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Peter Deffebach

@macrodev.bsky.social
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Development / Urban / Macro economist at BU. On the 24-25 Job Market pdeffebach.github.io

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Today's JMP features @akhila-kovvuri.bsky.social's work which shows how the extension of the metro system in Delhi generated new jobs around transit stations. Using staggered DiD, she shows consumer-focused firms move in, with new jobs. Large gain for women. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?
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What if the train brought the job to you? How public transit moves opportunity closer—and changes who gets hired: Guest post by Akhila Kovvuri
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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
What have we learned about training entrepreneurs? Issue 4 of our VoxDevLit on Training Entrepreneurs by @dmckenzie.bsky.social, Christopher Woodruff & Co-Editors is out now!➡️ voxdev.org/voxdevlit/tr... Today's podcast covers the update➡️ voxdev.org/topic/firms/...
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
#QJE Nov 2025, #1, “The Economics of Spatial Mobility: Theory and Evidence Using Smartphone Data,” by Miyauchi, Nakajima, and Redding (@reddingecon.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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The Economics of Spatial Mobility: Theory and Evidence Using Smartphone Data*
ABSTRACT. We develop a tractable quantitative framework for modeling the rich patterns of spatial mobility observed in smartphone data. We show that travel
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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This week was short on links that caught my attention, but here they are: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
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Weekly links June 27: low-income labor markets, ERPs for SMEs, take time to think.
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Long-Term and Lasting Impacts of Personal Initiative Training on Entrepreneurial Success" by Francisco Campos, Michael Frese, Leonardo Iacovone, Hillary C. Johnson, David McKenzie, and Mona Mensmann. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Long-Term and Lasting Impacts of Personal Initiative Training on Entrepreneurial Success
(Forthcoming Article) - A randomized experiment in Togo found that personal initiative training for small businesses resulted in large and significant impacts for both men and women after two years. W...
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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
In today's blog, @berkozler12.bsky.social summarizes new work by @marcellaalsan.bsky.social & co-authors on how mean reversion may lower average impacts in RCTs - lots of people being treated may be in a temporary dip that will improve on its own blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
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Mean Reversion in RCTs: It may matter for targeting…
Mean Reversion in RCTs: It may matter for targeting…
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iain @maccoinnich.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
This is a crushing blow to the future of Oregon's economy. This is the kind of thing where having the second most senior Democrat in the US Senate should really help, but it seems not to have. www.oregonlive.com/silicon-fore...
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Arizona wins last of 3 planned federal chip research sites, a setback for Oregon and Intel
The decision leaves out Oregon, whose leaders hoped a federal research center would anchor a new generation of semiconductor activity in the state.
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Diego Puga @diegopuga.org · 27/12/2024
h) Miyauchi, @ecmaeditors.bsky.social. Using Japanese firm‐to‐firm transactions panel data, shows rematching following unexpected supplier bankruptcy improves with spatial density of alternative suppliers; this can account for big share of agglomeration benefits t.ly/0TTgV
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Matching and Agglomeration: Theory and Evidence from Japanese Firm-to-Firm Trade - The Econometric Society
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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 22/12/2024
Thanks to a good question by @macrodev.bsky.social and inspired by @paulgp.com, I wrote down my Christmas wish for #econsky / #dkøko economists: Learn SQL and teach it to your students 🙏 It will tremendously help your data work and destress your machines. @duckdb.org makes it easy to get started.
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Teach SQL in (grad) school
Why SQL ought really to be a staple in the toolbox of anyone working with data - in or outside academia.
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Jeffrey Lin @jeffrlin.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I set up this feed to tweet recent articles from JUE, RSUE, and JOEG. One per journal per day, from the publishers’ RSS feeds. Give it a follow if this seems useful to you! (Here’s an article that I edited at RSUE.)
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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
The last in our #econjmp has @guanghongxu.bsky.social (UCSC) shows how a new (Bayesian inference based) digital traceability system for milk quality in Kenya helped improve milk quality and led to farmers getting more credit from cooperatives and changing inputs blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
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Let the Cream Rise to the Top: Digital Traceability and Quality Upgrading in Kenyan Dairy Value Chain. Guest post by Guanghong Xu.
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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
In today's #econjmp, Pascuel Plotkin (UBC) uses matched DiD in Brazil to trace out impacts of restaurant delivery apps on workers in restaurants that use these apps, those in nearby restaurants, and on gig workers. Also how workers value flexibility of app jobs blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?
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Winners and losers in the gig economy: What delivery platforms mean for workers. Guest post by Pascuel Plotkin
Winners and losers in the gig economy: What delivery platforms mean for workers. Guest post by Pascuel Plotkin
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Peter Deffebach @macrodev.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I'm happy to see my JMP written up in the Development Impact Blog! Let me give a small overview of my paper and why I think it's exciting / important / why you should hire me.
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Peter Deffebach @macrodev.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Kevin Donovan, Will Lu, and Todd Schoellman should host a mini-conference that's just Job Market Candidates whose JMPs are inspired directly by Donovan, Lu, and Schoellman (2023, QJE)
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Peter Deffebach @macrodev.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
One of my research agendas if I get an academic or WB job is to just hang out at a construction site in a developing country and keep track of these kinds of things to understand what hidden costs affect the construction sector in these places I could do that in NYC, too, but I'm a dev economist.
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Peter Deffebach @macrodev.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
There's *a lot* of room for empirical work on the role of the population boom in the east asian growth story. Most work is from the 1980s. And every paper on labor on Africa starts with "African labor markets must accommodate an influx of new workers..." Do we really think this is the problem?
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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Status: conditionally accepted at REStud #econsky floswald.github.io/publication/...
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Structural Change, Landuse and Urban Expansion | Florian Oswald
How do cities grow in the process of structural transformation? To answer this question, we develop a multi-sector spatial equilibrium model with endogenous land use: land is used either for agricultu...
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Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Here is my extremely brief (potted) history of institutions in macro-development thinking -- just before the AJR intervention. I had most of these thoughts prior to the Nobel week, but now they are crystallising.
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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
** Development econ job market candidates ** The devo group at Princeton is hiring 2 postdocs for 2025-26. Come spend the year with us before starting your faculty job. Nina Buchmann, who deferred her postdoc w/ us until 2025-6, will also be here for the year. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
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American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2024 - January 31, 2025
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Jeffrey Lin @jeffrlin.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
One of the final papers I’m handling at RSUE. Excited to see it published!
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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
🚨 New publicly available dataset on housing regulations across US municipalities With Alex Bartik and Dan Milo, we highlight a novel AI-based method for accurate categorization of regulations in unstructured text, which we use to establish 5 facts about housing regulation:
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