The new Trump administration is making an unprecedented effort to PREVENT science from informing policy. They are literally paying researchers and economists to NOT work. For the same cost, they prefer ignorance. www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/p...

The US Administration has proposed an astronomical tax on lawful, high-skill immigrant workers. The economic evidence is clear about what Americans can expect: Less innovation, less entrepreneurship, lower productivity. A diminished future. My new summary at @piie.com —>

You've likely seen the new $100,000 penalty on high-skill immigrant workers. Here's the next, separate bomb the White House is dropping on high skill immigration, to be officially published *tomorrow*. tl;dr: Most H-1Bs now inaccessible for entry-level jobs, e.g. new grads from US universities.

The RePEc Biblio is a curated list of the most important papers on various topics. You can help expand its scope by volunteering to edit your topics of expertise biblio.repec.org #RePEc #EconSky

Just learned that the European Development Economics Group is also on BlueSky! 🥳🥳🥳 #DevEcon #EconSky They will have annual #conferences, hosted by different European countries each year! First will be next year, June 11-12 2026, @kiel.institute

Question for #Econsky📉: Can you recommend a paper which implements Callaway and Sant'Anna that carefully describes the specification in methods? (As opposed to write a TWFE specification and mention that it will be estimated with CS.)

Happy to share my new working paper with my great co-authors @chrambrosio.bsky.social & Juliana Quigua where we estimate the labor market effects of U.S. immigration enforcement policies in El Salvador www.iza.org/pub/0mZVpDAb @iza.org #econsky #academicsky

Do you have a personal memory of a Green Book hotel, restaurant, pharmacy, or gas station? What do you remember about it? Share your memories using our Community Map. Contribute here: greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

The webinar overview of the coming #EconJobMarket is now posted to the AEA website. It contains info about trends in the # of jobs, recent # of applications/interviews/flyouts/offers, and placement outcomes, as well as advice. #EconSky www.aeaweb.org/joe/communic...

Who are the economists most central to the profession? CollEc provides answers from co-authorship network analysis. Bonus: find the shortest path between any two economists. collec.repec.org #RePEc #EconSky

The EconTrack job market information board is open for viewing, offering a professional platform for job candidates to keep track of the status of open positions. #econsky aeaweb.org/econtrack

#CallForPapers - Conference on Public Policies for Innovation ESRC, London Business School, @fuqua.duke.edu & CEPR invite submissions for a #conference on Public Policies for Innovation at LBS on 19-20 March 2026. cepr.org/events/confe... Organisers: Paolo Surico & @danielpgross.bsky.social #EconSky

Are you a new or soon-to-be PhD? Do you work on socio-economic inequality, poverty, and/or mobility? Do you study income, wealth, or earnings? Are you passionate about research as well as policy analyses? If so, we may be the perfect home for you, starting in fall 2026? Take a look! 🍎 #postdoc 👇👇👇

A short 🧵 so everyone can learn that political violence is nothing new in America. Of the 1,331 Black officials who served during Reconstruction, 158 (10.4%) were subjected to political violence. 1/7

Wow! How the US labor market has changed - Large drops in shares of farming & blue collar jobs Big increases in shares of professional and service jobs https://conversableeconomist.com/2024/12/12/the-changing-us-labor-market/

I’m really feeling for the new PhDs hitting the market this year. 😭 I don’t have much good advice, but if it would be helpful to see my materials or chat, reach out!

Very handy tool by @packlesshepherd.bsky.social. Looks like the econ job market is: ⬇️ 42% YOY (260 vs. 369) overall ⬇️ 36.5% YOY (106 vs. 167) for U.S. FT academic jobs These drops seem similar to what the poli sci market has been showing (right @reuning.bsky.social @annewhitesell.bsky.social?)

