If anyone has a job market paper they would like me to repost, tag me and I will do my best to do so! Would love to follow what people are working on more closely.

When Pope Leo spoke about immigration as a pro-life issue, I knew I had to write about it. Today my piece in @theconversation.com is out about what it means to be "pro-life." theconversation.com/what-does-pr...

🚨Calling all education+social science researchers! 🚨 For the second time ever, Common App is hosting an open Call for Research Proposals to solicit innovative and rigorous research projects using our expansive (& still mostly untapped) data warehouse! www.commonapp.org/files/DAR/Co...

A rare snowy fall semester day here in Oxford, OH 🍂❄️

I’ll take some good news www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It's finally here! It's #2025APPAM week. We have some travel updates for you - click here to read more: https://ow.ly/UNYn50Xpj41

New evidence on how ICE is affecting student learning https://drive.google.com/file/d/1erU5Oe0vJYdVjuqQi4sfhUGxS0BGjWl8/view?usp=drivesdk

If you have the means, today is an excellent day to donate to your local food bank. Even if the Trump administration was competent (it isn't), and even if Republicans cared about preventing hunger and the costly downstream consequences of food insecurity (they don't), the need is there NOW.

Just discovered that my local food pantry participates in Kroger’s community rewards program. Took me 1 minute to add them as my chosen recipient so that they can get a % of everything I spend on groceries. It’s a little thing, but every bit counts for these orgs right now. Instructions 👇

Extremely relevant research today…

AI this, AI that. THIS is the kind of innovation I’m here for 😋 (local gelato shop using their kitchen to make pastries on Saturdays in the off season)

I am excited to announce I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! 🎉 My research explores economic barriers for people with disabilities at the intersection of labor, public, and health economics. My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6

"Our results are robust to application of Manski bounds..."

When you estimate a 100% prediction interval.

I underestimated how profoundly embarrassing the fall of our democracy would be.

Breaking news: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to release full funding for SNAP benefits by Friday. The ruling comes after the partial funding disbursed had yet to reach those who qualify for the benefits.

There is increasing political polarization in colleges' student bodies. Both liberal & conservative students prefer institutions with more like-minded peers and are willing to pay thousands of dollars more to avoid students from the other side edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1280

Update: today, 16.8 million people should have *full* SNAP benefits for November. They don't. Most states don't issue SNAP all at once. Some distribute SNAP up to the 28th day. This masks the scale of the problem: 42 million worrying about hunger in the richest country on earth. 🛟 🥗 🩺📊 #econsky

So, uh, anyone else going to APPAM #2025APPAM next week wondering if we’ll actually make it to Seattle? 😬

I'm spending a lot of time thinking about the shift of students from lower-cost to higher-cost fields, further stretching institutional budgets (and something that often flies under the radar). Here is the trend for public research universities.

New data on the #EconJobMarket as of Nov 2. Based on total # of job listings on JOE, this year continues to be even weaker (by 11%) than during COVID (2020). 1/many #EconSky

What a joy to talk to a room of undergraduate women who are interested in economics & excited about where it can take them 😍 The future is bright!

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What we know so far, 8:30pm —Democrats flip VA-Gov & VA-LG. —Also means Dems take VA trifecta. —Dems in good shape to win NJ-Gov. —Dems appear to flip 2 statewide offices in Georgia. —JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincinnati. —Last GOPer in Orlando council gone. —PA: Dem justices up big so far.

AP calling this less than an hour after polls closed 🤌

Election night bonus: JD Vance's half-brother is running for mayor of Cincinnati and will be crushed by the incumbent Democrat. He already got stomped 83 to 13 in the primary, but since it's a top two nonpartisan race and he did place second, he gets to be stomped again in the general election.

Women in Eco is hosting their Prof Research Panel on November 5th at 6:00. They will be joined by Dr. Carla Nietfeld , Dr. Riley Acton (riacton.bsky.social), & Dr. Jenny Minier to share their experiences as powerful role models as women in economics.

Constitutional crisis?

Meanwhile, try to negotiate a few extra thousand dollars out of the university for the new hires this year just to keep salaries up for inflation, and they’ll act like you are robbing their piggy bank.

Another example of how universities provide public benefits beyond just what happens in the classroom. www.oxfreepress.com/milford-town...

#Cincinnati people: our favorite neighborhood bookstore @downboundbooks.bsky.social will be donating all profits from Sunday sales to local food bank CAIN for as long as the government shutdown lasts. Support them!

Thanks to AV and RSF for funding this work, which started as part of my dissertation (linked below). We're so looking forward to being able to inform the use of informal diversion practices in schools! Lots more to come 🥳 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#Cincinnati people: our favorite neighborhood bookstore @downboundbooks.bsky.social will be donating all profits from Sunday sales to local food bank CAIN for as long as the government shutdown lasts. Support them!

Why should you 🫵🏿 care about SNAP? SNAP recipients saw: - Improved life expectancy - Lower chance of incarceration - Lowers chance of poverty - Lived in better neighborhoods - Higher human capital SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!

The list of potential signers of the proposed higher education compact now includes: New College of Florida, a public spending $100k per student Grand Canyon University, which fought the feds about shedding for-profit status Valley Forge Military College, which has less than 100 students

I love kids. I have two of them. They’re amazing. However, kids are the absolute least self aware, clumsiest little puffins on the planet. Please don’t drive tonight unless you have to, and if you do drive, drive super slow and pay 100% attention at all times. Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 💀 #PublicHealth

The @bookshop.org app is really good, and it is easy to buy content from their website. Strong recommend!

Some neighbors have a “Pink Bony Club” themed Halloween display in their yard and it’s just as delightful as you would expect

This is an important new working paper from Kwan Woo Kim and Laura Hamilton at Merced’s Higher Education, Race, & The Economy lab showing that states that introduced anti-DEI legislation hired fewer faculty from marginalized groups. They are segregationists. osf.io/preprints/so...

I'd love to help make BlueSky one of the places where young scholars introduce themselves and their work to the world. If you're a PhD student whose work at least partially focuses on economics of education or education policy, reply to this thread and I'll highlight your work.

Florida's governor is telling public universities to stop hiring anyone on a H-1B visa. Expect other red states to follow suit.

A single mother of four in Ohio whose children receive SNAP benefits puts it very clearly. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/28/o...

Meet our job market candidates! spr.ly/633287Dwqn #MSUEconomics #Economics #MSUSocialScience #jobmarketcandidate #EconSky

What if the real greatest impact of AI is not that it replaces work but that it psychologically disassembles humans?

Hello #econsky, the Nebraska Labor Summit will be held Friday, March 13, 2026. It's a really fun, junior-centric, research conference in labor and related applied micro fields. Martha Bailey and Alex Mas will give the keynotes. Deadline for submissions is Nov. 1! forms.gle/JC5tN5cT1R2i4ZUJA

States that repealed nonmedical vaccine exemptions in the last decade saw kindergarten vaccination rates rise by 2 to 4 percentage points relative to nonrepeal states. Very happy that our paper found a home at @jamapediatrics.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

As U.S. universities demand frequent production & citation churn, they will create the conditions that will continue to erode the deliberate, human researcher and subject-centered approach to academic work. Deliberation and time will be replaced by fast-twitch A.I. authored & reviewed articles.

Important thread 👇