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Maya Eden

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Associate Professor at Brandeis. Macroeconomics and welfare economics.

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@MayaREden

Maya Eden

7 months

My paper, "The Cross-Sectional Implications of the Social Discount Rate", is forthcoming in Econometrica! The basic idea of the paper in 5 tweets, and then some acknowledgements 1/9

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Should policymakers discount the future less than the market? @MayaREden shows that any Paretian social welfare function that has this property must also favor more transfers from older people to younger ones @GPIOxford

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@MayaREden

Maya Eden

4 years

I am excited to announce that my paper "Welfare Analysis with Heterogeneous Risk Preferences" is forthcoming at the JPE! It asks a very timely question: what does the social welfare function look like when people have different attitudes towards risk?

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My paper "Welfare Analysis with Heterogeneous Risk Preferences" is in this issue of @JPolEcon ! Those of you who know me as a macroeconomist are probably looking at this and going: ? So here is the story... A tale of writing outside of one's field

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Welfare Analysis with Heterogeneous Risk Preferences | Journal of Political Economy: Vol 128, No 12

How much should society be willing to pay for reducing inequality? The standard approach to this normative question relates inequality aversion to risk aversion by treating inequality as an outcome...

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6 months

I’m moving to @econ_uzh ! Couldn’t be more excited and grateful for this opportunity.

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6 months

I‘m thrilled to report that the fantastic @MayaREden from @BrandeisU (and my fomer @MITEcon classmate!) will join our Department @econ_uzh next summer as Professor of Economics! 🎉 Can‘t wait to welcome you to Zurich!

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A) Malthus: More people ==> fewer natural resources per person ==> LOWER gdp per capita. B) Growth theory: More people ==> more innovation ==> HIGHER gdp per capita. Kevin Kuruc and I calibrate a model that suggests that (B) dominates: More people means higher gdp per capita.

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New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP18353 The long-run relationship between per capita incomes and population size Maya Eden @MayaREden @BrandeisU @GPIOxford Kevin Kuruc @UTAustin @GPIOxford #CEPR_MG

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3 years

A true honor to be appointed Associate Editor at one of my favorite journals. Thanks for the warm welcome and for the opportunity to serve!

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We want to welcome @MayaREden and Mathias Trabandt as Associate Editors of RED. Two fantastic additions to the team 🥳👏🏻

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I am teaching in two hours. I am still in total shock and horror from this weekend’s events. What is the protocol on this? Do I say something in class? Or teach macro as if nothing happened?

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Maya Eden

3 years

Something to look forward to in 2021: Our new virtual seminar series "Welfare Economics & Economic Policy" ( @WelfareEconomic )! Featuring both theoretical and applied work on welfare criteria. Register at this link Co-organized with @pgpiacquadio

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Maya Eden

4 years

I miss talking to people about research. So: if you are working on something which you would like to run by me (preferably in macro or welfare economics), please DM and we'll set up a call. I'm a good listener and occasionally have useful suggestions.

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8 months

I did say something. I'm glad I did. It helped.

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3 years

Veterans' Day special: Did the 1944 G.I. Bill discriminate against Black WWII veterans? An opportunity to nerd out about welfare economics 1/7

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Maya Eden

9 months

My paper, "Quantifying Racial Discrimination in the 1944 G.I. Bill", is forthcoming in Explorations of Economic History. The results of this analysis were not at all what I expected, and point to the subtleties of normative policy evaluation.

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My two daughters and I are sitting on the floor, each holding a doll. We are playing their new favorite game, which is called “permutation”. 5yo: Now, we will do a 2-cycle permutation! 3yo: ok! I’ll be the fixed point!

