Econ PhD Student @UMNews
Minneapolis, MN
Joined June 2010
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Okay, I just found out that Michelle Monje, The Brain Prize Winner, 2025 is Karl Deisseroth 's wife.
What a couple!
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mnmacro.github.io/registrati… Less than 3 weeks left to register for the 2026 MN Macro Workshop!! Space is limited and spots are filling fast. Secure yours before the July 7 deadline. You won't want to miss this one. #economist #MacroEconomics
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Here is the conference program
mnmacro.github.io/program/
mnmacro.github.io/registrati… Registration is now open for the 2026 Minnesota Macro Workshop! 📍 Join us July 29-31 at UMN for cutting-edge macroeconomic research and discussion. Space is limited—register by July 10 to secure your spot.
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Just updated **panelView** in R: it now visualizes multi-way fixed-effect structures as a network graph, building on earlier work by Sergio Correia. You can easily identify singletons and duplicate observations before estimation. yiqingxu.org/packages/panelv…
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RA is not a code monkey. RA is an apprentice and you should feel responsible for their intellectual growth. I was lucky to work as an RA for those who treated me properly.
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In new paper, Margherita Borella, @M_De_Nardi, Fang Yang, and @johanatch use a life-cycle model with family structure, labor supply responses, and late-life risks to show bequest motives and medical expense risk are important drivers of aggregate wealth bit.ly/4anebZ5
ALT Cover of a working paper titled "Why Do Households Save and Work?" by Margherita Borella, Johanna Torres Chain, Mariacristina De Nardi, and Fang Yang. The design features a split background with white, gold, and dark blue sections. The logo for the Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis is prominently displayed on the right.
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Why did U.S. Consumer Sentiment Index fall as unemployment and inflation returned to normal 2023-24?
@UMN_Econ JMC Leonardo Barreto @Leo_BarretoV builds calibrated dynamic general equilibrium model with rich consumer heterogeneity to answer the question.
leonardo-barreto.com/
Johanna Torres Chain retweeted
Should IMF limit foreign borrowing by governments of developing nations?
@UMN_Econ JMC Juliana Gamboa-Arbelaez @julipuligamboa argues any such restrictions need to depend on conditions in the country and how the government spends borrowed funds.
sites.google.com/view/julian…
Johanna Torres Chain retweeted
I have a truly fantastic Econ PhD job market candidate on the market this year:
Francisco Bullano is a macroeconomist whose research bridges public economics and health.
His Web page: franciscobullano.com
Please look at his job market package very closely.
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Why households save and work: The role of risks, bequest motives, and family dynamics
Margherita Borella @unito, @M_De_Nardi @UMNews @MinneapolisFed, Fang Yang @DallasFed, Johanna Torres Chain @UMNews
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Great piece on a very interesting paper 👇
Why households save and work: The role of risks, bequest motives, and family dynamics cepr.org/voxeu/columns/why-h… a través de @cepr_org
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This new working paper argues that female economics PhD students benefit tremendously from having female economics faculty around.
How do they back up this claim?
They look at the timing of sabbatical leaves.
When female professors go on leave, it decreases third-year female Ph.D. students’ likelihood of publishing papers and securing academic positions.
Male Ph.D. students in the same cohort benefit from this absence, seeing an increase in their publishing and placement prospects.
Their estimates imply that "one additional female senior professor in each top-50 economics department would close one-third of the gender gap in representation among assistant professors at top-25 schools."
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Difference-in-differences for practitioners from the diff-in-diffs dream team!
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Exploring why households work and save. Bequest motives and risks in wages, medical expenses, and marital dynamics explain 56.9 percent of aggregate wealth and 2.7 percent of aggregate earnings, from @marghe__borella, @M_De_Nardi, Fang Yang, and @johanatch nber.org/papers/w33874
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New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20323
Why Do Households Save and Work?
Margherita Borella @unito, @M_De_Nardi @UMNews, Fang Yang @DallasFed, Johanna Torres Chain @UMNews
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#CEPR_LE #CEPR_MG #CEPR_PE #EconTwitter
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HCEO members @M_De_Nardi and @Fang_Yang_Econ and colleagues estimate how much life factors -- health, marital status, wages, mortality, retirement, and bequest motives -- influence how much people work and save. nber.org/papers/w33874
Johanna Torres Chain retweeted
Dime qué estás orgulloso del país dónde naciste, sin decirme que estás orgulloso:
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Our findings: 1. There is substantial health inequality by race, ethnicity, and gender. At age 55, Black men and women have frailty levels, which could be viewed as "biological age," comparable to those of White men and women 13 and 20 years older, respectively. 1/4
