BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

Pope Leo doing what Keir Starmer won't do, criticise Trump for attacking Venezuela, "War is back in vogue. And the zeal for war is spreading" "The principle established after WWII that prohibited nations from using force to violate the borders of others has been completely undermined"

In a recent talk, I mentioned I’ve been working on the paper for so long— since 2022–and the room erupted into laughter about my naïveté

"U.S. farmers are facing one of the widest gaps in a decade between what they pay to produce food and what they earn from selling it." www.agriculture.com/partners-gap...

Pope Leo XIV expressed “deep concern” with developments in Venezuela, calling for guarantees of the country’s “sovereignty” and to ensure the rule of law and respect for Venezuelans’ human and civil rights. Follow more live updates here: https://wapo.st/3LjfJLl

Heading to Philadelphia for the #ASSA2026. Presenting research you think our readers would be interested in? Working on something you think I should know about? Reach out here or by any of the ways linked in my bio: www.nytimes.com/by/ben-casse... #EconSky

I'm John Fallon, a labor economist on the job market. My JMP uncovers something wild: when chiropractors got licensed in the early 1900s, medical boards responded by making it HARDER to become a doctor. Why would competition lead to stricter regulations? 🧵 john-fallon-econ.com (1/9)

New NBER working paper with Alessandra Voena on women's power in the household in LMICs. I'd never found a review article on this topic that met my needs as a PhD class reading, so we sought to fill this gap. NBER : www.nber.org/papers/w34605 Ungated: seemajayachandran.com/womens_power_JEL.pdf

They’re not perfect, but golly, public universities are one of the best engines of economic mobility we have

Good news: Pope Agrees: bsky.app/profile/josh...

Recreating this legendary Peanuts scene. Yeah hoe!

Catholic Bishops is Florida want a holiday moratorium on immigration enforcement so people can go to church and celebrate Christmas and New Years.

I don’t care.

Currently at the funeral for the penny, happening at the Lincoln Memorial:

Are you interested in studying Public Policy at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social ? There are two scholarships available for Palestinian students: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

We’re heartbroken for Brown University tonight where students are still sheltered in place, trapped and terrified in the aftermath of yet another shooting in America. We mourn the two lives lost and hold the injured and their loved ones in our hearts tonight.

Note that the deadline was EXTENDED to be Dec 17!! 🥳 We’d love to see more global health scholars in Minneapolis

Sherrone Moore to the Harvard Institute of Politics

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

sites.google.com/view/behavio... #econsky

If you read LOTR when young I think you miss how much the hobbits represent, not “children” exactly but the rising generation. Incredibly annoying, foolish, don’t listen, but somehow—though this is obviously insane—they’re the only ones in a position to save us all. 100% about Christopher in RAF.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

🚨Attention! AshEcon call for papers! 🚨 www.ashecon.org/2026-minneap... Due date for abstracts: December 10, 2025 I'm the Program Chair for Health and Development, so would like to encourage global health scholars in particular Some tips for prospective authors in thread below

The NBER Race and Stratification Working Group will have its annual meeting on Friday, March 27, 2026. @franciscaantman.bsky.social, Bocar Ba, Robynn Cox and I are organizing the program. Submit your paper by the December 11, 2025 deadline! @nber.org #Econsky www.nber.org/conferences/...

top notch mascottin'

Check out this video from The Columbus Dispatch: Ohio vs Michigan: Who threw the best Shade? www.dispatch.com/videos/opini...

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

Stata users: if you aren't already, definitely start using bookmarks to create headings and sub-headings in your .do files. Such a big help! **# in a .do file creates a heading; **## = subheading; **### = sub-subheading. Then double-click on them to jump right to that section 👍

Conservatives have more children nowadays. Seems to be true, descriptively (though Brad's analysis is a mess). This is women's probability of being conservative by number of children, across birth cohorts in the GSS (note: 3 is >=3 children):

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure invites applications for a two-week Summer School on ‘Micro-Census Insights into Historical Households, Mortality and Fertility’, held at University of Cambridge from July 6-17th, 2026. Application deadline February 2 2026.

Great issue; I sincerely thank each of the contributors for sharing their fertility stories

My MVP for this week: I've discovered some folks who could do a much better job running American trade policy. #Econ101 #GoBlue #TeachEcon

Happy 13th anniversary to perhaps the funniest NFL play of all time: The Buttfumble

I appreciate the WSJ following up on this story, which is already in danger of being one of many forgotten scandals in elite academia.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

💯 and serving as a discussant is something that senior folks are happy to do in addition to presenting! Though, unfortunately I won't make it to ASHEcon next summer, I have welcomed cold emails to present/discuss on a panel in the past and welcome in the future!

🚨Attention! AshEcon call for papers! 🚨 www.ashecon.org/2026-minneap... Due date for abstracts: December 10, 2025 I'm the Program Chair for Health and Development, so would like to encourage global health scholars in particular Some tips for prospective authors in thread below

Hi! I’m Mary and I’m on the #EconJobMarket this year. Extreme heat doesn’t just affect students, it affects the people teaching them. JMP 🧵:

My only wish for the AEA executive board is to take seriously the broken market for peer review I recently joined the editorial board of Feminist Economics (send us your papers!) and it just seems to be that some smart theory person could come up with a way to fix this market

Our team at American Journal of Health Economics is looking for a social media editor! The position is compensated ($1000 per year) -- if you're interested, please apply using this Google form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New paper reminds us yet again: HOMICIDE is the leading cause of death for pregnant women. Gun violence & partner violence are related. All-cause homicide & firearm homicide of pregnant women are higher, in states w/ higher calculated firearm ownership (1/x 🧵 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

oh my fucking god he is 100% confusing cadillac insurance plans with people buying cadillacs "and it's gonna be locked so they can't go out and buy, uh, a cadillac, they can go out and buy health insurance"

Well, this is timely.

This was a standing-room-only panel session, and I left with more energy than I came in with! Very grateful to all the panel participants and the engaged audience.

ICE vs the clergy

What a wonderful time at the @nber.org Organizations meeting 🥳 Key observation: seems like all of the smartest people are now doing AI research Link here: www.nber.org/conferences/... Until next time, Boston!

Members of our team are in Seattle this week for the 47th APPAM fall conference. @bradhershbein.bsky.social and @yucichen.bsky.social, and @gabriellepepin.bsky.social will be presenting on their work and participating in panels over the next few days. Be sure to check them out! #Econsky #APPAM