Here's what Janet Yellen said today about lessons from the Powelll years at the Fed www.brookings.edu/articles/rem...

A great thread on the evidence regarding human capital vs. signaling explanations of the return to higher education.

The Thaddeus Stevens appreciators around this site might like to know there’s a new museum opening in the building that was his old law office in Lancaster, PA, this weekend.

Hanging out at the NJ Senate today and security confiscated the metal spoon I had in my bag from breakfast

A happy update: My job market paper is now accepted at the Journal of Labor Economics. Since I never did a proper thread on it, here goes. (Disclaimer: The views expressed in this paper are solely my own and do not reflect those of my employer, NYC IBO.)

“When I grew up I did become a scientist, a social scientist. I’m an economist, which allows me to study how we humans coordinate and cooperate and compete with each other, in ways that have made us, on average, live longer and healthier lives.” #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/03/ps-2...

This is a really thoughtful post from Paul: "The Butlerian Jihad didn’t happen because people hated machines. It happened because people had no agency over the machines being used on them. The lesson from Herbert isn’t to destroy the tools, it is to reclaim agency over them."

The next Virtual Municipal Finance Workshop is tomorrow, 3/18, at 11am EST! June Huang of UT-Dallas will present "Debt by Democracy: Bond Referendum Requirements and Municipal Borrowing" with Kimmie Munevar at Texas A&M + Delphine Samuels at INSEAD Paper and zoom: www.muni-workshop.com/schedule

The next installment of the Virtual Municipal Finance Workshop is tomorrow, 3/4, at 11am EST! Riddha Basu (GWU) will present "The Darkside of Dissemination: Evidence from the Provision of Municipal Credit Ratings" with Xiangpei Chen and Jim Naughton. Paper and zoom: www.muni-workshop.com/schedule

The Virtual Municipal Finance Workshop is starting tomorrow, Wednesday 2/18, at 11am EST! The first presentation will be "Dealer Specialization and Market Segmentation" by Chotibhak Jotikasthira (SMU), Christian Lundblad (UNC), and Jinming Xue (SMU) Paper and Zoom: www.muni-workshop.com/schedule

Working on your PhD? Looking for dissertation funding? The Russell Sage Foundation and the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research jointly support dissertation research on employment-related topics in any discipline. #Fundsocsci, #Econsky, @russellsagefdn.bsky.social

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

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

Happy New Year. Reminder that the Call for Papers for IIOC is posted and that submissions are due January 10! Please remind your IO colleagues including grad students.

So for those of you on the #EconJobMarket, it's not your imagination; it's tough out there. Hopefully universities (despite their financial pressures) can support unmatched candidates for an additional year if necessary.

One last (sobering) update on the #EconJobMarket before the winter holidays; data as of 2025-12-14. In terms of # of job listings on Job Openings for Economists (JOE), this is the worst job mkt in recent yrs for PhD Economists. # jobs down 20% from last yr, even 18.9% lower than during COVID (2020).

📣 Call for Papers: The Becker Friedman Institute Health Economics Initiative invites submissions for its April 30–May 1, 2026 conference on all topics in health economics. 📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026 Organized by Josh Gottlieb & Matt Notowidigdo 🔗 https://ow.ly/uPvk50XKoms

Really interesting development with New Hampshire’s Business Finance Authority planing to issue a muni bond “backed by Bitcoin.” What does this mean? I’m not sure but curious if anyone else has any insight.

Applications are OPEN for CSWEP’s 2026 CeMENT Mentoring Workshop! 🎉 Come get feedback on your research, practical advice for navigating the tenure track, and a community that will lift you up. Details & application here 👉 www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co... @aeacswep.bsky.social #EconSky

I just turned on the Eagles game to see how the struggling offense is pulling it together and Hurts threw an interception and fumble in the same play… maybe it’s better to not watch.

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

It looks like the FTC job postings for economists just went up today and are open until Dec. 17!

