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Michael Clemens

4 months

In my keynote at the @DallasFed / @SMU last month, I explored the root causes of the policy crisis at the Southwest Border Video of my slides, audio of me—> (starts at 9:42, with gracious introduction by Pia Orrenius)

Owens 70th Anniv. Beyond the Fence: Economic Ideas to Reduce Chaos at...

The Jno E. Owens Foundation in collaboration with the Tower Center at SMU, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and the Mosbacher Institute in the George H.W....

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

3 years

Breakthrough cases of polio—including deaths—were common during early polio vaccination. What kept us safe was not perfect vaccine efficacy. It was that Americans quickly & massively stepped up to get the imperfect vaccine, quashing transmission. From:

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Michael Clemens

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4 years

Pediatric deaths from influenza in the United States, last four flu seasons. Present season: one.

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Michael Clemens

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8 years

You know who *does* pay federal taxes? As in $12 billion a year? Unauthorized immigrants do that.

The Truth About Undocumented Immigrants and Taxes

They’re contributing billions of dollars a year to Social Security, but may never reap any retirement benefits from it.

www.theatlantic.com

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2 years

In the last two years, for the first time in modern history, more Americans state a preference for increased immigration than for decreased immigration. It is the culmination of a trend that began a quarter century ago.

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Michael Clemens

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4 years

This graph, for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, may be the most beautiful thing I’ve seen all year. We prayed for this.

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Michael Clemens

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3 years

Ten years ago I published a paper called "Trillion Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk". I want younger scholars fighting for their ideas to know how that paper was received then, and now —>

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Michael Clemens

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2 years

Deep breath. I'm delighted to announce a great honor. In January I'll start as a full professor with tenure in the Department of Economics at @GeorgeMasonU , and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Peterson Institute @PIIE . I'll remain a fellow of the wonderful @CGDev . A thread—>

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Michael Clemens

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2 months

The “free speech absolutist” would like you to know that if you disagree with him, you should be executed.

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Michael Clemens

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3 years

Why didn't the Haitians you're seeing in today's viral images "get in line" and migrate "the right way"? Because there is no line. The US provides essentially zero lawful migration opportunities accessible to almost all Haitian nationals. A short thread below —>

Molly Hennessy-Fiske

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Thread: A day in the migrant camp of about 14,000, mainly Haitians, near the border bridge in Del Rio, Texas.

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Michael Clemens

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8 years

Maryam Mirzakhani of @Stanford came from Iran to win the highest prize in mathematics. The U.S. has now banned the next Maryams from coming.

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Michael Clemens

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4 years

A thread of remarkable research on the economics of international migration that I've discovered recently. I'll add to this regularly in the days ahead, in no particular order. I'm summarizing frontier findings, not presenting unquestionable truths. Pour a ☕ and join me—>

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Michael Clemens

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3 years

This is some of the best news in my lifetime.

University of Oxford

@UniofOxford

3 years

NEW: Oxford researchers find malaria vaccine is highly effective: • Vaccine efficacy of 77% in African children • Vaccine, trialled in 450 children, shows favourable safety profile and was well-tolerated More info ⬇️

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Michael Clemens

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9 years

Schopenhauer, on not reading http://t.co/yvBEvieU2k

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Michael Clemens

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1 year

Incoming Assistant Professor at @MITMath Former offensive lineman in the @NFL Hard to think of someone who kicks more ass than @JohnCUrschel

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

4 years

None of this horror had to happen. None of it. Thailand, much more connected with China than the US and much poorer, has had one one-thousandth the US per-capita death rate. All of this was done to us.

Steven Dennis

@StevenTDennis

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NORTH DAKOTA hits COVID milestone: 1 out of every 800 residents dead

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Michael Clemens

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2 years

The current wait time for a US Visitor Visa at the consulate in Mumbai is, and I quote: "999 calendar days". A de facto barrier to lawful international mobility that is absolute and indiscriminate. More data and helpful maps available at @VisaLimbo

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Michael Clemens

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6 years

The grad-school me, who spent months of his youth in moldering archives doing this by hand, weeps silently. But wow, what an amazing tool. (HT @hpostel )

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

5 years

Insanity. This obviously unfit, bottomlessly arrogant person is personally responsible for what is happening to us.

