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Reevaluating Agricultural Productivity Gaps with Longitudinal Microdata
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Recent research has pointed to large gaps in labor productivity between the agricultural and non-agricultural sectors in low-income countries, as well as between workers in rural and urban areas. Most estimates are based on national acc...
Publication · February 15, 2026
Labour Market Responses to Immigration: Evidence from Internal Migration Driven by Weather Shocks
Publication · February 15, 2026
Long-Term and Intergenerational Effects of Education: Evidence from School Construction in Indonesia
Publication · February 15, 2026
Kin transfers as safety nets in response to idiosyncratic and correlated shocks
Publication · February 15, 2026
Who Belongs? The Determinants of Selective Membership into the National Bureau of Economic Research
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We examine the determinants of membership into the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) using data from all tenured and tenure-track economists at R1 universities in the United States. We construct an annual panel of employment, ...
Publication · February 15, 2026
Fully Promoted: The Distribution and Determinants of Full Professorship in the Economics Profession
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In this paper, we document the distribution and determinants of full professorship in the economics profession. Using department-level data from the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, we show that while the sh...
Publication · February 15, 2026
Moving in Academia: Who Moves and What Happens After?
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We study labor mobility among academic economists in the United States. Analyzing CV data from over 6,000 economists at Research 1 institutions, we document that female assistant and associate professors are 8 percentage points less lik...
Publication · February 15, 2026
How The Amendments to Karnataka Factories Act Will Impact Women Garment Workers
Publication · February 15, 2026
Becoming a designer-scientist: A designer’s journey into laboratory practice and material characterization as creative tools for biodesign with bacterial cellulose
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With the integration of biotechnology into design practices (biodesign), designers are learning to navigate between the interfaces of design and science. However, for designers, the laboratory often remains an unfamiliar environment: st...
Publication · February 15, 2026
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