The logic for supporting DEI: Providing extra help not because one is a woman/minority; but rather to help overcome the extra obstructions one faces as a woman/minority It shouldn’t be called sexist/racist to help people overcome sexism/racism www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/o...

Putting together something on AI and economics research. Who are leaders and creative thinkers in this area? Ideally labor and applied micro economists. Self promotion accepted!

Huge thanks to @equitablegrowth.bsky.social for their grant support! Excited for the opportunity to advance this research.

Putting together something on AI and economics research. Who are leaders and creative thinkers in this area? Ideally labor and applied micro economists. Self promotion accepted!

Submit that new research project of yours and I will see you in Denver. Will be a great conference!

It’s August which means another @iipf.bsky.social conference. We’re in Nairobi Kenya. Would be a shame to come all the way here and not explore East Africa a bit ;) I am presenting a few papers, including a brand new project on tax credits in Puerto Rico Reach out and say hello if you are here!

It is important for researchers and policymakers to think about the interaction of policies, not just one program at a time. I wrote a short analysis of the US’s two most important tax credits Here’s EITC+CTC combined by income, kids, marital status www.rstreet.org/commentary/h...

8/ 📅 July 25 ⏰ 9:45 am: "Universal Pre-K as Economic Stimulus: Evidence from Nine States & Large Cities in the U.S." feat. @jacobbastian.bsky.social @kirabojackson.bsky.social That's a wrap! For more info on this week's sessions, see the schedule: www.nber.org/conferences/... See you next year!👋

Very thoughtful. Rather than blurbing, just read the whole article www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/o...

These estimates rely on great paper by @kirabojackson.bsky.social , @julia-turner.bsky.social , & @jacobbastian.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w33767 However, my inferences from their paper are based on my own regional econometric model of how shocks to labor supply affect a state's economy.

I have an update to my prior paper on the benefits of Michigan's pre-K program. This new paper estimates the fiscal benefits of Michigan moving from its current program to a universal program. Key finding: fiscal benefits for state cover about 2/3rds of costs. research.upjohn.org/up_policypap...

Good article (based on their forthcoming book!) by my former CEA colleague @mikegeruso.bsky.social The Population Bust Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...

State policymakers are missing a free lunch—figuratively and literally—by declining to implement a new federal program that offers summer grocery benefits to low-income children. Resources that could fight hunger, support families, boost local economies www.brookings.edu/articles/sun...

1/ One headline change in the new GOP tax bill is raising the Child Tax Credit from $2,000 to $2,500. Sounds great—until you look at the details. 🧵 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

New research w/ @kirabojackson.bsky.social & @julia-turner.bsky.social on NBER homepage “Universal Pre-K across 9 states & cities increased LFP by 0.8 pp, employment by 0.9 pp, & weekly hours worked by 0.42, with strongest effects for moms. Each $1 spent on UPK generated >$3 in additional earnings”

Looking forward to talking about the earned income tax credit (EITC) as it turns 50 years old this year. Will be a great event tomorrow at 10am EST at @brookings.edu www.brookings.edu/events/the-e...

Today is the submission deadline for my favorite conference and I just submitted a few papers! Hope to see you in Boston in November ntanet.org/2025/03/118t...

My first @brookings.edu blog! Evidence from 30 countries: EITC-style wage subsidies consistently raise employment—especially among single parents and marginal workers—and remain one of the best policies to reduce poverty and bring more people into the labor force www.brookings.edu/articles/do-...

Universal Pre-K led to a 1.2% rise in labor force participation, a 1.5% increase in employment, and a 1.6% growth in hours worked according to important new research by @kirabojackson.bsky.social, @julia-turner.bsky.social & @jacobbastian.bsky.social. www.nber.org/papers/w33767

Grateful to be a new NBER Faculty Research Fellow! Thank you to those who nominated me and helped get me here

I’ve been using chatGPT verbal/audio to improve my Spanish. Prompt as “role play my Spanish teacher” and it works pretty good. Anybody using it in similar way and have tips/advice/ideas?

It's just the preliminary numbers, for which n=~420, and sentiment hasn't been a good guide to consumer activity in recent years. But this is, um, really bad. www.axios.com/2025/03/14/c...