Aaron Rupar

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5 years

Trump defends gutting the federal government's pandemic preparedness over his first 3 years in office: "I just think this is something that you can never really think is going to happen."

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Michael Clemens

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6 years

Spotted in Silicon Valley by @PaulFNiehaus

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Michael Clemens

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2 years

Fertility in high-income countries has collapsed over the last half century. When population growth becomes negative, what happens to economic growth? A seminal model published today by the great @ChadJonesEcon in @AEAjournals —>

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Michael Clemens

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8 years

When US legalized interracial marriage (1967), public was 80% against. Democracy requires checks against referenda.

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Michael Clemens

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2 years

Econometrics, a Modern Approach (Original by @edward_steed )

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

6 years

I just got a *first decision* on a journal submission after **five years**. Well to be fair, it was four years, eight months, and 27 days. Can anyone beat that? I feel like it might be a record of some kind. Surely indicative of the profundity of my ideas. {Cough}

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

5 years

Syrian refugees admitted to the US: In FY2016: 12,587. In FY2018: 62.

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5 years

Some terrible images coming out of Russian/Syrian airstrikes in Idlib today. A headless child. A breathing, bleeding fetus. A boy shredded from the chest down. They're too awful to post. But it doesn't stop.

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

7 years

Not just by any foreign government. By an autocrat who is the world's top jailer of journalists and professors.

Dan Diamond

@ddiamond

7 years

The man leading "lock her up" chants in this video was being paid by a foreign govt while attending classified intelligence briefings.

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

4 years

I am nearly certain that these Chilean students have made the best rap in human history on the economic benefits of central bank autonomy.

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

7 years

Ghanaian teacher Owura Kwadwo, lacking a computer, teaches his students to use a word processor via @africatechie

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

6 years

Yet another study of the Mariel Boatlift is making the rounds. I'll discuss it after a recap of the recent history of this debate. *Deep dive alert* -->

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

6 years

On my adviser Jeff Williamson’s office door while I was at @HarvardEcon

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

2 years

How does foreign hiring for basic, manual jobs affect US firms and workers? We study nationwide, randomized allocation of the principal US work visa for non-college workers. New today, my paper with @EthanGLewis @DartmouthEcon ⟶ Summary thread ☞

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

4 years

Did you get denied tenure? @kkariko was dismissed from the University of Szeged, and later demoted from her lab at UPenn—told that she wasn't "faculty material". Now she may win the Nobel Prize for her research underlying both leading Covid vaccines.

This scientist's decades of mRNA research led to both COVID-19...

Half an hour outside Philadelphia, in a modest suburban home, lives a quirky, cheerful 65-year-old scientist who's a big part of the reason people might be able to throw away their masks next year.

nypost.com

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

4 years

As people in poor countries get richer, they have a *greater* tendency to emigrate. I just released two major studies, one joint with @MariapiaMendola , exploring this remarkable phenomenon. Long-read summary here: Topline in this thread —>

Emigration Rises Along with Economic Development. Aid Agencies Should Face This, but Not Fear It

As people in poor countries get richer, they are more likely to emigrate—despite many governments' attempts to use development assistance to deter emigration. Read CGD's new work on the relationship...

www.cgdev.org

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

11 years

A Sikh U.S. Army captain in his newly-approved uniform. More: http://t.co/St4q3wlbjq http://t.co/xEDsy7qNCt

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

4 years

Just reckless economic policy proceeding with no regard for science whatsoever. A window of opportunity being seized to implement long-cherished ideology, not a sliver more than that.

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

6 years

The Supreme Court upheld state laws, like "grandfather clauses", designed to prevent black people from voting (Williams v. Mississippi, 170 U.S. 213, 1898), because the laws didn't explicitly mention race. Those laws' authors explicitly stated their goal. The Court didn't care.

