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Join us for a panel discussion next Tuesday, December 2, on "Smart States, Strong Industries: Regional Policy for National Prosperity."

Open to the public and livestreamed through Media Central. Learn more: https://bit.ly/48jBiTm
November 26, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Professor Ayşegül Şahin's latest working paper details the website she and her co-author, Bart Hobijn, created.

The site delivers real-time analyses of the U.S. labor market, revolutionizing labor market research for students, academics, and policymakers. https://bit.ly/44qc18O
November 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
“We've got a much more serious problem with our schools, and if we don't do something about it, I think that's the future of the U.S.”

Eric Hanushek recently joined Orley Ashenfelter on "The Work Goes On" podcast. Listen to the full episode: https://bit.ly/4oVLhFz
November 22, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Leading academics from across the world gathered at @Princeton University to celebrate Professor Bo Honoré (@BoHonore) at his 65th birthday conference.
November 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
@simonjaeger.bsky.social asks, “What Does Consulting Do?”, and the Economics department convened for a department-wide seminar on November 5 to hear about the statistical answers to this question. Learn about the impact and usage patterns of consulting here: https://bit.ly/4oYqlNM
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Catch up on all the latest news and events from the Economics Department at @Princeton in our October newsletter. https://bit.ly/4qPFB1g
November 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Introducing our 2025 candidates on the economics job market:
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Ziqiao Zhang’s job market paper studies how mortgage credit policy has reshaped the U.S. housing market. He documents a boom in mortgage borrowing among older households from the 1990s, driven by credit policy reforms. ziqiaozhang.weebly.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
So Hye Yoon’s job market paper examines the challenges financial intermediaries face when using algorithmic pricing in housing markets with multidimensional private information. www.sohyeyoon.com/assets/paper...
November 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Jesse Silbert’s job market paper studies how Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, through automating writing, disrupt labor markets that rely on writing as a costly signal of match quality. jesse-silbert.github.io/website/silb...
November 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Kim Sarnoff’s job market paper experimentally studies belief updating when information arrives sequentially. ksarnoff.github.io/files/sarnof...

She finds: (1) signal order matters only for a minority, who overreact to late, conflicting information;
November 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Yinan Qiu’s job market paper shows that VC syndication (co-investment) networks transmit startup knowledge back to the investor’s country. yinan-qiu.github.io/files/JMP_Qi...
November 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Eric Qian’s job market paper develops a test of unobserved heterogeneity for structural econometric estimation. These settings often use moment conditions that are only valid for a representative economic agent. www.eric-qian.com/research/het...
November 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Eugenia Menaguale's job market paper studies how market power in technology-specific capital markets shapes the direction of firms' technology adoption and workers' specific human capital accumulation. eumena.github.io/files/em_jmp...
November 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Casey McQuillan’s job market paper studies how unemployment insurance (UI) generosity affects take-up and optimal policy design. esd.wa.gov/media/pdf/42...
November 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Yuyang Jiang’s job market paper studies how local authorities distort transportation networks when they fail to cooperate. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2dgfq...
November 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Michael Jenuwine’s job market paper measures the cost of inflation in sticky-price models by exploiting vintage, or the duration of price spell, as an observable. www.michaeljenuwine.com/files/papers...
November 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Nicolas Hommel’s @nhommel.bsky.social job market paper studies firms’ currency hedging. Using a novel dataset of 1.5 million derivatives contracts, he shows that a few firms bear significant currency risk. nicolashommel.github.io/files/jmp_ho...
November 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Sebastián Guarda’s job market paper studies bounded rationality in the context of macroeconomic models with heterogeneous agents and aggregate uncertainty. www.sebastianguarda.com/research
November 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Richard De Thorpe’s job market paper studies how remote work reshapes residential sorting and local public finance.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Pier Paolo Creanza’s job market paper studies how the Great Merger Wave (1895-1904) shaped American innovation before WW2. www.ppcreanza.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Christine Blandhol’s job market paper examines the trade-offs policymakers face when using out-migration taxes to curb capital tax flight. www.christineblandhol.com/research
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Marcelo Barbosa Ferreira’s job market paper studies how a large, permanent, unconditional pension for adult daughters of Brazilian military personnel changes their labor supply. drive.google.com/file/d/12iDs...
November 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Mark Bamba’s job market paper evaluates the impact of Tokyo's train system on the location of economic activity and welfare using a class of urban commuting models. markbamba.com/wp-content/u...
November 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Narek Alexanian’s job market paper examines how wage indexation—the extent wages adjust to unexpected inflation—shapes macroeconomic fluctuations. sites.google.com/princeton.ed...
November 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM