We are very honored and excited that our paper got accepted to 2024
@nberpubs
Summer Institute :) Thankful 🙏 to Ed Glaeser, NBER, and my co-author
@eunjeeecon
.
Our paper w/
@NaraeLeeRes
(extension from my job market paper) got accepted
@nberpubs
Summer Institute 2024 Urban Economics organized by Ed Glaeser!! Super thrilled and honored to be a part of this amazing program (and nervous..) 🥹
🚨🚨 Job Market Thread 🚨🚨
I am on the job market 23-24’
With focus on labor economics, development economics, infrastructure, and public financing, I have steadily built my pipelines on socially marginalized workers/people.
Lets begin with my JMP ⬇️
Update: I’m heading to
@WorldBank
Infrastructure Chief Economist Office for a research consultancy. The project area includes my dissertation topic of transportation and jobs. Very thankful and excited to join and learn from great economists in the bank.
The 4th WB DIME-KDIS conference is forthcoming!
Many Ph.D. candidates (including me) will present interesting projects. Please join us in-person or online!
#EconTwitter
The 4th DIME-KDIS Development Impact Conference will be held on Nov 2-3 in Washington DC. The deadline to register is Oct 26. Limited space for in-person attendance but one can also attend online. Check out the conference schedule and register NOW!
📢📖
Can we count self-hidden
#crime
victims for policy intervention?
Our paper in
@GlobalHealthBMJ
surveyed general villagers in Bangladesh and used the
#Network
Scale-up Method to estimate the number of kidney trafficking victims.
The morning session was very thankful.
And I will soon be presenting another work in progress on the railway impacts on Colombian domestic and export regional labor markets at the O35 session 4:45 pm
@ERSA_org
#ERSA2023
! Looking forward to all productive feedbacks.
Tomorrow 1/9 at 10:15 am, I’m presenting my research at
@p3policy
on DOT-concessionaire cost bargaining and the optimal contract term for transportation projects when public utilization happens, in the
@NASEMTRB
AJE50 economics & finance session. See you soon,
#TRB
!
My
#ASSA2023
poster with
@kugler_maurice
is out now! We studied the hiring credits from First Job Act for vulnerable population in Colombia. If you scan the QR code in the poster, you will see the google form where you can give me comments! Thank you in advance. Posters link ⬇️
Today, I received the John E. Petersen Memorial Scholarship in Public Finance Policy for my doctoral dissertation. I am very thankful to the Petersen Foundation, Mrs. Petersen, and
@ScharSchool
@GeorgeMasonU
!
I was very thankful to join Western Regional Science Association (WRSA) annual meeting this year. To present and discuss researches, to meet a great mentor, and most importantly to talk with elder social scientists gave great insights on what academic life is like and should be.
Today I got a runner-up prize for the
@transportgeog
postgraduate session presentation. It was a great joy to present and learn many interesting researches. Thank you!
At 2:10pm UK time, I will be presenting in a Transport Geography Research Group session
#RGSIBG2023
on whether the Colombian freight railway has affected the labor markets in the destination area. For those interested, see you soon!
Today (11/20) at noon, I present one of my pipelines as
@ScharSchool
#SEA2023
student nominee.
Can a railway increase jobs in a rural developing economy? I designed a causal study with weather damage on a freight railway (demand shock).
(JMP presented in 2022)
#thankful
I’m presenting my Colombian hiring credit paper with
@kugler_maurice
in session 62,
@SOLE_Labor_Econ
#SOLE2023
tomorrow at 1;30 pm. For those interested, please drop by, and your feedback will be very appreciated!
Looking back,
@NARSCRegScience
in Denver was a great opportunity to present my/our papers, discuss an interesting research as a discussant, and talk/learn the geographical measurements of other researchers.