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

3 years

Instead the takeaway is: Fight for your ideas and your contribution. Your vocal critics, smart as they are, may be hobbled by their paradigm. If you do the best work you can by your own criteria, you'll find your audience. To all of you who continue to read my work, thank you.

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

5 years

When cocaine prices rise in either the United States or Europe, homicide rates rise in Colombian municipalities whose trafficking networks serve each market. New research by Jaime Millán‐Quijano of @EconomicsUc3m —>

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

7 years

Amazing. The world population has basically stopped growing from people having babies. It’s only still growing because babies aren’t dying.

Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣

@DinaPomeranz

7 years

Most of the increase in the global population is currently happening due to growing life expectancy, rather than growing number of children:

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

6 years

What a cool paper at #ASSA2019 . Typhoon forecasters in different cities systematically bias the predicted stormtrack toward their own city. Because the costs of mis-forecasting are greater for hits than for misses.

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

4 years

Israel is opening round-the-clock vaccination centers, and has begun vaccinating its teachers this week. It’s almost like there’s an… emergency.

Israel aims to vaccinate 25% of population in a month; 250,000 had shots so far

Netanyahu says he wants pace of inoculations to hit 150,000 a day; another 5,433 virus cases found, day before 3rd lockdown; Health Minister intends to vaccinate teachers this week

www.timesofisrael.com

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

2 years

Today I became a professor of economics at @GeorgeMasonU , and non-resident senior fellow at @PIIE . Dazzling new colleagues, students, & opportunities. I'm deeply grateful to @open_phil for their gift supporting my new research. And to all of you for your interest in my work 🙏

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

7 years

An A.I. beat the world’s best chess computer 24 hours after it was given the rules of chess—and nothing else

Denny Britz

@dennybritz

7 years

The generalization of AlphaGo Zero, called AlphaZero, achieves superhuman performance in all of Chess, Shogi, and Go. Starting from random play, and given no domain knowledge. New paper from DeepMind:

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Michael Clemens

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11 days

Is a student or colleague of yours approaching @Stata for the first time, and in need of a clear, concise, free introduction-from-zero? I was impressed by the quality "Stata Training" by @GaudenziGaia of @BeckerFriedman —>

Stata training

Welcome to my personal website!

gaiagaudenzi-lab.github.io

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

2 years

Congratulations @econgaurav for this well-deserved placement in the @JPolEcon ! Years ago @DrDaronAcemoglu critiqued the 'credibility revolution' for too little attention to 'the centrality of general equilibrium'. A new generation has been fixing that.

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

7 years

Brilliance from @BillBramhall

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

5 years

This is a correct summary of the best evidence on large, sudden changes in immigration. The three papers she refers to are: — — —

The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves: Reconciling Conflicting Results - Michael A. Clemens,...

Studies have reached conflicting conclusions regarding the labor market effects of exogenous refugee waves such as the Mariel Boatlift in Miami. The authors sho...

journals.sagepub.com

Channel 4 News

@Channel4News

5 years

"There is no reason to fear low-skilled migration." Nobel prize-winning economist Esther Duflo says "the effect of low-skilled migration on low-skilled wages is zero".

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Michael Clemens

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2 years

By the excellent @chazhutton

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Michael Clemens

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6 years

Simply a devastating paragraph on the Larry Nassar horror, by the kickass @KerryHowley

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Michael Clemens

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2 years

The randomized restriction obliged US firms to reduce hiring of foreign workers for low-skill jobs by 56%. It caused those firms to contract sharply: Production fell 17%. It did not cause them to hire additional US workers.

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Michael Clemens

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1 year

It was one of the largest bursts of high-skill emigration from any developing country. It caused an *increase* in skills back home. How? Now forthcoming at the Journal of Development Economics, @SatishCha and I use a unique natural experiment in Fiji —>

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

4 years

Nothing that Americans are enduring had to happen.

Eric Topol

@EricTopol

4 years

Noting Australia, which has the best looking #COVID19 log-fatality curve in the world 🇦🇺👏👏. A flat line at ~0.

