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Call for applications: Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) will hold its next Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) on 8/23, 8/25, 9/1, and 9/3. RT2 will be hosted online. See the agenda and eligibility requirements and apply here.
Patrick Kline has been selected as the winner of the 2021 IZA Young Labor Economist Award for his research on empirical methodology in labor economics and on the determination of wages. This biennial prize is awarded to outstanding labor economists whose Ph.D. was received fewer than 15 years ago. Read more
In a KQED article on the federal stimulus bill and the temporary expansion of the child tax credit, Professor Hilary Hoynes says that “If [the child tax credit] were to be made permanent, it would be the most important anti-poverty program for children in our history." Read more
Professor Glenn Woroch appointed chief economist of the Federal Communications Commission. Read more
Joseph S. Shapiro. 2020: “The Environmental Bias of Trade Policy.” Working paper, was declared the 2020 Energy Article of the Year by the American Energy Society. The paper is available on NBER and now also the basis for an Econimate video. Watch the video