Prof Dynarski

To give you a sense of how big a deal it is to me:

Summers was my PhD advisor’s PhD advisor

This is a major development. The American Economic Association (AEA) and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) are the most powerful groups of economists in the world.

“Skoot” is what my Golden does to clean his butt on the floor

No, it’s a change and it’s new. Leave <> expulsion

And I was a math-loving high school student hearing my usually feminist dad speculate that maybe Summers had a point because he was the president of Harvard...

Still got an econ phd, though. Better late than never, NBER.

I was a junior science professor at a Southern institution with a lot of dinosaurs and a few puffed-up junior (male) colleagues who ate up the Summers viewpoint. Damage was widespread.

25 years ago, I was a very anxious junior female economics professor at Harvard

while our President Larry Summers was telling the world how women weren’t very smart

Wish the arc bent a bit more sharply

According to MS Now, the new Epstein dump revealed the names of 21 victims.

I'm happy to report that they also failed to redact phone numbers for Larry Summers, Kathy Ruemmler, and a bunch of other bad actors.

Happy international women’s day!

John Oliver (on right) gestures with his hands as he speaks. On left, a ProPublica headline from December 15, 2025 reads: “Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.” An article excerpt below says: "... turning rows red, yellow or green every few seconds, never asking a single question.”

1/ On yesterday’s @lastweektonight.com about USAID, John Oliver cited several of our investigations.

First up was our reporting about how DOGE operatives had arbitrarily cut aid programs, in some cases by literally clicking through a spreadsheet: propub.li/4cCsSKP

To give you a sense of how big a deal this is: Summers’ PhD advisor made NBER what it is today

Exclusive | National Bureau of Economic Research Cuts Ties With Larry Summers The former Treasury secretary and Harvard president is no longer affiliated with America’s leading economics organization.

Larry Summers is no longer part of the NBER www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Exclusive | National Bureau of Economic Research Cuts Ties With Larry Summers The former Treasury secretary and Harvard president is no longer affiliated with America’s leading economics organization.

www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Got a new paper coming out soon with a lot of co-authors but this one has us beat

Who Gets What in Education: Can School Matching Improve Student Achievement? Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

See also postsec education

“Our findings indicate that capacity constraints, rather than poor school matching, primarily drive educational inequality.”

www.nber.org/papers/w34936

Reading this

It’s full of sharp insights and even sharper snark

I am an economist so I guess I get to ask: Why do you consider it bollocks?

My take:

The piece is largely about distributional preferences, which vary by economist.

Author is making the point that econs w/ a particular set of prefs have dominated the policy convo.

Seems straightforward.

5 Lessons from the End of the Larry Summers Era Summers’ influence was immense, but so were his blind spots. It’s time for economics that values people and the planet over power and prestige.

www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”

10/10 take. no notes

Ten years, convos with male friends telling me it is insane to think Trump is worse than Cruz

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"Since Liberation Day -- the President's last big, bold set of promises when he told us everything was about to be magical -- we've lost jobs. We've gone backwards...

I'm going to call that a jobs recession."

You related to Margaret Urquhart, Evan?

I’m relying on *looking out the window* to keep myself updated

This was over an hour ago and our first responders have wrapped up a lot. Can still see vehicles stationed there.

Go to Inman

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Huge house-shaking blast in Central Sq, Cambridge

Manhole explosion says the emergency line

Smoke, emergency vehicles

Inman and Bishop Allen

Inman is closed off

Avoid Central Sq

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