Trump’s first BLS Commissioner, Bill Beach, calls today’s firing groundless and dangerous. www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...

What to make of POTUS's attempt to fire the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)? Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...

With government statistics, it's pretty simple. If you liked the February, March, and April numbers, then you have to accept all the next ones, too. They are produced in the exact same way, it's what the computer spits out, based on the inputs provided. You do not get to cherry pick your stats.

5/ 📅July 23 ⏰2pm: "Are Hospital Acquisitions of Physician Practices Anticompetitive?" ft #EGgrantee(s) Zack Cooper @stuartcraig.bsky.social @proffionasm.bsky.social 📅July 24 ⏰9am: "Clause and Effect: Theory & Field Experimental Evidence on Noncompete Clauses" ft Bo Cowgill & @evanpstarr.bsky.social

Rest in peace, Ed Leamer

🚀 Exciting Opportunity! 🚀 #AI keeps me up at night. What will happen to work & workers? 🤔 I'm partnering with Schmidt Sciences to offer up to $200,000 in funding for early-career researchers! 💡 🗓️ Apply by March 31 2025 🙏 spread the word! 🔗 Learn more & apply schmidtsciences.org/ai-at-work #EconSky

Big news in labor #antitrust! The US Department of Justice antitrust division & the FTC release new guidelines on business practices affecting workers, like no-poach deals, non-competes, and info sharing—some of which may violate antitrust laws. www.justice.gov/atr/media/13... 🧵

There is a widespread notion that men are more ambitious than women. But this new paper finds no significant gender differences in goal setting or goal pursuit suggesting that gender disparities in educational or professional contexts stem from other factors. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

When I started to supervise master theses, students had somehow heard of the PROCESS macro. Even some colleagues were working with it. When I looked into it, I couldn't believe what I saw. Then @dingdingpeng.the100.ci approached me to write a paper about its shortcomings. Now it reached 200 cites! 📈

"This paper identifies an important bias — termed dynamic bias — in fixed effects panel estimators that arises when dynamic feedback [past outcomes influencing current outcomes] is ignored in the estimating equation." klosins.github.io/Klosin_JMP.pdf #econsky

Some of the most important lottery anomalies from the behavioral risk literature (e.g., probability weighting and loss aversion) actually have nothing to do with risk. They also arise in perfectly deterministic settings. Lead article in the latest AER issue: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Do firms have an incentive to comply with the federal minimum wage? Based on current penalties and enforcement, the answer for most firms is *no*. My paper now out in ILRR - also featuring newly FOIA-ed case level data on DOL min wage enforcement outcomes

Just spent 48 hours in DC bouncing between academic conferences and the think tank world. I learned a ton in both settings but came away depressed at how little the two worlds understand each other's value.

Lots of new econ lovers here & lots of new resources. A🧵. The #EconSky feed built by @paulgp.com is the central place for econ discussion here. Displays posts with that tag. Click here, Pin it. Shows up as a tab on far right of ur Home screen ribbon 8 more resources... bsky.app/profile/paul...

Meanqhile, the FTC is holding its seventeenth annual conference, with presentations by @evanpstarr.bsky.social, Pinar Yildirim and Zach Cooper. Programme here: www.ftc.gov/news-events/... 3/5

This place is glowing up quickly! If you're new, welcome! If you love econ, the blog below can help you get plugged into the community here. If you read this a while ago & haven't checked it out lately, maybe do. I'm adding resources & people are changing their starter packs all the time.

📢 New publication alert! “The Year in Review: Economics at the #Antitrust Division 2023–2024” with @susanathey.bsky.social, Alex Gross, and Jennifer Shanefelter. Labor market competition is protected by the 2023 Merger Guidelines. doi.org/10.1007/s111... #EconSky

Welcome, new #EconSky joiners! I have updated my starter pack - now with over 120 IO, org econ, innovation and firm dynamics researchers. If you think I have forgotten someone, please let me know. go.bsky.app/Rchu8QX

Happy @evanpstarr.bsky.social Day to all who celebrate! May the job offers be ever in your favor. www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

Similar to noncompete clauses in employment contracts, training repayment agreements can impede worker mobility and reduce competition in labor markets. JJ Prescott, Stewart Schwab, and @evanpstarr.bsky.social document the pervasiveness of these provisions. www.promarket.org/2024/03/27/f...

SEND US YOUR PAPERS!! We are hosting a workshop on "The Economics of Working Environment" in Copenhagen, June 19-21. Deadline for submissions is Feb 15th! Submit via email to [email protected]. #EconSky 📈📉

Hey Stata users, please check out the Stata Gallery run by @asjadnaqvi.bsky.social . Lots of great tutorials on data viz, making maps, working with do files, and more! Highly recommend! 👍 medium.com/the-stata-ga...

🚨🚨 NEW WORKING PAPER 🚨🚨 “A Retrospective Analysis of the Acquisition of Target’s Retail Pharmacy Business by CVS Health: Labor Market Perspective” joint with my wonderful student Enas Farag (she did all the work) marshallsteinbaum.org/assets/farag... #econsky (cross-posted from Elonville) /1

New Policy Brief on Noncompetes, @evanpstarr.bsky.social! After the FTC's proposed ban on NCAs in January, the debate over NCAs is raging. Many weighed in with their comments for why NCAs are needed, and his brief takes stock of the key questions and recent evidence. 📉📈 eig.org/noncompetes-...

This is a Bob LaLonde appreciation tweet. He changed the course of economics and also changed the course of my life. He passed away too young, though his memory is a blessing. Please add onto the thread with your appreciations of Bob!

I've been teaching measurement error for years, and I just figured out how to teach it using DAGs and I'm so excited.

"Sensitivity analyses can remain agnostic about [causal] structure. This is one reason they are useful; they adjudicate debates bc people can agree on validity w/out reaching full agreement on what constitutes plausible causal knowledge." - Aronow & Savje #statsquotes arxiv.org/pdf/2003.116...

📢@sieworkshop.bsky.social is on Bluesky AND we are back with Fall 2023 seminar series. SIE = Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship virtual seminar series See details below 👇 (and follow @sieworkshop.bsky.social)

Congratulations to Claudia Goldin winning the Nobel Prize! A well deserved honor! 📈📉

Couldn’t agree more. Vacancy chains are definitely understudied—likely because they are hard to study well and because counterfactuals are tricky.

Hi #Econsky! I’m new here so let me introduce myself. I’m a labor economist studying employee mobility, monopsony, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Most of my work is on restrictive covenants but also some recent stuff on work-from-anywhere, the Dobbs decision, etc. Looking forward to connecting!