How do you call a four alarm fire stack over several three alarm ones, a few two alarm ones and a tank or kerosene?

University online instruction sucks, but more so for women, widening performance gender gaps. Awesome new field experiment by Backes-Gellner, Shan and @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social !!

Not balanced in your (quasi-)experiment? No idea why? No problem! Looking forward to presenting this joint work with @adegendre.bsky.social tomorrow at UWA Econ in Perth. Drop by if you have the chance!

Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called: "How to Write a Title and Abstract" Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles. #EconSky #AcademicSky

Once again, Australian election results prove how awful choropleth maps are for data visualisation. "Land doesn't vote, people do." #rstats code to reproduce animation here: github.com/emitanaka/oz...

🚨 Just published in the Annual Review of Economics: 👉 Skills and Earnings: A Multidimensional Perspective on Human Capital 👈 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... My review of what we know so far about the role of multidimensional skills for earnings @annualreviews.bsky.social 1/9

Very excited to present my work with @chriskarbownik.bsky.social @nsalamanca.bsky.social @yveszenou.bsky.social on the integration of minority children in the classroom using data from Taiwan at @crestumr.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social on Wednesday April 30 🔗 adegendre.github.io/papers/CEPR%...

The key chart right now: Usually US economic pain is cushioned by falling bond yields and a strengthening dollar, which mean lower interest rates and more spending power for consumers. This time we’re seeing the opposite, meaning the pain will be amplified.

The third-worlding of America How to destroy 80 years of credibility in less than 3 months (Paul Krugman) paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-third-...

I know this will surprise folks who bought cars based on promises they'll be self-driving "next year," but he's now admitting that DOGE will only deliver on 7.5% of the promised $2,000b, and even that is only coming "next year." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

Biggest mistakes I'm seeing in early reporting (thread): 1. Tariffmageddon isn't over: Lotsa tariffs to account for, but the average tariff rate is only down around one quarter. So most of the pain of Liberation Day is still with us.

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!

Very interesting interview with @sendhil.bsky.social on AI. Fresh perspective on several topics, including value of AI in education. youtu.be/z_svj3NP968

There isn’t much like ending the week with an R&R !!!! 🥂🤩🥳🥂🤩🥳

Another R&R with @nsalamanca.bsky.social @econfeld.bsky.social and @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social What a week!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

Now heading to UNSW for ESCoE conference to present « Same-sex teacher effects in education » with @econfeld.bsky.social @nsalamanca.bsky.social @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social — paper here 👉🏽 adegendre.github.io/papers/deGen... — we even made a website with interactive effects ! www.role-model-effects.com

Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it www.nber.org/system/files...

I'm thrilled to see this site building a serious community of researchers, writers and policymakers focused on education policy and economics. Below are links to 3 Starter Packs I've made to help you connect with such folks. Please let me know if I've missed you. The volume of requests has been 😮

New WP w/ @adegendre.bsky.social, @nsalamanca.bsky.social, Zenou: www.nber.org/papers/w3242.... Using random assignment to classrooms, we show that exposure to minority peers ⬇️ student effort, parental investments, & teacher engagement & results in ⬇️ test scores. Check out our new model too.

So happy and excited to release this WP with @econfeld.bsky.social @nsalamanca.bsky.social and @superstudy.bsky.social ! Full thread on paper here 👇🏽

Are teachers *generally* better at teaching students of their own sex?   NO in primary education, YES in secondary education.   A 🧵 generalizability and same-sex teacher effects www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/23...

‪New work with awesome coauthors @adegendre.bsky.social , @econfeld.bsky.social and @superstudy.bsky.social exploring the generalizability of same-sex teacher effects by combining existing multi-country data and met analysis tools. Check out the thread below! ‬

Our work with @adegendre.bsky.social , @chriskarbownik.bsky.social and Yves Zenou combines a simple model and awesome data to show how and why disadvantaged minorities in the classroom to affect behaviors of students, parents and teachers, and ultimately test scores. Check it out!

Great work from a great team!!! Congratulations! Very well deserved

This is very good advice! When you need it, use the slack. There’s lots of it around our lives and that’s what is there for.

