Ooooooo I'm making the Department of Homeland Security mad with my new research y'all Check out @planetmoney.bsky.social's coverage of my research on the labor market effects of ICE in Trump 2.0 and DHS' response here: www.npr.org/sections/pla...

I'm looking for a successor to edit the weekly NEP reports for Economics of Gender @repec-nep-gen.bsky.social (which you can subscribe to here: ideas.repec.org/n/nep-gen/). If you are interested in this and/or have questions, please send me DM or email me!

Dear lord almighty, 20+% of finance papers are winsorizing?

Interesting new applied econometrics paper: Winsorizing and Trimming in RCTs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Weird that this is in JDE instead of an econometrics journal, but not surprising given recent experiences doing applied econometrics work.

`wrds` 0.1.1 is out. It has better error messages for Duo 2FA issues, and a new `wrds_update_password()` function. Install from GitHub with `pak::pak("statzhero/wrds")`. Feedback welcome. #rstats github.com/statzhero/wrds

I carve my grades in a linocut mirror image and then print them by hand using the spoon burnishing method

Well this is a bit insane but in case anyone wants to see us live:

Just wrapped up another year of Quant 2, my PhD-level causal inference course. Lots of updates to the literature this year, did an "estimator tournament" as part of an assignment on DID estimators, and included regular in-class pen and paper exercises. Materials here: cyrussamii.com?page_id=4190

My post yesterday was about the experiment about social media and the job market for economists. I noticed later that PNAS posted a comment on our article, by Professor Peter Rousseau, secretary of the American Economic Association #econsky #academicsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/05/pete...

@hannahritchie.bsky.social is doing the lord's work. open.substack.com/pub/hannahri...

I just became aware this morning that Google Gemini's AI search results are even *incorporating recent search history in the same session* as context, which distorts output based on what the user might have thought were separate/private queries. Wild. I recommend this instead: kagi.com

How households perceive the transmission of monetary policy and how these perceptions affect their decisions, from Francesco Grigoli, Damiano Sandri, @ygorodnichenko.bsky.social, and Olivier Coibion www.nber.org/papers/w35127

Apple pushed an update that stopped deleted Signal messages being stored in the iPhone’s notification database. This comes directly in response to 404 Media finding the FBI was using this technique to recover deleted Signal messages. No longer an issue now www.404media.co/apple-fixes-...

Just finished Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and yup Paul is right, pretty much game of the decade. Absolutely immersive world with beautiful scenery, a substantial story that is happy to not overexplain itself, and fantastic gameplay. Even the strong frenchness works out well.

I'm no PR expert, but I'm pretty sure sending an all-campus email that says "When I backed out of my parking space I was careful not to hit any protestors" is going to raise more questions than it answers. Here's one: were a Nobel-winning economist & a Sociological Methodology editor also involved?

suno.com/s/M5XlpdgyMn... lmfao Difference-in-differences Needs that parallel line If the world keeps moving weird It starts to drift in time And you can dress them up In the same fancy suit But causation asks for proof Not just a pretty view [Chorus] Randomize, randomize That’s the honest way

Are you cool? We asked Americans, and 56% say yes, they're at least somewhat cool. 35% say they're not that cool. Check out more in the latest @today.yougov.com newsletter (and subscribe for more polls in your inbox!): substack.com/home/post/p-...

What are people's favorite looper pedals

Wall upgrade

We are still interviewing for research assistants at the Philly Fed for this cycle. It’s a great opportunity for students who want to get more experience with research and there are lots of development opportunities rb.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FRS/jo...

Resharing for some good news on the timeline. We are two days into our 6 months of treatment. Max is doing great and we are all so happy to have him on the mend.

Microsoft's MIT licensed VibeVoice speech-to-text model (think Whisper with speaker diarization) is really good - my notes on running the 5.71GB 4bit MLX conversion on an M5 MacBook, using about 60GB of RAM at peak and transcribing 1hr of audio in ~9 mins simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/27/...

