New WP: “University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization” Debates on international students often focus on capacity constraints, funding, or competition. In the paper, I show that the main effects of internationalization on natives are not academic or economic, but social.

Examining the One Laptop Per Child program in Peruvian rural primary schools finds no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative ones on grade progression, from Cueto, Beuermann, Cristia, Malamud, and Pardo www.nber.org/papers/w34495

Wow. This is the paper I have been waiting for. Mobile apps are brain rot, with meaningfully bad economic consequences for those who overuse them.

This is bad.

Very exciting JMP on teacher value added — beyond test scores and into socio-emotional value added.

🚀 I’m excited to share that I’m on the #EconSky job market this year! In my #EconJMP, I study how teachers in Finnish upper secondary schools impact students’ socio-emotional skills – and the labor market returns of these effects! (🧵, 1/N)

just a perfect paper, yet again with the power of scandinavian register data www.nber.org/papers/w34346

Can't believe someone a) had the data to write this paper b) wrote this paper www.nber.org/papers/w3434...

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

Wenn der Faschismus wiederkehrt, wird er offenbar sagen: Ich bin der Faschismus. Aber Konservative werden sagen: Jetzt übertreibt aber nicht.

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Enforcing a single language without supporting bilingualism risks fragmenting the very markets such policies aim to unify. Economic gains arise not from linguistic uniformity, but from enabling shared fluency. T Gurevitch, P Herman, @yotoyotov.bsky.social‬, F Toubal cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

See, the reason this wouldn't work is that people go to Wikipedia to know more about things instead of less.

Some fun with fuel economy. The fuel cost of driving a given distance has rarely been cheaper relative to wages, thanks in part to higher fuel economy standards.

#econsky What do we know about “Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation” and about MIT's investigation of this paper, which apparently led to expulsion of its author? And what should we change in response. /1

Redistribution or govt spending don’t make equality, unionization does

Mit Kaja Kallas aus Estland hat Europa eine der stärksten und überzeugendsten Politiker*innen: standhaft, klar, eindeutig, solidarisch. Mit Martin Sonneborn hat Europa einen der dümmsten und niederträchtigsten Menschen: der Kremlknecht ist ein übler Sexist und Mansplainer.

people on the other site are doing "is living in denmark better than living in the us" discourse based on that one paper about wealth and mortality and all reasonable interpretations aside, if your metric of wellbeing says that living in mississippi is better than denmark then it's a stupid metric

I still can’t figure out when “we can deport you” turned into “we can put you in a hell hole prison in a third country, indefinitely, with no legal recourse.”

American civil society is full of abject cowards, that is the issue. The government is a mafia state but it is winning because most American elite institutions are devoid of anything resembling integrity and are folding rather than stand on principles that were little more than marketing.

If you are visiting the United States, having a negative view of Trump is enough to get you denied entry. If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression.

So on March 9, a French scientist, on a visa to attend a conference in Houston, was denied entry to the US and subsequently expelled because his phone had messages decrying scientific policies put forward by the Trump administration: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

After being alerted about possible misconduct, the I4R are reproducing published papers that use data from a specific NGO (GDRI). This thread releases the first 2 reports and provides more information about the work and responses/statements from authors journals and journals. 🧵

why are you making me watch a video

Das ist direkt wie aus 1984. Die Geschichte wird umgeschrieben während sie passiert. Der X-Account des Terroristen von #Magdeburg wurde wohl von #X selber „gereinigt“. Elon #Musk und X sind gefährlich, und wir sollten in Deutschland endlich aufwachen und diesem Anti-Demokraten etwas entgegensetzen!

For my fellow Scandinavian readers: @weekendavisen.dk just published an article based on my latest working paper "Dating and Breaking up With the Boss: Economic Benefits, Costs, and Spillovers", coauthored with @emilynix100.bsky.social and David MacDonald! www.weekendavisen.dk/2024-49/idee...

Taxing the rich has nearly no impact on business, mainly because the rich do not move. www.nber.org/papers/w32153