Substack: Saving lives: lifting many boats or patching holes

Heya, this is the correct link: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Hey JMCs, I know the waiting can be stressful. Good news: @billingsecon.bsky.social, @schnepel.bsky.social, & I are hiring a postdoc on our project funded by Arnold VentureS 📢 Apply here: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail…#EconSkyky 📈📉

My eldest just donated a fifth of their savings to DHH Church and I'm verklempt. It's a lot of $ -- a lot of hours of earning -- for them and a lot of safety for Minnesota families. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

Everyone talks about the "credibility revolution", but I think one of the most valuable shifts in econ over the last decade has been the rise of rigorous descriptive historical work like this in top journals:

New post on Substack open.substack.com/pub/davebrad...

The Minneapolis resident who wrote this post pointed to three ways you can help: *Contact your elected official - make clear what is happening in Minneapolis is unacceptable *Donate - they suggested www.standwithminnesota.com *Communicate - let ppl in the Twin Cities know they are not alone

Went to a conference on inequality at the Harris School last week where @wrigleyfield.bsky.social gave the most moving academic talk I have ever been to, highlighting the many profound and largely unexplored human costs of the Black-white mortality gap across many dimensions

My paper on the consumer financial impacts of Missouri's 2005 Medicaid cut with @1armedeconomist.bsky.social and Slava Mikhed is finally out in the fall issue of AJHE: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Surveying the evidence on intergenerational mobility studies that use alternative measures with a focus on health, consumption and life satisfaction, from Jonathan Davis, Nathan Deutscher, and @bhashmazumder.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34407

Open call for papers, Gender in the Economy: Structural Transformation and Women's Time-Use. Conference to be held in Cambridge, MA on March 27, 2026. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on Decem... https://www.nber.org/calls-papers-and-proposals/gender-economy-structural-transformation-and-womens-time-use

#Nokings in Chicago

On the L heading to No Kings

Intergenerational mobility into doctoral education across Europe: higher in the Nordics, lower in Eastern Europe, but overall, European PhDs are socioeconomically diverse. doi.org/10.1162/euso...

Midnight, June 7 is the deadline to comment on the revised Schedule F, Trump's plan to politicize the civil servants by converting them into at-will appointees that can be fired for the mildest pushback against illegal actions. It's easy - here is how: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/last-day-t...

New paper: Wives with more education than husband are *more* likely to take his name than education-equal marriages. As women outpace men in education & increasingly keep their names, name-taking provides symbolic way to compensate for her status superiority www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Looking for a postdoc opportunity? Want to work on intergenerational mobility? Looking to be in the land down under? Here is a great opportunity to consider working for @siminskipeter.bsky.social, @rkwilkins.bsky.social, Nathan Deutscher and myself: #econsky econjobmarket.org/positions?sh...

We forget that professional sports such as baseball and football were originally integrated and then *became* segregated in response to White fans and, in some instances, White owners and White players.

The administration is moving the rule. Official public (that's us!!) comment period is open. Friends of BLS has resources making it super easy & efficient for you to: 1) submit evidence to the official record & 2) communicate to your federal reps #econsky www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...

On this podcast I tried to string together some coherent sentences about the Rosenwald schools and their long-run effects on the civil rights movement: www.educationnext.org/the-educatio...

As someone who has studied public accommodations discrimination, the dismantling of the Woolworth lunch counter is so disturbing. What a sad day…

🚀 Excited to share that our paper, "𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮: 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗘𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻," is now officially published in the 𝙅𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝘿𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙥𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙀𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙘𝙨 with 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴! 📚🌍 Link 👉: doi.org/10.1016/j.jd...

i could not believe this was true -- that they really stopped testing milk today -- but i looked it up and it is.

Laguna Beach protesting too!

Academia is cool because if you're doing it right, every paper you published in the last 3 years feels inadequate now that you understand the topic better, but it'll take 3 years to get out the version where you get it more right, and you get to do that until one day you die! Isn't that cool

"Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management." snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...

Resistance with slides: when presenting scientific evidence created by federal data and/or $ tell your audience what they won’t be seeing more of Slides templates here https://sites.google.com/view/tobeclear/

Today marks 100 years since the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s #TheGreatGatsby. So #EconSky let’s celebrate by recalling how the #GreatGatsbyCurve got its name! The subtext of my post is that policy relevant research always needs a communication strategy milescorak.com/2016/12/04/h...

Where are all the macro peeps explaining the S-I=NX relation? (Serious question, if you know of a good article explaining this, please share)

Update on measles in the US, cases and deaths, in context of vaccine introduction

Checking in from the Lansing “Hands Off” rally!

Be part of the solution. Be loud.

Map at left (from HandsOff site) showing the number of protests— 24 in SoCal alone— should be on every front page. NYTimes front page is on the right; it’s a tight shot and headline that misleads about the size of protests MSM again failing to tell the truth

Protest in San Clemente #HandsOff

Lund University (Sweden) has opened 3 doctoral student positions in historical demography-economic history - Inequalities in health and survival /jobID:810603 - Demographic Inequality /jobID:809395 - Colonial maternal health legacies /jobID:808817 Applications are invited! 📉📈🗃🛟 #history #demography

I thought the whole point of inviting students from other countries to study in America was to showcase our liberties, freedoms, and strength in allowing dissenting views. It is a sign of a strong country to allow dissenting voices. We are supposed to be teaching American values not betraying them.

People in universities please consider adding your name to this petition: bit.ly/DemocracyAnd...

On July 6, 1944, Lt Jackie Robinson was instructed to move to a seat farther back in the bus. Robinson refused & was court-martialed. It was thanks to his advocacy, the Black press, & army's fear of bad publicity that he was acquitted of all charges. #TeachTruth www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ja...

Every so often I look at the paper of record to see if it is quickly communicating to readers that they are living through a constitutional crisis, and the answer consistently is "no." They are covering the topics, but in the name of journalistic balance, not conveying the alarm.

If you share those concerns, sign and share this open letter. We can’t change donors minds overnight, but we can show our leaders what we value and perhaps give them the resolve they need to take a stand in this moment: docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Trump is at war with the rule of law and free expression. Business and academia are the big losers. They owe it to themselves as well as society at large to speak up. My latest.

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

The dismantling of NCES is insane and will critically hobble progress in improving education - this agency is so important it existed more than 100 years before the creation of Department of Education.

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

Dems can still get D senators to clip Elon's wings. But they only have about 48 hours to do it. I lay out the terrain in this post. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/will-...

Leading universities (including Harvard) should be putting out a common statement on the cutoff of federal money to Columbia. I want to hope it is in the works.

This article proves how incredibly consequential the choice to resist instead of rolling over can be. These brave people are helping everyone, far beyond their own agency’s reach. Let’s all learn this lesson (Article also does a good job contextualizing Trump/Musk lies every time they’re relevant)

Long- term air pollution exposure is associated with worse outcomes (hospitalizations, deaths) with Covid, and there is an interaction with genetic susceptibility to infection; among >110,000 UK Biobank participants www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

First trip outdoor climbing (Joshua Tree) since coming out to CA!

I'm increasingly worried about the future of federal government data access, both survey and admin, not sure I want to know what the future has in store