There's a class of public intellectuals that got big on Twitter, who are slowly going through narcissistic collapse because Twitter is becoming (has become?) irrelevant, and they know they aren't charismatic enough to grow a following anywhere else, especially not on TikTok.

I think this is mostly San Francisco finally shrugging off the pandemic, but it is *really* funny that rent prices in San Francisco shot up *immediately* after the city banned RealPage and other algorithmic price setting software. My pre trends are incredible!

Advising honors theses, even for terrific Stanford Econ students, is a lot more subject to constraints. It is not their whole life. They are on deadline. So I always worked more on the "this is overtly wrong" and "here is a cheap thing you can do to make it better". Agree with others here!

To some degree, this depends on what the goal is of the undergrad student. If they are writing an honors thesis to have a writing sample to submit for econ grad school, it might look different than if they are planning on the job market or another grad program.

I focus way more on the learning process than on the final results (null effects, pre-trends that can’t be killed, bad first stage, etc. are all fine!). I also don’t stress about a large or novel contribution to the literature. A minor tweak or new application of existing work is great!

When I was an undergrad writing my senior thesis I had the exact same question. Reading other people’s undergrad senior thesis helped a lot to set the standards and boosted my confidence. In my school, they are all public record in the department.

Q for the professors: I’m mentoring a few students on their (econ) honors theses. I’m used to giving feedback for grad students, but the objective function/expectations for undergrad work seems necessarily different How do you differentiate advising research for grad students vs undergrads?

🚨🚨🚨 MY JOB MARKET PAPER 🚨🚨🚨 "Incomplete and Endogenous Take-Up of Unemployment Insurance Benefits" (with Brendan Moore) ➡️ We study how the generosity of UI benefits affects take-up and the implications for optimal policy.

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Just came across another “Does money matter in education?” debate in the Year of Our Lord 2025. I’m tired

Another L for Twitter: no i do NOT like this

Just fyi: if you happen to find yourself roaming the halls of the Hyatt Regency in Seattle around 8:30 tomorrow morning, (I know, I didn’t pick the time 😭), feel free to drop by and check out my (early-stage) project on colleges and their effects on local school districts! #APPAM2025 #2025APPAM

Hi folks attending #2025APPAM #APPAM2025! Excited to see many of you in Seattle this week. As usual, I am organizing a very informal happy hour for education policy folks at the conference to get together: Fri 11/14 starting at 6pm at Seattle Beer Co on Western Ave (~15 min walk from conference).

👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year! Let's start with a student describing her segregated school: "The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education" The twist? The student is white, and her school is private. A JMP 🧵 -->

Here's my thread of this year's new scholars in Economics of Education and Education Policy. These PhD students and postdocs are on the job market, so take a look (and spread the word to others who might benefit from exposure). And now onto the scholars... 👇

Nice summary of our paper and related work by @tomdee.bsky.social and @kslungaardmumma.bsky.social here. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/10/i...

Pier Paolo Creanza’s job market paper studies how the Great Merger Wave (1895-1904) shaped American innovation before WW2. www.ppcreanza.com

Casey McQuillan’s job market paper studies how unemployment insurance (UI) generosity affects take-up and optimal policy design. esd.wa.gov/media/pdf/42...

On net I like Bluesky, but the shift really lost grad students (far fewer active here vs. during peak EconTwitter). With job market season, it’s been kinda nice seeing familiar faces who were in the Covid grad school trenches w me popping up again recently Like hey there! I remember you! Cool paper

louise lucas continues to be a real one lmao

Look obviously hell yea, down with fascism, but election nights like this are always mildly amusing with the number of poll nerd posts like “ARE YOU KIDDING ME???” and it’s a map of turnout from some tiny county in SW Virginia I’ve never heard of in my life Glad to hear Dimmsdaleburg flipped!

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Abigail Spanberger wins Virginia governor’s race.

Dawned on me that I was out of the country for the end of Daylight Saving Time, so I didn’t get the extra hour of sleep So sorry, we’re gonna have to do it over. Everyone move your clocks forward an hour right now, and we’ll roll it back when I return. Lmk which day works best, I’m flexible

Ok i actually like this one tho

Update: It came together! (That said, it’s 85 degrees in Cancún, and I’m in a black suit for a beach wedding, so new problems may arise soon)

My dad ties a perfect Windsor knot, has my whole life. So much so, I still have ties he tied in college that I’ve never undone and I’ve just been pulling over my head for years Sadly I had to buy a new tie for a wedding, I’m in Mexico, so I’m on my own for this one. Wish me luck

Huh. So the Penn Graduate School of Education email was hacked?

ChatGPT just told me my estimation results were "robust as hell." I mean, thanks, but also? Tf is going on here

Aging is noticing tv shows and songs today, on average, just aren’t as good as they were 20-30 years ago. Growth is accepting that most of those back then were crap, too

i think some in econ may not realise that there are international students, junior faculty, and other working economists who are scared to go in to work in chicago right now because of ICE. don't assume all is well because of your own narrow social circle. & ICE is now picking people up in evanston.

I think this is right. As someone who’s used it a lot/frequently trapped in Discourse, my experience 1.) Pretty helpful with (quant) research. More useful than doomers admit 2.) Not nearly as revolutionary as proponents push 3.) Many who find it useful greatly underestimate terrifying downsides

Ngl kinda hard to find concern with possible lead in my protein shakes when I’m propped up by so much coffee and energy drinks these days Imma get this job market paper out and hit my bench PR one way or another, but know that my heart exploded in the process

Still hits 😞 youtu.be/H_WzjiTzZBA?...

Happy to have this paper with @loismiller.bsky.social @camilantmorales.bsky.social and Kalena Cortes accepted at Econ of Ed Review! And honored it will be in the special issue in memory of Rodney Andrews. ❤️

Finally ready to admit that no one in my household knows how to change the air conditioner from Celsius to Fahrenheit but my cat. Her best friend is a carrot

Maybe it’s an aging thing, but man is it nice when the band you want to see is the opener. Easier parking, usually can get a good spot not too far from the stage, often can meet the band afterwards, and can get out before the end of show rush/before too late. What a concept!

Not to be crass or disrespectful, but I continue to be baffled by whose passing the NYT chooses to highlight with “Breaking News” alerts. Multiple times a week, I find myself going “Who that?” (Maybe it’s a cohort thing? Boomers might be losing their minds when a regional food emperor dies at 100)

Who did what now?? Don’t you put this evil on us

Beginning my transition to being a National Anthems Guy, bc Azerbaijan’s goes way harder than it needs to

I’m always somewhat pleasantly surprised when I come across a new pop-punk band. Like huh, I thought they stopped making that vintage 15 years ago when I left high school — cool

Why are you, as an Amazon Prime Video app, sending me push alert notifications?

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

I'm looking for data from Barron's college competitiveness index (like the full thing, not just select colleges), but the government is, uh, broken, so the restricted-access data seem impossible to get rn. Any suggestions from the crowd?

“Racial Residential Segregation in the United States” by Trevon D. Logan and John M. Parman www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

They got me again: went to a talk for a really cool sounding labor paper, and it’s just macro models all over the place. Charlie Brown and that football ain’t got nothing on me

The administration is trying to aggressively escalate its coercive power over the American people.

When you definitely know zero (economics) professors

Estimating individual pay premia for 4,800 unions in Brazil, finds substantial heterogeneity across unions. Strikes and internal competition correlate with higher premia, from Ellora Derenoncourt, François Gerard, Lorenzo Lagos, and Claire Montialoux https://www.nber.org/papers/w34139

Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

Even 20-25 years later, it’s the jokes that *didn’t* land that haunt me at night