If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

I still think it's meaningful that we saw Liam in him. Every Liam deserves to have a chance to pursue his dreams.

I’ll take this America, please.

I am excited to be hiring two post-doctoral positions at UCLA--please share with your networks. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.....

Be sure to check out recent work from our Eco alum Dan Hungerman ('00) and former Economics Advisory Board member.

Welp

🚨 Applications open for @PEERresearch.bsky.social Summer Scholars! 🚨 We'll host early-/mid-career scholars in DC from June 3-5, costs covered, to learn more about federal policymaking from scholars/experts who have been there. Applications due March 1! www.peer-center.org/research/sum...

Women’s college attendance delivers wage and job-quality gains that grow over the life cycle, alongside improvements in children’s early-life health, from Na'ama Shenhav and Danielle H. Sandler www.nber.org/papers/w34767

Today is National Girls & Women in Sports Day #NGWSD and I'm thinking about this @betseystevenson.bsky.social paper that, when I read it as an undergrad, (a) confirmed what I knew about the amazing impact sports can have on young women, and (b) made me realize that economists studied cool things! 💪

Absolutely no one will be shocked by the answer

Interested in the faculty you may work with in our MA program? To just name a few are Dr. Riley Acton, Dr. Peter Nencka. Dr. Chuck Moul, Dr. Jonathan Wolff, Dr. Jing Li, Dr. David Lindequist, Dr Kim Berg, and Dr. Jim Flynn. Take a look at their research! miamioh.edu/fsb/director...

Let’s be clear- the cost here is dead kids.

Working on your PhD? Looking for dissertation funding? The Russell Sage Foundation and the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research jointly support dissertation research on employment-related topics in any discipline. #Fundsocsci, #Econsky, @russellsagefdn.bsky.social

Americans may not appreciate how unique the US college experience is. In Brazil, you go into a degree in, say, economics or engineering or law or whatever, and you take the courses that the Ministry of Education has deemed that someone needs to take to get that degree. That’s pretty much it.

February 1st is the deadline for completed MA apps for financial assistance. Apps will still be looked over after. Be sure to get your apps complete to join our great program!! miamioh.edu/fsb/graduate...

For absolutely no reason, let me remind people of this banger of a paper by @caroartc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...

ATTN ECON JMCs: We are searching for a postdoc through to work with Steve Billings, Ludo Gazze and myself on a project to better understand impacts of lead exposure and potential benefits of remediation using linked administrative data in Colorado. Details here: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

If you want to help the Haitian community in Springfield, consider donating to the Haitian Community Help and Support Center. They are a local non-profit that helps Haitians in their city with education, economic security, legal services, and more. haitiansupportcenter.org

This happens once a week teaching undergraduates.

Question for my higher ed people: is your teaching load connected to a specific research output? For example, you have a 2-2 load if and only if you hit certain research targets, otherwise your load goes up? Thanks!

New research by @imbernomics.bsky.social and colleagues using Texas data dives into different economic returns to college majors by race and gender. There are differences in the share of students going into high-paying fields, as well as earnings within those fields.

Alex Jeffrey Pretti was the victim’s name. He was a nurse. ICE executed a nurse. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

❤️ Minnesota

Don't kill people Don't lie Don't lie about killing people

Be sure to check out some work from our own Professor Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social.

Please share - multiple summer 2026 in-person undergrad internship opportunities at @pewresearch.org! - religion - digital - social trends - data journalism - global - news - internet - AI - admin - race - science - methods - politics Apply soon! pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...

Keep an eye out from more work from us as a group and solo work from @julia-turner.bsky.social who will be on the job market next year!

Growing phenomenon that you might not be aware of: a lot of community colleges offer bachelor’s degrees! This descriptive piece is the start of a research agenda with my wonderful coauthors @riacton.bsky.social @julia-turner.bsky.social @camilantmorales.bsky.social and Kalena Cortes

Community college bachelor’s degrees pay off in some fields but not all, offering higher earnings than associate degrees and mixed returns relative to traditional BAs, from Riley K. Acton, Camila Morales, Kalena Cortes, Julia A. Turner, and @loismiller.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34684

#EdResearch folks - early bird registration for the annual Association for Education Finance & Policy conference ends TODAY! Join us in Chicago for lots of great discussions about the research and policy. aefpweb.org/2026conference

Happy to have this descriptive piece with @camilantmorales.bsky.social, Kalena Cortes, @julia-turner.bsky.social, & @loismiller.bsky.social out! Look for more causal work on this topic from our team in the near future 👀

You have cute 2016 pictures to re-share on your Instagram. I just have pictures of whiteboards with MWG problems on them from my first year of grad school. We are not the same. 🥲

A great syllabus addition to your micro, education, or public policy course!

Learn more about the difference between posted and net tuition and how it impacts students in Emily Cook and Sarah Turner's chapter on College Pricing in the U.S.: lnkd.in/gn-Hciw6

MA in Eco? Try ours! Focused on innovation and real-world application, after completing the program, you'll be prepared to, frame and answer questions from unstructured situations, excel in eco or policy Ph.D. programs, and achieve success in quant tracks. miamioh.edu/fsb/graduate...

A lot of disabled kids who require 1:1 aides won’t get educated online, but may not be safe to go to school.

BREAKING — Mayor of Lewiston, Maine posts on FB that ICE is coming to the city imminently. This confirms my reporting the agency is planning a surge in the city and state generally. Lewiston is home to a large Somali-American population, which made up 4.6% of the population as of the 2020 census.

@aeacswep.bsky.social enjoyed hosting the reception to honor the inaugural Janet L. Yellen Award for Excellence in Public Service at #ASSA2026! A full house toasted her achievements in economics in public service and many were able to meet Janet Yellen!

To add to this: we know so little about how internal resource allocation decisions are made within and across higher education institutions and what their impacts are on students, faculty, etc. A ripe area for an enterprising grad student to try to get their hands on some data!

Immigration policy is #EdPolicy 😞

93% of economists polled by IGM markets earlier this year agreed that "Giving the President more direct influence over monetary policy would lead to substantially worse monetary policy decisions", half of the people who disagreed were people who actually agreed but just pressed the wrong button

This is a Powell-ful speech

It’s my civic duty to alert you all to the fact that excellent NCAA gymnastics is happening LIVE on ABC right now! And there’s still two more rotations to go! 🤸🏼‍♀️

Fabulous postdoc opportunity at Stanford to work on the politics of education with one of the best @bethschueler.bsky.social postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...

Semester ended.

There is a threat to Minneapolis so extreme that *every child in the city* has been forced to stay home from school. That threat does not come from immigrants. There has only been one murder in Minneapolis in 2026. It was federal agents' killing of a 37 year-old US citizen/mother in her minivan.

Do you (or does someone you know) research emerging & advanced technologies (e.g., artificial intelligence, virtual/augmented reality) in education? If so, apply to come work with us in Ann Arbor! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them

We @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social are hiring a director for our Policy-Aligned Research Agenda Buildling Lab (PARABL), to help education system leaders build research roadmaps to effect change in a particular area. More info here: wheelockpolicycenter.org/wp-content/u...

Congratulations Rene Crespin!