Loved new piece by @lizananat.bsky.social‬ with critique of two-parent privilege hypothesis pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/... "Asian example suggests...insistence [that childbearing be marital only] may not move us back to a world flush with married parents but to a future of few parents at all"

How can tax credits, paid leave, and other policies improve population health? Join us on March 28 for our virtual seminar featuring experts Elizabeth Ananat, Bradley Hardy, Aparna Mathur, and LDI Fellow @atheendar.bsky.social. ldi.upenn.edu/events/boost...

Please repost to get the word out! @nkgarg.bsky.social and I are excited to present a personalized feed for academics! It shows posts about papers from accounts you’re following bsky.app/profile/pape...

Very cool! Also pinning!

NBER Immigrants and the Economy meeting is this Friday and will be live-streamed here! www.youtube.com/channel/UC79... Program here with an excellent lineup of papers: www.nber.org/conferences/...

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

Been chatting with some juniors lately who were surprised to hear me recommend not working more than 40 hours a week or nights/weekends. Even during grad school. I was appalled to hear them recount some of the advice they are getting from others. So here is my PSA:

PSA to fellow economists- if African countries are the preferred sites for randomized experiments to place papers in top 5 economics journals, then the history, institutions, and people/scholars of African countries are more than good enough to study as "general interest" and co-authors 1/n #Econsky

Census working paper showing that more accurate weather predictions save lives www.census.gov/library/work...

If you are thinking of flying in or out of Reagan, just don’t. Currently trapped on a plane in ATL due to multiple consecutive groundstops at DCA. SO many recent cases where 90min flights turn in to 8hr ordeals. Trump’s grip on FAA has made DCA unusable

Excited to hear about @kaseybuckles.bsky.social work on intergenerational connections in census data at PPCW at Georgia Tech

Five alarm fire. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access.

Republicans just dropped their first open attack on women's right to travel. jessica.substack.com/p/montana-bi...

If you can no longer stand doing nothing, consider placing these flyers on select windshields near you (because defacing private property, while tempting, is clearly wrong) www.teslatakedown.com

What a devastating and incredibly inefficient loss

Very happy to see the recommendations from the joint AEA-EEA-ES-RES committee on improving publishing in economics. Many good, long-overdue recommendations. I hope they are are all implemented widely by @aeajournals.bsky.social & others www.econometricsociety.org/uploads/docu... Some highlights...

😭 So well written.

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Does anyone know whether AEA is backing off diversity initiatives? I just realized that their "videos of diverse economists" by CSWEP, CSMGEP, etc is no longer accessible from its location of just a few weeks ago. Et tu Brute? (www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...) #econsky @aeainformation.bsky.social

The Federal Reserve is not as independent from the executive branch as we’d like to think. The NY Fed just cancelled this Thursday’s @aeacswep.bsky.social reception at #EEA2025 and withdrew from our summer fellowship program. Both support women and underrepresented groups in economics. #EconSky

I'm hiring for a predoctoral research associate to work with me at Brown Econ starting Summer 2025. If you're interested in economics research on labor, crime, and housing, please apply here: apply.interfolio.com/162629 #econra #econ_ra #EconSky @jessebruhn.bsky.social

#Econsky 🎉 Excited that my first post is about #JEM25! The call for applications is now open - deadline: March 16. Join us in Milan on May 29-30, 2025, for a great workshop in applied micro, experimental & behavioral econ. Keynote: Prof. Mathieu Couttenier (ENS Lyon). 👉 demm.unimi.it/en/call-appl...

I have dropped Amazon, Target, and Whole Foods. It has been very hard. Glad I have a Costco nearby and a big basement.

Looking for quantitative papers on the impacts of eugenics (esp in the US). Found this one by Price and Darity (2010). Know of others? In case you're wondering: this is for a new class I've developed. Econ 210 Government Regulation of Reproduction. www.kmjones.info/teach/econ-210

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A direct hit on American innovation, competitiveness, and leadership.

So glad to see there are at least some opportunities opening up for the vast expertise being turned out of USAID. (Or the students suffering through this years job market 💔)

A very real plan to disenfranchise women is soon to be law Renew your passport now or #changeback your name www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

Very happy to be rejoining the #econtwitter community at #econsky! I have missed the high-quality feed full of links to papers, cross-disciplinary insights, and professional news. (ok, and the parenting memes). Hello again everyone!