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Michael Clemens

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21 days

I constantly see the meme that "most new jobs go to immigrants, not natives!" We need more basic literacy about demographic change. Immigrants *right now* are the reason—the only reason—why the number of employed people in America can rise. No immigrants = falling employment.

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Michael Clemens

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2 years

It's real. The world might be heading toward eradicating malaria. The most promising inoculation comes from the team that created the @AstraZeneca covid vaccine. By @apoorva_nyc featuring my brilliant colleague @Prof_Yadav_SCM —>

At Long Last, Can Malaria Be Eradicated? (Published 2022)

Two new vaccines may finally turn back an ancient plague. But in unexpected ways, their arrival also complicates the path to ending the disease.

www.nytimes.com

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

4 years

US immigrants receive welfare at rates much lower than natives of similar age, ethnicity, and education. By Huang, Kaushal ( @ColumbiaSSW ), & Wang ( @China_Columbia )—> This evidence is inconsistent with welfare being an important motivator to immigrate.

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

5 years

He entered illegally, it turns out, and should be subject to expedited removal.

Ted Hesson

@tedhesson

5 years

A federal judge in DC ruled today that Ken Cuccinelli “was not lawfully appointed to serve as the acting director of USCIS”: I broke the story last year that the Trump admin created a new position to allow him to run the agency:

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Michael Clemens

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2 years

The single most up-to-date, authoritative review of the literature on immigration and crime that I've seen, just published. Broadly, immigration causes reduced crime in general, but higher crime *against immigrants*. By @paolopinotti78 and @svrozo —>

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@m_clem

3 years

One of the most important recent papers on migration and development. Human capital doesn't just move, it grows; and movement can cause it to grow.

The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat)

@restatjournal

3 years

Increases in visas for nurses from the Philippines caused a brain gain, rather than brain drain, of nurses. Just Accepted new paper by Caroline Theoharides ( @ctheoharides ), Paolo Abarcar( @pabarcar ).

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

8 years

Okay, Newt. I'll answer. Because a robust and free press is the red blood of liberty and democracy.

Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

8 years

Horrifying - former House Speaker about the WH press corps just now: "Why would any rational person allow these people to ask questions?"

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

4 years

US immigrants start businesses at a rate 80% higher than natives. They do not just start many small firms, they start more firms of *every* size. By @pierre_azoulay @bfjo @jdanielkim & Miranda—> | Ungated:

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

3 years

This letter from @SamanthaJPower to the dying John McCain, in @MarkSalter55 ’s book, is what America needs much more of now. Leaders with the deep integrity to—despite the sharpest disagreement on policy—deserve each other’s admiration.

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3 years

Do you teach about international migration? There is a wealth of teaching resources in the new "World Migration Educators' Toolkit", by @MarieLMcAuliffe and her team at @UNmigration —>

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@m_clem

5 years

We still don’t know the name of one of the greatest heroes of the modern age.

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@CarlZha

5 years

‘Tank Man’: the full footage. Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989

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3 years

Every time I design a survey, I think of this classic post by @cblatts on asking a parent how many kids they have. —>

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

5 years

This paper refuted a prior belief I had. Across 135 years, the composition of US immigrants changed radically. Their intergenerational mobility did not. Important new research by Abramitzky, @leah_boustan , @elisajacome , and @seperez84 —>

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2 years

Careful evidence of negative effects on Peruvian students from the influx of Venezuelan students into schools Principal mechanism: larger class sizes, i.e. schools under-resourced to serve refugee kids Important job market paper by @MariaAMartinez3 —>

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3 years

My study of child migrants from the Northern Triangle is now forthcoming in @JUrbanEcon , at: Here is a short thread about violence and economic development as drivers of migration from that region, and how aid can respond--->

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Michael Clemens

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4 years

Brilliant paper. No meaningful difference in cognitive ability between Black & white children at age 8 mos. Even without controlling for income, home/prenatal conditions, etc. Yet “deep roots” literature in econ. development still asserts genes substantially determine poverty.

