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belatedly publicly sharing this short note about my advisor, emmanuel farhi. (i wrote it two days after his death, then kept it largely to myself). hard to believe it's been over a year now; he is still sorely missed.

over the last 4 years, and i have tracked the effects of the last decade s minimum wage changes using a pre-analysis plan. this thread describes the final results of our project. the associated paper is out this week through : 1/15

why didn't the haitians you're seeing in today's viral images "get in line" and migrate "the right way"? because there is no line. the us provides essentially zero lawful migration opportunities accessible to almost all haitian nationals. a short thread below

border patrol agents on horseback cracking whips and charging into crowds of haitian asylum seekers in texas, shouting at them to go back to mexico strong reporting from on the situation in del rio/ciudad acu a

#covid_19 and mental health: large-scale phone survey in six indian states - natalie bau manisha shah (), gaurav khanna (), corinne low () sreyashi sharmin (), alessandra voena ()

questions like "what are the dynamics" and "how large are the labor market frictions" and "what adjustment margins are we missing" strike me as being the most important and interesting questions on which the minimum wage literature is poised to make progress.