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3 years

Extremely excited to present this work. Its ambition? To make obsolete statements like “well the optimal policy depends on your degree of inequality aversion”. Join us so that I can try to convince you that there is only one reasonable degree of inequality aversion (it’s log)

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3 years

Next Monday June 7th at 1pm EST (19:00 Paris time), Maya Eden @MayaREden presents: "Price-Independent Anonymity Implies the Social Ranking of Income Distributions" Join us!!! For the Zoom invitation, register to our mailing list: #EconTwitter

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3 years

How should we discount the consumption of future generations? In this new WP, I show that Pareto implies: (1+SDR)=(1+r)*mu where: SDR = social discount rate r = interest rate mu = the relative distributional weights of two people born one year apart

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Daughter: how many kids did Bach have? Me: I don’t remember exactly, but many. I think two of them became composers. Daughter: The boy ones? Me: Yes. Back then only men could be composers. Women could only be… only be… (searching for the right term) Daughter: economists?

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PhD admissions committees: have a close look at the pre-docs at @GPIOxford . There are some really strong candidates coming out of there, which you will not want to miss out on. 1/8

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Maya Eden

4 years

(As a side note, a couple of important lessons that I've learned: "Lemma 1" is only a lemma if it is used in the proof of a theorem; and, "equation 2" is not an equation unless it contains an equality sign. Otherwise, it is "expression 2".)

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2 years

Can’t believe how lucky I am to get to spend an entire month at @GPIOxford ! Thank you so much for this opportunity and for (already) opening my eyes to some truly fascinating questions. I’m psyched!!

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Maya Eden

4 years

To sum, the eventual publication of this paper at the JPE is a testament to the collegiality and open-mindedness of welfare theorists. Not sure to what extent this happens in other subfields... But I hope that it does. It was really a great experience!

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Maya Eden

8 months

Thanks @itaisher ! I really do think that if there is an antidote to activism research, this is it. Normative economics is the dispassionate, disciplined study of normative questions. Join us.

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8 months

Since we're talking about where in economics we can find social justice, I will recommend to everyone this wonderful seminar series organized by @MayaREden and @pgpiacquadio : Normative Economics and Economic Policy

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7 months

Second, to @GPIOxford . I can honestly say that I would have never embarked on this project if it weren’t for GPI. The inspiration for this project came from GPI and it was a pleasure to engage with this vibrant and interdisciplinary community. 8/9

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4 years

To summarize: don't shy away from incorporating heterogeneity in risk preferences into your models! Welfare analysis is doable and does not require any additional assumptions.

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Maya Eden

3 years

Can we learn about what’s ethical from people’s moral intuitions? Depends on where these intuitions are coming from. Join us on Monday, 1pm EST, to hear @S_Stantcheva on what shapes people’s fairness views

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Next Monday May 3rd at 1pm EST (19:00 Paris time), Stefanie Stantcheva @S_Stantcheva presents "Social Positions and Fairness Views" (joint with @okoctk and @KBHvidberg ). Join us!!! For the Zoom invitation, register to our mailing list: #EconTwitter

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Maya Eden

6 months

The idea that Jews are fundamentally immoral is an old antisemetic trope. It is worth understanding where it comes from. (Thanks to my historian friend @bbarlavi for this illuminating link!)

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Prof. David Nirenberg presents the concept of “anti-Judaism” and explores what separates it from “antisemitism”. On this topic and more in Yad Vashem's new o...

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Itai Sher

6 months

Here again is the original bigoted tweet saying Israelis are incapable of morality

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3 years

Challenge accepted, Pam! Not only will I convince you but I will do so in 6 tweets or less. But I need more than one so I started a new thread (is this what you do?). Here’s what I need for this result: 1/6

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@MayaREden This ought to make some Bernoulli very happy (though I’m not sure you will convince me!)

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3 years

How should we make interpersonal comparisons when people have heterogeneous preferences? Join us on Monday, 1pm EST to hear Francois Maniquet discuss

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3 years

📢 Monday 29th at 1pm EST (19:00 Paris time), Francois Maniquet ( @CORE_UCL @uclouvain_be ) presents: “Well-being measurement with reference consumption” (joint with D. Moramarco) For the Zoom invitation, register at Join us!!! #EconTwitter

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2 years

I ❤️ @GPIOxford Thank you for an amazing visit!! @rossaokod @evavivalt @johannamthoma1 @LorenFryxell @BenjaminTereick @GusAlexandrie @LotteSiegmann @GalorOded @k_kuruc @julianjamison @DanaeArroyos @AntonyMillner (and other wonderful people!)