#thankful
@MarinaAnn90
@p3policy
Yesterday I got this letter from the DIME intern I regularly met at
@worldbank
, and this was the most rewarding fruit I got in Spring 2023. When researching for people, i want to parallel my life though it reveal my shortages. Thanks to my mentors above letting me to trickle down
My 1st dissertation chapter with
@kugler_maurice
on the corporate income tax and the vulnerable worker hiring will be presented in the Southern Economic Association :) Thankful to be trained under such caring advisor and the committee. See you in Florida!
"… Researchers, like micro-enterprises, handle everything from data collection to writing. By systematizing the process (reproducibly), research becomes more efficient and transparent” my take home points from
@alegovini
today’s DIME team meeting :)
#Easter
is coming, and I count the things I received. Then it gets so intertwined big ‘uncountably’. Thus it’s always pleasure return at least some to next juniors. Thanks
@KDI_SCHOOL
. Thrilled to meet more at
@UniversityOfArk
with
@GAgyeah
soon :)
For those doing real estates and urban as primary focus, i strongly recommend this position with
@eunjeeecon
! Doing research together, I’m already learning a lot. From both her skills and manner.
#postdoc
#econtwitter
#econjobmarket
Hiring!!! We are excited to offer this post-doctoral scholar position to work with our real estate faculty and other collaborators across the university. Please reach out if you have any questions.
@eunjeeecon
It was great to be in WALES again. Hearing many interesting works in progress and insight from audiences was a joy. This year, I was especially thankful to discuss my 1st chapter as a poster. Many thanks to
@KristaRuffini
@McCourtSchool
for organizing such nicely!
📢DC labor economists! (And adjacent researchers): WALES 2023
@Georgetown
@McCourtSchool
is 1 week away and we have a great agenda lined up! Please share widely and register by today 👇
ABD. Today I became a PhD candidate .. Through the years, the continuous expectation and warm care of my chair and committee enabled it.
#thankful
#thankgod
@NaraeLeeRes
kicks of the session today on economic complexity for industrial and innovation policy at
#ERSA2023
. Results among others show that hiring subsidies in the Columbian context produced larger (+ or - !) job and wage effects in urban compared with rural areas.
It was great to present, chair a session, and catch up with regional scholar seniors
#NARSC2023
. On my way to
#SEA2023
and also very excited to greet in NOLA!
In an hour at 11:00 am Spain time, I’m presenting my recent findings on how urban and rural labor market properties matter in the effectiveness of hiring subsidy. For those interested, I look forward to seeing you at the session S77
#ERSA2023
!
On March 27th, I will present my poster titled “P3 Toll Adjustments to Relieve Maintenance Impacts of Adjacent Facilities: A Repeated Game Analysis” in APPAM. Thankful and looking forward to sharing idea and receiving all useful feedbacks.
We're excited to resume in-person gatherings at
#2021APPAM
in March! APPAM attendee's health and safety is our top priority. Check out our page dedicated to COVID-19 precautions for a safe & productive conference!
In
@ScharSchool
, we have Micro-Economic Policy Research Seminar (MEPS) every Tuesday at 11 am. This week, we are happy to invite
@AFenizia
of GWU to listen to "Organized Crime and Economic Growth: Evidence from Municipalities Infiltrated by the Mafia”.
It was very
#thankful
to host online ‘Infrastructure Equity’ breakout discussion of UK and US academic/engineer/public sector delegates. ‘New vs updating already inaccessible facilities, differing policy considerations?’ Proceeding report will follow.
I’m thrilled to host one of the equity discussions on 7/13 virtually. For those who want to attend any of the sessions virtually, please register/ feel free to msg me! (As some sessions are already fully registered)
Take-up .. is a decision thus endogenous.
and in secondary data too. I know it is hard to design, but I think I saw some papers considering voluntary take-up timing as a staggered “rollout”. (I avoided this in my jmp)
What is even more frustrating about this case is that the authors say an RCT would be unethical in this context because there's so much other evidence that in-prison college programs reduce recidivism. 🤯
(1) That is not true. All studies on this topic use the same flawed design
The working paper I implemented remote survey/statistical support with Abu and Manzur is out now in
@KDI_SCHOOL
working paper. Its one of the topics keeping my passion. We are extending this, more to come :)
My 1st dissertation chapter with
@kugler_maurice
on the corporate income tax and the vulnerable worker hiring will be presented in the Southern Economic Association :) Thankful to be trained under such caring advisor and the committee. See you in Florida!
