Kevin Lang retweeted
🎙️ Conversations with Economists — a new podcast featuring Boston University Economics faculty sharing insights on topics like tariffs, artificial intelligence, anti-trust legislation, and health care.
Listen now on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5XF7pYhcP…
Listen now on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5XF7pYhcP…
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Kevin Lang retweeted
🎉 We are thrilled to announce the 5th Workshop on Human Capital on Mar 20, 2026!
📅 Deadline for applications: Jan 9, 2026
🎤 Keynote speaker: Kevin Lang (Boston University)
📄 The call is available bancaditalia.it/media/notizia/……
📢 Spread the word & apply!
#Economics
📅 Deadline for applications: Jan 9, 2026
🎤 Keynote speaker: Kevin Lang (Boston University)
📄 The call is available bancaditalia.it/media/notizia/……
📢 Spread the word & apply!
#Economics
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Kevin Lang retweeted
Society of Labor Economists (SoLE) Annual Conference will be in Denver May 1-2--you can now submit! Deadline for submissions is October 31--it should be a great conference!
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The AEA/EEA/ES/RES ad hoc committee has released our report "Improving the Publications Process in Economics," available at econometricsociety.org/uploads/docume…
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Happy to see my article, How Credible is the Credibility Revolution, based on my SOLE Presidential address is now out ahead of print at JOLE. I find a very high false discovery rate. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…
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Welcome to BU. We're looking forward to your visit.
📢Some exciting news:
Next Fall (Sep-Dec '25) I will spend my sabbatical in Boston, visiting @bu_economics.
I hope to connect w/ many of you in Boston/the Northeast.
Happy to give a talk on topics in 1) education (mainly in US), 2) gender & devo, or 3) governance/corruption.
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They did a good job of editing the interview to capture the core of my forthcoming REStat paper with Kaiwen Leong, Huailu Li, and Haibo Xu on relational contracting between loan sharks and their clients.
"Creditors have better memories than debtors."
-Ben Franklin
👉 youtu.be/28o6mSh1cH8 👀
Loan sharking is less about violence and more about trust and relationships. Kevin Lang (@BU_Tweets) reveals surprising insights into Singapore's informal lending world.
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This was fun.
When economists analyze a well-conducted RCT or natural experiment and find a statistically significant effect, they conclude the null of no effect is unlikely to be true. But how frequently is this conclusion warranted? Kevin Lang @lang_econ @BU_Tweets @bu_economics discusses MGTjOX #econtwitter #statistics #research
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Last call! bit.ly/AEA-RES-ES-EEA…
Got views on the publications process in economics?
Ideas on how to fix things?
The AEA, RES, ES and RES are listening.
Take 10mins to fill out the anonymous survey before July 3rd.
Please RT to spread the work & encourage others to have their voice heard.
bit.ly/AEA-RES-ES-EEA…
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Kevin Lang retweeted
We all know there are plenty of problems with the publication process in econ, but which ones matter most and how to address them? Please share your views with a joint AEA-EEA-ES-RES committee that will try to suggest solutions. Link to member survey: harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2g…
The EEA-AEA-ES-RES have formed a joint committee on the publication process in econ. Sending a 10min member survey to understand problems & solutions on a range of issues (citations, lags, refereeing practices, AI etc.)
Do participate: info gathered will be enormously valuable!
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Toured Geyland, Singapore's red light district last week to see the area Huailu Li, Kaiwen Leong, and I wrote about in our EJ article on sex workers. Two-thirds of the way through, the tour guide gave a lengthy summary of our paper. Surreal!
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Cool to have work with Costas Cavounidis, Qingyuan Chai, and Raghav Malhotra picked up by All Things Considered. npr.org/2024/02/15/123…
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Kevin Lang retweeted
Black hires face greater scrutiny from bosses when newly hired. fortune.com/2024/01/31/bla…
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Fun time on @planetmoney re: paper with Cavounidis, Chai, and Malhotra on Obsolescence Rents npr.org/2023/11/08/119… My brilliant answers: "What do you think we've learned?" "That it's nice to come out to central Massachusetts on a three-day weekend in the middle of October."
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Kevin Lang retweeted
If you thought there were only 3 of us, think again. Meet my family’s latest and greatest economist, my sister Jenya. Version 4.0 is our best yet. She does IO and knows a ridiculous amount about energy markets. Here she shows how competitive energy markets cause poor to pay more
Jenya Kahn-Lang
JMP: "Competing for (In)attention: Price Discrimination in Residential Electricity Markets"
Website: sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/j…
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