Victor Chernozhukov #peace 🇺🇦

@VC31415

4 years

Could investing in early childhood development be one of keys to eliminating systemic racism? The data show striking differences in early childhood development. Figures below on test scores are from our JASA paper, reanalyzing Fryer and Levitt (AER). Left: 1y; Right: 7y.

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5 years

Schools in the United States are being designed around the assumption that people will take guns into them and open fire.

WTHR.com

@WTHRcom

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There are subtle places for students to hide, curved hallways with limited line-of-sight and areas of the halls that jut out for protection.

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Michael Clemens

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4 years

Contact tracing for 3,184 cases of coronavirus in Japan. The primary source of the infection in 61 clusters was a 20–29 year old. Most of those had *no symptoms* at the time. We need enforced mask requirements in all public spaces/businesses, now.

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4 years

Think of who America has lost. The CEO of Moderna came here on a student visa.

NFAPResearch

@NFAPResearch

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Much worse than thought: “New enrollment of international students physically in the United States declined by 72%.” If those students overseas can’t come on campus in Spring 2021 they may drop. @erikbry @levie @m_clem @FareedZakaria @McFaul @dandrezner

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4 years

This is exactly how the Turkish dictatorship speaks of journalists who expose its lies. Word for word.

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4 years

This will hobble US innovation, competitiveness, and job growth. Some of the damage will be permanent, as many of the world’s smartest people will understand that the United States is not a place they belong.

NPR

@NPR

4 years

NEW: President Trump is expected to sign an order as soon as Saturday to suspend H-1B, L-1 and other temporary work visas through the end of the year, according to the multiple sources familiar with the plan.

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11 years

What the Swiss football team would look like without immigration. http://t.co/jAnXXJ7KR1 via @chrmeyer

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What is the evidence that visas divert migrants out of irregular migration? A new, groundbreaking study finds that sudden visa restrictions against displaced Venezuelans diverted them en masse into irregular channels. By @OmarHGallego (pdf pg. 237+)—>

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One of the founders, Uğur Şahin, is the son of a Turkish auto-factory worker in Köln—one of the "Gastarbeiter". "We wanted workers, we got people" … indeed! One of those "people" may have just helped save the life of someone you love.

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It's past time to stop thinking of migrant workers as just a labor supply shock. Domestic US migrants reduce unemployment in the places they go—by raising housing value+demand. New by Greg Howard of @EconatIllinois , forthcoming @AEAjournals AEJ: Macro —>

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5 years

How does a true leader, with wisdom, vision, and spine, talk with compatriots about immigration? Like this. Attitudes aren’t just ‘out there’, they are shaped by leadership.

DW News

@dwnews

5 years

"But where are you REALLY from?" Chancellor Merkel takes a stand on the question many Germans ask their non-white contemporaries.

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8 years

Albert Einstein begs Turkey to accept German refugees, 1933

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3 years

Tucker Carlson completely misinterpreting my research? Not shocking, but certainly regrettable. His fabrication of a false quotation from me, without even attempting to contact me? Also not shocking, but certainly unethical. A correction thread.

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3 years

There is finally a great, undergrad/master's-level textbook of immigration economics. Based on the best and latest research, informing real, compelling policy problems. By @cbansak @nbsimpson and Zavodny —> from @routledgebooks

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6 years

Accepted for publication today in REStat @mitpress : "The Place Premium: Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers" My paper with Lant Pritchett and Claudio Montenegro

Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers - Working Paper 428

Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and...

www.cgdev.org

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6 years

Alan Kurdî would have been starting first grade this month, delighted to be growing up Canadian, chatting with his classmates in fluent English, bringing nothing but benefits to his Vancouver community and the world.

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4 years

This has nothing at all to do with emergency measures to create jobs for US natives. The Administration pushed for restrictions on the same visa when the economy was at full employment.

