nicholas decker

• "the life's work of banerjee, duflo and kremer: a synoptic review of the work of my heroes
• "why tariffs are never the optimal industrial policy": gains from trade come along many more margins than you might think, and placing tariffs is the worst possible way to subsidize domestic industry
• "should effective altruists have kids?": yes
• "why does unemployment happen?": differentiating two stories of equilibrium unemployment, and using it to make predictions about the effects of artificial intelligence
• "the returns to education": we cannot, in fact, differentiate between signaling and human capital acquisition in our studies of the returns to education
• "the primacy of reallocation in economic growth": changes in sectoral productivity need not the sectors where technology is changing in a distorted economy
• "what should our counterfactuals be?": making causal claims about long-run effects makes us choose between the unrealistic and the unknowable; explores the economic impact of the railroad
• "you don't experiment enough": on apathy as a profound bias, illustrated with a paper on the london tube
• "the moral duty to marry an immigrant": on what we can do in our fallen world
• "do neighbors matter?": a review of the literature on peer effects in education and elsewhere
• "why do firms choose to be inefficient?": in which nicholas bloom's work first became a loadbearing part of how i think about the world
• "the problem with psychology is that it has no theory": why i am an economist

wikipedia articles i've written

• pete klenow
• chang-tai hsieh
• nicholas bloom
• dave donaldson
• arnaud costinot
• marc melitz
• chad jones
• peter hull
• jacob moscona
• matthew gentzkow
• costas arkolakis
• david weil