Very interesting research paper that shows that using AI with programming can significantly reduce mastery over topics. Perhaps unsurprising, but the lack of significant speed gains in this exercise are remarkable www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

The February 2026 issue of AEJ: Economic Policy (18, 1) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/834.

Meanwhile the U.S. government just shed **10,000*** STEM PhDs from the federal workforce in a single year. www.science.org/content/arti...

Anyone seeking to block the energy transition now has to reckon with the brute economics of the thing: renewable energy is cheaper than fossil fuels. The only way to slow transition is by fighting the gravity of economics

🚨New from @edsustainable.bsky.social #SustainableED "U.S. Schools’ Proximity to Environmental Hazard Sites: A National Analysis" We document how students' potential exposure to environmental toxins while at school is both widespread and highly inequitable. edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1384 🧵

The @nber.org Summer Institute call for papers is now live: www.nber.org/calls-papers... [Note that typical meeting dates have been pushed back by a week due to Boston hosting FIFA World Cup events ending on July 9.]

Posted a very early stage draft with rock star collaborators. Key question: when we actually roll out AI tools, how do people use them? Do they just defer completely? Does it improve productivity and ability? We look in the medical setting of pulmonary embolisms paulgp.com/papers/Radio...

"But résumé studies only measure callbacks. They don’t tell us who actually gets hired." These authors of this brand new preprint wanted to know whether discrimination measured in résumé studies shows up in real hiring. So they linked a large résumé audit experiment to actual employment data.

At 10 percent, you can expect credit rationing. lower income folk will be hurt by this.

This is crazy! This is the opposite of trying to find the social optimum.

ughh... I can't even explain how much we used to avoid something like this ever happening.

Breaking News: A judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from freezing $10 billion for child care and social services in five Democratic-led states.

Huh! Seems like we now have a new break even number way lower than we had in the past. Reduced immigration? Thoughts?

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.