New @hamiltonproject.org research by @lizananat.bsky.social @agpines.bsky.social & Olivia Howard finds that work requirements penalize low-income workers for something they can’t control: employer-driven volatility in employment and hours. www.brookings.edu/articles/wor...

ICYMI: Check out @lizananat.bsky.social Elizabeth Ananat’s, Mallya Professor of Women and Economics, Barnard College, presentation, “Schedule Volatility in Hourly Service Work: Evidence and Implications for Federal Income-Support Policies.” #academicsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqwG...

The Earned Income Tax Credit at 50: Past, present & future. June 3. 10 AM EDT.Jacob Bastian of Rutgers, Jim Sullivan of Notre Dame, Henrik Kleven of Princeton, Hilary Hoynes of UC-Berkeley. Hutchins Center. @brookings.edu In-person & livestreamed. @brookings.edu www.brookings.edu/events/the-e...

Look, I'm all for giving new parents money. But they shouldn't have to use that money to individually address problems that are structural in nature.

Rumor has it that SNAP work requirement waivers are on the chopping block. Waivers are a critical safety valve for turning off work reqs when local economic conditions warrant. An oldy but goody analysis on how waivers help SNAP respond to a recession. www.hamiltonproject.org/publication/...

30 years after arriving in the US, I just resigned from Northwestern and we sold our house. We are an American family, I became a citizen in 2014, and until recently did not expect to ever leave. But now, this no longer feels like the right place to raise a family and pursue a research career.

In my latest paper @jama.com w/ colleagues Sara Bleich & Ben Sommers @harvardchanschool.bsky.social, we discuss concerns re: safety net policies under new administration, e.g. ⬆️ enrollment barriers and ⬇️benefits. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @donmoyn.bsky.social @povertyscholar.bsky.social

Here's some of what's covered in the dashboard: 🔹 Annual wages for the top 1% and bottom 90% of wage earners 🔹 Racial and gender wage gaps 🔹 Unemployment rates, including by state 🔹 Poverty rates 🔹 Inflation rates 🔹 Union membership rates and the union wage premium

We just released an enormous trove of US labor market data, all compiled from government surveys, now under threat The @epi.org State of Working America Data Library provides comprehensive data on the US jobs and wages, with detailed cuts by demographics, over time and across states data.epi.org

Submit now for CSWEP's sessions at the 2026 AEA meetings. Sessions will be on: • Economics of Gender in the Economics Profession • Gender and Climate Justice • Gender, Working from Home and Female Labor Supply • Economic Theory • Global Economy @aeacswep.bsky.social

🌟New working paper alert🌟 Victoria Vernon and I have a new working paper out on “Couples’ Remote Work Arrangements and Labor Supply.” (A🧵). www.bls.gov/osmr/researc... #EconSky

Do contraceptive use and abortion behavior respond to income shocks? Yes. In new research we document that Danish women use oral contraceptives and abortions as a way to resude fertility after a reform reduced their child benefits. @ucph.bsky.social @malmlund.bsky.social

Welcome to the Bluesky account of the Essen Health Conference - where Health meets Labour and Education Economics! Watch this space for all information about your favourite annual conference. #Econbluesky #healthecon #econsky #labourecon #EconConf #ehc2025

Applications are open for the Graduate Applications International Network (GAIN) programme 2025! Information sharing, mentoring & financial support for African students interested in graduate school in economics & related fields. ➡️ Apply: gain-network.net/participants 🗓️ Deadline: 16 February 2025

📢 #EconSky Full info: eea2025.org @ecqe.bsky.social @eayeconomists.bsky.social

First post on Bsky! Hello world! 👇Since December 2024 the LIS & LWS databases contain more than 1000 datasets. This enables research on more than 30 Mio. households and 90 Mio individuals. Explore our databases here: www.lisdatacenter.org/our-data/ #LISdata #inequality #poverty #research

Hello World! The Editorial Board of Health Economics is pleased to announce that we are now live on the happier, friendlier, and all-together Blue-er place. Please follow us (and repost) for updates on articles and journal issues as they come out.

The ANNALS of the AAPSS issue in honor of Becky Blank is live! journals.sagepub.com/toc/anna/711/1 My contribution (joint w/ Paul Courant & Julia Yates) was a labor of love: Understanding the Social Safety Net: Lessons from the Work of Rebecca Blank journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

RIP Jimmy Carter: underrated President, our best ex-President, and a person of extraordinary integrity. wapo.st/3VYcU4C

🚨 Exciting news! The 3rd #Diversity & #HumanCapital Workshop @uofebusiness.bsky.social returns June 16–17, 2025 🎉 Keynote speakers: Josh Angrist, Patricia Cortes & Imran Rasul. Call for Papers will be out soon. Stay tuned! tinyurl.com/yc8h2nkr #econsky #economics @uniofexeternews.bsky.social

Virtual Econ of Public Policy Seminar (VEPPS) continues on Mon 12/16 at 2pm ET with @sakshibhardwaj.bsky.social "Income During Infancy Reduces Criminal Activity for Fathers and Children: Evidence from a Discontinuity in Tax Benefits" More info: www.lucieschmidt.com/vepps-seminar #EconSky

The Race and Stratification Working Group at NBER will have its annual meeting on Friday, April 4, 2025! Dania Francis, Vicki Bogan, Ellora Derenoncourt and I are organizing the program. Submit your paper before the December 19, 2024 deadline! conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

Excited to see this WP by @mpbitler.bsky.social and Ted Figinski - new evidence on the long-term effects of Food Stamps using admin data, plus cool analyses of how the program built onto existing infrastructure in the Commodity Distribution Program #EconSky www.nber.org/papers/w3318...

