Georgetown Center for Economic Research

📢 The Department of Economics at Georgetown University is pleased to introduce our 2026/2027 Ph.D. Job Market Candidates.

🔗 econ.georgetown.edu/academics/phd/…

We’ll be sharing highlights of their work and job market papers in this thread 🧵

#EconJobMarket #econtwitter

🔷Brazil reserved half its federal college seats for disadvantaged students.

👉 @cauedobbin and co-authors find benefited students gained more than displaced ones lost, but there were 30% more displaced than benefited, leaving a modest net gain

🔗 nber.org/papers/w35893

🟦 Congratulations to Jacob Mortenson (Georgetown PhD ’16) on his new AER paper, “Corporate Tax Cuts, Firm Growth, and Workers’ Earnings.”
Key finding: 87% of short-run private-income gains from the 2017 corporate tax cuts flowed to the top 10%.
aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

⚫️With sorrow and grief we announce that:

Georgetown's Economics Department has lost one of our foundational members, a pillar of our community, Marius Schwartz, who peacefully passed away on Tuesday, June 9.  [1/3]

👏 Forthcoming paper from one of our very own! Congrats to Alexandre for a great paper.

Oster's δ —a go-to robustness check— can flip a coefficient's sign far more easily than zero it out, so a "large" δ can mask a smaller sign-reversing confounder.

👉Comes with a Stata fix.