We had a last minute cancellation: does anyone with policy experience working in federal administrative agencies want to come talk to my HKS admin law seminar tomorrow (Friday 4/17) at 1pm ET about the role of policy experts in federal agencies? Happy to do remote - DM me if interested!

AJHE is now online! Our social media editor, Anna Chorniy, will be posting summaries of our accepted papers.

🚨New Paper 🚨 with Dan Grossman and Sarah Hamersma! authors.elsevier.com/c/1mxflc24bE... In policy debates, we often say the U.S. system is “fragmented.” But what does that actually look like for families, and how has that evolved? and how has US policy shifted this?

Is anyone thinking about submitting to APPAM this year a project on school segregation/composition or on high schools? I have an abstract that would fit nicely on a panel (but don't quite have the bandwidth to put a panel together myself)

Thanks to everyone—faculty, attendees, organizers, sponsors—for contributing to this terrific event. I'm privileged to know such a special group of people who work in health economics. www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...

Anyone have examples of policies on the use of AI for dissertations you can point me to? #econsky #edusky

Another banger by @andydebarros.bsky.social: a reform in Moroccan middle schools ⬆️ learning 0.52sd. Put it alongside Mbiti & Rodriguez-Segura (2022) on Tanzania's foundational learning reform as examples of LMIC gov't-led reforms to increase learning at scale. portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/articles/pre...

The “big beautiful bill” greatly expanded SNAP work requirements for parents In my paper with @jasonbcook.bsky.social, forthcoming at JPUBE, we ask what similar, existing requirements do SNAP work requirements for parents deny vulnerable parents SNAP benefits and do not increase their employment

Today is the deadline to apply for the Visuals Editor opening at @propublica.org. This is a vital role in our newsroom, requiring someone who can move between high-level art direction and precise photo editing across multiple desks. job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

It's @aefpweb.bsky.social Conference week! The EdDev community group will host a panel on "How to Conduct Education Research in Low- and Middle-Income Countries," Friday March 20, 2:45-4:15pm. All are welcome! #econsky #edusky

We at Stanford EchoLab are hiring pre-docs for the coming year. You'll work in teams on fun projects and very likely be co-authors on submitted work. Please apply! Link here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc...

The abstract submission deadline for HHES is coming up in 10 day (March 15). It's always a great set of papers and an amazing setting, so don't miss it! tinyurl.com/HHES2026-Inv...

🎉Introducing Dr. David Powell as a new Senior Fellow at Penn LDI! Dr. Powell is a health economist with research on the opioid crisis, population aging, working conditions, and end-of-life care. Learn more about his work: https://ldi.upenn.edu/fellows/fellows-directory/david-powell-phd

Do you have a topic you would like to see in the AEA Recent Developments series? We want to hear from you! Send suggested topics and lecturers to [email protected]. #econsky

Also, please share for visibility!

My co-author Charles Hodgson (Yale) is hiring a full-time pre-doc to work on projects focusing on the role of information externalities. The hired researcher will meet regularly with faculty and receive dedicated research training & career development skills. Application👇

The call for abstracts for the 2026 Highland Health Economics Symposium is out - see details below. Abstract deadline is March 15. This invitational conference emphasizes bringing junior and senior people together and promotes fun along the way. Hope to see you there! tinyurl.com/HHES2026-Inv...

Affordable Care Act expansion increased federal transfers by $361 per capita to counties—showing health policy doubles as federal-to-local fiscal smoothing, from Laura Montenovo, Kosali I. Simon, and Coady Wing www.nber.org/papers/w34758

Today we have the first 𝚅̲𝙴̲𝚁̲𝙱̲ 𝚜̲𝚎̲𝚖̲𝚒̲𝚗̲𝚊̲𝚛̲ of 2026! Please share! 𝐀𝐧𝐠é𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐌𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐡𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞: State recreational cannabis laws and racial disparities in the criminal legal system 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞: 3:30 - 4:30pm UTC Join via 𝐙𝐨𝐨𝐦: us02web.zoom.us/j/8675295172...

As of now, four Black people have been arrested, two journalists - Don Lemon and Georgia Fort - and two activists - Trahern Jeen Crew and Jamael Lvdell Lundy. It would be unwise to overlook the racial motivation to focus only on the political one. In fact, they are related to one another.

Please consider citing if you are a fixest user!

ATTN ECON JMCs: We are searching for a postdoc through to work with Steve Billings, Ludo Gazze and myself on a project to better understand impacts of lead exposure and potential benefits of remediation using linked administrative data in Colorado. Details here: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

ICYMI with a quick screenshot as sales pitch. Simply feed your estimation a bunch of .parquet files on disk and run it as normal. This example takes 180m rows of NYC taxi data and computes the model in < 1 second. On a laptop.

