Sport may be ‘beautiful’ to some, but that is not really why most people are so into sports. The truth about sport, writes @lionelpage.bsky.social, is that it is a status game—for individuals *and* for groups: open.substack.com/pub/lionelpa...

Volkswirt/in (m/w/d) für den Bereich Produktivität und Wachstum #Econsky

There are several recent papers which could fall under the heading ‘Economic History of the Scientific Revolution’ but this network analysis tracing how scientific ideas diffused amongst scholars in the period 1084-1793 is a real milestone, an ‘epidemiological’ model of how ideas spread like disease

we can sneak around town / hunting working folks down / I hear they got a great benefit plan join ICE boy ain’t it nice / join ICE take my advice www.tiktok.com/@jessewelles...

🚨 Tariffs on inputs = tax on downstream products.🚨 Here’s cement’s granular production network. A 50% duty on key inputs propagates costs through roads, buildings, data-centres, and renewable infrastructure. Public data, method & our paper in thread 🧵 0/8

I really enjoyed this piece from 2019: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

JOB AD: @fbk-irvapp.bsky.social in #Trento (Italy) is looking for a #Researcher in Quantitative Public #Policy Evaluation to conduct (quasi)experimental evaluation research across different policy areas. 2Y+ contract - apply by 18/08 - Please, REPOST #EconSky LINK: jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Offe...

Is working from home just a pandemic blip? Not according to the data. We analysed 1 billion job postings in 20 OECD countries. The share of jobs advertising remote/hybrid work quadrupled from 2.5% to 11% (2019–2023) and has been stable since 🧵

🚼 What if making paternity leave mandatory could actually move the needle on gender equality? In a new working paper, we study Spain’s paternity leave reforms from 2017 to 2021 — and the effects are remarkable. 📄 cep.lse.ac.uk/_NEW/PUBLICA...

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

This Macro-Musings episode 🔈 podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/m... featuring @lucafornaro.bsky.social provides extremely insightful and clear views on macroeconomic policies to counter hysteresis and stagnation 📈

This is one of my favourite studies of the last few years. Totally worth reading!

School streets

En España 460.000 trabajadores hacen horas extras no pagadas (en su totalidad o en parte), a pesar de la obligación del registro horario. El problema la empresa puede registrar la jornada sin utilizar medios fiables, algo que la nueva norma pretende corregir.

In 2023, four of the seven US-based Nobel laureates were immigrants. That’s a wonderful thing for Americans. It has nothing to do with saying that Americans aren’t good at stuff. It means that America is a place where the best Americans and best immigrants work together to do great things.

Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever, analysis of new data @epi.org from me & Adam Reich of Columbia Labor Lab. In data back 60 years, Americans' sentiments are both warmer toward unions & cooler towards big business than ever before. www.epi.org/blog/america...

“A startling statistic emerged in Paris last month: during the morning and evening rush hours, on representative main thoroughfares crisscrossing the French capital, there are now more bicycles than cars – almost half as many again, in fact.” And it has kept growing from there. Leadership. #Paris

Kurdish Militant Group PKK to End Four-Decade Conflict With Turkey www.wsj.com/world/middle...

📢 Come and work with us! The Department of Economics at JKU Linz invites applications for a full 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀. Apply by June 18, 2025. Details: www.jku.at/en/the-jku/w... Please share with your network! #Econsky #Academicjobs

This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

En la actualidad, hay más de 15 millones de ocupados (88,1%) con contrato indefinido, de los que más de 9,9 millones trabajan a tiempo completo. Los fijos discontinuos se estabiliza en el 5,8% del total. Los trabajadores temporales representan el 11,9% (27,9% antes de la RL)

🆕#WorkingPaper: “The electoral effects of banning cars from the streets: Evidence from Barcelona’s superblocks” by @celiaestruch.bsky.social, Albert Solé, @filippot7.bsky.social and @eviladecans.bsky.social. Read the full text👉🏻https://f.mtr.cool/fjhuwsrlrp @fundacioieb.bsky.social

30 years after arriving in the US, I just resigned from Northwestern and we sold our house. We are an American family, I became a citizen in 2014, and until recently did not expect to ever leave. But now, this no longer feels like the right place to raise a family and pursue a research career.

