It is possible that the relationship recession will not correct itself. A striking 7% of singletons say they would consider a robo-romance with an AI companion. AI is patient, AI is kind and it won’t ask you to clean the bathroom or get a better job

Evidence for a detrimental causal effect of social isolation on cognitive function in older adults academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...

Woah. Argentina's 1990s preschool expansion program appears to have been a smashing success. The program increased high school completion by a whole 11.9 percentage points. The authors estimate that for every $1 spent, the preschool expansion generated about $11 in benefits.

It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

It's good to see some sensible approaches to regulating ebikes to make everyone safer. It's unfortunate that the same logic is not applied to cars, which are far more dangerous.

Standard health tests may miss those at most risk

🚨 New working paper! How well do people predict the results of studies? @sdellavi.bsky.social and I leverage data from the first 100 studies to have been posted on the SSPP, containing 1,482 key questions, on which over 50,000 forecasts were placed. Some surprising results below.... 🧵👇

Some surveys are starting to show a fall in America’s obesity rates. But as with all surveys, these findings come with caveats

„Even if the plan falls apart, this arrogant and confusing ultimatum […] will do permanent damage to America’s reputation as a reliable ally, not only in Europe but around the world.“

Ultraprocessed food intake and early-onset colon adenomas (pre-cancer) in a large cohort of >29,000 women followed for >24 years jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Featured in the latest Bulletin on Health: Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic www.nber.org/bh/20253/pai...

In an ongoing project, we ask which countries citizens prefer as benchmarks for policy decisions. Pilot data from the UK show that Denmark is ranked as one of the most preferred reference countries, particularly in relation to migration policy.

China is changing the clean-energy game. If its solar panels, EVs and wind turbines are not gifts to the world in themselves, their ever-shrinking prices are an undoubted, and most welcome, boon

Introducing the world to our amazing Malengo students, vol. 2: Please meet Violet Nampala from Uganda, who is studying Energy Systems Engineering at Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Germany! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru9R...

Some lovely first reviews of "The Means of Prediction" are out: www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.p... (by @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social) 1/n

🚨Next time you hire, don’t take it easy! In a new working paper, @elliottash.bsky.social, Jason Sockin, and I show the difficulty of the interview signals to workers whether the job is a good fit. 🚨 Paper link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The large increase in steel tariffs under GW Bush did not cause an increase in steel-industry employment. But it did hurt the US industries that use steel to make things, reducing employment there long after the tariffs were gone. New in @aeajournals.bsky.social —> doi.org/10.1257/pol....

🚨A new AI model can forecast malnutrition rates in Kenya with 89% accuracy one month in advance and provide up to 6 months of lead time for intervention. This could save countless lives by getting resources to at-risk areas before crisis hits. How it works 👉 bit.ly/4n1oer6 via Conversation UK

Bei der @isdh.ch ist noch bis zum 26. Oktober eine Stelle für eine studentische Hilfskraft ausgeschrieben; eine sehr gute Gelegenheit, einen ersten Schritt zu einer Karriere im Bereich der Menschenrechte zu gehen. www.isdh.ch/de/aktiv-wer...

The real value of the Bureau of Labor Statistics's budget has fallen for over a decade. The president is proposing deep cuts alongside other attacks on the agency. Progress requires Congress to re-establish BLS independence & support innovation & funding. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

Knowledge spillovers are key to growth but hard to estimate. Randomly giving out energy-efficient motors to leather-goods firms in Bangladesh led to strong local spillovers, from Ritam Chaurey, Gaurav Nayyar, Siddharth Sharma, and @ericverhoogen.bsky.social https://www.nber.org/papers/w34296

Wie Begleitung durch qualifizierte Assistent:innen das Leben von #taubblinden Menschen, die gar nicht oder kaum sehen und hören können, positiv verändert. Mein Beitrag in der #Zib1 1/2 on.orf.at/video/142930...

Over the last century, many democracies have started down the road to autocracy. Some managed to turn around. What did these 'U-turns' have in common? Political economist @marinanord.bsky.social & colleagues' conclusions are clear and succinct. Full research summary: www.v-dem.net/media/public...