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Maya Eden

4 years

Epilogue: despite ending up at the JPE, I am still not sure whether it was the right "career" move to write this paper. I was told that having publications in multiple fields might make it harder to find good letter writers, and hurt my chances of getting tenure. So, stay tuned..

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Maya Eden

3 years

Pareto says that if people want to gamble, let them. But what if people buy lottery tickets because they don't understand probabilities? How should we think about welfare in this case? Join us today at 1pm EST to hear @bblockwood 's take on these questions!

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3 years

Monday 22nd at 1pm EST (19:00 Paris time), @bblockwood will present "The Optimal Taxation of Lotteries: Who P(l)ays and Who Wins?" joint with Hunt Allcott and @DTaubinsky . Register to the seminar mailing list here:

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4 years

Much to my surprise, they were extremely helpful (especially @pgpiacquadio , Uzi Segal and John Weymark). They pointed out references, highlighted weaknesses, and gave advice about writing. But most importantly, they were encouraging, and convinced me that this idea is worthwhile.

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7 months

Rich people live longer, which makes standard pension schemes regressive. Is there a better option? Join us on Monday, 11am EST/ 5pm Paris for Svetlana Pashchenko’s talk

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7 months

NE&EP webinar announcement! Monday 20th at 5pm CEST (11am EDT) Svetlana Pashchenko ( @universityofga ) presents "Mortality Regressivity and Pension Design". Join us! To register, email us: … #EconTwitter

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Maya Eden

4 years

@jenniferdoleac I have no first-hand experience, but wrote a paper on this (which is forthcoming at the Scandinavian Journal of Economics)... TLDR: Yes, 3-1 is better for productivity than 5-2!

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Maya Eden

2 years

This is getting a lot of attention so let's lean into this: on what grounds can we reject the conclusion that saving a life in a rich country is more important than saving a life in a poor country? 1/10

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2 years

Fucking hell

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7 months

Third, thanks to my RA @TomHoulden ! It was a real pleasure working with you. And, finally, thanks to everyone who provided valuable feedback on this paper. I am amazed at how generous and supportive this research community is. 9/9

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Maya Eden

9 months

We are back! Join us on Monday, 11am EST/ 5pm Paris (NOTE NEW TIME) for an exciting presentation by Ernst Fehr about the positive and normative implications of other-regarding preferences

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9 months

📢 Monday 11th at 5pm CEST (11am EDT) Ernst Fehr ( @econ_uzh ) presents: "The Human Quest for Fairness and Equality." Join us! #EconTwitter

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Maya Eden

4 years

She came back to me with the question: "whose risk aversion?" I could not find a compelling answer to this in the literature, so came up with the procedure in this paper. Here is a previous thread summarizing it:

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Maya Eden

4 years

I am excited to announce that my paper "Welfare Analysis with Heterogeneous Risk Preferences" is forthcoming at the JPE! It asks a very timely question: what does the social welfare function look like when people have different attitudes towards risk?

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3 years

Hoping to find out more about the mysterious proof @itaisher has been tweeting about lately? Or about whether our tax policy can reflect non-utilitarian ethical considerations? Join us today at 1pm EST! I personally can't wait

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3 years

Next Monday February 8th at 1pm EST (19:00 Paris time), @itaisher will explain why "Generalized Social Marginal Welfare Weights Imply Inconsistent Comparisons of Tax Policies." Register here: More great talks to come!!!

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2023 was not a year. It was nine months, six days, and then -- Time stops. Time changes. We will never be the same, but here's to regaining some sense of normalcy in 2024.

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3 years

Should we eat meat, and, if so, how much? This paper is an exciting attempt to study this question by incorporating human welfare, animal welfare and climate externalities into the same normative framework. Join us on Monday!

