Pretty cool to have one of my papers listed as most cited in the Economic Reports of the President from the past 15 years. See the recent NBER working paper for the source on this: www.nber.org/papers/w34597

Since Bari Weiss and Trump don’t want you to see this, read this thread and share widely.

It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love. youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng

“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

This is hilarious: what happens when AI agent operates an actual vending machine. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

Kerr is playing the long game, as always. Though he's right up on the borderline of when the long game turns a little more urgent.

HOW 🤯

“The guy who bedazzled this room in gold thinks your child has too many pencils.” - Jimmy Kimmel

I have a lot more to say about Kate and how all my life I've wanted to be able to work with someone like her and when I finally got do it she exceeds all of my expectations about how great a great advisor can be. I want everyone to know how incredible Kate was to her students.

The brilliant Kate Ho has passed away. She was an amazing economist and a genuinely kind human being. Her work shaped how we think about healthcare markets and her generosity touched everyone lucky enough to know her. The profession and the world are poorer without her.

Hey #econsky! I'm organizing a workshop at Brown this Spring in partnership with Eric Nielsen and Viviana Rodriguez. The topic is educational measurement. Please submit a paper/extended abstract! We'd love to consider your work. And please help us spread the word to folks who aren't on bluesky!

“agents told her in the truck that if she didn’t watch herself “they were going to pull me over to the side of the road and give me this OC,” law enforcement shorthand for pepper spray” In detention, they “cut off her wedding ring”

Why would anyone even try to vacation or do a business trip to the US under this kind of privacy invasion?

get in loser we're doing tv timeouts for soccer

NEW: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

As usual, nothing is set until the village people meander on to stage after an entire verse passes by unsung. A World Cup tradition as old as the fifa peace prize itself!

As a Supreme Court justice, my job is to call balls and strikes. Specifically in the style of Angel Hernandez and Doug Eddings. by John Roberts

70 years ago today, the Montgomery Bus Boycott began. Days after Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955 for violating the ordinance requiring Black residents of Montgomery to accept second class treatment, the Black community organized and boycotted the city’s buses for over one year. 1/3

New paper! elliotlipnowski.com/wp-content/u...

We are launching the call for papers for the successor of our yearly education workshop at TSE: the human capital conference (as we now also have a human capital center ;)).

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

Excited to share a new working paper! What happened when Change.org integrated an AI writing tool into their platform? We provide causal evidence that petition text changed significantly while outcomes did not improve. 1/ arxiv.org/abs/2511.13949

Community college enrollment has been declining since 2009/10. The optimal policy response to this depends on the root of this decline. I'm thrilled @nber.org today released my working paper with Harvard PhD Joe Winkelmann titled: "Labor Market Strength and Declining Community College Enrollment"

If you are married to a US spouse, your temporary visa (usually for 3 months) will lapse before your case is processed. The government allowed you could stay in the US while awaiting case processing. Now the Trump admin is saying that is a visa overstay and arresting the spouses.

h/t @adamwren.bsky.social Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."

Sign up for PBS Passport and support your local @pbs.org member station! www.pbs.org/explore/pass...

Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

I just really want this segment to come with the sad trombone sound. Is that too much to ask?

Update on the state of the job market courtesy of a nudge by @gottliebecon.bsky.social It's bad! paulgp.com/2025/11/24/j...

Incredibly proud of this 🤩🥹! So much work and determination behind this publication. What a journey this was! Honored to have done it with you @vickybarone.bsky.social 🚀❤️

Genius

The partisan divide has grown, too. The wealthiest 100 tended to give more to Republicans than to Democrats before last year. But giving to the GOP spiked in 2024, with *84%* of donations going to back Republicans or conservative PACs.

America 2025.

I'm on the #EconJobMarket! I study how policies and childhood environments shape outcomes of low-income & vulnerable kids. In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.

ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI

Now that’s a lede. Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social. Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Was advising some edtech companies re: their AI tutors recently, and I found that if you ask your AI tutor to create an acrostic for you, it is willing to spell out some pretty creative words and phrases…

The American medical system only makes a twisted sort of sense when you realize it both reflects and enforces Calvinist / prosperity gospel thinking— if you were *really* good, you wouldn’t have gotten sick

I spoke with the Boston Globe about the Summers situation TLDR: other professors like myself can no longer trust Summers to perform a key duty of a university professor, which is to advise & mentor students www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/m...

🤣 "orgs listed on Summers’ résumé disputed his involvement ... Brookings Institution, a left-leaning think tank, said Tuesday that Summers 'is not & has not been a member' of the org’s Board of Trustees, which Summers’ résumé listed him as serving on since '02." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/m...

Developing a step-by-step guide to leniency designs, drawing on recent econometric literatures, from Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, @instrumenthull.bsky.social, and Michal Kolesár www.nber.org/papers/w34473

Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09) The grad is from China Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril" Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package bit.ly/3LHpin8

Just a few years ago the economics profession completely marginalized @claudia-sahm.bsky.social for speaking out on this matter.

Excited to be here at @appam.bsky.social to present our work on inequalities in access to occupations, as part of a panel session on labor market transitions organised by @jscottclayton.bsky.social

Update your syllabus and stay on the frontier - it will increase your students’ wages. Epic work by my colleagues @barbarabiasi.com and @profsongma.bsky.social #linkoftheday www.barbarabiasi.com/uploads/1/0/...

You are laughing but my coffee plantation is ruined

As to point 3-a reminder that their cheerleading for Harvard-pays-half-a-bil has so far failed, and they have simply stopped talking about it, rather than explaining why it is they kept doing dirty work for the Trump admin. A great story for journalists to find out the who/what/why/when on that

2nd photo here, also by Vondruska 2/2