Lunch at #AEFP2026 with not one, not two, but THREE of my star former students! @jo-r-king.bsky.social @emmajlag.bsky.social & Brittany Lowe Truly an honor to play a small role in their journeys to becoming stellar researchers & wonderful humans 🥹

Using the Earned Income Tax Credit to study how an influx of cash affects food expenditure patterns of eligible households, from @emmajlag.bsky.social‬, Leslie McGranahan, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach https://www.nber.org/papers/w34007

Oh hi, @emmajlag.bsky.social! My former advisee with her first NBER working paper 😍

I think being a first year is just learning the envelope theorem and forgetting the envelope theorem and learning the envelope theorem and forgetting the envelope theorem and so on

At a time when many social-media sites have abandoned their safeguards against mis- and disinformation, Wikipedia is a bastion of transparency and accessible knowledge. So maybe it should come as no surprise that Elon Musk has been attacking it.

First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year. “'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'" Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

"America has no king" seems like a good theme to rally around

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

FANTASTIC ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?) You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

The richest man in the world declares that the national government no longer has a Department of Education as elected officials are blocked from finding out what is going on. Factual descriptions of American government right now sound positively dystopian

I’ll say this, we need to protect Wikipedia at all costs&try to help other entities not owned by billionaires (Onion/Propublica etc),try to buy up/expand as much as they can.Boycotting isn’t enough.

More & more people seem to be getting on here (yay!), so here’s a reminder that I have 2 starter packs of awesome women & nonbinary economists. Give them a follow! go.bsky.app/LqBPkQZ

Have been on Bluesky quite a bit the last two days (for info & resources) & it’s not social media that’s broken. I think it’s us that’s broken now. I’ll post about places ppl can donate because LA is in bad shape & my replies are full of “ummmm sounds like somebody’s never heard of Pompeii.”

Calling her "clairvoyant" and the like is just another iteration of the "magical negro" trope. She paid attention and wrote about issues that wealthy white folks didn't want to see.

“To turn off, go to Settings > Apps > Photos on iOS and turn off Enhanced Visual Search. On Mac, open Photos and go to Settings > General to do the same. You must do it on each of your Apple devices.”

My new coauthor is incredibly lazy :/

IYKYK shoutout to the 30 tourists who begrudgingly moved out of the way of the shot. @emmajlag.bsky.social @danebrink.bsky.social @robertskaplan.bsky.social

Here are the first five sets of slides: 01 Introduction: psantanna.com/DiD/01_Intro... 02 Classical 2x2 setup: psantanna.com/DiD/02_two_b... 03 Clustering issues: psantanna.com/DiD/03_Clust... 04 Functional form: psantanna.com/DiD/04_Funct... 05 Covariates: psantanna.com/DiD/05_Covar...

I got this book for myself as an amateur map enthusiast and I loved it! It’s an overview of various related topics (including econ, excitingly) but it’s not too high-level; Dr. Rowińska does a terrific job explaining the more complicated concepts and I learned quite a bit. Highly recommend!

“Women are asked more questions during a seminar and the questions asked of women presenters are more likely to be patronizing or hostile. These effects are not due to women presenting in different fields, different seminar series, or different topics…” www.nber.org/papers/w28494

If universities want to retain female faculty they need to deal with the people who create hostile workplaces. That means actually dealing with sexual harassers, assholes, bullies, and every else who scores high on the dark triad. If not, you will lose your best people over and over again.

“It’s ten o’clock somewhere” I whisper, going to bed at seven

I love a good graph. Always send me good graphs if you see one.

Studying so much for my micro theory final that I’m seeing Lagrange multipliers in the wild

The U.S. needs more walkable neighborhoods. See where yours ranks. Apparently we're relatively rare middle-age folks for choosing walkability over space. I have no regrets. Gift link: wapo.st/41lOtkO

First time talking to a reporter about my research ✅ Thanks so much to Lexi Lonas Cochran for the coverage, and to my coauthor @riacton.bsky.social for passing this one off to me to talk about our work with Kalena Cortes and Camila Morales 😊 thehill.com/homenews/edu...

At what point/level of song nicheness do I just assume I was the top listener?

Getting a PhD in education in a country that wants to eliminate the Department of Education. Great timing on my part! (also- keep in mind that it is meaningful to the other half of society at least)

I am getting my PhD in economics. Given what happened in the last US election, I worry that even if I finish my PhD, it won’t mean much to half of society, because that half thinks they know more about the economy than economists. Anyone else feeling this way? #PhDsky #academicsky

College closures have been in the news lately, and especially in the greater Philly area. @dougwebberecon.bsky.social and @robertkelchen.com and I have been working on improving on existing methods for predicting closures — and financial distress more generally — in higher ed. Check out the paper!

Did anyone else notice that @danebrink.bsky.social strategically chose his profile picture to make it look like he’s looking at the elephants? 🤔

@emmajlag.bsky.social It's a pleasure and an honor to share a cohort with so many outstanding peers and a post with so many hyphens ❤️🫡

Welcome, my lovely cohort-mates @robertskaplan.bsky.social and @kcalbright.bsky.social, to Bluesky! Soon we’ll have to make a starter pack for everyone’s favorite woman-majority first-year cohort

Attending #APPAM2024 this week? Looking for sessions to attend tomorrow and Saturday morning? Look no further than this thread! Come check out our panel on policies and programs for students with disabilities tomorrow (11/21) at 10:15am in Chesapeake 7. appam.confex.com/appam/2024/m...

Hello BlueSky 🙋🏽‍♀️ We are The Sadie Collective, and we're working to forge pathways to success and foster inclusive excellence in #economics, #finance, #policy, and #datascience. Give us a follow to stay updated on our work, our wins, and ways to get involved with our community 💟

#econsky #econjmp #econ #jmp I am on the #econjobmarket this year! My JMP focuses specifically on second-generation migrant girls. How does education policy impact them as they grow up in a highly egalitarian society, yet within families that have migrated from more gender-traditional origins? 🧵👇

Going to a seminar as a first year and realizing that people actually use the stuff you’re learning about

Okay, I really mean it this time.

Okay, the first Women in Econ starter pack was such a success that we quickly hit the BlueSky starter pack limit (150 accounts). But, I've got a version 2.0 with even more awesome economists you should follow! go.bsky.app/J6nhkk7

I’ve made a Women in Econ starter pack (s/o @vinisingh.bsky.social for sparking the idea!). Share, follow, and comment below if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/LqBPkQZ

Hi #EconSky and #EdSky (if that’s a thing) I’m re-applying to PhD programs this year and am wondering how everyone who did not get perfect GRE scores coped with the anxiety (advice from people who got perfect GRE scores are welcome too!) (pic from the hell site related)

Been waiting for this one! So well deserved. 👏

Running around the office telling everyone to look at my pretty map when I complete one (1) mildly difficult task in ArcGIS.

JOB ALERT! 📈📉 My department is hiring an AP in public, enviro, and/or IO. Miami is an awesome place to work. True research/teaching/life balance. Great colleagues & students. Affordable COL in either a charming college town or nearby Cincinnati. Apply & share! www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

Sounds like folks are worried about losing data access during a possible government shutdown, so I quickly whipped up this Education Data Portal with all the major datasets on schools, districts, and colleges: educationdata.urban.org/documentation/

Either the other site needs to stay alive or #EconSky needs to start playing Knotwords because I only saw one post here about today’s issue (vs like 20 on the other one).

As someone who’s been on the other side of that teaching, I can attest to Riley also being a wonderful advisor!