Looking forward to this discussion on the History of Thought on Economic Inequality today - around the superb books by @brankomilan.bsky.social and @laywilliams.bsky.social ! Register below.

How does employer access to prisoners’ labor through work release impact the well-being of those workers & of free workers? New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL #EconSky papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Super excited for this @stoneeconucl.bsky.social event next Tuesday! With @brankomilan.bsky.social, @johncassidysays.bsky.social, @undercoverhist.bsky.social, @annastansbury.bsky.social. On-line and open registration.

Econ RA with @annastansbury.bsky.social at MIT! careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

Since we're hiring off-cycle, we're aware typical dissemination channels might be less effective... please do share with anyone you think might be interested #EconSky

📢Nina Roussille and I are hiring a full-time predoctoral researcher to work with us at MIT on labor economics research projects. IMPORTANT: this vacancy is open right now, so we are particularly interested in people who could start soon. Link to apply: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Raw median earnings gaps can be found for nearly all programs (w large enough N) by gender at collegescorecard.ed.gov. Some states have disaggregations by race and sex, eg equity.postsecondaryvalue.org/ut-system#top

Are there papers estimating gender and/or racial wage gaps for people from the same college and major? i.e. went to same college and studied same subject (say: U Michigan Computer Science). Any country.

Excited about a forthcoming roundtable on my book and @brankomilan.bsky.social's this fall (November 4) at @stoneeconucl.bsky.social. Discussants include @johncassidysays.bsky.social, @annastansbury.bsky.social, Helen Thompson, and Beatrice Cherrier. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dgv3e...

In the final episode of Season 8 of The We Society, @officialedballs.bsky.social‬, @annastansbury.bsky.social and @dtturner.bsky.social join Will Hutton to discuss their research into regional inequalities in the UK and what we can learn from ‘Bidenomics’. 🎙️ media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/solv...

The final episode of season 8 of the @acadsocsciences.bsky.social We Society podcast 🎙️, sees @officialedballs.bsky.social, @annastansbury.bsky.social ‬and @dtturner.bsky.social discuss the worsening regional disparities in productivity, income, and overall economic performance within the UK.

Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social) has an interesting new Substack blog that echoes the trendy pundit finding that unemployment rates for new college grads are at record highs relative to the overall employment rate. open.substack.com/pub/derektho...

tomorrow! register below

Looking forward to presenting my Class Gap work at the RNIM Online Seminar on Zoom this Friday! Anyone can register to attend here: sites.google.com/view/rnim-se...

Virtual registration is still open for the "Minimum Wages & Monopsony Power" conference! Featuring an all-star lineup of labor economists, this one-day event also honors career of Dr. Michael Reich. 📅 June 6, 2025 | 8am - 5pm 🔗 Register today: irle.berkeley.edu/events/minim...

Here’s a Harvard student with more courage than the University President www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... via @annaekstrom.bsky.social

"Suri was teaching a course and attending Georgetown as a postdoctoral fellow". His wife is a US citizen. They have three young children. The US has embarked on a campaign of terror, particularly focused on educated people who are "other" than us. Disgusting. www.npr.org/2025/03/21/n...

USTR: "The elasticity of import prices with respect to tariffs, φ, is 0.25. The recent experience with U.S. tariffs on China has demonstrated that tariff passthrough to retail prices was low (Cavallo et al, 2021)." Cavallo et al: φ is 0.945. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Across the pond, an exciting new voice on policy for productivity growth and progress!

We're looking for an Assistant Professor to join the new Bennett School of Public Policy in September 2025, to play a leading role in the running & teaching of our M.Phil in Public Policy and PhD programme, & to also conduct original research. Apply by 27 April 2025: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50808/

#EconSky: Favorite empirical papers on firms' objective function and whether firms optimize? I'm specifically interested in the concept that firms may only re-optimize (e.g. pricing) infrequently, once they get hit by a shock. Whether because of inertia or adjustment costs.

