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NBER
1 day ago
Exposure to the Low Income Housing Tax Credit during childhood improves mother's health and socioeconomic status at the time of first birth as well as leading to improved infant health outcomes, from Janet Currie and Jessica Van Parys
www.nber.org/papers/w34464
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Danielle Graves Williamson
5 days ago
đź‘‹ I'm Danielle, and I'm on the
#econjobmarket
this year! Let's start with a student describing her segregated school: "The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education" The twist? The student is white, and her school is private. A JMP đź§µ -->
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Jared Bernstein
4 days ago
A calculation somebody needs to do: take u-rate, payroll change, infl rate and average month t-1 and t+1. Report forecast error re t.
@guyberger.bsky.social
@ernietedeschi.bsky.social
@aaronsojourner.org
Thank u 4 your attention to this matter.
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Dominique Baker
5 days ago
New chalkbeat piece that highlights some of the less well-known realities of our current moment for higher ed. I got to chat at length with Matt about the actual trend in tuition (flat or decreasing at publics) versus the perception in the media.
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...
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Is college enrollment plummeting?
Reports of the death of the bachelor’s degree have been greatly exaggerated.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/is-enrollment-at-four-year-colleges-and-universities-really-falling/
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Jan Rosenow
6 days ago
A decade ago, solar power barely registered in Hungary’s electricity mix — just 0.2% of generation. Back then, nuclear, coal, and gas dominated the grid. Fast forward ten years and solar power now supplies around 1/4 of Hungary’s electricity — a remarkable transformation.
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Umut Ă–zek
7 days ago
Nice summary of our paper and related work by
@tomdee.bsky.social
and
@kslungaardmumma.bsky.social
here.
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/10/i...
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Yeah, in Jamaica, people build pergolas with solar instead of wood and the price is not all that different.
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Tim Onion
8 days ago
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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ChrisO_wiki
8 days ago
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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Rick Hornbeck
11 days ago
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!
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Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata - Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata
http://CMFdata.org
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Simpson's paradox!
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This is happening all the time now and cannot be the new normal.
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The New York Times
16 days ago
Federal immigration agents fanned out across Chicago and its North Shore suburbs on Halloween, chasing suspects through front yards, driving SUVs onto sidewalks and using chemical agents during confrontations with furious residents.
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Immigration Agents Clash With Chicago-Area Residents on Halloween
The state’s governor had called for a pause in the federal immigration crackdown over the Halloween weekend, citing concerns for children’s safety.
https://nyti.ms/437AFKZ
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Petter Törnberg
18 days ago
Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed. Here are the key take-aways đź§µ
arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
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This is terrifying
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Carl Zimmer
19 days ago
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...
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AI Agents Are Terrible Freelance Workers
A new benchmark measures how well AI agents can automate economically valuable chores. Human-level AI is still some ways off.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-agents-are-terrible-freelance-workers/
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Michael Clemens
19 days ago
The large increase in steel tariffs under GW Bush did not cause an increase in steel-industry employment. But it did hurt the US industries that use steel to make things, reducing employment there long after the tariffs were gone. New in
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doi.org/10.1257/pol....
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Mike Murphy
19 days ago
Very nice paper by Chyn & Shenhav looking at the effects of pollution and other factors on birth weight using an event study on mothers who switched location.
#EconSky
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AEA Web - American Economic Journal: Economic Policy - 17(4):260 - Abstract
https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/pol.20230011
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Are these stories breaking through at all?
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Raider
22 days ago
This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
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Charles Ornstein
about 1 month ago
Here are the details and our methodology. Judge for yourself:
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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Joshua Goodman
about 1 month ago
Wow. This is the paper I have been waiting for. Mobile apps are brain rot, with meaningfully bad economic consequences for those who overuse them.
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Yup
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Alexander Wulfers
about 1 month ago
"Bob Fogel said to me once: For economics to work without economic history is like an evolutionary biologist without paleontology. You just miss 99.5% of all the species that ever walked on this earth." Joel Mokyr
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LIVE: Nobel Prize in economics winner Joel Mokyr speaks
YouTube video by Reuters
https://www.youtube.com/live/__0sGvjFvkA?si=G7jokwdEZlE1kZdB
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Congratulations!!
