Econ historians of bluesky! Submit your paper to the SEA econ history sessions, sponsored by Clio and EHA, by March 22: forms.gle/YomRiP8iAUYK... Proposals due: March 22, 2026 Authors notified of acceptance of paper: March 28, 2026 Conf dates: Nov 21-23 #econconf 1/2

A band I liked in college just put out a good single, after nearly a decade of straight garbage. Hopium is back on the menu, boys

Working on campus today and, twice now, I've caught something seemingly darting quickly into the corner under the desk next to mine Maybe it was nothing, just my imagination! Conversely, the building has a mouse in it, and I will momentarily be burning this campus to the ground. Stay tuned

Another week, another cool data product release from LEHD and Census. This week, we released new PSEO data for schools from North Carolina and BYU-Idaho, bringing our total count of institutions to 952. Check out the data here: lehd.ces.census.gov/applications...

I had a similar thought recently, but feared I was approaching “Old man yells at cloud” territory. Glad I’m not alone (Tbf you can usually tell the stuff with non-Black etymology bc it sounds so deeply uncool)

I came across an article with an insipid, annoyingly clickbait-y title, and immediately gave it the biggest eye roll. Then I checked the author, and saw it was written by, by far, the most annoying student I’ve encountered here (they’ve since graduated) Sorry, world: We’re not sending our best!

Did You Know: More than 90% of hotels in the United States refused to take reservations from Black guests? The Green Book Project tells the story Black travel during Jim Crow. Share your story and contribute to the Community Map: greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

I can't be here right now because my words are not safe for the public. Leaving this here, going to go donate and check on my friends. www.standwithminnesota.com

Interesting the varying responses I’ve seen over the weekend: My Bluesky feed: eloquent thinkpieces, resource guides, inspirational rallying cries, up to the minute news updates, etc. My Twitter feed: “On a pike, up by their heels, idc idc”

My group chats are full of Minnesotans reacting to today’s murder by figuring out ways they can help. We need people outside of the state to do the same thing. Whatever you wish everyone else was doing right now? Do it today. Let’s make a list of things that could help.

Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.

I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.

I know some have been a little unnerved at the aggressive following and noisemaking tactics of the observers. What they don’t realize is that it’s necessitated by what ICE is doing. You have seconds and you need as many eyes on them as possible, and as many people trying to get key info as possible.

If you see one, the most important thing to say is “WHAT’S YOUR NAME” because otherwise the person is gone for good, maybe. I witnessed one in an alley as the sole pursuit car, I was the only witness, I froze for a second and didn’t shout it in time, and the guy is just… gone now. I’ll never know.

You know the REAL worst part of ChatGPT? Its over-reliance on em dashes in write-ups has made some people think seeing them in writing is indicative of LLM usage No no no: I’ve been over-relying on/misusing em dashes for *decades* — my culture is not a costume

I am weak and blackout curtains are Strong: Lessons from waking up at 2 PM for two weeks

[Opening my email for the first time in two weeks, seeing beginning of quarter listserv invites] You’re telling me this weekly newsletter is bi?? (Actually yea, I could see that)

Happy New Year! Shoddy craftsmanship in an ostensibly newly renovated apartment almost locked us in here forever. Gonna not read too much into this as a sign of things to come

In the past hour at the gym, I’ve heard D4L, Lil Flip, JIBBS, Purple Ribbon All-Stars? Whoever is running the music tonight: show yourself. I just know we rode the bus to school together in ~2007

Unironically writing “the true champs of safe drunk driving” is crazy work. I really hope Woke 2.0 brings back shame

I hope whoever wrote that riff in “This Christmas” became very wealthy for generations, bc damn it’s still so good

There’s something so unsettling about streaming/reaction vids popular w kids today, reminiscent of dehumanized dystopian futures I saw on tv + film as a kid; I find the potential effects on children who’ve just been marinating in it for years to be genuinely frightening Anyway, Merry Christmas Eve!

Just saw girl twerking and hitting the splits on the roof of a car in 40 degrees at midnight in the parking lot of a Waffle House — I’m home ❤️

there's absolutely nothing wrong with 'I don't think it would be worth it for me to learn how to use this tool well in terms of time and other costs', but that's different from 'there's no way that this could be useful'

Astonishing how load-bearing this tweet continues to be I’m convinced now a frightening share of the anger on this site boils down to the fact that many posters can’t read, and, worse, they don’t know they can’t read

I don’t mind much that not everyone likes what I like — congestion effects, fun opportunities for discovery, etc. Conversely, at my core, bubbling under the surface of nearly every interaction is a seething annoyance that not everyone hates what I hate, and I’ll never let it go

Hey #econsky! I'm organizing a workshop at Brown this Spring in partnership with Eric Nielsen and Viviana Rodriguez. The topic is educational measurement. Please submit a paper/extended abstract! We'd love to consider your work. And please help us spread the word to folks who aren't on bluesky!

Hello! My name is Natalie. I am an applied microeconomist and a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University and am on the 2025-2026 academic #econjobmarket studying how human capital policies and public subsidies impact the labor market outcomes of workers and firms. #EconSky

My #EconJMP, “The Labor Market Returns to Customized Job Training”, examines how subsidized firm training that aligns skill supply with skill demand affects workers and whether subsidies generate benefits that justify public investment. Website: nataliemillar.net

Segregation was not just a Southern phenomenon, it was a national issue. Explore the spatial history of racial segregation and discover how it connects to our communities today: greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

Here I am just trying to go about my day and I wake up to Spotify calling me a basic ass Millennial. I don’t need this negativity

Community college enrollment has been declining since 2009/10. The optimal policy response to this depends on the root of this decline. I'm thrilled @nber.org today released my working paper with Harvard PhD Joe Winkelmann titled: "Labor Market Strength and Declining Community College Enrollment"

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