The deadline for submissions to the 2025 IIPF Annual Congress, scheduled for August 20-22 in Nairobi, Kenya, is coming up soon: February 22. Submit here: www.conftool.pro/iipf2025/ Conference is August 20-22, 2025. I’m going and hope to see you (and your public economics research) there!

Reducing US fentanyl won’t be easy: 1. $800 of chemicals produces a kilo that can net a profit of up to $640,000 (many will have incentive to take that risk) 2. Over 80% sentenced for fentanyl at southern border are U.S. citizens (not migrants) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/w...

While violent crime is def a fee bigger social issue than property crime, the steady, unrelenting decline in property crime (which is basically a decline in theft, which is ~70% of index property crime) is not remarked-upon enough. It’s really striking.

FROM SHAMS: BREAKING: The Los Angeles Lakers have agreed on a trade sending D’Angelo Russell, Maxwell Lewis and three second-round picks to the Brooklyn Nets for Dorian Finney-Smith and Shake Milton, sources told ESPN. https://t.co/V175zGtmKW

Was just on a flight with a crying baby, I mean crying for like an hour. So I walked back to the parent, looked at her, and asked if I could buy her a drink, because wow, that’s not easy work. Happy to say she enjoyed some rosé

I analyzed the Romney Family Security Act (FSA) Child Tax Credit (CTC) plan. While it does some very good things (monthly benefits, benefits during pregnancy, more benefits per kid, especially younger kids), it disproportionately helps higher income families earning 6 figures.

Good step NYC! Build more housing to accommodate more people, of various income levels. Housing takes >50% of many families’ income. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/n... Next step, allow more housing to get built. There are some good plans out there, like this: static1.squarespace.com/static/661d7...

Was just saying the same thing Bluesky 🙌🏼

Sarah Jeong is a national treasure

Geez. President Declaring martial law, lawmakers hoping fences & fighting to get past police/soldiers to enter National Assembly to vote to end martial law, prez says he’ll end it as soon as he meets with his cabinet. Largest labor union on strike until prez resigns. All overnight Good luck Korea

“The single action with the highest ratio of worker-supportive benefit to cost is switching your hotel reservation. It’s easy. It focuses impact on hotel managers. Below are resources to make this easy. You can cancel your existing ASSA hotel reservation without any financial penalty until Dec 12.”

Love this. Will probably do it soon too.

This is really getting quite remarkable • BlueSky user numbers have doubled in the past week and now total 3.5 million across US & UK 🚀 • Number of people deleting their X/Twitter account remains way up And the next chart is particularly notable...

Better late than never (and only in Kursk, where Ukraine took over, so limited) Important to hold onto that area to have something for potential negotiations and land swap www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/u...

I wrote up a short blog summarizing the benefits of the temporary 2021 expansion of the CTC. This figure shows just how large this expansion was, especially for the lowest income families. www.rstreet.org/commentary/s...

Great list put together by a great economist

I made a starter pack of government economists. go.bsky.app/K7fAcMi

An update on the CTC & labor supply debate. An often-cited paper (Kye Lippold, 2019) used SIPP data, found elasticity of 0.6–1.0 for poor families. At Nat Tax Assoc 2024 and Kye re-did paper using admin tax data (better data, bigger sample). Finds smaller effects, elasticity of 0.03.

R sentiment up 25 points, D down 15 points. The "Republicans cheer louder and boo harder" theory of consumer sentiment is evidently alive and well www.briefingbook.info/p/asymmetric... @briefingbook.bsky.social

Hey all, I created a starter pack with a list of Black economists and academics for an easily accessible list of folks doing research that we can all follow and cite #Blacksky #AddtoBlacksky #Econsky: go.bsky.app/RyKSzcb

Looking forward to National Tax Association next few days. I’ll be presenting new research on (1) EITC + welfare reform impacting women’s political preferences and voting behavior, and (2) impact of expiration of 2021 CTC on household economic sentiment. Come say hi in Detroit!

Here's a Starter Pack on "Education policy journalists and writers". My hope is to encourage more journalists, think-tankers, etc. to join in conversation with researchers here. Please suggest names, including your own! go.bsky.app/3XhYmo3

👍🏼 www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/n...

Ok election is behind us, can we reinstate NYC congestion pricing now Gov Hochul?

Impressive doc! For example key referendums by topic

Voted early! Get out there and vote y’all