As countries get richer, annual hours worked per capita decrease — with one big exception: stanford.io/1Ud5x2Y
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- SIEPR Faculty Fellow/@StanfordHumSci Assistant Professor of Economics @PerssonPetra is one of 14 @Stanford faculty to receive a @NSF CAREER Award. Please join us in offering our congratulations. More on this exciting award of distinction here: stanford.io/3XJ1gZs#EconTwitter
- 📢@Stanford economist/former White House policy advisor @nealemahoney is named as SIEPR's next director He succeeds @markduggan_econ. @grosston will serve as interim director in the fall to support the transition. 🗞️Read the announcement: siepr.stanford.edu//news/neale-ma…
- Because rent controls make it less profitable to lease a building, many landlords leave the rental market. In a study of San Francisco, @SIEPR faculty fellow Rebecca Diamond found that rent control resulted in a 25% drop in the number of rental units. stanford.io/2I3gcxi
- SIEPR's @rebeccardiamond is recipient of the '22 Elaine Bennett Research Prize for her outstanding work on housing policies + local labor market inequality. Diamond joins previous SIEPR winners @piazzesi & @Susan_Athey. Congrats, Rebecca! #ASSA2023#EconTwitter#FridayFeeling
- When women win, men win, too. @NickKristof cited Grant Miller's research in a @nytimes column this past August: trib.al/yX1fp7O
- SIEPR is thrilled by the news that @AEAInformation, one of the most prestigious organizations in the field of #economics (home to @AEAjournals), has named @Stanford /SIEPR's @Susan_Athey & Caroline Hoxby as its '22 president & vice president: stanford.io/3uUyeJu#EconTwitter
- .@DupasPascaline has been awarded the 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship, which recognizes mid-career scholars, artists and scientists. During her fellowship, she will explore the changing social, economic and political conditions in sub-Saharan Africa. stanford.io/2IzSHgB
- BREAKING: SIEPR Senior Fellow/Steering Committee Member @maya_rossin is winner of the Elaine Bennett Research Prize, awarded annually to honor outstanding research in any field of economics by a woman not more than 10 years beyond her Ph.D. Congratulations, Dr. Rossin-Slater!
- Children born to parents at the bottom of the U.S. economy have a 7.5 percent chance of reaching the top as adults.
- "The class, in many ways, is a globally engaged, social-minded young person's dream."
- Congrats to SIEPR's @nealemahoney and Heidi Williams on being named co-recipients of the 2021 @ashecon Medal — a biennial award honoring researchers aged 40 and under who have made significant contributions to the field of health #economics: stanford.io/3ytnemE. #EconTwitter
- "If we are worried about robots replacing low-skilled jobs, by far the most obvious solution is education." -Nick Bloom #SIEPR2016
- Congratulations in order: SIEPR's Trione Director, @markduggan_econ, is the recipient of @Stanford's #Economics Distinguished Faculty Award. To those who know Mark as their professor or colleague, this is no surprise. Well done, Professor Duggan! #EconTwitter#FridayFeeling
