Oh snap, another Aidan Toner-Rodgers related retraction

I'm thrilled to announce a new report I wrote with @ksavin.bsky.social and @calliefreitag.bsky.social on the impact of DOGE/Trump 2.0 turmoil on Social Security disability programs. As the title says, these programs have always been tough to navigate. But in the last year, they've gotten worse.

This sounds nice, but the more I think about it the more I think it ignores trade offs and public trust at a fundamental level. It implies that passing policy that we think is not beneficial (but not harmful) 1) doesn’t affect the appetite for/budget of political capital for other, better policies.

Asking as someone who will soon have to move a lot of books: has anyone price shopped books with regular move vs mailing separately as media mail?

My kingdom for a monster of the week show with 20 episodes a season, compelling characters, and a cozily well-built world.

Cough Cough Len Blavatnik and Blavatnik School at Oxford. Speaking of which: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

I am chairing the search for two (2) Tenure Track positions at the Department of Health Services, Policy and Management at @uscarnoldschool.bsky.social We are looking to move relatively fast so please get your applications in quickly #HealthPolicy #AcademicSky uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...

I consider this to be near-perfect and I’m strangely proud of myself

Excited to announce GOLLUM, an app that helps you focus on your most precious possession!

Episode 39 of the current Kilauea eruption has started. Currently the live web cams are showing some great, nighttime lava fountaining! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXKu... and www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0t... Lately these episodes have been lasting a day or less; check it out while you can!

Very impressive public service! And I beg you for some additional public service -- given you are a role model for younger scholars -- which is make the font size and marker size larger relative to the plot region, for the sake of old folks 😀

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Is there any estimate — national, state-level, I'll take any estimate — of the share of Medicaid beneficiaries whose enrollment is prompted by/at a medical visit? (Versus filling out application paperwork outside of/without the help of a health care provider.)

All I want for Christmas is policies with a high MVPF. Funded by taxes. Instead of whatever Michael Dell feels like doing with his money.

I'm on the #EconJobMarket! I study how policies and childhood environments shape outcomes of low-income & vulnerable kids. In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.

Idea: Swap out the WH Press Corps with the audience at an Econ seminar

We’ve 100% lost the war on using phones while driving and it’s the worst.

I’ll be there too! Come see the former RDRC fellows

Upset that Firefly got canceled? It was the immigrants. Halitosis? It was immigrants. Bald spot? Yup, immigrants. Spouse not that into you anymore? Immigrants. Is the mailman jerkin’ you ‘round? Did he put your million dollar check in someone else’s box? Immigrants.

Charlotte Area: This is the link for the Carolina Migrant Network carolinamigrantnetwork.org Now is a good time to keep their information handy. Donating to them, if you can, is another good thing you could do.

With 🧊 in Charlotte, we will be posting as many resources as we can find to help anyone in Charlotte as well as what we need to know across the state. Carolina Migrant Network has a hotline that you can call especially if you are in Charlotte. They will verify that it is 🧊 and will notify.

5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage: “Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers” “Church members flee as federal agents arrive” “Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee” “Border Patrol questions people at Walmart” “Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”

Headed to Seattle for my first #APPAM2025! If you’re in town say hi! I’ll be presenting my paper on the impacts of Social Security staffing levels on Friday afternoon. #EconConf

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

Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball! This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers. paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

I am ACountant Dracula, I want to keep you in the black

It's that time of year again... #EconSky

Reminder to everyone donating to food banks in light of the Republicans starving SNAP: It is far more cost effective to donate directly to food banks than to buy food and give it to them. They can buy in bulk and have existing relationships with sellers, so your few bucks go way further that way

Good thread. This is the one that broke me.

Okay #EconSky, if you do any kind of spatial analysis, it's a good time to be alive ☞ A new, open-access global spatial database combining 73 harmonized datasets on the world population, its distribution in space, and its characteristics, 2015–2023: doi.org/10.12688/ver...

In 1959, an American schoolgirl wrote C.S. Lewis (THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE) and asked for advice on writing. This was his response:

Folks if you usually do end-of-year/holiday charity giving, consider moving it up to the beginning of November instead and hit up however many local food pantries you can afford to give to. (Check if you or a spouse/partner's employer does charity matching, too.)

Once when canvassing I asked a voter his #1 concern and it was "yard sales are not enforcing sales tax"

A couple thousand showed up in Newport Beach, CA, lining both sides of the PCH. Good turnout considering there were at least 3 other locations within 20 min drive. I would say cars were about 50% supportive, 40% indifferent, 10% giving us middle fingers. Not bad for a formerly deep red part of OC!

Are you organizing an online seminar in economics? Then make sure it is listed on the Virtual Economics Seminar Calendar. And do it early, every Sunday MyIDEAS subscribers can get notified about those in their field. ideas.repec.org/v/ #RePEc #EconSky

The shutdown keeps dragging on, this line keeps going up, and prediction markets now suggest that it's more likely than not this will be the longest government shutdown in US history (previous record 35 days).

🚨 2-Year Postdocs in Dev Econ at Uni Copenhagen 🚨 Come work on some exciting experimental projects😀! Dedicated time for your own research. Reach out to hear more! ** PLEASE REPOST **🙏 Application deadline 🗓️: Nov 11 👉http://bit.ly/4q2Uehf #EconSky

Society of Labor Economists (SoLE) Annual Conference will be May 1-2, 2026 in Denver, Colorado. Submission portal is now open! Deadline for submissions is October 31--don't forget to submit! It will be a great conference! (organized by me and @jrothst.bsky.social) mailchi.mp/sole-jole/so...

Deeply disappointed with my alma mater, where I was subject to right-wing and occasionally extremely hateful rhetoric as free speech, that they think that protection only applies to some people.

🚨NEW RESULTS (w/ Slattery & Nober) - When gov't engineers retire, highway projects cost more: the engineers pay for themselves 6 times over - Improving gov’t engineer quality from the 25th to 75th percentile reduces costs by 14%, equal to 3x avg. engineer pay Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I have students write for five minutes at the start of every class about the reading. I don't grade them, but I give feedback. It works pretty well to ensure a baseline level of reading and regular writing practice. I do it in a Bluebook that goes back and forth, collecting their writing over time.

I’ve done this for 2 weeks now and it *absolutely rules*. Best class discussions I’ve ever had. Best engagement with readings. They write in this worksheet for 15 minutes, then talk about their responses in groups of 3-4, then groups share with the whole class, and *then* we talk about the readings

Arwen’s favorite caturdays are CFB Caturdays. Go tigers!

In case you’re wondering how energy policy is going in California, the fully regressive pricing structure will be taking effect soon 🙃

Not the Denver airports fault, but last year I had to bathe my cat in the bathroom sink and it was clean, quiet, and well stocked with pretty view to the tarmac. Plus I found a shirt for like $7 to change into, which is an absolute steal for an airport.

See! My hoarding of clothing and refusing to part with anything was actually rational all along. I *will* need it one day!

What Bluesky is actually missing are companies customer service people who actually respond, unlike virtual assistants and phone trees. Seriously, FedEx, what is this??