I’m thrilled to host one of the equity discussions on 7/13 virtually. For those who want to attend any of the sessions virtually, please register/ feel free to msg me! (As some sessions are already fully registered)
The Policy and Organization YM
@NASEMTRB
is calling for TRB 2023 submission until 10/31. For young transport policy scholars interested in sharing your research, please contact Lauren or direct questions to me (a task-force lead).
I’m also very thankful to present and receive feedback on my first chapter with
@kugler_maurice
in WALES as poster (recently confirmed). See you soon
@McCourtSchool
, please come and join all!
Calling all DC-area labor economists!📢📢📢
We have a great program for Washington Area Labor Econ Symposium (
#WALES2023
) to be held April 28 at
@McCourtSchool
@Georgetown
. Pls circulate widely -- all are welcome to attend. Register here:
My third dissertation chapter take Colombian railroad damage by winter-storm and its restoration as natural experiment to study railroad impacts on jobs in the rural destination. The freight railway constitutes demand-side shock. Data on recent years is approved and on the way.
Today I got a runner-up prize for the
@transportgeog
postgraduate session presentation. It was a great joy to present and learn many interesting researches. Thank you!
As a female labor economist, while arranging an interview visit of Korean Woman Economic Research Institute on female entrepreneurship policy, I’m very happy to hear this wonderful news!
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Claudia Goldin “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.”
#NobelPrize
My JMP revisits the effectiveness of targeted hiring (tax) credits on the hiring of youth, career-disrupted females, and low-income workers in Colombia. The First Job Act, with broad targeting, avoided market mismatch and created jobs effectively.
We evaluated a hiring credit’s job impacts on youth and career-disrupted female in several aspects including job tenure, wage of new workers, and rural market segregations.
At 2:10pm UK time, I will be presenting in a Transport Geography Research Group session
#RGSIBG2023
on whether the Colombian freight railway has affected the labor markets in the destination area. For those interested, see you soon!
@kugler_maurice
Several more pipelines are on the way, which I want to produce as outlet upon landing on my next stage.
And last but not least, I want to meet great colleagues/seniors/juniors whom I can work together and produce social values.
I will be thankful if you can share this tread!
Yesterday I got this letter from the DIME intern I regularly met at
@worldbank
, and this was the most rewarding fruit I got in Spring 2023. When researching for people, i want to parallel my life though it reveal my shortages. Thanks to my mentors above letting me to trickle down
With my advisor
@kugler_maurice
and two coauthors, we are studying how ADHD affects the labor productivity of construction workers. Benchmarking psychology, risk, and labor surveys such as BAARS, BFI, and CPS long form, we are currently designing a survey questionnaire.
The result suggests that part of the hiring increase was likely over the short period of payroll tax rebate (cash windfall) for firms, over the low labor cost period.
My presentation of our coauthored project on ‘stigmatized population size estimation’ is forthcoming in Western Regional Science Association conference, AZ. It was honor to implement distant survey for the human right issue and support data processing, analyses, and writeup.
A small update after KDIS-WB DIME / SEA conferences in November is that we did a tenure analysis for youth for 5 years window (considering data endpoint). The results show that an average tenure of post-policy formal market entrant has 1.3 years shorter tenure.
At World Bank DIME, our project studies the impact of climate-driven energy regulation on the resource mining workers’ job transition. From the microeconomic side, I am processing the labor panel into weighted/unweighted job turnover matrices.
And in Summer 2022, I got to TA + participate in the course design for ECON345: Introduction to Econometrics :) Always happy to meet students. Alright, let's summer!
