Darren Michael won a $500,0000 settlement for wrongful termination by Austin Peay State University after he shared a story that included a quote about gun violence by Charlie Kirk after his assassination his murder. Senator Maria Blackburn instigated the dismissal. clarksvillenow.com/local/apsu-t...

We @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social are hiring a director for our Policy-Aligned Research Agenda Buildling Lab (PARABL), to help education system leaders build research roadmaps to effect change in a particular area. More info here: wheelockpolicycenter.org/wp-content/u...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "The Value of School Social Climate Information: Evidence from Chicago Housing Transactions" by Rene A. Crespin. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

That's a straight up Biden policy

why not the APGAR score?

So Instacart showed different people different prices for eggs. Shocking? Before the outrage, ignore the Twitter press release. Look at what they actually found. Understand the facts and the economic theory to make sense of it www.economicforces.xyz/p/instacarts...

College costs are soaring! www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...

I have done this a few times... In our profession we got so much rejection and even R&Rs may focus on the negatives. Telling someone you like their paper is refreshing for the person and you too!

We’re counting down our top stories of 2025! Stay tuned as we recap the stories that stood out this year. #10: @kirabojackson.bsky.social shared the lessons he learned during his time on the White House CEA, like how research shapes policy over time. spr.ly/63324CBPRq

From shooting to Slim Jims, immigration agents’ poor tactics made for needless safety risks, experts say

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"

Noooooooo!

Have a favorite AEJ: Economic Policy paper from the past three years? Submit your nomination at the link below! www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/ho...

The Krugman blog today on affordability gets at exactly what I think is happening, and what's missed in the vibecession debates paulkrugman.substack.com/p/affordabil...

A failure to reject a null hypothesis is not the same thing as accepting it. He's on firm statistical ground (on this one very particular claim).

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

👋 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 🧵 -->

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.

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...

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.

Nice summary of our paper and related work by @tomdee.bsky.social and @kslungaardmumma.bsky.social here. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/10/i...

Yeah, in Jamaica, people build pergolas with solar instead of wood and the price is not all that different.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

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. ⬇️

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!

Simpson's paradox!

This is happening all the time now and cannot be the new normal.

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.

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 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417

This is terrifying

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...

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 @aeajournals.bsky.social —> doi.org/10.1257/pol....

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

Are these stories breaking through at all?

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.

Here are the details and our methodology. Judge for yourself: www.propublica.org/article/immi...

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.

Yup

"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 www.youtube.com/live/__0sGvj...

Congratulations!!

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.

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. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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…

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.

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.

Fighting a culture war with kids school funding... shameful.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 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, ADHD, or intellectual disability.

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!

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

Looks interesting!