I call my son a Tasmanian Devil bc of the similarity with the Looney Tunes Taz character, and when the younger folk (like his daycare teachers) don't get the reference I feel an even stronger urge to lay my increasingly gray hairs on a pillow for a nap

Ithaca, honey, it's end of April. Let it go.

Public transport will be free in Victoria for another month, and fares will then be slashed by half until the rest of the year in a bid to curb fuel demand and provide economic relief.

2026 Haavelmo Prize for "Spatial Unit Roots and Spurious Regression" by Müller & Watson (ECMA 2024) 🎉🎉🎉 We have Stata code and a practitioners guide for you 👉 pauldavidboll.com/research/pub... Stata Journal Now working on "How much should we trust regressions using cross-sectional spatial data?"

Post Doc at Uni Tübingen! 100% position for 3 (+3) years; they're looking for somebody to analyze large-scale longitudinal datasets in education research. Expertise in machine learning is an advantage, commitment to research transparency desirable 😌 proficiency in German beneficial but not required

#Therapydog Goldie joined the local library Read to a Dog program. She especially loves when kids read her books about dogs.

Acronyms are pronounced as words. -scuba -laser -NASA Initialisms are pronounced as individual letters. -NFL -TSA -TGIF 'Acronym' is frequently used for both kinds of abbreviations, so it's ok to call an initialism an acronym.

Lol I want "Chat, the Accenture of AI" on a mug

So life with a toddler and an infant is just complete mayhem like, all the time? All the time. All?

NBER Organizational Economics spring meeting starts today even though it's currently -1C in Boston! Also on YouTube, if you want to stay in a warm room and pretend it's actually spring: www.youtube.com/nbervideos

Econs: a grad school classmate, currently at ISU, shared this. Here is a chance for our community to use our resources to do some good for one of our own: gofund.me/48df0fcd5

I essentially took the entirety of the first 2.5 years of my PhD, 55 hours/week and set them on fire. Nothing productive or useful arose. Those years are also the years that made me a very good scientist. Grunt work and failure and friction IS the work. There is no way around learning.

Vem cá @msoares.bsky.social, tu que sabes dessas coisas -- existe algo no Brasil como o Up First da NPR?

Hydatina physis, aka a bubble snail, which is a type of sea slug. Those little eyes peeping out from behind the head shield get me every time 👀 #rstats #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

Delighted to share our revised paper (w/ @juliaturner.bsky.social & @jacobbastian.bsky.social ) showing that Universal Pre-K has broad effects on local labor markets — effects well beyond only mothers. Larger effects for full-day programs. nber.org/papers/w33767 #EconSky #EarlyChildhood #ECE

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs. But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅 First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti. #rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

Maple syrup under a microscope. That is why Canadians are so happy, we literally eat glitter. 😊 #Canada

Here's @paulgp.com with excellent public goods again! We should really have an AEA public goods award

Do you have a paper on financial decision-making? Want to present research & hike? Does Bozeman in early August sound good? The Financial Decision-making Conference is Aug 6-7! Submission deadline April 20. The call for papers is here: fdmconference.pages.dev#cfp

Little League opening day was a couple Saturdays back and this rare pupper showed up. He's only five weeks old, and in this photo, I had just told him that @darthbluesky.bsky.social was coming back. I feel the same way, pupper.

Kicking off today in Oxford: the PEDL 15th Anniversary Conference 🎉 Celebrating 15 years of impactful, policy-relevant research on firms in low-income countries, made possible by the leadership of Chris Woodruff and the support of FCDO. 🔗 Programme: grp.cepr.org/events/pedl-...

Such cool birds

Great opportunity for politcal economists career.mpifg.de/jobposting/3...

Excellent piece! "The skills they don’t replicate are the ones that were always the hardest to teach and the hardest to learn: knowing which questions matter, developing taste for what makes a research design credible, understanding an institutional setting to know where the data is lying to you."

PUPDATE:

This NYT quiz is so depressing if you see the share of people who prefer AI's shitty writing 😓 I blindly preferred all the human ones. Over 2/3rds here disagree. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I love this account so much

Again, the dictionary ftw

Conflicting feelings: 😃 learning something new about Excel and Word (yay! Genuinely wow!) 😒 remembering it's Excel and Word

PhD student Pakasa Bary presented his paper which documents a steepening of the Phillips Curve after the pandemic and develops a macro framework linking this shift to changes in remote working.

Lol spot on

For researchers working with the IPEDS dataset (nces.ed.gov/ipeds/), which can be kind of a bear to work with, especially over time, I've constructed some code to harmonize the data into a single DuckDB database github.com/paulgp/ipeds...

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

Beautiful heart attack snow in Ithaca today

Should not be watching this game with a sleeping baby on me

What if you could walk Stanford’s campus alongside leading minds as they unpack the ideas shaping the economy, business and public policy? Introducing Econ To Go — our new video podcast launching Tues. 2/24. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!

🚨🚨 It's new research week for me on the socials! 🚨🚨 First up, just released today as an NBER working paper: "More Hours, More Work: Head Start Expansions Boost Maternal Employment" with fantastic coauthors Esra Kose and Maria Rosales-Rueda www.nber.org/papers/w34831

Dictionary account y'all. 🔥

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

I've built a new tool! You can upload your pre-analysis plan or registered report, pre-submission to a registry or journal, and it will screen it for completeness, clarity, and consistency. 1/ 🧵

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

Postdoc posting: Economics of education at Tufts with my colleague Elizabeth Setren. main.hercjobs.org/jobs/2203818...

if you played sonic the hedgehog and put down the controller, sonic would look at you and tap his foot impatiently. this was proof that sega genesis cartridges had souls. the decision was made to make the storage cases a lot larger than the cartridges so they would have room to move around in there

When we use smartphones to respond to surveys, compared to a laptop or tablet, we're more likely to answer incorrectly, or say we don't know. Economist @carlyurban.bsky.social is calling this "the smartphone penalty" in a new working paper. www.marketplace.org/episode/2026...

Just learned about the most delightful domain name typo holding page for guthib dot com (catching up on old 99% Invisibles)

My manuscript "The Economics of Noncompete Clauses" is now out in the Journal of Economic Perspectives. Few topics have garnered more debate and policy attention over the last few years. This article brings us up to speed on the debate and the current answers. pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

@chflachsland.bsky.social and I are looking for an RA -- please share widely!

Come be my colleague @dukesanford.bsky.social! I'm chairing this search for the inaugural Rosen Family Professor of the Practice--an experienced scholar-practitioner--and am happy to field questions via the email in the job post. More details in the posting below 👇👇👇

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