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3 years

Next Monday 22nd at 1pm EST (19:00 Paris time), Kevin Kuruc will present a paper on "Optimal Animal Agriculture" (joint with Jonathan McFadden) If you are not yet registered to our seminar mailing list, click here: #EconTwitter

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7 months

If SDR<R, it must hold that M<1. In other words, if we think that markets do not adequately reflect the interests of future generations, we must also think that it is socially desirable to increase transfers from older people to younger people. 5/9

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4 years

This collegiality and open-mindedness was also apparent in the review process. I was clearly an outsider, and there were obvious flaws and omissions in earlier drafts of the paper. Yet the reviewers and the editor (Emir Kamenica) were able to see past that.

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This compounds exponentially: even a social discount rate that is just a bit below the market rate implies a strong preference for the young. So, there is a tradeoff between how much we care about future generations and how much we care about the elderly. 6/9

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@Florian_Scheuer @BrandeisU @MITEcon @econ_uzh Thank you @Florian_Scheuer , @econ_uzh and the country of Switzerland for this amazing opportunity! I couldn’t be more excited

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Maya Eden

3 years

Both market and non-market interactions (such as social norms) affect people's well-beings. So how should we think of efficiency and equity? Join us on Monday, 1pm EST (7pm Paris), for Marc Fleurbaey's talk! @MFleurbaey @DJSnower

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📢📢 Monday 27th at 1pm EST (19:00 Paris time), Marc Fleurbaey ( @MFleurbaey , PSE) presents: "Efficiency and equity in a society-economy integrated model" with Ravi Kanbur and @DJSnower . Join us!!! For the Zoom invitation, register at #EconTwitter

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3 years

How can we calculate the social value of vaccination? Join us on Monday, 1 pm EST, to hear Maddalena Ferranna discuss

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3 years

Monday 18th at 1pm EST (19:00 Paris time), Maddalena Ferranna (Harvard) presents: “Estimating the full health and socio-economic value of vaccination” (with D. Bloom and JP Sevilla) Join us!!! For the Zoom invitation, register at #EconTwitter

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6 months

@ShengwuLi On this, I highly recommend Samuel Scheffler’s “Death and the Afterlife”. It really changed the way I think about “utility” in a dynastic context.

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3 years

If you want to talk about what people *deserve* (a fair wage? equal opportunities?), you have to step away from the standard utilitarian framework. Join us on Monday to hear what Erwin Ooghe suggests!

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3 years

📢 Our seminar series is back! 🎉 Next Monday August 30th at 1pm EST (19:00 Paris time), Erwin Ooghe (KUL) presents: "Social Welfare, Excess Burden, and Inequality." Join us!!! For the Zoom invitation, register to our mailing list: #EconTwitter

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3 years

Couldn't think of a better way to end our semester than with David Pearce's pig-picture perspective on normative assessments in economics. Join us on Monday, 1 pm EST

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3 years

Next Monday June 14th at 1pm EST (19:00 Paris time), David Pearce (NYU) presents: "Individual and Social Welfare: a Bayesian Perspective" Join us!!! For the Zoom invitation, register to our mailing list: #EconTwitter

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4 years

(a) replace each individual's lottery with his certainty equivalent of that lottery; (b) construct new individual lotteries that assign the same probabilities to each certainty equivalent from (a); repeat.

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4 years

When I was working at the World Bank, my counterpart in operations (the brilliant Laura Ralston) asked me how to compute the social rate of return on cash transfer programs. I wrote up a memo explaining the Rawlsian approach, relating inequality aversion to risk aversion.

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3 years

I am especially honored to have Uzi Segal present at our seminar this week. His work inspired me to start thinking about welfare economics. I am really looking forward to this talk. Please join us!

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3 years

On Monday Uzi Segal is presenting a very insightful paper on how to select people randomly, joint with Tina Letsou and Shlomo Naeh. Abstract attached! We hope to see you all there!!!