One fact that always surprises my students: It's not become more common for people to have multiple jobs in recent years Counter to: "people need to work more jobs just to make ends meet" popular conception. The % of people who work a full time job plus additional jobs has been stable for decades

RIP #FESAC The Fed. Economic #Statistics Advisory Committee has been axed by the Commerce Sec. Since 2000, FESAC’s unpaid top academic & private experts have advised #Census, #BLS & #BEA on their key #economicindicators. Why: "mission fulfilled" HUH? #inflation #GDP #jobs #econsky #productivity

"Construction labor" often is treated as a factor of production, not as *people* doing physically & economically risky work, often w/o benefits. Years ago I did a thread on the bird site of construction worker job site fatalities for 6+ months. It didn't generate much engagement. Gonna try it here 👇

#EconConf #EconSky It's that time again. Papers by researchers with and without NBER affiliations, by early career scholars, and by researchers from under-represented groups, are welcome. conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

Folks I would like to crowd source something: what do you think is a good example of federal evaluation work that saved taxpayer money and led to a better operated/structured/informed program? Need a strong example or two for a quick piece I am writing.

Tomorrow the US Administration imposes the heaviest taxes since the 1930s on Americans who buy imports. In this new brief from @ucsandiego.bsky.social, leading economists Evenett & Muendler estimate the harm to US workers in all 50 states—> econweb.ucsd.edu/muendler/dow... | cc @piie.com

Thanks for having me on the podcast!

I am hiring a predoc at MIT to start this summer! We will work on various topics in labor economics - unions, minimum wages, imperfect competition, etc. Please apply and share ! #predoc @mitiwer.bsky.social #EconSky apply.interfolio.com/163492

Former Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on here! Welcome, @ericagroshen.bsky.social! If you care about workers, employers, jobs, and the federal statistical system, an essential follow.

This is really powerful! It's like FRED but built up in many cases from on-demand computation from micro-data. For instance, making this before today would require accessing the CPS microdata and coding up the summary yourself.

We just released an enormous trove of US labor market data, all compiled from government surveys, now under threat The @epi.org State of Working America Data Library provides comprehensive data on the US jobs and wages, with detailed cuts by demographics, over time and across states data.epi.org

I just found out that @epi.org has updated and modernized its invaluable archive of State of Working America data and tabulations. Check it out! data.epi.org HT: @benzipperer.org

I am hearing that PEPFAR programs are still being stalled, and medication appointments cancelled, despite a waiver in place to allow life-saving programs to continue. Thus, @belindaarch.bsky.social and I are sharing the letter we wrote, signed by 110 economists, urging its continuation. 1/4

I did not think I could love @ipums.bsky.social more!

The econ job market seems rough this season, so this is an extra fabulous opportunity work with my friend @gabriellepepin.bsky.social! If the work isn’t enticing enough, let me tell you that when we shared an office, she was the best at bringing in treats to share 🍪

Never dreamed that being friends and colleagues w tons of data nerds would be an asset in the war for democracy

Hearing another Census data purge is coming Prioritize downloads of anything IPUMS does not have They are targeting anything with race and sex

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Just had our data access rescinded for a projected using federal microdata to study and reduce disparate impact in housing markets.

PIIESky continues to grow! Follow our experts: bsky.app/starter-pack...

Are you an early career education researcher? Have you earned your PhD since April 1, 2017? IES has a grant for up to $600K for developing your research, including working closely with a mentor You need to be tenure track at an R1 or R2 Due March 1 ies.ed.gov/funding/pdf/...

Deadlines for two funding opportunities are fast approaching. First, the deadline to apply for our 2025 Early Career Research Awards is this Sunday, January 19. www.upjohn.org/grant-opport... (1/2) #econsky #ECRA

#FundSocSci #EconSky

#FundSocSci #EconSky #Sociology #PolicySky #PoliSky #EduSky

#Econsky #AcademicSky are there any folks who use prolific on here?

#EconSky: Can you recommend papers on the idea that *higher inflation enables firms to raise prices by more because they get "cover"* - consumers confused about relative prices - everyone increasing so individual increases aren't noticed as much --> effective price elasticity of demand falls?

✨GOOD NEWS ALERT✨ A young Black woman from the University of Minnesota, Salma Abdi, just won THE TOP PRIZE for college students studying #economics. This is a big deal because Black women don't even make up 1% of economics #phd graduates. She is a member of @sadiecollective.bsky.social 💜 #econsky