He measures the effect of a NC reform that ended such revocations. Important policy implications!
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You guys! Our hiatus is over! I'm excited to bring you this interview w @evankrose, about the costs & benefits of using incarceration as a consequence for breaking probation rules. He measures the effect of a NC reform that ended such revocations. Important policy implications!
Episode 98: @evankrose on community supervision
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A conviction typically comes with hundreds of dollars in fines and fees. A lot of recent work (e.g. sites.lsa.umich.edu/mgms/wp-…) has questioned what this practice achieves.
New paper with @sambnorris looks at when lowering fees would be unambiguously better for everyone.
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Decreasing criminal justice fees and fines benefits both the most disadvantaged defendants and local governments, from @sambnorris and @evankrose nber.org/papers/w31806
Our takeaway: LFOs are high mostly because they raise more revenue that way.
Reducing them would have fiscal costs, although more careful personalization could both increase revenue and decrease the burden on defendants.