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Lawrence Katz
@lkatz42
Economist studying labor markets, inequality, and economics of social problems
scholar.harvard.edu/lkatz/
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    Lawrence Katz
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    Jan 16, 2020
    I am deeply honored and humbled to receive the 2020 @iza_bonn Prize in Labor Economics and immensely grateful to have had incredible mentors, collaborators, and students who made the work possible
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    IZA
    @iza_bonn
    Jan 16, 2020
    Congratulations to Lawrence Katz @lkatz42 @Harvard on winning the 2020 #IZAPrize in Labor Economics! newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/new…
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    Lawrence Katz
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    Dec 21, 2023
    Bob Solow was a true intellectual giant with pathbreaking work on growth, macro fluctuations, and wage setting. He was generous, incisive, and insightful and taught me both micro and macro theory at MIT. I never stopped learning from him. May his memory be a blessing.
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    Ivan Werning
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    Dec 21, 2023
    RIP. Bob Solow an absolute giant in Economics, has passed away at age 99. Tremendously influential in the profession and one of the key founders of the MIT Economics department as we live it today. Will be sorely missed.
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    Lawrence Katz
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    Oct 11, 2021
    Awesome and richly deserved Nobel to David Card, @metrics52, and Guido Imbens for building empirical labor economics, showing the power of natural experiments, and igniting the credibility revolution!
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    The Nobel Prize
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    Oct 11, 2021
    BREAKING NEWS: The 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded with one half to David Card and the other half jointly to Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens. #NobelPrize
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    Lawrence Katz
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    Oct 21, 2020
    Many kudos to the amazing, brilliant, and always inspiring @PikaGoldin for winning the Nemmers Prize in Economics for her pathbreaking work into gender, labor markets, education, and economic history - a big day for Harvard economics in dire times. nemmers.northwestern.edu/prizes/2020gol…
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    Lawrence Katz
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    Apr 26, 2019
    My brief remembrance of my dear friend and long-term collaborator Alan Krueger @Alan_Krueger and his amazing work and influence is available at @sciencemagazine: science.sciencemag.org/content/364/64… He is deeply missed.
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    Lawrence Katz
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    Jan 16, 2021
    Richard Freeman's (1989) 5 rules for empirical research in labor economics remain essential today: (1) Create own variation with experiment or use a natural experiment; (2) Focus on first-order economic & behavioral issues not the subtleties of theories that can't be detected
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    Ina Ganguli 🇺🇦 🌻🪷
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    Jan 16, 2021
    Richard Freeman has a short piece on advice for doing empirical economics with a great point on this (and others) that has stuck with me. @lkatz42 used to assign this at the start of his PhD labor course (I do in mine now).
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    Lawrence Katz
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    Oct 14, 2022
    The (now updated) paper you need to read on the clustering of standard errors by the all-star team of Abadie, Athey (@Susan_Athey), Imbens, and Wooldridge (@jmwooldridge ) now in the @QJEHarvard! Need I say more?
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    QJE
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    Oct 14, 2022
    Recently accepted by #QJE, “When Should You Adjust Standard Errors for Clustering?” by Abadie, Athey (@Susan_Athey), Imbens, and Wooldridge (@jmwooldridge): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…
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    Lawrence Katz
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    Mar 26, 2019
    The amazing and brilliant @PikaGoldin (aka Claudia Goldin) wins the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics!
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    Fundación BBVA
    @FundacionBBVA
    Mar 26, 2019
    El #PremioFronteras en #Economía es para Claudia Goldin @PikaGoldin de @Harvard por sus contribuciones pioneras al análisis económico de las causas de la brecha de género
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    Lawrence Katz
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    Nov 30, 2023
    Some thoughts on inequality, wage structure, and moving to opportunity research in a nice piece by Bob Simison for @IMFNews
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    The Inequality Economist
    Bob Simison profiles Harvard’s Lawrence F. Katz, whose research changed economists’ understanding of economic disparity
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    Lawrence Katz
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    Jan 28, 2022
    Awesome to see the pathbreaking work of @EDerenoncourt on "Can You Move to Opportunity? ..." as lead article in the latest issue of the AER! aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…
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    Lawrence Katz
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    Dec 27, 2020
    Sectoral employment programs generate large earnings gains in multiple RCTs through training in transferable and certifiable skills and reductions of employment barriers to high-wage sectors -- see our new @nberpubs working paper
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    NBER
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    Dec 27, 2020
    RCT evidence shows sector-focused training programs generate large and persistent earnings gains (11 to 40 percent) by getting workers into higher-wage sectors, from @lkatz42, @jondr44, Richard Hendra, and Kelsey Schaberg nber.org/papers/w28248
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    Lawrence Katz
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    Oct 10, 2023
    Replying to @IvanWerning
    @PikaGoldin is the real account. The other is a fake.
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    Lawrence Katz
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    Nov 17, 2022
    The NBER (@nberpubs ), with the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is sponsoring three dissertation fellowships for doctoral students in economics & allied fields on Gender in the Economy. See the “call” here: nber.org/career-resourc… Due date is Jan. 5, 2023.
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    Lawrence Katz
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    Oct 11, 2021
    Replying to @lkatz42
    It is just incredibly sad that the amazingly creative and energetic Alan Krueger who shared in these innovations and brought them to the policy world is not around to share in the kudos