Development / Urban / Macro economist at BU. On the 24-25 Job Market https://pdeffebach.github.io/https://bsky.app/profile/macrodev.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/macrodev.bsky.social/post/3lbkc43bsx22hI'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. [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Nov 2024 15:27 +0000at://did:plc:chnj7asmuhas2tr2isqz7kuj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbkc43bsx22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/macrodev.bsky.social/post/3lbifggikf22rKevin 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)21 Nov 2024 21:21 +0000at://did:plc:chnj7asmuhas2tr2isqz7kuj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbifggikf22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/macrodev.bsky.social/post/3lbfbqyx3wc27One 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. [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Nov 2024 15:37 +0000at://did:plc:chnj7asmuhas2tr2isqz7kuj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbfbqyx3wc27https://bsky.app/profile/macrodev.bsky.social/post/3l7qv2rqwix2xThere'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? [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Oct 2024 19:32 +0000at://did:plc:chnj7asmuhas2tr2isqz7kuj/app.bsky.feed.post/3l7qv2rqwix2x