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Liam Wren-Lewis

@liamwrenlewis.bsky.social
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Academic economist at Paris School of Economics sites.google.com/site/liamwrenlewis…

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
🆕 Should roads and electricity infrastructure be built together? Today on VoxDev, Oliver Vanden Eynde (Paris School of Economics) & Liam Wren-Lewis discuss how roads and electricity jointly deliver greater gains in agricultural productivity in rural India: ow.ly/TqLz50XTjUP
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Should roads and electricity infrastructure be built together?
In rural India, roads and electricity complement each other, with their joint provision delivering far greater gains in dry-season agricultural productivity, assets, and consumption than either investment alone.
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Yajna Govind @yajnagovind.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Really cool work showing how increased interracial contact in childhood (in US schools) impacts long-run racial attitudes! - Whites exposed to more Black peers in school end up living in areas with more Blacks in adulthood.
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Berlin School of Economics @bsoeberlin.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
📊 New research finds that fostering diversity in schools can have long-term economic and social benefits by reducing segregation and promoting integration. 👥 Co-authored: @lmerlino.bsky.social, @steinhardt.bsky.social & @liamwrenlewis.bsky.social 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #diversity
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Andrey Fradkin @andreyfradkin.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
This is a nice paper! Explains why home exchange networks can exist in equilibrium.
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Ioana Marinescu @imarinescu.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Mind blown: price controls can increase supply in token economies. Why? Income effect: if you have a highly priced house on a house exchange market, you quickly get more tokens than you want to use. Lower prices incentivize the owners of the nicest houses to increase supply. #EconSky #JMP 👇
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Liam Wren-Lewis @liamwrenlewis.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
When can price controls increase supply? When the market uses token money! That’s what @juliusgoedde.bsky.social, an amazing student of mine, shows in his #EconJMP using both theory and data from a large home exchange platform. Check it out here:
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Max Steinhardt @steinhardt.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Just published in the Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social "The long run impact of childhood interracial contact on residential segregation" Joint work with @liamwrenlewis.bsky.social and @lmerlino.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The long run impact of childhood interracial contact on residential segregation
This paper exploits quasi-random variation in the share of Black students across cohorts within US schools to investigate whether childhood interracia…
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