Some researchers are calling on public-health experts to tone down the emphasis on avoiding the sun, and to acknowledge that the risks and benefits of exposure differ between those with lighter or darker skin

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

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.

Reducing access to abortions ... - increases families' economic hardship, - increases families' debt, - increases income inequality, - increases housing insecurity, and - increases financially motivated crime rates.

Great chart from WaPo. Print it out. Next time someone says EU carmakers are doomed because Tesla was born in a garage and embodies US business acumen they can’t match, remind them the story is incomplete. Musk’s rise was fuelled by $38 billion in gov contracts, loans, subsidies & tax credits.

This is such a great idea/service!! Have Brendan-bot give you pre-submission comments on your paper!

Jair Bolsonaro shut himself away in Brazil’s presidential palace for 40 days after he lost the 2022 election. 1843 uncovers what his advisors were plotting behind closed doors

Thread: 1/ What explains the rising prevalence of disability in the US? Over the past years, we've seen the share of over-16 Americans with a disability rise by ~1 percentage point, according to the Current Population Survey. Most of this increase has come in the last few years.

Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.

Just in time as tariffs on Switzerland bite high end chocolate #econsky #chocolate marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/08/choc...

"Werden Häuser noch teurer?", fragt der Tagi bezüglich #Eigenmietwert. Meine Antwort: Selbstverständlich. Wenn man Steuern senkt auf ein inelastisch angebotenes Gut, dann steigt dessen Marktpreis. Wie stark wäre der Preisschub? Eine grobe Schätzung. 🧵 1/ www.tagesanzeiger.ch/eigenmietwer...

An experimental study investigated how “the effects of psilocybin”—the active ingredient in magic mushrooms—“are experienced and interpreted by religious clergy”. Here’s what they found

A seismic shift occurred in age-wealth profiles in the US over 1983-2022 with a sharp rise in the relative wealth of age group 75 and over and declines of all other age groups, from Edward N. Wolff https://www.nber.org/papers/w34131

I take no pleasure in reporting that social scientists' conclusions regarding the effect of immigration on support for the welfare state, based on the exact same data, are affected by their own political beliefs about immigration. Wild experiment by Nate Breznau et al. www.nber.org/papers/w33274

Excited to have this WP out! We use a real-stakes survey experiment to measure misperceptions about air pollution/health impacts & test whether updating beliefs changes WTP for clean air We find large misperceptions, but not strong evidence that rectifying these would close Black-White WTP gaps

This title is well put! But do not forget that not everyone has grandparents available. "Grandparents are the reserve army of society" www.ft.com/content/ca30...

The collapse of a critical climate system could mean a sudden, severe cooling in Europe—even as the rest of the world keeps warming. We explain what this devastating scenario would look like

Core goods inflation has been mainly supply-driven since January 2025. (Meaning prices up sales down)

🇺🇸🇨🇭 A 39% US tariff on Swiss exports: what does it mean for Switzerland? @fabricolella.bsky.social (‪@usiidep.bsky.social‬) with ‪@rlalive.bsky.social‬ & S. Schroeter (UNIL‬) examine the impact on cantons & firms, and discuss possible policy responses about it. Read more: www.eco.usi.ch/en/feeds/9993

Look at how parenthood imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers! "[Parenthood] creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant prescriptions of about 93.2% ([in] Austria) and 64.8% ([in] Denmark)."

Trump's nominee for BLS commissioner, EJ Antoni, is disastrously terrible. He's a 1200%, 1300% maybe 1400% in-the-tank Trumper, with few credentials beyond a history of misrepresenting or misunderstanding economic statistics. He has shown no commitment to truth www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Look at how Trump's tariffs are affecting retail prices.

This is the premier economics conference in the subfield of immigration to high-income countries. #EconConf #EconSky

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "The impact of economic opportunity on criminal behavior: Evidence from the fracking boom" By @brittanystreet.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky #publiceconomics