Australia has recognised Palestine as a sovereign state, becoming one of more than 150 countries to do so. The declaration was matched by Canada, and comes as an Australian delegation arrives in New York for the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Today, Canada recognises the State of Palestine.   My statement: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

Trump administration cancels annual hunger survey The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s, but now says the report has become ‘overly politicized’

ADD YOUR THOUGHTS ON LIMITING STUDENT VISA TO FOUR YEARS Comment period ends September 29th www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... 1/2

Former BLS Commissioner and current Friends of BLS co-chair ⬇️

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

Apply now for the Spring 2026 POMEPS Virtual Research Workshops! The deadline to apply is October 15, 2025. For more information on how to apply, visit: pomeps.org/call-for-app...

Sexual Misconduct, Accused Scientists, and Their Research #EconSky url: direct.mit.edu/rest/article...

🆕 Markets, marriage, and norms: Understanding female labour force participation in India Today on VoxDev, Farzana Afridi (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi) reflects on the evidence on female labour force participation in India: voxdev.org/topic/labour...

🆕 Where to find development economics resources I've updated my list of all the various sources of newsletters, articles, podcasts & videos relevant to development economics that I've come across in my three years at @voxdev.bsky.social: voxdev.org/topic/where-...

The rise of remote work coming out of the pandemic led to a historic rise in employment rates for those with disabilities. Return to office policies, in general, could reverse that trend." Thanks @emilypeck.bsky.social for interviewing me. www.axios.com/2025/09/17/c...

This week we featured research on saving lives, paying taxes, building roads and more! Read a summary of this work here: voxdev.org/topic/week-d...

Kashkari (non-voter): two more cuts this year. Argues R* has risen, inflation expectations anchored, and labor market downside is more likely than inflation upside. Reasonable case (though there are lots of ways to disagree with it)

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...

MY VERY FIRST TV STUDIO INTERVIEW IS ON @pbs.org TODAY! This PBS KID is on PBS!! 🤯 Catch me TODAY on @wgbh.org News Rooted talking about #TheDoubleTax and why we cannot afford to ignore the costs women of color face. #blacksky #news Tune in: www.pbs.org/video/why-th... Get your copy: annagifty.com

What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power. This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.

Maybe this is a long shot, but I have a question for the #Stata users on here. Is there a way to add a pattern to the fill color when making a map with spmap? I have a color scale for the main variable but I want to make a distinction between two categories of observations. #Econsky #Statasky

Vitamin B3 can help protect against skin cancer. Here's who may benefit www.npr.org/2025/09/17/n...

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We! Are! Hiring! The Department of Africana Studies at Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track position in Black Women’s Studies/Gender Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin 7/1/26 More info here: apply.interfolio.com/171572 #blackademia #academia #PhDSky

The @nber.org Race and Stratification in the Economy working group is seeking submissions for our upcoming Spring 2026 meeting to be held on March 27, 2026. The submission deadline is December 11, 2025. The call for papers is here: www.asc.ohio-state.edu/logan.155/pd...

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

Claims: 1/ initial claims back to normal this week after last week's Texan-fraud-induced blip.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

When individuals are induced to work from home, they spend less time with work associates and do not substitute toward more time with individuals outside of their household, from Benjamin W. Cowan and Todd R. Jones https://www.nber.org/papers/w34239

One marker of a weakening labor market: there are now more job seekers than job openings in the US. My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

The Lasting Effects of Working while in School : A Long-Term Follow-Up: Ferrando, Mery; Katzkowicz, Noemi; Le Barbanchon, Thomas; Ubfal, Diego Javier

Today, Congressional Budget Office lowered its GDP growth projection for 2025 and raised it for 2026. Revision reflects 2025 reconciliation act, tariffs, and lower immigration. CBO's projections still well below White House assumptions, esp for 2026-2028.

Job growth in industries more reliant on unauthorized immigrants has been flat this year. These industries include construction, hotels, restaurants, home health care, & several other industries in manufacturing, technology, & services. #PIIECharts

Younger siblings with an older sister? You’re in luck! A new study on rural Kenyan households by Pamela Jakiela, @owenozier.bsky.social, Lia Fernald & Heather Knauer found that having an older sister (vs. older brother) improves children's vocabulary and #MotorSkills. doi.org/10.3368/jhr....