Shanah Tovah. If you are a Jewish health professional, please consider signing this letter calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza. As we begin the days of awe, as we welcome in a new year, now is the time. We must do better. We cannot remain silent. zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

The best time of the year 🎃

There is no clear evidence that paracetamol has any harmful effects on an unborn baby.

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

We (development econ faculty at Princeton) are hiring predocs, to start in summer 2026. Please share the application with folks who might be interested: rpde.princeton.edu/rpde-%E2%80%93-predoctoral-fellows-research-specialists-start-summer-2026 We'll review apps starting on 9/15. Thanks!

@vicbar.bsky.social @ralphdehaas.bsky.social @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social & I Matavelli show that adherence to masculinity norms strongly predicts men's labour supply, risk-taking, health behaviours, and support for authoritarian leadership. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

📢New working paper: "Masculinity Norms and Their Economic Consequences" w/ @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social Ieda [email protected]. We review the literature on how masculinity norms - the informal rules guiding men's behavior - shape economic outcomes in health, labor markets & politics. 🧵

Unfortunately this was 100% predictable.

help secure the future of The Little Bookroom, Melbourne's finest children's bookshop www.gofundme.com/f/littlebook...

#BestTitleAward #EconSky Sara Hernandez is coming to Unibo next week. Her paper title: "Guns N’ Roses: The Impact of Female Employment Opportunities on Violence in Colombia" Took me a while. had to read the abstract to get it... But I love it. 10 out of 10. sites.northwestern.edu/hernandez/

word of the day

Check out this very interesting new research by my wonderful colleague @leroutierm.bsky.social !

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

Seems like there is a problem with editorial practice in our field.

My occasional reminder that NBER working papers are not open access: "All visitors to the NBER website are eligible for 3 free downloads each year." Be a sport; post a version on your website rather than just link to the NBER website.

Australia's major parties would rather kill off our 3rd biggest export market for a dog whistle policy than to limit negative gearing or invest in public housing

Worst two-day stock market crashes in the U.S. by percentage loss: 1. 1929 (the Great Depression) 2. 1987 (Black Monday) 3. 2008 (the Great Recession) 4. YESTERDAY AND TODAY And while this happened, the man responsible for it was golfing and dining with enemies of America.

Russian Ballistic Missile hits just before the golden hour as children are playing in their neighborhood on their local playground in Kryvyi Rih. 18 already killed 9 are children. Many more wounded. A precision weapon targeting a civilian neighborhood. Russia continues to commit war crimes.

let’s be real, there’s no rampant antisemitism on campuses. What there is plenty of is weaponised victimhood and the Fascist Team Trump take advantage of it for their gain

Of course. Trump isn’t going to relinquish power, ever. Open your eyes America, you have entered the world of fascism.

Great new chapter in the world happiness report on most effective charities, by happier lives institute. StrongMinds listed as one of the top charities. whr-2025--worldhappiness.netlify.app/ed/2025/givi...

Not sure if Rajiv’s readers need convincing, but defending higher education is paramount. Lest America will launch itself back into the Stone Age.

Working on issues related to gender, diversity, and human capital? Come join us for BAEM 2025, 8/9 May! ‼️Submission deadline: Friday next week (28 Feb)‼️

NIH funding supports the vast majority of all biomedical research in the United States. Virtually every advance in American medicine and biological science comes from NIH. This is a blow against American science. Call Congress, 202-224-3121.

Holy moly. This is what I was afraid of. The impact on science and higher ed is going to be devastating 😢

Congratulations on a great year!

Do you know that #Qualtrics can support longitudinal surveys? Well, now you know! I wrote a blog post (tinyurl.com/mwyekdsc) summarizing this niche knowledge I picked up during fieldwork. You can also find screenshots below👇in case my site goes down bc I forgot to renew my VPS. #EconSky

How is Amazon’s user experience so bad? The website is busy and difficult to navigate, the emails hopelessly useless because the don’t show the products in the order half the time. Plus it’s inconsistent. Can’t be that hard to improve? It’s literally just layout.

Happy International Men’s Day! Today Ralph De Haas and I talk about our paper Masculinity Around the World, joint with @iedamatavelli.bsky.social and Pauline Grosjean, on VoxTalks @voxeu.org cepr.org/multimedia/m... podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/v...

Great conference! Apply!

Happy International Men’s Day! Today Ralph De Haas and I talk about our paper Masculinity Around the World, joint with @iedamatavelli.bsky.social and Pauline Grosjean, on VoxTalks @voxeu.org cepr.org/multimedia/m... podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/v...

Don't miss the deadline.

Decided to follow in the great steps of @aaronsojourner.org and make an Australian economists starter pack - please @ me if you want to be added ;) go.bsky.app/UBe8fW8

The University of Melbourne Starter Pack is live! 🎉 Whether you're a researcher, student, or staff at #UniMelb, join in to connect with our amazing and growing community here. Know someone we missed? Tag them below and help spread the word! #HigherEd #Research #Melbourne #Australia

@iedamatavelli.bsky.social welcome to Bluesky! Ieda is a super talented economist and on the market this year. Please follow her!

I want people to understand that HIV antiretroviral therapies are so advanced that you can make it so HIV is undetectable and therefore cannot be transmitted to other people. We also have medicine that can keep you from getting HIV if exposed. This type of skepticism and denial will kill people.

We are an American university located in Europe. Just saying.

Science friends in the U.S.: we have two months to make sure data, code, and websites are saved somewhere securely. This isn't going to be pretty.

Exactly my feelings

Rage, rage against the dying of the light. But don’t give into despair. For those of us who cling to liberal values, moral principles, and the dignity of all people, there is much work to do.

He has prevailed. We live in a country full of terrible, stupid people. I do not want to spend the next several weeks hearing people tell me what the left should have done differently. There is nothing wrong with the left. This is a systemic problem with the RIGHT. They are evil.

🚨Thrilled to share our new paper "Causal Claims in Economics"! 🚨 @fetzert and I analysed over 44,000 economics papers using AI to create a knowledge graph of economics and map out causal relationships. Here's what we found 🧵👇

Oh god I’ve “followed all” with too many starter packs, and now my feed is gibberish (to me). Is there a rewind button somewhere?

Short 🧵on a fascinating new paper by Ieda Matavelli (on the JMP!), Baranov, Grosjean + de Haas. . . tl;dr adherence to dominance masculinity norms varies across + within countries, predicting economic, political, health outcomes

My group at the Illinois Gies College of Business--which includes @tderyugina.bsky.social, David Molitor, Riley League, Mackenzie Alston, and Nolan Miller--is seeking a public/environmental economist! Here's our job posting: #EconSky www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

A postdoc position at the University of Bern:

This was a great write up about the Nobel prize winning research. Congratulations to AJR!