Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.” A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.

Excited to post a new working paper with @instrumenthull.bsky.social and Michal Kolesár: arxiv.org/abs/2511.03572 Will post a thread on it soon, but if you're interested in judge/examiner designs, I think you'll find this guide very helpful!

Andrew Cuomo to join Harvard’s Institute of Politics

Just wanted to follow up on this 👀 nypost.com/2025/07/19/u...

How does employer access to prisoners’ labor through work release impact the well-being of those workers & of free workers? New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL #EconSky papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

We've got you 👍

Just out in the New York Times: My op-ed on the limits of data-privacy and the need for democratic control in the age of AI. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o... @nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Seth Meyers is someone who is being recognized more and more these days.

The @bookshop.org app is really good, and it is easy to buy content from their website. Strong recommend!

AI agents tried to do graphic design, video editing, game development, and administrative chores like scraping data. "Even the best could perform less than 3 percent of the work, earning $1,810 out of a possible $143,991," writes @willknight.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/ai-age...

Is the payroll data that ADP just announced they're publishing weekly the same or different from what ADP was sharing with the @federalreserve.gov until recently? (And, if different, how?)

In honor of fucking grokpedia launching 🙄 I've made a monthly recurring donation to Wikipedia and if you have the ability and care about free and accurate information, you should too.

Are these stories breaking through at all?

Fun fact. Trump destruction of soybean exports (rightfully) gets lots of attention. But you know what we sell even more of to China? Education. 2024 soybean exports to China: $13B. Higher Ed: $14B. Yes, all those internat’l students count as *exports.* Trump is STILL actively destroying that market.

The remarkable Huell Howser!

It's because, the good folk at bookshop.org have now made it possible for you to buy ebooks from them. And a slice of the profits from every purchase you make with them goes towards indie bookshops, meaning they are one step closer to buying a rocket, renting Venice, or just paying the rent. 5/?

Scott Bessent owns $25m of rent-seeking soybean property that he promised-- and failed-- to divest. I cannot imagine another farmer considering that actively being a "farmer." I'm fairly certain Jimmy Carter wouldn't.

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

🚨New publication alert🚨 I'm thrilled Economics of Education Review has just published my work w/ @abbyfrancis.bsky.social: "School enrollment shifts five years after the pandemic" Abstract below, but read the next few posts for the story told via a handful of graphs. doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

Research firms continue to shed talented staff—even after the far-reaching cuts earlier this year. Just this week, there have been announcements of significant layoffs at RAND and Mathematica.

Remember when Obama’s tan suit was a sign of intolerable disrespect for his office

High school graduation standards are in freefall. Is everybody cool with that? schooledbymikepetrilli.substack.com/p/high-schoo...

New paper by Rivera Mora & @philippstrack.bsky.social Strack challenges everything we thought we knew about mechanism design beyond expected utility. The results are wild. 🤯 Paper: "Mechanism Design Beyond Expected Utility Preferences" (Sept 2025) static1.squarespace.com/static/62d2f...

I sure hope all these marchers remember to march to a voting booth youtu.be/cH_s1zv26a0?...

A Missouri group is working to overturn the map that gives the state one more Republican seat in Congress. If they get enough signatures, the map cannot take effect unless Missourians approve them. n.pr/42HDimE

No words. Ten Ks, three homers. Same dude.

One of my favorite traditions is now underway: for the 15th straight year, the Development Impact blog launches a call for PhD students in development economics to blog their job market paper - submissions due 8pm EST on Wednesday November 5: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

McSweeney’s killing it.

"This nation’s Young Republicans are more than just veteran political operatives and attorneys: they’re kids. And sometimes, kids say the wrong things. They can’t be held responsible for using slurs 251 times in just under 8 months."

Progressive prosecutors seem fine. www.nber.org/system/files...

HE…IS…THIRTEEN

No words

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

ICE is out of control in Chicago. Now just tossing tear gas canisters out of the car in the middle of one of our neighborhoods as kids are walking home from school, people out going grocery shopping. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

📢 OI’s Summer ’25 Newsletter is out! 🔎 Inside: new research on disparities in credit access, how leaders are using OI data, a new local journalism initiative, and how wealth shapes access at elite colleges. 📰 Read: shorturl.at/dz7h2 📬 Sign up: shorturl.at/Iscb7

Come join us at the @capolicylab.bsky.social as our new policy director in Sacramento!

“They’re, they’re animals anyway. That’s what I would tell my kids all the time,” said the ICE agent, according to body cam footage. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

“It’s fall, fuckfaces. You’re either ready to reap this freaky-assed harvest or you’re not.”

My coauthors and I are hiring a project coordinator for new research on an innovative jail-based rehabilitation paper (IGNITE), building on our recent QJE Apply at careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/project...

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Tom Homan to join Harvard’s Institute of Politics

We're hiring a research associate or research manager for a project in the DRC! This is a great opportunity for anyone who is interested in gaining very hands-on research and work experience in a low-income country in partnership with the local government. Also a great preparation for a PhD.