No sh*t Sherlock BUT also don't show it to RFK cause you're never going to get another NIH/NSF grant. Great paper! www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

This is a great idea: missingparkhistory.org. The great American outdoors and NPS are crown jewels of the US and we should fight for their conservation and history. This applies to both Ds and Rs b/c guess what even hunting requires stopping pollution and climate change in public lands.

Well hello Whistler. Delayed only a month compared to "normal seasons" but better late then never. I'm extremely grateful to be spending my sabbatical on the west coast! Out of office this weekend to destroy my thighs.

Student disadvantage negatively affects their teachers' mental health in Sweden. Findings establish client composition as a distinct and policy-relevant determinant of worker health in contact-intensive occupations, from Karbownik, Svaleryd, Vlachos, and Wang www.nber.org/papers/w34841

Way to go Bodø/Glimt. Their wage bill is approx. 8M while Inter's is approx. 140M Euro. Maybe it's good that there are booze restrictions in Norway b/c it must have been a wild night

For those thinking if our paper (www.nber.org/papers/w3484...) generalizes to US. Here is teacher absence vs. student SES gradient from IL and MA. Part of this is likely due to teacher's health which is of huge importance from policy perspective when thinking about inequality in schooling in the US.

New WP with alma mater co-authors! Using teachers, we offer first large-scale evidence on how clients affect providers’ (mental) health. Disadvantaged students increase health absenteeism of teachers. Effects driven by direct interactions not organizational differences. www.nber.org/papers/w3484...

Have to spend next two weeks on the East Coast so this breaks my heart. It seems we're finally getting some reasonable temps on the West Coast. So if you can, get out there. It should be epic (pun not intended).

Was working on something else and stumbled across this paper in JOLE: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1.... Honestly this should have been a top5 for the sheer amount of work and ingenuity the authors put into it. Highly recommend reading for both historical value and curiosity. I learned a lot

Thanks to JHR for the recognition.

There is only one queen!

Well that's some good news: notesfrompoland.com/2025/11/25/e.... But hey here is a crazy/radical idea -- maybe Poland should just legalize same sex marriage. It's not great optics that we're now almost 20 years behind South Africa...

Miranda is one of my mentees this year and she's awesome. You should absolutely interview and hire her. The amount of legwork she did for her JMP is impressive.

This is so cool and so we'll deserved. I do economic history research primarily because of interactions with Joel!

That's a terrific workshop if you're rookie doing education work: www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev....

Congrats to the winners! Interesting and rare that 2/3 don't work at universities. And 2nd award in 2 years for Seattle affiliated researchers! It's not only tech in Seattle.

We're hiring in applied micro. Come be my colleague and if you don't like me then we have a ton of other great people in the department. apply.interfolio.com/173387

We updated our paper on employment protection of older workers. It now includes estimates of both externalities as well as "deadwood labor" effects. Still no externalities but up to 4.8% separation effects once EPL is removed suggesting modest "deadwood labor" among workers 60+: tinyurl.com/4kh6tykr

If you don't like the numbers just make them up. I was born in a country that had "full employment". Based on experience I don't recommend going this way. Also it's ironic that he hates China so much but basically is turning US into China

Not great evidence for Mamdani idea: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=.... Sure maybe it's b/c it's temporary but we can probably all come up with better ROI public interventions.

Been waiting for this to come out for a while now: www.nber.org/papers/w3397.... That's such a cool paper!!!

new fun AI hallucinations: Gemini keeps upgrading JOLE papers to JPE papers when creating references in bibtex. Since AI will be our new overlords, I wonder if I can also upgrade my CV :)

This is such sad news. I've personally interacted with Ghazala only a few times but loved her papers. Economics lost a brilliant researcher way too soon...

I find it really amusing when a journal that has been sitting on my submission for almost 9 months is sending me a reminder that I'm late with my referee report by two weeks...

If you think US politics is messed up then newsflash Poland just elected ex gang member and ex pimp as a president. Times of Israel also called him Holocaust revisionist and yet he was supported by the current US administration. So yeah, universities are not about antisemitism...

