This study find large gender differences in willingness to point out.... a mistake in someone's work. I think I know why!

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

“When you hear about abuses of power, you should feel disgusted. That is what disgust is for. If you no longer feel disgusted, that is not wisdom or cleverness. Something has gone very wrong.” @economeager.bsky.social on academia and how it’s (not) dealing with Epstein and others abuses.

To me this is Australia Tattooed surfer comforts wounded Muslim shopkeeper who single-handedly tackled and disarmed one of the Bondi shooters www.middleeasteye.net/news/praise-...

I'm sorry, I'm still talking about the fact that Larry Summers only stopped emailing with Jeffrey Epstein because *he got arrested*. Like there was truly no line in the sand for Summers.

Newsom: "If any California university signs this radical agreement, they’ll lose billions in state funding – including Cal Grants – instantly. California will not bankroll schools that sell out their students, professors, researchers, and surrender academic freedom"

Economic outcomes often depend on the distribution of some maximum value (e.g. the highest valuation, best idea, or lowest cost). If the average number of options is large, do such outcomes change when some agents have more options than others? 1/ A thread about this paper 🧵

Economic outcomes often depend on the distribution of some maximum value (e.g. the highest valuation, best idea, or lowest cost). If the average number of options is large, do such outcomes change when some agents have more options than others? 1/ A thread about this paper 🧵

Excited to see this! A thread coming soon…

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal

How do firms search for and screen workers? When do the best workers match with the best firms?

America’s Brightest Minds Will Walk Away "Of 1,200 U.S. scientists who responded to a poll conducted by the journal Nature, 75 percent said they were considering leaving the country." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

The Federal Reserve is not as independent from the executive branch as we’d like to think. The NY Fed just cancelled this Thursday’s @aeacswep.bsky.social reception at #EEA2025 and withdrew from our summer fellowship program. Both support women and underrepresented groups in economics. #EconSky

Call for Papers! 4th DC Search and Matching will be 4/25-26. Submission deadline 3/10. Send us your papers! www.cvent.com/c/abstracts/...

In NYC there is a shop selling cashmere sweaters for dogs, in Amsterdam there is a toothbrush shop. If you are a goth looking for a partner you should move to a city. Finally, there is a forthcoming JET paper explaining this www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Zero-sum thinking is a key mindset that shapes how we view the world. A little thread to highlight our work on its roots with @sahilchinoy.bsky.social, @nathannunn.bsky.social, Sandra Sequeira.🧵1/23 scholar.harvard.edu/files/stantc...

When is competition price-increasing? My latest research has just been published online in RAND: doi.org/10.1111/1756...

Some of the most important lottery anomalies from the behavioral risk literature (e.g., probability weighting and loss aversion) actually have nothing to do with risk. They also arise in perfectly deterministic settings. Lead article in the latest AER issue: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

I am thankful for the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, the Implicit Function Theorem, and the Chain Rule.

If only there was a starter pack called "Everyone I follow on Twitter who is on Bluesky"

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) against women is a major public health and inequality concern. It's not clear what causes it or how to reduce it. Gaby Deschamps' JMP considers that IPV is positively correlated with motherhood, and asks if we can understand why. www.gabrieladeschamps.com/research

November 12, 1973 --- The day Philosophy & Public Affairs started treating Rawls like Jesus.

Making it easier for people to get high has some negative public health impacts. www.nber.org/system/files...

Drop politics. Drop regressions. Drop reading papers. Listen to this. It's OK to get emotional. open.spotify.com/album/6bqe0N...

SIOE 2025 CALL FOR PAPERS Join us in Sydney, at UNSW, from 24-26 of August 2025! 🚨Submission deadline: January 15, 2025 Looking for individual papers or panel submissions. Call for papers / instructions here: call.sioe.org/call Questions? Email [email protected]