It’s Getting Harder for International STEM Students to Find Work After Graduation

Schools are competing to bring international STEM students to the U.S., but shifting policies mean that many students are prevented from taking open jobs that could allow them to stay in the country.

www.theatlantic.com

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@m_clem

5 years

It was my privilege to learn Development Economics directly from the laureates. It was clear to all of us at the time. Here is one of our two syllabi. As you can see, what we learned from them was theory, not one empirical method. (1/2)

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6 years

TFW you notice the guy in the back of your seminar audience is the Nobel laureate whose work inspired your paper

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5 years

This is… —Not what I was expecting to read in today's @WSJ —Beyond undeserved —Still I do appreciate David Henderson's underlying thought

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@m_clem

6 years

Who bears the labor-market costs of bearing children? Women. Only. by Kleven, Landais & Søgaard @VoxEU

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@m_clem

4 years

A superb thread summarizing 21 top papers on the economic history of persistent racial disparities.

Zach Ward

@EconZach

4 years

1) @TrevonDLogan examines Reconstruction and shows that black politicians increased per capita tax revenue, which helped to reduce the black-white literacy gap. However, white politicians eventually reclaimed office and halted black progress.

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Michael Clemens

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🚨 New policy paper An obscure, half-century old law expels thousands of skilled foreign professionals from the US each year How large is that barrier to high-skill immigration and US innovation? First estimates from @IFP 's brilliant Amy Nice & @JeremyLNeufeld and me *thread*

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

4 years

This is a smart and pragmatic measure for Italy’s self-defense. The virus targets people not passports, so the only effective public health efforts must do the same.

Judith Sunderland

@sunderland_jude

4 years

#Italy paves the way to legalize status of 10s of 1000s of migrants working in agriculture & home care. Shld help ensure access to healthcare & better living conditions, protect against labor exploitation. A major step forward! Congratulations to all who fought so hard for this!

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

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Young economists, take heart! This is what happened to the first top-journal submission by the great @DAcemogluMIT >> Interview by @SimonBowmaker —>

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

4 years

Rural Kenyans underestimate how much they could earn in cities… …in part because prior migrants—wary of requests for money—tell folks back home their earnings are low. Giving people accurate information raises migration 39%. By Travis Baseler @UofR —>

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

5 years

"Refugees poured into my state. Here’s how it changed me." One sixth of Lewiston, Maine is now immigrants and refugees, many of them Somali. They have revitalized the city, with moderate costs and challenges--like every generation of US immigration.

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

2 years

@tribsantos Thank you! I didn't have one before but I just made this quick graph of the range of numbers in Table 1 of the paper—>

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

4 years

Six months in. The United States has so little testing capacity that delays in results make testing almost useless. There are zero tests-on-demand available where I live. Few Americans have started to grasp the magnitude of this policy catastrophe.

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

2 years

Heartened to learn: @OrianaBandiera & @Simon_Jaeger will proactively lead a task force to ensure that any reports of misconduct at @IZA_Bonn are independently investigated. 👏👏👏 Everyone deserves a safe and inclusive workplace! I'm proud that @CGDev has been a leader on this.

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

6 years

This is a long-lead indicator of American decline. Starting two years ago.

Bill Kerr

@william_r_kerr

6 years

"The number of new international students enrolling at American institutions fell by 6.6% during the 2017-18 academic year, on top of a 3.3% decline the year before."

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

7 years

The U.S. Administration just decided to make its country irrelevant in adult discussions of how to address the migrant crisis.

AFP News Agency

@AFP

7 years

#BREAKING US pulls out of UN's Global Compact on Migration: official

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

1 year

“Michael Clemens, a prominent economist of immigration, maintains that present-day migration barriers are so self-defeating that they are analogous to governments leaving trillion-dollar bills on the sidewalk” @imkahloon ’s new piece asks a great question

Economists Love Immigration. Why Do So Many Americans Hate It?

In a democracy, a policy appraisal has to contend with political as well as economic consequences.

www.newyorker.com

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Michael Clemens

@m_clem

4 years

What it will do instead is strike a blow against the entrepreneurship and innovation that any US economic recovery will require, as other research by Jenny Hunt has shown. Ungated

Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa | Journal of...

Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the...

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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