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4 years

The main result of the paper is that this process converges to a common certainty equivalent which can be interpreted as the value of the social welfare function.

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1 year

That’s a wrap! Thanks to everyone who joined the Normative Economics webinar this term, and a big round of applause to our fabulous presenters. We will resume meetings in the Fall. Have a great summer!

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📢 📢 📢 NE&EP webinar. Monday 22nd at 1pm New York time (7pm Paris time) #Bruno_Strulovici (Northwestern University) presents: "When are ethical agents necessary for social learning?" Join us! Zoom link? Register at ! #EconTwitter

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4 years

The idea seemed neat to me, but I was hesitant to pursue it further. I was a run-of-the-mill macroeconomist working on automation, macro-finance and IF. I was trying to follow the standard (sensible) advice of establishing myself as an expert in one, narrowly-defined field.

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11 months

I ❤️ @GPIOxford ! Thank you for an amazing month!

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1 year

Join us on Monday, 1pm EST/ 7pm Paris! Very exciting work on how to construct a welfare measure that is both easy to communicate and has desirable theoretical properties.

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1 year

The paper is joint work with @WorldBank coauthors: #Art_Kraay ⓡ #Christoph_Lakner ⓡ @BerkOzler12 ⓡ #Benoit_Decerf ⓡ #Dean_Jolliffe ⓡ @nishant_yonzan !

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By the transitivity of the social indifference relation, we must be indifferent between one extra unit of consumption today (to the current young) and RM extra units of consumption next period (to the future young). So, RM is the gross social discount rate (SDR). 4/9

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3 years

Should the government take advantage of people’s inattention to taxes? Join us on Monday, 1pm EST (7pm Paris) to hear Antoine Ferey @A_Ferey address this complicated problem

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📢 Monday 8th at 1pm EST (19:00 Paris time), @A_Ferey ( @LMU_Muenchen ) presents: “Inattention and the Taxation Bias” (joint with J. Boccanfuso) For the Zoom invitation, register at Join us!!! #EconTwitter #TaxTwitter

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What are the welfare gains from taxing the rich? Devil’s in the details. Join us today at 1pm Est (7 pm Paris) to see @socampdi present his latest work

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📢 Monday 25th at 1pm EST (19:00 Paris time), @socampdi ( @westernuEcon ) presents: “Taxing Wealth and Capital Income with Heterogeneous Returns” (joint with @fatihguvenen from @Mebdi8 and @HellerHurwicz , and @gkambourov and @BKuruscu from @UofT ) #EconTwitter #TaxTwitter Link👇

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6 months

Can having more options make you worse off? Join us on Monday, 11am EST/ 5pm Paris for a fascinating presentation by Rush Stewart

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Last NE&EP webinar of 2023! Next Monday 18th at 5pm CEST (11am EDT) Rush Stewart ( @KingsCollegeLon ) presents "Choice, Freedom, and Norms: Outline of a Theory of Coercive Menu Expansion". Join us! To register, email us: … #EconTwitter

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2 years

This paper by @RemyLevin makes an interesting contribution to welfare economics. 1/

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2 years

NEEP webinar next Monday 17th at 7pm Paris time (1pm New York time)!!!! Join us!!! @RemyLevin ( @UConn ) presents: "The Global Impacts of Climate Change on Risk Preferences" (with @wezlayyy ). Zoom link? Register at !

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If people can borrow and lend at the gross market interest rate, R, then they are indifferent between 1 extra unit of consumption today and R extra units next period. By the Pareto indifference principle, we should be indifferent too. 2/9

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3 years

Should the government encourage or discourage fertility? This question is hard because it is not clear how to think of the welfare gains from being born (as opposed to not being born). Join us on Monday to hear @mdoepke present a new approach to this fascinating problem!

