Fellow economists, what kind of question would you most like to be asked when meeting someone at a conference? #EconSky 1. What are your working on? 2. What is your field? 3. What is exciting in your field? 4. Other: spill the beans!

Common Ownership & Employee Earnings updated & improved Consider a pair of companies that sell into the same product market. If pair shares common owners, the owners have incentive for pair to soften competition. Same with local labor market competition papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Proud to support @anthropic.com’s new Economic Futures Program as a member of their Economic Advisory Council! • Research grants up to $50,000 (rolling basis) • Policy proposal competition • Expanded Economic Index data access Apply: www.anthropic.com/economic-futures #AI #EconSky

“Us vs. them” mentality is not the way to intellectual progress nor to a healthy democratic debate.👇

Very excited that our paper (joint with Jarkko Harju and ‪@schoefer.bsky.social‬) on "Voice at Work" is published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. We study what happened when workers in Finnish firms got a right to worker voice on the corporate board. 👇

🧨 New draft dropped:🧨 "Cash Transfers, Mental Health and Agency: Evidence from an RCT in Germany" maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p... Companion paper to our paper on basic income and labor supply. Corresponding author Freddie Schwerter (@freddieschwerter.bsky.social). #basicincome #UBI

Yes, continuing unemployment claims are up, but the US labor market remains remarkably stable across most indicators in 2025. Context matters: this is a slight softening, not a crisis. My analysis in @Forbes.com explains the full picture www.forbes.com/sites/zachar... #EconSky​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Huge sleeper issue is how states will (or won’t) be able to absorb huge SNAP cuts in BBB. www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...

The report looks strong. The Powell attack was disconnected. +147K jobs gained last month (mid-May to mid-June). +16K jobs in revisions of prior 2 months The big picture

EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn. BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS. #EconSky

So excited to witness the opening of a new pedestrian bridge in Philadelphia!!! This was a special preview event and the official opening is on Saturday: schuylkillbanks.org. #Philly proud!

JM update: it's been a while that I should have announced here that this summer I'll join @upenn.edu as a postdoc working with @imarinescu.bsky.social . I really look forward to it and I am immensely grateful to my letter writers for support on this #econjobmarket !

I’m excited to join @Anthropic.com’s Advisory Council, to provide guidance on the economic implications of #AI. I’m thrilled to be part of this illustrious group, including @johnjhorton.bsky.social @akorinek.bsky.social @johnlist.bsky.social. #EconSky www.anthropic.com/news/introdu...

Breaking News: Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in some online advertising technology, a federal judge ruled.

Registration for the @cleforum.bsky.social conference (April 25 & 26 in Toronto, in partnership with @stone-centre-ubc.bsky.social ) open until April 15. Join us for a keynote lecture by @imarinescu.bsky.social and papers on wide variety of labour topics: stonecentre.economics.ubc.ca/call-for-pap...

If you do this since 1929, it's even worse. Today was worse than 99.6% of trading days since 1929. It was the 95th worst day of all time (out of >24,000 days), and the 35th worst day since 1945.

The Stone Centre is proud to be a sponsor of the upcoming @cleforum.bsky.social conference, featuring presentations from @imarinescu.bsky.social, Stone Centre Director, Thomas Lemieux, and many others. Registration is now open: stonecentre.economics.ubc.ca/news-and-eve...

Reminder: you have until March 31 to apply for this #AI funding opportunity, Looking forward to reading your proposals! #EconSky 👇

Are the 2020s the disaster decade? David Brooks thinks every historical time has its own disaster, except maybe the 1990s. I grew up in the 1990s, so maybe that’s one more way I’ve been very lucky. What do you think? 1990s yay or nay? 🤔

Excited to speak at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice’s webinar on climate’s influence on health, politics, and the labor force. Register here: upenn.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

1/ I genuinely love mentoring and wish students would reach out more often for advice or deep discussions. Yet many hesitate, even within formal mentorship relationships. Why is that? 🤔

Looking forward to seeing you all in Toronto at the Conference of the Camadian Labour Economics #EconSky👇

I learned a new term today: rollup. When an outside investor consecutively acquires many of the small firms in a local market and consolidates them. When this occurs with anesthesia practices, prices increase by 18%. I'm paraphrasing an NBER summary of this paper: www.nber.org/papers/w33217