New paper out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... We study (using DiD) effects of 1968 Poor People's Campaign on election outcomes. Overall these peaceful protests had no effects on elections (contrasting prior civil rights era findings) but they hurt Ds in the South and helped them in the West.

@wsj.com coverage of our latest voucher research: www.wsj.com/opinion/edch.... I wouldn't conclude with "But its results are consistent with a large and growing body of evidence that school choice can lift all students" but I think it'd be good to do more research on choice rather than demonizing it

New research out: positive participation and competitive effects of EdChoice vouchers for college attendance and graduation. Participation compared to remaining in underperforming public school. Competitive compared to schools that just missed voucher threat.

As someone who wrote multiple papers on consequences of childhood disability for families, I find this disgusting. That's why you should increase funds to these families rather than cutting them. A+ geniuses!!!

Lars is right. Especially those highways that go left ;)

Meritocracy in action ;)

That's kind of obvious but oh well. ROI in publicly funded research is something like 5 to 1 on average so basically you're killing a goose laying golden eggs... but let's be clear here, this was always about cutting people off information/services/anything that could make them vote D.

just imagine what would Republicans do if this mess was generated by Biden, Harris, Obama, ... [paste any other Democrat]. Also can someone explain to me why congress cannot end this? Aren't there enough Republicans worried about 2026? Or are we not planning the economy to survive to '26?

Here is a simple solution to this: pass the cuts onto your consumers and see how they and their families vote in '26. In the short-run issue bonds. It's not like demand for education and healthcare is very elastic. Maybe then the public will realize how much public goods these funds generate.

That about sums it up...

I mostly just feel sorry for the poor penguins... how are they going to survive the tariffs...

OMG this makes sense. That's how they will solve fentanyl/drug abuse crisis - just stop tracking it. Reminds me of Covid when they suggested that we just don't test and then Covid will vanish ;)

This is very noble of NAS members but they are missing a big picture statistic: PEW reports that 45% of Americans believe that universities negatively affect US (up from 26% in 2012). Modal American doesn't care about higher education and science so I doubt we can avoid the destruction...

will be hanging out at Uni Melbourne for the next week to do work and wrap up projects. Also presenting on Thursday work on teacher mental health with @jonasvlachos.bsky.social and others. If you're around come say hi! Thanks @adegendre.bsky.social and @nsalamanca.bsky.social for organizing this!

Everyone is always considering leaving but then they learn about salaries and infrastructure at EU universities. Compensating wage differentials sure exist but not by a factor of 3 to 5X. If EU/CA/AUS step up $ game though then US science is done

Patients from Idaho overflowed WA hospitals b/c they worried more about getting third limb 20 yrs down the road than of ending up on ventilator. As broken as the US healthcare is the way to solve it is via premiums - lower them for those who vax as they are lower risk. www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...

Democrats should be able to turn this into a winning issue - public education is popular and people oppose abolishing the Department of Education.

Wonder if 45% of Americans believing that universities were negatively affecting the US know where their drugs, chips, resistant crops etc. come from. It feels like middle ages: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u.... I'm surprised that Canada, Australia, and EU and not trying harder to pick up the talent

Jen is right. If objective is to max kids' opportunities then data is essential. School choice shouldn't be about "faith" but "facts". I wrote papers showing +, -, & 0 effects of choice thus we absolutely need data so parents & kids can make INFORMED choices. Choice w/o information makes no sense

In some good news I will be visiting Hoover Institution for the full next academic year. Really excited about and grateful for this opportunity. Expect finally some new research output after teaching crunch. Also hit me up for seminars and research chats.

This is actually a pretty good idea from Aix. From econ perspective, if you're an empiricist, France has some really good admin data too. One question is how can they keep US talent, given FR salaries, once the compensating differential of Trump craziness is no longer there.

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Protest at Point Reyes National Seashore today!!! Thanks to everyone who showed up! Protect OUR National Parks and public lands from madmen!!! These are what makes America great. Also where are the Democrats!?

It's actually pretty hilarious that American people themselves installed Russian agents in the Oval Office

What in the actual f#ck!? I was joking few weeks ago that I'll have to go to Canada to get my flu shots but it might actually be real: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u.... I'm sorry but where are the Democrats? This is just nuts....