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3 years

Next Monday May 17th at 1pm EST (19:00 Paris time), @mdoepke presents "A Soul's View on the Optimal Population Problem" (with David de la Croix). We look forward to it!!! New to our webinars? Register to our mailing list for the Zoom link! #EconTwitter

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4 years

The justification for the standard utilitarian approach is that, "behind the veil of ignorance", we all face the same lottery, so the expected utility of the lottery = social welfare.

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2 years

Give us the rain, and flowers in the spring. And let her see him again. That is all we need.

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Maya Eden

1 year

New year, new axiomatic foundation of expected total utilitarianism. Join us!

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1 year

NEEP webinar next Monday 9th at 1pm New York time (7pm Paris time) Join us!!! Dean Spears ( @UTAustin ) presents (joint with S. Zuber): "Expected total utilitarianism is implied by social and individual dominance." Abstract below. Zoom link? Register at !

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Maya Eden

4 years

But what happens when different individuals assign different expected utilities to this lottery (because of different risk preferences)?

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Maya Eden

4 years

Also, I didn't know if the idea was any good, and had no one to ask. But I liked the idea too much to just drop it. So I decided to email people whom I've never met before, not expecting much...

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Maya Eden

3 years

My preliminary estimates suggest that this is the story of the 1944 GI bill: - No racial gap in spending per WWII veteran - Large racial gap in cash-equivalents, as segregation restricted the ways in which Black veterans could use their benefits 3/7

Eden_GI_Bill.pdf

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Maya Eden

2 years

What is the contribution of population growth to welfare growth? Join us on Monday, 1pm EST/ 7pm Paris, for a presentation by @ChadJonesEcon (joint with @PeteKlenow #Mark_Bils @adhami_mohamad ).

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2 years

NEEP webinar next Monday 3rd at 7pm Paris time (1pm New York time)!!!! @ChadJonesEcon ( @StanfordGSB ) presents: "Population and Welfare: The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number" (with @PeteKlenow #Mark_Bils @adhami_mohamad ). Zoom link? Register at !

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Maya Eden

7 months

Define the parameter M as the transfer to the young that is welfare-equivalent to transferring 1 (small) unit to the old: 3/9

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7 months

Now to some acknowledgements. First, to the editor @Chadjones and the anonymous referees. Your feedback not only helped make this paper much better, but also taught me how to be a better author. 7/9

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Maya Eden

1 year

I had the pleasure of collaborating with two *brilliant* GPI pre-docs who are applying for PhDs this year: Luis Mota and @GusAlexandrie . I highly recommend them both, and am sure that we’ll be hearing more of them in the coming years! 5/8

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Maya Eden

3 years

Reflecting on the last couple of talks at the @WelfareEconomic virtual seminar series, I was reminded of this line of verse: "But you overlook an important cultural function of games. To test the will of the gods." -Anne Carson, TANGO XXII. HOMO LUDENS. 1/6

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Maya Eden

2 years

Optimal climate policy is sensitive to assumptions about the social discount rate. How should we proceed? Join us on Monday, 2pm EST (7pm Paris) to hear Antony Millner discuss

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2 years

📢📢Webinar announcement!📢📢 Next Monday 14th at 19:00 Paris time (14:00 EDT!!!), @AntonyMillner ( @ucsantabarbara ) presents: "Non-dogmatic Climate Policy" (with @NikoEcon ) For the invitation, register at … #EconTwitter

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Maya Eden

3 years

I always understood (and used) “derives utility from” as a combination of a positive statement and a normative one. It means “cares about” + “the social preference relation should be non-paternalistic with respect to these preferences”.