Happy to see that `jgd` is now up on CRAN. An alternative #rstats graphics device that's fast and lightweight (mostly pure C). Try it out with our VS Code extension or Deno server. More details: github.com/grantmcdermo... Joint work with the indefatigable @eitsupi.bsky.social.

To illustrate how much bots are pounding RePEc sites, Google Analytics, which is supposed to weed them out, thinks there have been 3.5M active users from Singapore (population 6M) in the last four weeks. And as many users from Iraq as from Canada. ideas.repec.org #RePEc #EconSky

Know an economist who'd make a great AEA journal editor or board member? Nominate them — or yourself!

My friend is teaching to his Economics Ph.D. students and explaining why they should be interested in topics that are not in their subfield. The friend asked for statements about why learning from other fields is good. Here was my answer: " Five things:

My colleague Felix Weinhardt @bsoeberlin.bsky.social just released a short but important note that might make you rethink how you interpret your OLS estimates. Worth a look @paulgp.com @p-hunermund.com @ariannaornaghi.bsky.social @conjugateprior.org 👇 opus4.kobv.de/opus4-hsog/f...

All CRAN source packages (22749 tarballs as of today) contain 5.8Gb PNG images in total. Lossless compression via tinyimg::tinyping() can save 1.9Gb (32.0% savings), and lossy compression without noticeable differences can save 2.8Gb (48.2%): pkg.yihui.org/tinyimg/exam... (plot on the page is slow)

📣Come work with me @harvard.edu @harvard.edu @harvardhbs.bsky.social -based doctoral student RA, **market design, micro theory**, start date: the sooner the better👀 (at least now through summer) - G2+, remote option AI and market design, etc. alexchan.net @vmdseminar.bsky.social

Our @jamahealthforum.com paper, "Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Reminder Emails, Program Use, and Prescribing" has been selected as a JAMA Network Clinical Trial of the Year! Read it here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

How does Ace read spin in real time? Published in @nature.com, Ace is the first robot to beat a professional athlete in a physical sport. Its Gaze Control System tracks spin during fast rallies, helping it interpret the game as it unfolds.

New Census data on AI adoption released today, finding: - only 5% of AI-adopting firms report headcount impacts, with equal numbers increasing and decreasing staff - but...

arXiv📈🤖 Who Benefits from AI? Self-Selection, Skill Gap, and the Hidden Costs of AI Feedback By Riedl, Bogert

I'll be at a workshop organized by @rohanalexander.bsky.social next week on how AI will change quantitative social science. This is my short paper, and this is the key argument. ryancbriggs.net/blog/as-ai-l...

I have a PhD in economics, I have worked in academia, policy, and banking. So far ranking is banking>policy>academia. But I think policy and banking can easily go the other way around - I am just lucky I landed an amazing job in the private sector.

Percentage of adults with a Ph.D.

Python implementation of `rdrobust` that is significantly faster! github.com/leostimpfle/... These runtimes are in logscale!!

Munetaka Murakami did it again. His eighth home run of the season left his bat at 114.1 mph and traveled 425 feet.

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

This is a huge deal in the world of higher ed data. RTI lost the IPEDS contract (effective in just two weeks!) to a much smaller firm. It's worth watching, to say the least. www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...

been trying to get my claw to teach me Lean - send PRs cuz misery loves company github.com/apoorvalal/l...

Me: [idly looking up info on popes] Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it. Me: wut? Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]

Daily stock returns since 1950.

I love the pop-ups over the data availability tag! (And thanks to all those RAs of mine who have proof-read the input text that makes it work!)

It's easy to trick people with the false dichotomy fallacy. Except for the Dutch, who are innately resistant to it. Hence the name, Neitherlands.

"I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia."

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

We've launched In Development! It is aiming to be the New Yorker for global development. We want to promote discourse on development without dogma - stories doing deep-dives into pressing development issues, backed up by evidence, argument, and experience. Subscribe here: indevelopmentmag.com

Papers now also indicate my analysis of the data accessibility in their data repos. Shows up on the paper listings, and on the exported paper CSV. So, easy exercise is to search for "regression discontinuity" and filter the CSV by "full data" to get a bunch of examples.