Despite, the estimates show that the policy was effective in increasing jobs for the policy defined “vulnerable” workers while not significantly reducing their wage.
@kugler_maurice
Building continuous travel time measures using GIS and open-source data, I am sophisticating my coauthor, Eunjee’s job market paper on the Korean High-Speed Rail (HSR) and the gender gap in labor markets.
And we want to note the feature of the First Job Act that it mandates firms to maintain net amount of total salary and net count of total workers to benefit from additional hiring; to minimize within-firm hiring alteration
EPSRC-NSF Infrastructure workshop report is out now. It was great to listen to policy expertises and researchers by chairing 'Equity in Infrastructure' session online.
@KDI_SCHOOL
@NSF
According to the villagers, many kidney sellers are male household heads in young/middle age. They sell their body parts for debt repayment/due to poverty. (Many cannot get post-recovery treatment because its illegal.)
To fellow young researchers doing regional analysis: also forwarding the paper call from the Western Regional Science Association (a full draft) for the annual meeting in February.
To study kidney trafficking victims, a stigmatized population with contact effects, we surveyed the general population on their social networks. Many victims are middle-aged males (likely household heads). The article is forthcoming in BMJ Global Health. Early version on website
Sharing knowledge is always rewarding. Also best way to reflect my level of knowledge and skills. It was a great opportunity to guest lecture on Qualtrics survey implementation for Bangladesh EXIM Univ. Management students.
On Monday 17th, I will be in PSU
#TAIM
conference to join my team’s poster presentation on the qualitative studies of managed lane cost practices. Looking forward to greet the transportation experts in the USDOT region 3 consortium.
Covid was challenging for survey, we couldn’t go to field to sense the air through many pilots. But great Bangladesh collaborators and tablets enabled the data collection.
Thrilled to join the North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International
#NARSC
Today I’m presenting my pipeline ‘human capital externalities in the geography of occupations’. Will be grateful for any suggestions and feedback.
Here are the victims of the Atlanta shootings and their stories:
Delaina Ashley Yaun, 33
Xiaojie Tan, 49
Daoyou Feng, 44
Paul Andre Michels, 54
Elcias R Hernandez-Ortiz, 30
Hyun Jung Grant, 51
Soon C Park, 74
Suncha Kim, 69
Yong A Yue, 63
Thread 👇
@mck_boyce
Hi Mckenzie! I heard many good things about the Southern. Have a productive time there! This time I might focus on writing and SOLE, but let’s talk about next year sometime.
@CehernandezEcon
Hope more lines and faster speeds resolute the congestion, and let the population pushed out enjoy better amenities and low job search/match costs. Though I know its long run process..
During my undergrad in Pak, I learned concepts like market for lemons, info asymmetry & efficiency wages. Yesterday, I met & listened to the pioneer of these ideas, Noble laureate George Akerlof
@ScharSchool
Haynes Lecture series. Thanks to
@kugler_maurice
for making it happen!
@CehernandezEcon
It’s interesting. Hope I caught the points right!
Though I side with a TransMilenio having a small fee to prevent exploitation, I think we need to allow the urban agglomeration as an inevitable process to amenity, information, and infra spillover.
@leqonomics
@ERSA_org
Thank you so much
@leqonomics
! It’s thanks to my advisor
@kugler_maurice
. Once I return to US, let me send you the draft via email. (FYI It’s my very first presentation of this project and geomeasure revision is ongoing)
As usual, the discussion with
@daniellerudes
and others today was also very helpful. Thankful to be the
@ProvostGMU
Provost cohort for academic career this year 🙏🏻
Okay our small innovation for election night broadcast, people spoken “cute” or “wanna jab” dance haha.
#metaverse
#presidentialelection
👏🏻👏🏻 for all candidates who ran the race. Hope the new half-decade realizes “fairness, justice, and unity” in Korea.