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Radley Balko
about 1 month ago
If any other president said something like this in a speech to a military academy, it would be a massive scandal. Instead, it isn’t among the ten most dangerous things he’s done this week.
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AEA Journals
about 1 month ago
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families" by Chloe R. Gibbs, Jocelyn Wikle, and Riley Wilson.
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A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families
(Forthcoming Article) - We leverage pronounced changes in the availability of public schooling for young children— through duration expansions to the kindergarten day—to better understand how an impli...
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20240837&from=f
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Trevon Logan
about 2 months ago
I swear nobody wants to talk about the fact that food prices are still rising faster than prices in general. A year ago all we heard about was the price of eggs. Food prices are still rising yet the media gives us…crickets…
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When the expanded child tax credit expired, poverty went up. This was not about the economy, but about the safety net.... These are the facts.
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Stephen Nuñez
about 2 months ago
At some point people need to learn that the poverty rate is mostly about the safety net or lack thereof and not the economy. The economy was doing historically well, real wages rising for the first time in decades, etc. And poverty rose because pandemic safety policies expired.
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Fighting a culture war with kids school funding... shameful.
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Butterflies Katz ⓥ
about 2 months ago
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A 2024 study published in JAMA involving 2.4 million children in Sweden, used sibling-control analysis. When comparing siblings—one exposed to
#acetaminophen
in utero & one not—the researchers found NO increased risk of
#autism
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Sébastien Fontenay
about 2 months ago
Had a wonderful time at the meeting of Associazione Italiana di Economia del Lavoro in Milano-Bicocca 🤗 Great feedback on my project
#Leave4NextGen
about intergenerational effects of paternity leave 🚼 Huge thanks to
@kirabojackson.bsky.social
for an inspiring keynote and his constructive feedback!
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Michael Clemens
about 2 months ago
Larry is one of the greats. A top-echelon researcher who was just as effective in both raising up the next generation and in public service. Standing ovation
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Looks interesting!
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about 2 months ago
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Is this for real?
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It's really important to base one's conclusions on facts. Yes, data are imperfect, but they provide information that cannot simply be ignored.
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Molly Jong-Fast
2 months ago
From
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Trevon Logan
2 months ago
Additional reporting on Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook and evidence “undercutting” the claims advanced by the Trump Administration. At a minimum, this shows why due process is so important.
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Fed Governor Lisa Cook claimed 2nd residence as 'vacation home,' undercutting Trump fraud claims
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook referred to a condominium she purchased in June 2021 as a “vacation home” in a loan estimate.
https://apnews.com/article/federal-reserve-lisa-cook-trump-852820c83e5001ec3b6e2d14047965c9
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Happy to share my new NBER working paper!
www.nber.org/papers/w34216
2 months ago
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Prof Dynarski
2 months ago
Great news Keep fighting, Professor Cook You're my hero!
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Happy to share my new NBER working paper!
www.nber.org/papers/w34216
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Ben Zipperer
2 months ago
a major concern coming out of the jobs report today is prime-age Black employment, which fell in 2025 these data are noisy and while it would be great if they turned around, I'm not optimistic: there will be downward pressure from federal job losses over the next few months
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Governor JB Pritzker
3 months ago
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
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Robert Reich
3 months ago
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
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Grant McDermott
3 months ago
To borrow another example, taken from the `dbreg` README:
github.com/grantmcdermo...
Here I am running a fixed-effects regression on 180 million(!) row parquet dataset... and it completes **< 2 seconds**... on my laptop 🤯 This is powered by
@duckdb.org
under the hood.
#rstats
#econsky
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Justin Wolfers
3 months ago
Yes, the stakes here are large. Very large.
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It all depends on whether the deported consume or produce more housing. Going to Home Depot to toss people out is very likely to remove those that do more producing than consuming.
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Claudia Sahm
3 months ago
“I have no intention of being bullied to step down from my position because of some questions raised in a tweet,” Cook said.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Fed’s Cook Says She Won’t Be Bullied Into Stepping Down
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook signaled her intention to remain at the central bank in defiance of calls for her resignation by President Donald Trump over allegations of mortgage fraud.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-20/fed-s-cook-says-she-won-t-be-bullied-into-stepping-down
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Isn't one key finding that peer review roots the bad stuff out? That's really important!
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