Please submit to this conference to help make it a great one! I will be there, together with Stéphane Bonhomme and Michèle Tertilt. 19th Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Economic Journal - Aveiro, 3-5 July 2026 Deadline: 15 March 2026 Website: lnkd.in/d6Dmdfx7

🚨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

Having written and thought a bit about tax evasion strategies, I think study 4 in this paper (tax evasion with LLMs) is extremely important. Tax evasion strategies proliferate in places where LLMs have been trained like reddit and guardrails can be tricky where legality of behavior can be fuzzy.

The NBER Race and Stratification Working Group will have its annual meeting on Friday, March 27, 2026. Francisca Antman, 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/...

Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!

SoLE deadline extended until Monday morning! *If the U.S. government shutdown is affecting your ability to access data/materials to finish your paper, please submit a long abstract with the understanding that you will post an updated paper when you are able and note that in the abstract!

Wharton’s real estate department is hiring pre-docs! Please send your amazing undergrads our way and reach out with any questions! #Econsky

Getting ready for my Workshop for Ukraine. Coming up in a bit under two hours!

I have been thinking this year will be a particularly rough year for economists seeking employment, and this new data tool from the AEA definitely shows that is the case with 1/3 less listings than the same time last year, basically matching COVID lows.

Just a reminder to submit your papers to SoLE!!! It will be a great conference, with not-to-be-missed keynotes by Janet Currie, Kerwin Charles, and Jeff Smith! Avoid FOMO and submit! 🥳

Happy Caturday from Big Gus and Archie who like to politely join me at the kitchen counter for an afternoon snack.

Hi Bluesky! I'm excited to share my job market paper (for the 2025-26 market)! It introduces a new extension of RDD where outcomes are entire distributions: Regression Discontinuity Design with Distributions (R3D). Thread below 👇 (1/)

The letter is ready, thanks to all those who helped out! Starting to gather signature now, please consider signing (link at top of letter) & spread the word. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

PhD students working on projects in the crime & criminal justice space (empirical w/ a causal focus) - see below for a fun workshop in October! Will be a great opportunity for feedback and networking with other scholars.

There is some great discussion by one of my dissertation committee members, Jimmy Roberts who happens to be an excellent industrial organization economist, around claim #4. Market concentration and market power, while sometimes correlated, are not the same thing.

Excited to announce the call for papers for the inaugural MidSouth Education Policy Workshop, October 16-17, in Lexington, KY! Send us your abstracts on all things econ of ed & ed policy by 8/27. Grad students & early career folks especially welcome! Info & link to submit here: bit.ly/44TdiGf

38 states have legalized sports betting, but little is known about the financial, social, and behavioral impacts. @arnoldventures.bsky.social is committed to building the evidence base with our newest RFP. LOIs due 9/15 and details here: www.arnoldventures.org/causal-resea...

As an amateur appreciator of urban amenities, I just arrived in Vancouver and the Canada Line train into the city is so nice. Easy to use, clean, and right on time.

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It’s Day 2 of the Brookings Muni Finance Conference (livestream: www.brookings.edu/events/14th-...)! I will be live tweeting a lot less today but the papers—including my own paper on green muni bonds—will hopefully be just as good as yesterday

The Brookings Municipal Finance Conference is today (available livestream: www.brookings.edu/events/14th-...) and the lineup of papers is excellent! I’m not much of a live tweeter but I’ll try to share a few highlights

Finished a Ph.D. dissertation related to employment during July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2025? Does it have policy relevance? Do you like winning money? Awards? If yeses, consider applying. Get more info and check out the list of past winners. #EconSky #Sociology #policysky #polisky #FundSocSci

Why are most muni bonds that qualify for ESG labels issued without them? Our new working paper uses an unexpected data release to show investors price ESG info—even when bonds aren’t labeled. Political & institutional frictions drive the labeling gap. Link here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

🚨 Call for papers! The second edition of the Transatlantic Political Economy Conference (T-PEC) will be in November in London. Organized by @clpennec.bsky.social Cevat Aksoy and me. The submission deadline is July 4, 2025. Apply here (and RT!): sites.google.com/view/tpec-mo...

56 miles with my dad for his 56th birthday (only 15 or so years after the fact) It turns out that was a hard ride for both of us in this heat

Just a couple of proud American cats who do not recognize the authority of any king. #nokingsonlycats