Very sad stats about the negative mental health effects of PhD study www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Just finished presenting at the labor seminar in SOFI @stockholmuni.bsky.social following a kind invitation by Toppeta. Loved it. Clear, sharp, implementable feedback. And generally a good vibe about the interest for the topic and paper. Which wasn't a given since I presented this paper about ...

I’ll be leading a new project uniting biomedical and social sciences to learn why neurodevelopmental conditions are rising and how to better support people. We’re hiring soon! @astridsandsor.bsky.social Hedvig Nordeng Krister Fjermestad Alexandra Havdahl Nicolai Borgen www.uio.no/english/rese...

Evidence that academics have been complaining about service roles for about 3000 years...

If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)

Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball! This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers. paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

The US is the purple line bottoming out. Our economy may still roar, but we’re killing ourselves. Hoarding wealth, refusing to even ensure our kids have enough to eat. That line is an indictment. It reflects our warped values.

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When researchers bring up confounders without ever having declared the actual analysis goal

Interdisciplinary paper with @paulhufe.net Astrid Sandsør and Nicolai Borgen now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.... Causal evidence of gene-environment interaction for reading test scores based on: 🧬 Exogenous within-family genetic differences 🏫 Exogenous variation in school value added

🚨New publication alert🚨 I'm thrilled Economics of Education Review has just published my work w/ @abbyfrancis.bsky.social: "School enrollment shifts five years after the pandemic" Abstract below, but read the next few posts for the story told via a handful of graphs. doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

5/10 Main Finding: People are willing to pay a lot for narratives. Average WTP for an expert narrative = $4.23 WTP for a numerical Fed recession forecast = $3.61 That’s roughly the price of a Financial Times newspaper. Narratives are valued at least as much or even more than hard numbers.

5. For example, research produced and funded by tech companies often either frames problems as user-driven, or explores solutions as the obligation of users (e.g. community notes). Seldom does it explore consequences of design, UX, or algorithmic implementation, let alone the business model.

📢🚨 #HERB2026 is on 🚨📢 Interested in health and risky behaviors? Submit your paper to this conference Davide, Paolo, and I have been organizing this conference for 4 years now, and every time I love it. Good people, good food, nice discussions. The papers are not too bad either 😜

📢📢📢 Why are sex markets gendered? Why is sexual activity declining even as norms liberalize? Finally a general economic theory that unifies paid sex and marriage. 👉 An Economic Theory of Sexual Exchanges and Human Capital #gender #humancapital #fertility @davidedragone.bsky.social and Elias Carroni

📢🧵 New paper! #EconTwitter How does intensive social media use affect puberty timing and risky behaviours in adolescence? 📄 Riskonnected: Social Media, Puberty and Risky Behaviours in Adolescence with Margherita Agnoletto and Silvia Mendolia #ChildDevelopment #DigitalWellbeing

⭐️On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, learn more about a study conducted by Giorgia Menta, Anthony Lepinteur and Sofie R. Waltl: Equal Price for Equal Place? Demand-Driven Racial Discrimination in the Housing Market 🏠 youtu.be/JziAw_u7KA4 📌

Probably they want to hear more complaints. Can you please take one minute to write to them? [email protected] #punsih #noncompliers #publicgoodgame

The recording of @dingdingpeng.the100.ci's fantastic #CIIG presentation "Making Rigorous Causal Inference More Mainstream" is now available on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL0c...

𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 – 𝐈𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐤𝐲 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐬 (HERB 2026) 📍 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐚, January 22–23, 2026 🗓 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: November 30, 2025 🔗 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 here: eventi.unibo.it/workshop-herb #healtheconomics @healtheconomics.bsky.social #econsky

Are you writing a reference letter for a candidate who is applying to Uni #Bocconi? Please take 2 minutes to complain to [email protected] about their system. Instead of using JOE or econjobmarket they have their own application where we have to manually upload the letter. /1

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BREAKING: wars devastate economies.

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It's Monday. Time to follow me for more productivity tips #AcademicChatter

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

This video is a gentle reminder that Kyiv lives, eats, and tells russia to go to hell. Pumpkin season.

This paper is so true that I had to stop reading. I cannot take reality in math format without any veil to hide behind. Strongly suggested reading to any Italian academic

Gambetta & Origgi on the LL Game, in which agents prefer to deliver and receive (!) low quality. This paper is absolutely savage but also feels uncomfortably relevant to parts of academia outside of Italy 👀 diegogambetta.org/wp-content/u...

Migrant Electoral Rights Dataset (1960-2020) 📊 Link to dataset: hdl.handle.net/1814/93661 📕 Link to codebook: cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c... 💼 Link to 400 page documentation: cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c...

Childcare is a public good. The return on investment is high (and VERY well-documented). It benefits children, mothers, families, businesses, and the economy. The lack of a robust childcare infrastructure is a choice the U.S. has made. We could make a different one. www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

Ugh... This study has existed for decades, providing valuable health data for all sorts of topics and publications. This is just more awful news. 🛟😷 Sociology medsky

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

We found a globally rare variant rather common in Estonia that rises BMI by 0.8 units per allele 🤯 @estbiobank.bsky.social

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great story, this chart RULES

That West German motherhood penalty 🥲

This is your periodic reminder that you can add coffee stains to your LaTeX documents.

I'm not crying, you are crying youtu.be/Viumh9LKKvc?...

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year: www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Was a great experience and much fun to edit this Labour Economics Special Issue with @joemoscelli.bsky.social and @osea.bsky.social on the “Economics of the Healthcare Workforce” 👇

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics. 🧵 1/7

I'm hiring! ✨ Looking for a Research Fellow to study environmental factors that mitigate intergenerational transmission of mental health. 3-year post at UCL @uclbrainscience.bsky.social with great opportunities for training, collaboration & exciting science! 🔗 Apply: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ633/r...

High-profile departures from the US - congrats to @econ.uzh.ch

The HPV vaccine is doing what had been promised. 17 years after it became available, HPV infections decreased significantly in vaccinated people and unvaccinated people because of herd immunity. buff.ly/WvjQ1BS h/t @boghuma.bsky.social #medsky #pedsky 🛟🧪

I assume that epsilon and X are always orthogonal. Not always and everywhere, of course, I'm not stupid. Just in all the regressions that I decide to run. Totally plausible assumption.