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Itai Sher

3 years

I don’t like phrases of the form “agents derive utility from the common good” or “agents derive utility from the well-being of others.” Better replacements are “agents care about the common good” or “agents care about the well-being of others”

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Maya Eden

3 years

What is "utility"? Join us on Monday, 1pm EST (7pm Paris) to hear Loren Fryxell delve into this deep question

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3 years

📢 Monday 13th at 1pm EST (19:00 Paris time), Loren Fryxell ( @GPIOxford @OxfordEconDept ) presents: “A Theory of Experienced Utility and Utilitarianism" For the Zoom invitation, register at Join us!!! #EconTwitter

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Maya Eden

3 years

After today’s peaceful(ish) transfer of power, it’s time to start worrying about the next election! Join us on Monday (register through the website)

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3 years

On Monday 25th at 1pm EST (19:00 Paris time), @MikeGeruso (UT Austin) will present: "How Likely Is It that Courts Will Select the US President?" (joint with Dean Spears). Read the paper here: Register here: #EconTwitter

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Maya Eden

7 months

Join us on Monday, Dec 5th, 11am EST/ 5pm Paris! Hilary Greaves will present an argument for standard cost-benefit evaluation of public spending (that is, setting identical marginal welfare weights for everyone rather than higher weights for people with lower incomes)

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7 months

NE&EP webinar announcement! Next Monday 4th at 5pm CEST (11am EDT) Hilary Greaves ( @UniofOxford ) presents "Weighted vs Unweighted cost-benefit analysis - The significance of labour-supply responses". Join us! To register, email us: … #EconTwitter

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Maya Eden

2 years

Should meat consumption be taxed? At what rate? Join us on Monday, 1pm EST, for a presentation of "The Animal Welfare Levy" by @Treich13 (with @EspinosaRomain )

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@WelfareEconomic

2 years

📢 NEEP webinar next Monday 28th at 7pm Paris time (1pm New York time) Join us!!! @Treich13 ( @TSEinfo ) presents: "The Animal Welfare Levy" (with @EspinosaRomain ). Abstract below Zoom link? Register at !

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Maya Eden

4 years

The paper derives a simple iterative procedure for incorporating heterogeneity in risk preferences into social welfare analysis:

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Maya Eden

8 months

Screening for the most worthy applicants is often costly. Is it still socially desirable? Join us on Monday, 11am est/ 5pm Paris, for Piotr Dworczak’s talk

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8 months

NE&EP webinar! Monday 23rd at 5pm CEST (11am EDT) Piotr Dworczak ( @NorthwesternU ) presents on "Ordeals and Redistribution". Join us! To register, email us: … #EconTwitter

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Maya Eden

5 months

Decision makers care not only about doing the right thing, but also about being able to prove that they did the right thing. How does this interact with expected utility considerations? Join us on Monday, 11am EST/ 5pm Paris, for Hendrik Rommeswinkel’s presentation

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5 months

📣First NE&EP webinar of 2024! Next Monday 15th at 5pm CEST (11am EDT) Hendrik Rommeswinkel (Waseda University @wiasnews ) presents "Preference for Verifiability" Join us! To register, email us: … #EconTwitter

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Maya Eden

3 years

Thanks to everyone who joined yesterday! Such a cutting-edge question: how should we do welfare analysis when people are "irrational"? The approach in Zhuzhu's JMP: characterize "second best" solutions when the "first best" is not obvious. Fascinating!

My research interests include social choice, behavioral economics, econometrics, and public economics. Email: [email protected], [email protected] Phone: +1 (617) 795-6968

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Normative Economics and Economic Policy

@WelfareEconomic

3 years

We are excited to get starting with the virtual Welfare Economics & Economic Policy seminars. The first speaker is Zhuzhu Zhou (Boston College) presenting "Ranking Regret" (). To attend, register here: ! RT, pls!

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Maya Eden

3 years

I really learned a lot from reading this paper. Highly recommend to anyone looking to get up to date on the debate on the social discount rate!

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Antony Millner

3 years

New working paper with Geoff Heal: "Choosing the Future: Markets, Ethics, and Rapprochement in Social Discounting | NBER"

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Maya Eden

1 year

@CharlotteSiegm - I can go on and on about… She is sharp, energetic and inquisitive. She is definitely someone that you want to have in your department 7/8

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Maya Eden

3 years

What role should parental preferences have in shaping population policies? Join us on Monday, 1pm EST, for a presentation by Pierre-Edouard Collignon @pe_collignon (hashtag population ethics, hashtag Texas?)