I've released a new version of strgroup, a Stata command that does fuzzy string matching. No new functionality, but the underlying C code has been optimized: it now uses much less memory and runs about 5 times faster github.com/reifjulian/s...

The annual call for @nber.org nominations has been released, so if you're a researcher hoping to become affiliated, reach out to existing affiliates to get nominated. If you're an existing affiliate, advocate for talented researchers, particularly those with networks not already full of NBER folks.

This is really good- Luigi and his colleagues are both excellent economists and real health scholars who do important, useful, work every day. It shows in this book.

This is a really great piece worth reading as an economist. Very clarifying on different perspective of goals for humanistic disciplines. Also love the title, which i read as a reference to Breiman’s “Two Cultures” piece in 2001 about the fracture between stats and cs regarding Machine learning

Ohio’s version hasn’t been renamed. Yet.

Today!

The next ViCE seminar is this Thursday, December 4, at 1pm ET. Kevin Schnepel will present: "The Long-term Benefits of Removing Lead Exposure: Evidence from the Omaha Superfund Site Cleanup" More info: jenniferdoleac.com/vice-seminar/

Calling all researchers working on the environment and health! 🌿🚑 #ASHEcon2026 will be in Minneapolis (June 7–10, 2026), and I’m helping organize the Environment & Health program. Looking forward to seeing your submissions (deadline is December 10)! 👉 www.ashecon.org/2026-minneap...

Come join us!

Very sad stats about the negative mental health effects of PhD study www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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!

A short-lived tax on sugar-sweetened beverages in Cook County, IL reduced purchases by 22.5 percent but after its repeal, purchases bounced back to baseline quantities, from Felipe Lozano Rojas, @johncawley.bsky.social, and David E. Frisvold www.nber.org/papers/w34412

🚨Econ Academic Job Alert🚨 UCalgary econ is posting for an Assistant or Associate Professor in Industrial Organization or Regulatory Economics Join us! #econsky careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1691840...

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

During the final week of HHM, ASHE highlights Jose Fernandez, Professor of Economics at the University of Louisville and Co-chair of CSMGEP. As a leading health economist, researcher, and mentor, he continues to advance the field and support the next generation of scholars. #ASHE_ASSA #CSMGEP

Great opportunity. Great colleagues. (Note: Oct. 24 application deadline) www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

PhD students underestimate the value (and difficulty) of writing well. Hiring faculty skim dozens of JMPs in a short time. If your contribution is unclear, you will get fewer interviews. Editing improves economics papers (RCT): doi.org/10.1016/j.je... I am happy to recommend www.amyedits.net

Do you have a personal memory of a Green Book hotel, restaurant, pharmacy, or gas station? What do you remember about it? Share your memories using our Community Map. Contribute here: greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

The @nber.org Race and Stratification in the Economy working group is seeking submissions for our upcoming Spring 2026 meeting to be held on March 27, 2026. The submission deadline is December 11, 2025. The call for papers is here: www.asc.ohio-state.edu/logan.155/pd...

Be sure to take a look at some new work of our own, Professor Riley Acton (@riacton.bsky.social‬).

We are hiring at Montana State! Link in thread If you aren't sure whether you fit the posted topic areas, please don't pre-screen yourself out, let our committee decide! I'm not on the search committee but happy to answer any general questions

Unsurprising because it’s Noto: this episode is fantastic. Students and junior faculty should listen about how to negotiate with chairs and deans.

I read @itsafronomics.bsky.social new book “The Double Tax” this afternoon. It’s engaging and one of the best popular ways to bring social science to the public and policy that I’ve read in a long while. Black women are uniquely disadvantaged in our economy. 😍 she gave Janelle James her flowers!

ONE OF THE WORLD'S LEADING ECONOMIC HISTORIANS CALLED #TheDoubleTax "exceptional" and "one of the best popular ways to bring social science to the public". Can somebody PLEASE frame this entire review by @trevondlogan.bsky.social and hang it on my wall forever? This review has made my entire week.

Here is the link for Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Let’s talk money y’all, in our latest episode of The Hidden Curriculum We (@ajhollingsworth.bsky.social) talk with @profnoto.bsky.social o.bsky.social on negotiations: What, When, Why and How? We thank Matt for his candor and transparency on this topic!

Now accepting applications for the PhD program in Health Policy and Administration at Penn State. We have specialty tracks in health economics, population health, and health care management and organization plus a dual title PhD program in HPA and Demography. #WeAre hhd.psu.edu/hpa/graduate....