Balogun can play in Seattle against Belgium if Mike Pence has the courage.

7X Head Start's total annual budget

On the other site:

New: Are there truly many, well-paid jobs available for those without a four-year degree? That's the emerging narrative; I looked at the data. Tl:dr: This graph that breaks down occupation by annual wages and the share of workers who hold a four-year degree. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/06/23/s...

I'm just gonna leave this here.

God they’re having so much fun. I wanna be there!

In a league of killers, Jalen Brunson is one of the best winners of his generation. He won two chips at Villanova in three years, and he's made the New York Knicks into NBA champions. At 6-foot-1-ish. He's a great, GREAT basketball player.

New NBER working paper. We meta-analyze 82 RCTs of low-cost parent programs in 20+ countries. We use data on unwritten RCTs from funder records, RCT registries, author queries, etc. to estimate a model that adjusts for publication bias and characterizes the effect distribution for unwritten studies.

Wow, I didn't expect our paper on iPhones and fertility to generate this much buzz—thanks for all the feedback! Rather than scattershot replies, here's a compilation of thoughts and new robustness checks. 🧵1/15

The Sloan Foundation is searching for a new Director of its Economics Program. At a critical time when federal research funding is limited, this is a critical position. Please circulate this opportunity to shape and support economics and economists widely! sloan.org/about/careers

New working paper with Amol Singh Raswan and Chris Udry: "The Sisyphean Pursuit of Evidence for Poverty Traps." A central idea in development economics is that poverty can trap people. We went looking for the cleanest evidence. Here's what we found – and didn't.

Sonny Rollins, one of the most influential Jazz musicians of our time, died this afternoon. He was 95

Altogether, if bonuses are paid out, Landry will earn $4.5 million from for a job that lasted less than 12 months. Florida law caps the amount of presidential salaries funded by the state at $200,000. His previous most senior administrative role was as Department Chair.

HOLY SHIT prosecutors kicked off grand jurors and then re-presented the case against the Broadview 6, then altered the grand jury transcripts to hide it from the judge. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

"These days, if the president wants to get back at a political enemy, he just sics the DOJ on them without any pretense. Where's the style? Where's the panache?"

This is Jam. He said he was the highest jumping golden retriever in Ontario. May or may not have lied on his resume. Still 13/10 (IG: skythepupvlogger)

This is pretty cool / rewarding to see years of collective research & policy efforts yield some real-world improvements

🚨 FINAL REMINDER: THREE more days to submit, deadline 15th of May 🚨 We're looking forward to the workshop, featuring keynotes by @peterbergman.bsky.social and Esther Duflo 👏 💪 🚀 Don't miss to send your best papers using field experiments! 🙏 All infos 👇 #FieldExperiments

📣 We're hiring a postdoc to join us on education research projects at Oxford @oxfordecondept.bsky.social @oxfordcsae.bsky.social. Join me @gamblingondev.bsky.social @roccozizzamia.bsky.social on multiple exciting projects! Applications due June 7th. www.economics.ox.ac.uk/csae-postdoc...

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

AI-powered mental health apps are all the rage. But do they work? This new experiment on women in Mexico says they do!

REMINDER: Less than three weeks left to submit for our Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, featuring keynotes by @peterbergman.bsky.social and Esther Duflo 👏 💪 🚀 Please send your best papers! 🙏 All infos 👇 #AcademicConference #CallForPapers #ResearchCommunity #EconResearch

“That’s why the Secret Service, the military, are demanding it. They’ve wanted the ballroom for one hundred and fifty years.” — Donald Trump

Ah, see, if I had his shoes and some decent weather, I too would’ve broken the two hour marathon mark.

Met one of NYC's finest and a local #Bluesky celebrity tonight, got to gift her the book I wrote, #TheDoubleTax, and talk politics. @aoc.bsky.social, you're a real one.

In her JMP, she uses a national sample of nearly 300,000 unhoused, mentally ill veterans to show that Housing First cuts 3-year mortality by 4.6 percentage points compared with no program. 4/21

Friends, I am thrilled to introduce you to Valkyries Beat. This is where I will be writing about the Golden State Valkyries this season, running a full beat and -- with your help as subscribers -- back on the road. www.valkyriesbeat.com

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

I enjoyed hearing this interview with @jscottclayton.bsky.social out in the wild this morning. Thanks for breaking down college affordability so clearly!

I was rather anxious before, during and after, so this is nice to hear. 😊 Ayesha Roscoe asked great questions!

The real victory is the friends we made along the way 🌈

Important interview for AI and education. Credit to @mattbarnum.bsky.social for more great education content.

Submit your work using AI in the social sciences to the annual AI in Social Science conference at the University of Chicago! Submissions due May 1! The conference will be held October 8-9 in Chicago, IL, USA. bfi.uchicago.edu/events/event... @beckerfriedman.bsky.social @caai-booth.bsky.social

There's a reason I highlighted Texas A&M in my column series on the Red Scares. Yet, they remain a member of the AAU in good standing. Sharing with the text of the resignation letter in the alt

"sorry I can't come to your once-in-250-years party. I'll be busy doing something it would actually make much more logical sense to do four days later. I bumped it up on purpose so I could throw it in your face. eat shit forever, amen" there is no hater on earth like a hater from Chicago

I can't believe I'm guest lecturing at one of the best policy schools in the country this morning. ☀️ Looking forward to teaching @cohodes.bsky.social students about the racial wealth gap at @umich.edu @umfordschool.bsky.social. #GodsPlan

My dear friend Paige Harden and I both have new books out, and both are about crime & punishment — but from different (though still evidence-based) perspectives.

Wrote another post based on a video with Markus Brunnermeier Use LLMs to lessen the large fixed costs of managing and organizing large databases. I use the setting of HMDA mortgage data to show how a massive 250m row db can turn into a trivial data exercise thanks to DuckDB + Claude Code.

More self-inflicted harm to R&D by the US government.

Sometimes it seems like US News & World Report changes the rules of their college rankings procedure so that Harvard stays at the top. But that's nothing compared to S&P changing the rules of entry into the S&P 500 Index to force 10s of millions of us to passively invest in Elon Musk.

Every time someone asks me about Black conservatives, I tap this sign. @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social academic.oup.com/poq/article-...

NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.

Nice thing with LLMs is I can turn my PDF new working paper draft into a much prettier website very easily: paulgp.com/econlit-pipe... Thread coming soon.

Now on JOE as well: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

Good story about Claudia Goldin and Economics: www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

The details here are pretty bad. Hegesth personally intervened after the military officers in charge refused to block the promotion. The officer was told "President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events" by Hegseth's Chief of Staff.

Your periodic reminder that there is a website that lets you listen to local radio stations anywhere in the world This is honestly one of the coolest inventions ever, imo. Global access to hyper-local imagined communities

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