Hey #EconSky #TeachEcon, what's a good podcast on growth that my Principles of Macro students would like?

Just re-upping this #econsky: I currently have more mentors than mentees/students (can probably match another 10-11 students from LMICs who would like feedback on a research paper from a senior scholar.) Fill out the form here if interested! forms.gle/ekvvoEKBLYQM...

Late to the party, but at the airport getting ready to head to National Harbor for @appam.bsky.social. Hopefully will see many of you tomorrow!

The Sadie Collective is on Bluesky!

📈📉 Just published in @jpube.bsky.social with @laurenhlb.bsky.social & Diane Schanzenbach: We examine how 1-time, in-kind food vouchers thru Pandemic EBT affected family well-being 1/N www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The California Policy Lab is on bsky! #Econsky @capolicylab.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/capo...

Hey #EconSky! #ASHEcon! @tejendrapsingh.bsky.social and I are looking for papers that fits broadly into the category of “Health and Development/Health Equity/Mental Health” and specifically into the category of access to health services to create a session at the 2025 @ashecon.bsky.social…

The Journal of the European Economic Association #JEEA is now on Bluesky: @jeeanews.bsky.social #EconSky 📉📈

Call for Abstracts is open for the SMLW Workshop through December 2. Follow this link to find out more and submit: www.atlantafed.org/news/confere... #econtwitter #economist #microeconomics

A newly precise null result on whether Medicaid induces cross-state migration, in an extensive job market paper by Carl McPherson. carlmcpherson.github.io

Quick econ tip: here's a list of over 100 economics conferences: docs.google.com/spreadsheets.... Curated by @anne-m-burton.bsky.social and @bartonwillage.com.

Virtual Econ of Public Policy Seminar (VEPPS) continues on Mon 11/18 at 2pm ET with Alejandro Cid (U de Montevideo) "Using technology and behavioral economics to promote development in the early years: The effect of an over-the-phone program" More info: www.lucieschmidt.com/vepps-seminar #EconSky

Hey all, I created a starter pack with a list of Black economists and academics for an easily accessible list of folks doing research that we can all follow and cite #Blacksky #AddtoBlacksky #Econsky: go.bsky.app/RyKSzcb

This place is really taking off now - so sharing this Starter Pack again which automatically follows all my fabulous team at @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social - do follow and share for the latest research on education policy and equalising opportunities 🎓🤲📚📈📉 #econsky #edsky

Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter #econsky is @MariaHdzdB @DepartamentoFAE who works on topics related to household economics, gender,+ crime sites.google.com/vie...

Hi #EconSky, I’m a current postdoc and Applied Microeconomist at Yale. My research is focused on topics pertaining to child development, the measurement of undiagnosed mental health status, and health and socioeconomic inequality. Excited to read great research that is shared here!

From the New Hires Quality Index: A year ago, the wage indices for men and women split drastically, rising 0.5 percent for women while falling 2.5 percent for men, the fastest drop on record. 📉📈 #NHQI www.upjohn.org/news/hiring-...

The largest temporary increase to UI benefits in US history had little impact on the job-finding rates of the unemployed, say researchers at the University of Chicago and JPMorgan Chase Institute. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...

Our new paper shows that men benefit from couples' long-distance joint moves more than women do, in both Germany and Sweden. Is this just b/c men are usually the main breadwinner? No, it's hard to explain the patterns we see w/o a gender norm prioritizing men's careers. www.nber.org/papers/w32970

Don't miss a chance to register for a workshop on Flourish by Jonathan Schwabish, author of "Better data visualization" & other books on #dataviz You'll learn to make dynamic & interactive #dataviz in Flourish without coding! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #dataskyence 📊

I'm always so glad to be reminded that other people -- impressive people! -- also don't know what the hell they're writing about until they've done a lot of writing

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 The Liberal Arts Colleges Public and Labor Economics Virtual Seminar is starting Spring 2024! First Friday of every month from 12:30-1:30 pm ET. Submit your extended abstracts by March 1: forms.gle/Z6uAv4GaGyjk... For more information: drive.google.com/file/d/1PFZD...

I am hiring a predoc to work with me at UC Berkeley. Anticipated start this summer. See here for more info: eml.berkeley.edu/~jrothst/Rot... Please circulate widely! This is a great role for someone considering grad school in the quantitative social sciences. Diverse candidates welcome. #EconSky

VEPPS (Virtual Economics of Poverty and Policy Seminar) starts next Mon, Jan 22 at 2pm ET w/ Marianne Bitler presenting "Effects of WIC on Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Newly Digitized Data from the National Archives" For more info & to sign up for emails: www.lucieschmidt.com/vepps-seminar

Call for Papers Alert! Join us for the 2nd Diversity & Human Capital Workshop in Exeter, 10-11 June, 2024! Keynote Speakers: Anna Aizer, David A Jaeger, Alan Manning Submission Deadline: 4 March 2024 Location: @uniofexeter.bsky.social Business School Details: sites.google.com/view/diversi...

Check out what @rginja.bsky.social says about our work (w/ Buetikofer and Landaud) on IG transmission of mental health in Aftenposten (www.aftenposten.no/foreldreliv/... ). Health IGs smaller than SES IGs but extended family matters for both. WP (www.nber.org/papers/w31446) now forthcoming in JHR