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3 years

Next Monday 13th at 1pm EST (19:00 Paris time), Pierre-Edouard Collignon @pe_collignon (CREST) presents: "When is a life worth living? A dynastic efficiency criterion for fertility decisions." Join us!!! For the Zoom invitation, register at #EconTwitter

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Maya Eden

3 years

Join us today at 1pm EST!

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3 years

Next Monday May 17th at 1pm EST (19:00 Paris time), @mdoepke presents "A Soul's View on the Optimal Population Problem" (with David de la Croix). We look forward to it!!! New to our webinars? Register to our mailing list for the Zoom link! #EconTwitter

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3 years

Join us today (1pm EST, 6pm Paris) for the first of three talks on population ethics: the question of how many people (or in this case, animals) should be born. Today, Kevin Kuruc; on 4/19 Dean Spears; and on 5/17 @mdoepke Looking forward to learning more about this!

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3 years

ERRATA CORRIGE!!! Tomorrow the seminar is at 1pm EST, which corresponds to 18:00 Paris time!!!!!!! Apologies for the mistake.

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Maya Eden

3 years

Here is a link to the paper if you’re interested: 6/6

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Maya Eden

4 years

I calibrated an SIR model for The Gambia (where I vary the percent of the population under lockdown), and was surprised by some of the results. Here are my main takeaways.

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8 months

What are the tradeoffs between algorithmic fairness and accuracy? Join us on Monday, 11am EST/ 5pm Paris, for Annie Liang’s talk

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8 months

NE&EP webinar! Monday 9th at 5pm CEST (11am EDT) Annie Liang ( @NorthwesternU ) presents: "Algorithm Design: A Fairness-Accuracy Frontier" with Jay Lu ( @UCLA ) and Xiaosheng Mu ( @princeton ). Join us! To register, email us: … #EconTwitter

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Maya Eden

3 years

Can we put a dollar value on race disparities in America? Join us today at 1pm EST

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3 years

Next Monday April 5th at 1pm EST (19:00 Paris time), Pete Klenow will present "Race and Economic Well-being in the US" (joint with Jean-Felix Brouillette and @ChadJonesEcon ) For the Zoom invitation, register to our mailing list: #EconTwitter

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Maya Eden

1 year

I should also mention @CharlotteSiegm and @OliboniPedro , who are also applying this year. I don’t know Pedro that well because he is new at GPI, but I hear great things about him and have no doubt that he is excellent 6/8

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Maya Eden

3 years

Join us today, at 1pm EST!

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3 years

Next Monday June 14th at 1pm EST (19:00 Paris time), David Pearce (NYU) presents: "Individual and Social Welfare: a Bayesian Perspective" Join us!!! For the Zoom invitation, register to our mailing list: #EconTwitter

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Maya Eden

3 years

Join us today, 1pm EST (7pm Paris time), for the first seminar of the season! Looking forward to seeing you there

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3 years

📢 Our seminar series is back! 🎉 Next Monday August 30th at 1pm EST (19:00 Paris time), Erwin Ooghe (KUL) presents: "Social Welfare, Excess Burden, and Inequality." Join us!!! For the Zoom invitation, register to our mailing list: #EconTwitter

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Maya Eden

6 months

I've been thinking a lot about the Gulf War. After Iraq invaded Kuwait, the US put together a 42-country coalition to fight back, with American boots on the ground.

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Maya Eden

9 months

Join us today, 11am EST/ 5pm Paris! (Note new time) Email us at normative.econ @gmail .com if you would like the zoom link to join

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📢 Monday 11th at 5pm CEST (11am EDT) Ernst Fehr ( @econ_uzh ) presents: "The Human Quest for Fairness and Equality." Join us! #EconTwitter

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Maya Eden

3 years

Any tips for running a virtual seminar series? @pgpiacquadio and I are gearing up for the first meeting of the @WelfareEconomic virtual seminar on Monday. Any advice would be highly appreciated! Thanks #EconTwitter

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