Migration data lets us study responses to environmental disasters, social change patterns, policy impacts, etc. But public data is too coarse, obscuring these important phenomena! We build MIGRATE: a dataset of yearly flows between 47 billion pairs of US Census Block Groups. 1/5

📢 The call for papers for the 2025 Banca d’Italia Gender Economics Workshop is now open! 📅 12 December | 📍 Banca d’Italia HQ, Rome 📝 Submit your paper by 13 July www.bancaditalia.it/media/notizi... #GenderEconomics #EconSky

NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline? Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s What should we make of this? www.ft.com/content/a801...

If you have used LLM image generators, you know they are hard to control: LLM had to send a prompt to a separate image generation tool, it did not not make the image. Gemini is the first public release of a full multimodal LLM that can directly make images. This allows the systems to do detail work

📢 Join our labor team! I am looking for two #predocs to work with me and my coauthors on applied labor economics projects in Switzerland! Job Ad: bit.ly/PredocLaborLugano Apply here: bit.ly/PredocLLCApply #econra #USIecon #predoc

Consumers responding to tariffs 😆

Today some of the leading economists released a report on how to improve the publication and peer review process in our profession. It is great! www.econometricsociety.org/uploads/docu...

Is #China really as dominant in scientific #research as it might appear? Shumin Qiu, Claudia Steinwender, & Pierre Azoulay find that after adjusting citation counts for home bias, China is in fourth place globally - behind the US, UK, and Germany. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky #science

🚀 Call for Papers: CREST-IFAU Workshop on Labor Market Policy Evaluation 📊 🗓 June 12-13, 2025 – Paris (Palaiseau) 🎤 Keynote: Stéphane Bonhomme (University of Chicago) 📅 Submit by: March 10, 2025 📩 Send papers (PDF) to: [email protected] crest.science/call-for-pap...

Coming up: WEI 2025 - the popular Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality in Helsinki in August with Magne Mogstad & Stephen Machin as keynote speakers! Submit your paper by 30 March! verotutkimus.fi/en/wei2025/ Organisers:@tuomaskosonen.bsky.social @oskarnskans.bsky.social

Modern supply chains don't look like trade theory 101! They involve constant border crossings, each now hit by tariffs. Tariffs raise prices, but the more important thing they do is disrupt supply relationships. 1/

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

#QJE Feb 2025, #4, “The Global Race for Talent: Brain Drain, Knowledge Transfer, and Growth,” by Marta Prato: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Recently accepted by #QJE, “When Did Growth Begin? New Estimates of Productivity Growth in England from 1250 to 1870,” by Bouscasse (@paulbouscasse.bsky.social), Nakamura, and Steinsson (@jonsteinsson.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

These are 10 of my favourite #UrbanEconomics articles published in academic journals in 2024 (continues a tradition started in 2018, order is alphabetical by first author, no ranking implied):

Never forget, car dependency isn’t freedom. Some might ask “what’s more free than cars?” Choices. Choices are more free than car dependency. It’s not a hard concept. I’m not pitting cars against any other single mode of transport. I’m rejecting design that creates dependency on just one mode.

In economics, editors, referees, and authors often behave as if a published paper should reflect some kind of authoritative consensus. As a result, valuable debate happens in secret, and the resulting paper is an opaque compromise with anonymous co-authors called referees. 1/

As more impersonations are happening on Bluesky: you can "verify" your account by linking to your homepage in your bio, and vice-versa. Also do it with your RePEc profile on IDEAS. See my bio as an example. Add your Bluesky handle here: authors.repec.org #RePEc #EconSky

Remember this? Paris is getting a whole new Metro network. It’s huge. And built fast. “The venerable #Paris Métro is about to get its most significant upgrade in decades with the arrival of the Grand Paris Express, a new 200km system with 4 new lines & 68 new stations.” www.cnn.com/travel/paris...

PhDone! 🚀

Need an 📢alternative to Rosen-Roback 📢that accounts for trade (tradable goods & local services) & mobility (local ties &idiosyncratic tastes) frictions? Our new paper & quality-of-life solver for MATLAB/Stata/R/Python, plus a😎HTML-tool available at qol.ahlfeldt.com

Paris definitely wasn’t always this way. This is very recent. It wasn’t magic. It just took vision and leadership. Your city could choose leadership too. Great pic via @JBPssx

Applications to the Masters & PhD at @cemfi.es are now open. Today, Friday 29 Nov at 3pm CET we are holding an online information meeting for prospective students. Sign up here: bit.ly/3CGlXAb

Alright, I've got zero followers right now—let's see if this thread on my JMP can escape the depths of the internet. TL;DR: Labour market power leads to large productivity losses. Keep reading if you’re interested in misallocation, tech diffusion, and regional disparities (you should be!).