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If you think the attack on the Fed's Lisa Cook has nothing to do with you, you're wrong — any one of us may be next paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-all...

Wake up to awful news, end the day with terrible news. Repeat.

Excited it’ll be in Denver!

Important read.

Thank you for speaking up.

Amen

Very very bad, especially if this is the opening shot against access to other restricted data.

9/ Based on our initial and extended replications, we wonder: how can the editor still trust the results of this paper? If this case does not meet the criteria for retraction, what does?

Apply soon if you’re interested - we’ll start reviewing applications shortly.

At the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies conference on Demography and Labor Markets in the MENA Region! Will be posting a thread on all the great papers presented. #EconSky 1/n

For sure.

Grateful for @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social voice. Excellent piece. I no longer have the patience he has for responding to these incredulous arguments about the qualifications and aptitude of non-White people.

Terrifying.

Six weeks ago I predicted a very negative March jobs report. That report comes out Friday. I no longer think that we will see massive job losses in that report. I still think a recession is coming (and the markets seem finally to be coming to agree with that), but not as quickly as I first thought.

Goal: Crush universities Need a policy tool: Civil Rights Act Title VI gives tools to stop funding to universities if they violate someone's civil rights. Need a violation to allege: Use the Jews! Using us as a wedge to attack free speech & inquiry does not protect us. bsky.app/profile/cram...

This is a fantastic idea.

" ‘No Other Land’ Co-Director Hamdan Ballal Beaten and Attacked, Says Yuval Abraham: ‘No Sign of Him Since’ He posted 'They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him.' " variety.com/2025/film/ne...

A reminder that we are hosting the webinar below on Wednesday at 12p ET. We would love if you joined us! upenn.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Incredible.

All the feelings 👏🏼🎊😊🙁😤!

It’s a huge loss.

It’s complicity, not just censorship.

Looking for a postdoc for next year? I'm looking for candidates for a Marie Curie fellowship, please apply if you're interested in labor markets, gender and fertility: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...

I wrote a short piece on NIH funding cuts that takes a pragmatic look at the situation TLDR: people here probably won’t like it, but I don’t think indirects of 70% are coming back any time soon www.wsj.com/opinion/high...

In partnership with @schmidtsciences.bsky.social, @simonhrjohnson.bsky.social, David Autor and I are seeking funding proposals from researchers conducting innovative field experiments on the labor economics of frontier AI. Expressions of interest due March 31. shapingwork.mit.edu/call-for-pro...

Mind blowing 🤯

🚨 Oprea (2024 AER) argued that prospect theory choice anomalies were not due to risk, but due to complexity-driven mistakes. But this new analysis convinces me that Oprea (2024) is substantially wrong. In my opinion, the paper should be retracted.

I’m amazed: On the foreign assistance freeze, I’m astonished not to see major State Dept and USAID recipients challenge the disruption in court. An injunction? Where is World Vision, SAVE, Red Cross, etc on this? Or the Beltway bandits (Chemonics etc) Is there activity happening?

Wow.

Glad @pkrugman.bsky.social decided to put this out there.

@belindaarch.bsky.social and I have written a letter from economists regarding PEPFAR. Please sign and share with your network. Only economist signatures right now (for more focused impact). Once signed, we will share with the administration, congress, + the media. #econsky forms.gle/C5roVX5sFF14...

Guidance from Stanford leadership on the OMB memo.

This is awful.

Come work for me at UChicago @beckerfriedman.bsky.social ! I'm hiring a full-time pre-doc to start this April/May/June for data analysis on crime, education, mental health, and organized crime, mostly on projects in Latin America. Details & apply here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/universityof...

My course "Global Policy Analysis" will again be open to a select number of remote students from low- and middle-income countries via Zoom. Course starts on Feb 18th, application deadline Tuesday, February 5th. Link to the application form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Academics and researchers looking to get more involved on issues related to immigration outside of your research, check out this guide I helped write! childrenthriveaction.org/resources/re...

I'm excited to present today at Tel Aviv University a new working paper with @tmitts.bsky.social, @ylelkes.bsky.social, @hnmansour.bsky.social and Ran Abramitzky, entitled "Expression at the Edge: Free Speech Boundaries Amidst the Gaza Crisis." The draft will be publicly available in 2 weeks.

Brush it off but stay vigilant.

This is highly relevant today. While we can debate the merits of specific 'DEI' policies—some may indeed be misguided—it’s undeniable that racial discrimination persists in this country. The evidence is clear for those willing to engage with it! bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/cea/written-...

Finally! 🎊🎊

I admire your optimism. I think Harvard would have accepted the same settlement regardless of administration. Let’s not be naive about what they care about: donors.

I love his work and his posts. Follow if you want to see and hear about heartwarming dog rescue stories. (And are not or do not want to be on Instagram).

The Society of Labor Economists has a mentoring program for early-career scholars. The deadline for this year's program (for Ph.D.s in 2020 and later) is February 14. Apply now! www.sole-jole.org/index.php?op...

Truly great thread. It's still unclear whether we are heading into an election. The center won't support a no-confidence vote now (the ceasefire deal is too popular) and will have to wait for a crisis (most likely over the military exemption law for ultraorthodox).

I wish those GoFundMe links in my feed redirected to secure.givewell.org or here:

In his Memoirs, Milton Friedman memorably noted the role of renewal in academia.

📢New WP & Blog (w/ D Gilligan, S Kurdi & B Yassa): We study households’ choice between cash transfers and a new economic inclusion program in Egypt with a theoretical model, descriptives & an RCT that studies interest in the new program. Check it out! 🐐 WP: hdl.handle.net/10568/158340 Blog: 👇

I recall discussing this idea many years ago with some colleagues over drinks. Happy to see it so well executed!

Are People Fleeing States With Abortion Bans? Yes, according to our analysis of change-of-address data from the USPS. For more details, see our NBER WP or abstract below: www.nber.org/papers/w33328 #EconSky Joint work w/: @danieldench1.bsky.social + Kelly Lifchez + @econling.bsky.social