🚀 Funding opportunity (now with correct link)! 🚀 What does #AI mean for the labor market? 🤔 I'm excited to partner with Schmidt Sciences to offer up to $200,000 in funding for early-career researchers! 🗓️ Deadline March 31 2025 🗓️ 🙏 Share! #EconSky 🔗 Learn more & apply: schmidtsciences.org/ai-at-work/

After a long wait, the working paper for the Many-Economists Project: The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics. We had 146 teams perform the same research three times, each time with less freedom. What source of freedom leads to different choices and results? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

"textbook 'perfect competition' isn’t the norm—and...we need the right mix of policy tools to balance the scales" Economist Ioana Marinescu (@imarinescu.bsky.social) with a succinct discussion of how to do that. poweratwork.us/why-employer...

Devastating news that @iza.org is effectively closing down 😔 It was (or at the moment, is) a wonderful institute and the network was tremendously helpful in dissaminating work in labour economics. IZA will sorely be missed 😢 So sorry for all IZA employees!

😂 a group of people at the airport goes “Are you famous?” I’m like “no”. “Like an actress on TV?” Nah. I’m maybe a little bit famous but not THAT kind of famous. 😊

New resource to calculate how many federal workers live in a particular state, county, or congressional district: economic.github.io/federal_work... Analysis by @benzipperer.org, 2/18/2025, @epi.org

🚀 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

#EconSky summer position for senior graduate students and junior faculty 👇

Mostly agree: government experience is an amazing learning experience in leadership. As for the unusually “difficult people,” not really: the civil servants at DOJ were impressive.

Across 102 polled issues, Congressional action matches the public majority 55% of the time. Failures are concentrated in inactions due to the Senate filibuster or divided party control www.shirokuriwaki.com/papers/congr...

Eric Finnigan (@ericfinnigan.bsky.social) https://buff.ly/3C7jL4V

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... 🧵

Well said! John A. List (@johnlist.bsky.social) https://buff.ly/40hsDwW #EconSky

Let's take Tim & the AEA ad hoc Social Media Committee up of this awesome offer! What econ institutions and organizations would we like to see on Bluesky? As the community here grows, more institutions will enter (Bresnahan & Reiss 1991). 📈📉

Interesting report by @aeainformation.bsky.social on the use of social media by economists #EconSky. They list positives and negatives. I agree with their conclusion that social media is a useful professional tool that should be promoted while addressing downsides www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co... 👇

Very thoughtful piece reflecting a lot of the conversations the economists I talk to have been having, featuring @aaronsojourner.org, @imarinescu.bsky.social, @jrothst.bsky.social and other wise folks. We have a lot of work to do as a field! And are indisputably overdue for some introspection.

Thanks @bencasselman.bsky.social for this thoughtful examination of the relationship between economists & policymaking today, including voices of @jasonfurman.bsky.social @kclausing.bsky.social @imarinescu.bsky.social @jrothst.bsky.social me & many others. #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/b...

Excellent life and career advice #EconSky! 👇

Excited to speak on the panel at "Bread, Roses, and Monopsony Power: Reflections on Competition and Labour" hosted by @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Law. This is a hybrid event and you can register here: www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

Public debate in economics is important! Following a suggestion by Handbook of Labor Economics editors Dustmann & Lemieux, Jose Azar & I added a nuanced discussion of the significance of labor market concentration in our understanding of market power and welfare. #EconSky

Hiring is really slow. The commonly-tracked hires rate (JOLTS hires/employee) is down to 2013 level. @upjohninstitute.bsky.social New Hire Quality Index normalizes hires by population instead. In data since 2001, hires per cap is at a record low for 16-24 & 25-54 year olds & nearly so for 55-64.

Consider submitting your papers to this conference, #EconSky! I will be there as the keynote speaker and am looking forward to it! 👇

NBER (@nberpubs.bsky.social) https://buff.ly/40i5882

Impact of data sharing on tax evasion https://buff.ly/40fA8FE

According to Sam Altman, AI agents may join the workforce in 2025. I think “agent” is very important here: without autonomy, you have to babysit AI chat by chat. Autonomy changes everything. #EconSky

Come to our session on unconditional cash transfers #basicincome #ubi #ASSA2025 #EconSky. I’ll be chairing it and looking forward to it! Starting very soon! 👇

Great thread about a psychology paper showing kids believe both in bad character and in redemption more than adults do. https://buff.ly/4gVk5Cs