My whereabouts: returning to Aarhus after a couple of days in wonderful Budapest, where, inter alia, I had a poster presentation in an interesting ‘Wages, Firms and LEED data’ workshop, at CEU.
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Sunday night econlinks
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Bilingualism and early child development: very interesting brand-new research in PNAS (institutional or individual subscription needed, else only abstract is free). And yes, bilingualism clearly pays off, if you were wondering.
New England clam chowder
My whereabouts this week: I’ll be presenting two papers (and will do my best not to miss a dozen other very interesting presentations) at this year’s SOciety of Labor Economists meeting, in Boston, one of my favourite (& frequent) US destinations.
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This Science piece on leverage being “the root of all financial turmoil” is interesting (will follow up on it), though a). I doubt leverage is “the” (only) root of the problem; b).
John Bates Clark Medal ’09
Congratulations to this year’s winner, Emmanuel Saez!
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