The market will be tough this year. For our senior position, we had about 50% more applications than last year. While the number is still not massive (two digits), the quality of the shortlist is impressive (and I am glad not to be on the market!)

New data on the #EconJobMarket as of Nov 2. Based on total # of job listings on JOE, this year continues to be even weaker (by 11%) than during COVID (2020). 1/many #EconSky

Life expectancy has increased at all ages

I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it. The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!

Our paper on fertility timing and women's earnings is now out in the Journal of Family Research (with replication file!) 👇 Short summary in the thread below: 1/8

Our paper on fertility timing and women's earnings is now out in the Journal of Family Research (with replication file!) 👇 Short summary in the thread below: 1/8

Once more for the people in the back: you cannot ask people to pay many £1000s upfront for the *privilege* of *temporarily* coming to work and pay taxes in this country, give them nothing particularly unique in return, and expect that to be a sustainable situation.

When I bring up the fact that most replications are uninformative and unjustifiable by design, hence we should instead do better research, I always get the same argument back and I'd like to think through this reasoning carefully. It goes like this:

"I see you're trying to conduct a war. Can I help you with that?"

We are thrilled to welcome Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee as the new Lemann Foundation Professors to our department, beginning in the summer of 2026.

When applying for a job at (full) professor level, what would a "job market paper" mean, as a component of the application? The term makes more sense for an entry-level position, when a newly-minted PhD (or ABD student) only has unpublished papers. For prof job, just give them published articles?

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou (uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??) 🧵

If anybody (in the UK) would like a signed and personalised first edition Everything Will Swallow hardback for cover price plus p&p, please drop me an email at [email protected]. My mum, Jo, has very kindly designed, printed and cut some beautiful bookmarks to go with each purchase (for free).

This is pretty shocking to hear for a well-regarded journal

Have you ever wondered what the Hall would look like just lit by candles? Wonder no more. Happy Sunday!

We're hiring a Full Professor of Economics - below you can now see the ad on our website! @univdauphine.bsky.social leda.dauphine.fr/fr/recruteme...

Please note this link is initially free to read but will lead you inexorably to a pay wall, behind which you can interact with eager content creators who will respond to your demands* in exchange for £££££ *for detailed financial analysis and contextualised reporting

If someone were interested in getting an intro of drug pricing and drug pricing policy in the US, what books or articles would you recommend? Thanks! #HealthPolicy

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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

I’m excited to share our new publication in @readdemography.bsky.social 🥳 written w/ @angelacar.bsky.social, J. Caputo, L. Ahrenfeldt, @annaoksuzyan.bsky.social 👉 Read the full paper here lnkd.in/enf3Duvg @sociologytiu.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social www.tilburguniversity.edu/current/pres...

tbt the time a drunk was trying to insult one of the bouncers on the high street and got the devastating response "oh look, someone who doesn't matter has said something that isn't true". I often think about this when not replying to tweets

I am begging journalists to stop just repeating the phrase "pull factor" when it comes to a system which provides less than £50 a week to survive on, at best, per week, and denies people the right to work, among other things. The UK asylum system is not a "pull factor" by any measure.

Not only is RFKjr spreading disinformation about vaccines, infection & health but advertising for flu/covid vaccines and support for clinical teams to address questions re vaccines is not happening either. ie disproportionately negative vaccine messages dominate which likely will reduce uptake

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

Thread (will horrify researchers)

I hand over an invisible ‘Tree Of The Day’ award to the most charismatic tree I see on each of my walks. Here are just a few past winners of this esteemed but still largely unknown prize.

NEW DATA! Harmonised fertility histories of four British cohorts – born in 1946, 1958, 1970 and 1989-90 – are now available for the scientific community to download from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social Find out more on the CLS website – bit.ly/42CN0qr

We've all been there... 🫂

There seems to be some *confusion* among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them “But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes” “But, but he was in UKIP” “But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy” So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵 1/14

Just discovered what is possibly the greatest headline of all time: "McDonald’s fries the holy grail for potato farmers"

twenty five years ago today, on September 25, 2000, the United States men's basketball team was playing France in the Sydney Olympics with sixteen minutes left in the second half and the USA up 69-54, Vince Carter stole the ball between him and the rim was 7'2" Frederic Weis then he did this

This could change my practice. There are risks of overdiagnosis from breast screening but this looks like clear evidence of benefit.

“Healthcare personnel often do not realize that in the U.S., HPV-related mortality far surpasses the mortality from tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis & meningococcal disease combined. Each year, about 4,000 deaths are the result of cervical cancer; most are preventable through pre-exposure vaccination”

Isaac Chotiner interviews Cass Sunstein. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

23 September 1943, Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto is executed by German paratroopers at Torre di Palidoro, near Rome. He falsely confesses responsibility for an explosion that kills two Germans to save the lives of 22 innocent civilians rounded up for execution in reprisal [Thread] >> 1

Oh man this is cool

After all the rain we have had over the last few days it's not surprising that the River Ouse in York has flooded (a little bit). A similar soggy outcome happened nearly 10 years ago but with a far more serious outcome for the Hall. Join us as we tell you about the 2015 Boxing Day floods.

Restricting H1-Bs and tariffing solar panels are, in particular, so comically stupid that when you hear them you should find an economist to give a hug.

Good morning. Immigration is good. Trade is good. There are nuances but they are narrow enough that free and open movement of people and goods should be the default.

Has anyone liked or disliked any particular training resources for machine learning in Stata? Courses, videos... If not in Stata, then in Python or R but pitched towards people trained in econometrics?

I wrote about the most frightening and dangerous trend in Britain www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...

Wise words. If you are not excited about your papers, why are you writing them?

We're hiring a Full Professor of Economics - below you can now see the ad on our website! @univdauphine.bsky.social leda.dauphine.fr/fr/recruteme...

I will post the link to the econjobmarket ad once it is up, in the meantime you can see the ad on my LinkedIn!

I tried to make a turducken joke here but ended up arguing with chatgpt instead.