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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....

Let's welcome our next departmental seminar speaker, John Parman. He will present his paper, "The Great Migration and Women's Work."

Important note for Mac users: make sure your installation properly exploits `fixest` multi-threading capabilities: 1. Follow @coatless.bsky.social's simple shell script and OpenMP instructions here: github.com/coatless-she... 2. Install from source: `install.packages("fixest", type = "source")`

📢 Job Posting! 📢 We are hiring TWO postdocs at Detroit PEER at Wayne State (detroitpeer.org)! We are looking for one quant/mixed methods expert and one qual/mixed expert to work with me & @jeremylsinger.bsky.social on attendance research. Apply by Oct. 10, but flexible on start date! Please share!

JOB ALERT FOR #SOCIOLOGIST: Come work with me. We have FOUR Assistant Professor positions in the Sociology Department at the University of Calgary. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...

An unusual academic conversation with @sebastiantt.bsky.social and @ajhollingsworth.bsky.social about the mechanics of conducting research with implementing organizations. (Recorded in 2022, so it's a bit dated. Referee 2 wanted a lot of changes before the podcast got published)

The Green Book Project hosts a community map, an open-source archive of places that did not segregate. Help us make the map accurate. Include addresses, years, and any sources if you have them. Submit a listing: greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

Very happy to see my review of the racial residential segregation literature with John Parman in the latest issue of Journal of Economic Literature @aeajournals.bsky.social www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Our 1st @aefpweb.bsky.social EdDev (Scholars of Education in Developing Countries) community group meeting is this Friday Sep 12, 11am-noon US eastern! Gabriel Cruz (Maryland) & @mfresard.bsky.social (Vanderbilt) will present work in progress. Contact me for Zoom link. #econsky #edusky 1/2

1/ This week, we (‪@ajhollingsworth.bsky.social) talk with Jeremy Weber where he shares insights from his new book, “Statistics for Public Policy: A Practical Guide to Being Mostly Right, or at Least Respectively Wrong.”

Link to the episode: open.spotify.com/episode/3pZj...

Really excited for this week’s episode! We (@ajhollingsworth.bsky.social ) talk with ‪@mushfiq-econ.bsky.social‬ on how to work with large organizations and governments to implement research and policy.

If you'll be on the #EconJobMarket this coming year, you may want to join this webinar by @aereorg.bsky.social, titled, "Navigating Uncertain Waters: Advice for the Current Job Market," with Min Gong & @adrienneohler.bsky.social. 29 Sept 2025 @ 11am ET.

Tenure letter writers: what's your go-to method for finding comparable researchers (e.g., PhD cohort, research area, recently tenured at peer institutions) to the candidate you're writing about? #econsky

School feeding program in Rwanda yields 11x return on investment academic.oup.com/jae/article-...

This week we ‪(with @ajhollingsworth.bsky.social talk with @talgross.bsky.social on The Hidden Curriculum on productivity and how to improve our teaching and some ideas for new exercises for your class!

Also, excellent reporting about the disastrous “food distribution system” that is the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/p...

Literally joined this platform (finally) to share this AEDE blog. If you are not heartbroken at the scale of child suffering in Gaza, you are not paying attention. Call your federal rep — at the very least. u.osu.edu/aede/2025/07...

{tinytable} is a dead simple, ultra-flexible, and dependency-free #Rstats 📦 to turn data frames into beautiful tables: html, word, pdf, latex, typst, markdown, etc. v0.10.0 has cool new features and important bug fixes. Check out the detailed tutorials at: vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

If I were chef, I would set up an organization with some colleagues dedicated to rating different kinds of car tires on an arbitrary absolute scale.

Randomistas: what's your go-to method for analyzing mechanisms underlying treatment effects in RCTs? I recall this method from polisci for estimating a "controlled direct effect" but haven't seen it much in RCTs. #econsky doi.org/10.1017/S000...

I’m in Nashville come say hi if you’re here! #ashecon2025

1/ A new working paper from me and my amazing collaborators, Alberto Ortega, Matthew Patrick Shaw, and Vandy undergrad extraordinaire Daniel Yoo: "Politics of the professoriate: Longitudinal evidence from a state public university system's universe of faculty" Link: github.com/MemeMedianMo...

If you’re at @ashecon.bsky.social today in Nashville here are some wonderful sessions for you to check out today The first session features @leightjessica.bsky.social !!

Excited to see this paper published! @kimberlyoremus.bsky.social & I find that US plastic bag policies *limit* (but not eliminate) plastic bag litter in the environment, using cool citizen science data from @oceanconservancy.org. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We have nearly the identical pattern at Journal of Health Economics.

We’re hiring! 🥳 The Criminal Justice team at Arnold Ventures is searching for a Policy Manager to join our team. Location: Houston, DC, or NYC Salary range: $100-130k Apply ASAP if you’re interested - we move quickly! Please spread the word. 🙏

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Wow! Each $1 spent on Universal Pre-Kindergarten generates between $3-$20 dollars in aggregate earnings. That's enough to offset the costs of Universal Pre-Kindergarten through higher tax revenues.

Blog post (fixest vignette) on "Collinearity": something everybody faces one day but for which there's not much guidance. Trying to clarify how econometrics software handle collinearity and what one should do about it. #RStats #EconSky Comments welcome lrberge.github.io/fixest/artic...

Come work with Kosali Simon & me @nber.org! We're hiring a Research Scientist to support exciting new work on Alzheimer's disease and dementia in Medicare. If you have a quant PhD, experience with claims data, and knowledge of R, it could be a great match! More info: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....