I am very very happy to see this paper by @econfeld.bsky.social out! Writing does matter, in quantifiable and important ways. We should all invest more in learning how to do it better.

Hi #EconSky my friend and coauthor @econfeld.bsky.social is on Bsky! Follow him for content on economics of education, personality traits, academic writing, meta-science and many other cool stuff!

"Two wheelers like e-bikes and electric mopeds] are actually displacing four times as much demand for oil as all the world’s electric cars at present, due to their staggering uptake in China and other nations where mopeds are a common form of transport" theconversation.com/the-worlds-2...

Not sure I have the bandwidth to learn another social media platform, but here goes...my first post here:) Excited to share a new paper: 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐩 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐬𝐬: 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐬, 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 w/ Dave Macdonald & Jerry Montonen. Abstract pictured below!

We have a new working paper: “The (Un)importance of School Assignment”. 1/9 www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wuizq...

Re the IZA situation, you'll likely see a letter publicized soon, written initially by others with an even clearer sense of what's going on. I will be a signatory to that letter.

We have another new DP out now! de Gendre, Feld and Salamanca replicate, test robustness, and test using different data Hanushek et al.'s (2021) 'Patience, Risk-Taking, and Human Capital Investment Across Countries' https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/zbwi4rdps/48.htm

In favor of a ceasefire: Democratic voters 80% House Democrats 8% Republican voters 56% House Republicans 0% All voters 66% All House members 4% Chart by @stephensemler.bsky.social

This is one of the features I LOVED of EconTwitter, so glad people have imported to BlueSkye! ❤️🥰 Econ Job Market season is the best time of the year to discover what PhD Candidates are studying and how they do it! 🤩

Reminder #econsky We at CREST-ENSAE-Polytechnique are hiring we have several positions at assistant/associate level, any field econjobmarket.org/positions/9867 Deadline for applications is next Wednesday, Nov 15

Oh man, I yanked this 11/24. Much harder than it seems at first!

An underrated benefit of being a professor is that you get paid to continuously LEARN stuff 🥰

🎉 Attend the inaugural Monash HELP (Health/Ed/Labor/Public) Workshop, Dec 11 & 12 in Melbourne! Program: stefaniejfischer.github.io/assets/docs/... Details: stefaniejfischer.github.io/assets/docs/... Register by Nov 24 (conditional on space): events.humanitix.com/monash-help-...

✨Join Monash Econ as a postdoc! careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... Deadline Nov. 23 Come work w/ faculty (labour/public/macro/IO/enviro/health) on policy-relevant projects using newly available linked Australian admin micro data. @ClaudioLaba @M_Gravoueille @corey_d_white @KMajlesi

🚨Hey #EconSky📉📈! We’re looking for a new Director at the Melbourne Institute!! 🚨 Fantastic position for a senior researcher to make an impact through evidence-based policy at a large scale. Check out the job posting below: jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91445...

This is very very good news! And a lesson for all those programs that want to increase labor force participation in disability support recipients. It’s often a constraints, not incentives!

The positive externalities of WFH www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Welcome!!

This chart gives an overview of 3.4 million years of accelerating technological change. → We live at a time when the world can change dramatically within our lifetime. From my article on the history and future of technology: ourworldindata.org/technology-l...

New economics reproducibility project is seeking collaborators to conduct reproduction and robustness tests of published development economics findings. Contributors earn 2500 euros and co-authorship on the overall project paper. Details: www.rwi-essen.de/fileadmin/us...

"The Economics Profession's Socioeconomic Diversity Problem" w/ Robert Schultz is now out in the JEP Here's the paper: pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/... and the Twitter thread from Mar 2022 (aka before I was on Bsky - sorry!) twitter.com/annastansbur...

🚨Volume 7 is out! Handbook of the Economics of Education Edited w/ Rick Hanushek & Steve Machin Great overview chapters on cutting-edge topics in the economics of education by top scholars Have a look! 👉https://www.sciencedirect.com/handbook/handbook-of-the-economics-of-education/vol/7 1/7

One of the most striking charts from our paper imo is this one: The vast majority of Economics PhDs at top-ranked programs have a parent with a *graduate* degree - particularly among the American students. That is, we are drawing from an extremely narrow socioeconomic pool.