10% of me believes that the AI hype is stoked by cloud provider firms, who are just making a killing on data centers.

Has the call for Economics of Education NBER conference gone out? CC @joshua-goodman.com @imbernomics.bsky.social

I have documented opinions that show this is the case - one reason why PSEO is so powerful.

While the de minimus exemption causes lots of people to realize how tariffs are impacting them directly, I am reminded of the long literature on the different effects of *where* taxes are collected and how that impacts their salience. Should be fun to read the papers in a few years on this topic.

A really cool paper, with lots more to come on the claims front.

My daughter started at a new school and has had a tough time fitting in. I learned yesterday that she joined a "recess club" of girls who kill lantern flies and dismember them, bringing their wings to science class as trophies.

If you love LEHD data products, and want to learn more about how LODES is created, our technical documentation finally got posted! www2.census.gov/library/work...

I have a new paper that links PSEO data to business formation data at the individual level, but cannot come up with a paper title for the life of me. Does anyone have a punchy paper title idea? @joshua-goodman.com ?

This article is written like my kids don't wake up at 5:30am every morning ready to attack the day, despite whenever they go to sleep.

I have spent months hyping my kids up about the upcoming Fort Dupont Ice Arena opening just 5 minutes from me - my son loves hockey and my daughter just loves skating. Thanks to negligence from SMOOT contractors, it looks like we have to wait much longer: fdia.org/official-sta...

Incredibly helpful explainer.

10/10 parody. No notes.

Hang this picture in the Louvre

waking up every day looking at the Samuelson Condition like

The meme potential is endless here.

I know this is the smallest thing, but can we require CRs to end at the end of a pay period?

Just finished the podcast series Scam Inc. from the @economist.com I learned a lot of things, including the "securitization of scam targets." I also learned that crypto makes these crimes very easy.

I predict another wave of "housing lock" papers in the next 5 years. Maybe my least favorite paper (which was also my JMP) will get cited on accident.

Going on a ski weekend in your late 30s with your friends means packing the equal amounts of beer and NA beer.

Getting a PhD should require at least one project management course. Just like a three hour course. Learning on the fly is not the best.

In 2013, JI Packer published what would be one of his final books, called "Weakness is the Way." I think about that book a lot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=seBs...

Open call for papers: Measurement of Housing and the Housing Sector — CRIW/NBER Conference, Washington, DC — March 12–13, 2026. Full details and submission link available: https://www.nber.org/calls-papers-and-proposals/measurement-housing-and-housing-sector-criwnber-conference

You know you have gone full boar into government middle management when you get excited about a new Office 365 product that you discovered.

Its so cold that this morning, I ran and my balaclava started freezing around my head. By the time I finished my run it was covered in a thin layer of ice.

🚨🚨New Census Data Alert: Veteran Employment Outcomes just dropped🚨🚨 This morning, LEHD and Census released new data on earnings and employment outcomes on veterans from all the branches of the Armed Services. lehd.ces.census.gov/data/veo_exp...

Given the sudden interest in data center investment, it is worth re-upping this story about where data centers are, and who works there, and how important they are to the local economies.

How can you learn about employment in very specific industries? Use Quarterly Workforce Indicators! This America Counts story shows how: www.census.gov/library/stor...

Trickle down economics is when wealthy people who live in DC buy stuff, don't use it, and then sell it on FB Marketplace for 50% off.

The US Dept of Ed is looking to hire an Economist as a career position at the GS-13 level. The deadline is in 3 days! Could be a great opportunity (and happy to tell you more from my time interacting with that team). www.usajobs.gov/job/825004800

Everyone at stats panel: "What if generative AI could fix our problem with X in the statistical system." Me: "Gemini can't even tell me how to graph properly in SAS. I have low hopes."

Exciting grant opportunity for econ of ed researchers! The Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes Coalition is awarding 5+ $15k grants to use the PSEO data. See here for more details. Deadline Jan 13! docs.google.com/document/d/1... Note: This is not affiliated with the US Census Bureau (1/2)

My paper with Devesh Raval is now out at Marketing Science! We find that when the FTC redesigned its complaint website: -Complaints increased by 40%, -included more useful and detailed information -increased most for older consumers and those with less tech savvy

🚨🚨Exciting News for All Education Researchers🚨🚨 The PSEO data are now available for request in the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers!!!! www.researchdatagov.org/search?q=PSEO

🗽🗽American to American in the Champions League. Ranch dressing for everyone.

This story is nuts. It puts every hard-core sports parent to shame. Maybe...youth sports were a bad idea? One quote: "Every time I vomit or cry, it brings me good luck."

In celebration of the Second Spirit Week of the semester at my daughter's elementary school, I would like to re-up my platform for elected office: banning spirit weeks until High School. Its only work for parents. It undermines the whole idea of uniforms. Its distracting.

Taken Liam Neeson

The Center for Economic Studies at the Census Bureau has a broad portfolio of research topics. We now have a new tool for exploring that portfolio Search our over 35 years of working papers by authors, organizations/datasets, and keywords lehd.ces.census.gov/applications...

Massive away win for the little fella.

Today, we released our first Quarterly Workforce Indicator Highlights! content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USC...

One could imagine a data tool that flagged schools for possible students as they consider where to send their money for 4 years.

You die young, or you live long enough to understand and empathize with all of Michael Scott's comments about being a manager.

The problem with the publishing industry's margins is definitely that people these days really love reading books. That is definitely the problem. Right?

Now that it is JM season, let me urge JMCs not show regression results as a giant table. Make it a bar chart! Make it lines! Anything but giant numbers to hypnotize your audience. That is bad! I cannot emphasize how quickly I zone out when faced with a large table 50 minutes into a job talk.

Can we rebrand the FAFSA tracker "FAFSA-MANIA" now?

Ah yes, the time of year where every JMP is posted and I constantly wonder how I ever got a job because everyone younger than me is more tech'd up and smarter. My JMP took the CPS, used the migration question, and did something vaguely like a continuous DiD on house price changes.

Does anyone know when AEFP decisions go out?

Lots of new people, so I am going to bump this post again - if you want a quarterly email about all the great stuff happening at CES, this is the list for you.