I just spent the day answering 40 emails, only to have 40 more emails arrive as I completed them.

Whatever happens with this shutdown business, I’ll still be voting Dem up and down the ballot in 2026 because I believe our president has genuine intentions to end democracy. This isn’t a game.

For some comparison, 2021 NJ Gov race was 51/48, and 2024 NJ Prez was 52/46, and the final poll of polls showed Sherrill at about 50%, so 55% is a pretty massive polling miss

Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball! This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers. paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

existence of baseball implies existence of acidball

Chegg slashes 45% of workforce, blames 'new realities of AI' www.cnbc.com/2025/10/27/c...

Some authors have contacted AEA editors about an unexpected loss of data access that affects their ability to respond to an R&R. If this affects you, please explain the circumstances in your cover letter. Or reach out to the coeditor if you need guidance before resubmitting. @aeajournals.bsky.social

Interesting day. I couldn't get into any of my Canvas courses because Amazon Web Services (AWS) is down. But I also wasn't very successful running errands because many businesses use AWS to process transactions.

OpenAI researchers deleted tweets claiming GPT-5 had solved previously unsolved Erdős problems. It was pointed out by others that GPT-5 had simply found research papers which had solved these problems not solved them itself. Google Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis called the incident "embarrassing"

Wentz’s best game for the Eagles since 2017.

That’s awesome. Carson is still throwing passes to Eagles players after all these years.

Great piece on academic shero labor economist Claudua Goldin picking WNBA advising as a post-Nobel venture. She estimates players should earn 1/3 of what NBA men earn (It’s currently 1/80)

New federal data has revealed a 19% year-on-year decline in international students entering the US in August 2025, including a 45% drop from India, America’s largest sending country. thepienews.com/internationa...

Be proud of your job. Show your face. Wear your ICE hat when shopping for groceries, at the mechanic when you need a car repair, and at church. Swap stories about your job with other parents at PTA night & at child care pick up. Engage with your neighbors. Scared to do it? Reconsider your choices.

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes,” by Barwick, Chen, Fu, and Li: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

If you're not aware of the capabilities of agentic browsers, you should spend some time learning about them. Anything done within a browser can now be automated—including homework and quizzes. It's not copy and paste; the bot points, clicks, and types as the user. www.perplexity.ai/comet

New Substack post: the Nobel Prize goes to an economic historian and two economists of growth trying to answer the question, where do new technologies come from? someunpleasant.substack.com/p/growing-th...

A new NBER working paper by @jscottclayton.bsky.social and colleagues shows that about two-thirds of the unexplained gap in post-college earnings by family income may be due to challenges in finding that first job. Family connections and resources matter.

Touchdown Temple!!!

It turns out that once you correct for this error, unemployment is actually rising faster for NON-degree workers - meaning that explanations in terms of AI replacing the college-educated workforce don't make much sense, and this looks a lot more like an across-the-board labor market slowdown.

Just saw on Elsevier that they are rolling out ScienceDirect AI? I guess every publisher is going to attempt to capitalize on a model that is trained on their own papers.

my wife is a Cal fan and apparently this week they’re putting a “59” on their football helmets to honor the 59 Nobel laureates tied to Cal in order to flex on Duke this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke

Research shows: More H-1Bs → more patents Fewer H-1Bs → more offshoring Your choice, America.

Wrote this for the New York Times today (hope this link works!) W.N.B.A. is doing immensely well! Time to pay the players!! Thanks to Sara Chodosh for asking me to write this (helping with the writing) and making the cool graphics!! urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

Sora, make an Econ 1101 hype video.

Haters will say this is fake

🌟 𝗖𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗹𝘀! 🌟 Share your teaching innovations & research in economics with colleagues who care deeply about econ ed. #CTREE #EconEd #TeachEcon 🔗 Submit here: www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...

It's official: Temple will offer Economics of AI in the Spring. I'm super excited to teach this.

I’ve been using the Codex plugin and GitHub CoPilot with VS Code. What’s the advantage to using Cursor? It looks exactly the same as my VS code session.

Dak Prescott’s MRPL < Dak Prescott’s salary.

I wonder which one is Miran. 😂

I just learned from Claude that using "\begin{itemize}[<+->]" in LaTeX will automatically create a series of PDF pages, each revealing a new bullet point, one by one, for your slide.

Time for a paper plug: We find that, going the other direction, pitchers tend to perform better on the mound after batting and particularly when they had successful at bats. (most likely a "staying warm" effect; but some evidence for adrenaline boost after success) academic.oup.com/oep/article/...

Final: Eagles 20 Chiefs 17

This looks very interesting.

10 hours till kickoff.

You can now use "show more like this" and "show less like this" in the For You feed. (this is being rolled out so you may need to update your Bluesky app) Here is how it works in For You 🧵

With today’s win over UMass, Temple has finally won a regular season opener on the road for the first time since 2014 (37-7 win at Vandy — PJ Walker was the QB).

Temple good?

"Mr. President, the Temple Owls have scored a second touchdown."

Holy wow. Many tariffs struck down by appeals court www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

NEW EPISODE: We speak to the legend Emi Nakamura about her paper at Jackson Hole about why and when central banks can deviate from Taylor Rule orthodoxy and still achieve good inflation outcomes. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

How to quantify consumer surplus in love of variety/quality ladder models? Supplier addition/separation helps identify key statistic without functional form assumptions. Crucial input for policy questions & comparative statics in growth & trade models. buff.ly/ZzOHH5B

Go birds

Jay Powell has been attacked by the president — in terms no economist alive would support. Yet he’s kept the Fed independent, and steered us to a soft landing. That’s a legacy to be proud of.

Super interesting! "Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence" by Erik Brynjolfsson, Bharat Chandar, and Ruyu Chen. digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/publications...

Just received this statement from Lisa Cook: "President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022."