Come to London for a great workshop organized by my colleagues!
Come to London for a great workshop organized by my colleagues!
Please consider citing if you are a fixest user!
MSP airport protest
Are you in Boston next week and want to hear two serious physicists have a conversation about aliens?
I will discuss whether aliens speak physics with @mattstrassler.bsky.social on Nov 17 at the Harvard Bookstore. @harvardbookstore.bsky.social
Thrilled to announce the publication of our @rooseveltinstitute.org report that uncovers the policy roots of the current crises facing our news, information & communication systems. We argue that media reform must become central to a US pro-democracy movement. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
I had to look up #2
Does marriage still causally change the division of labour after having a first child? We revisit this question and find evidence of two types of households - some specialize BUT for more modern couples marriage increases coordination - men earn less, take more paternity leave and women keep working
IWAEE 2026 (16th) Meetings - Call for Papers now open!
Submit your papers on education economics via
iwaee.org/new/
Deadline for submissions 27th February
14th to 16th June 2026, Catanzaro, Italy
Keynotes: Esteban Aucejo, Hannah Schildberg-HΓΆrisch and @marirege.bsky.social
#EconSky
Our new book is out today! @andycomics.bsky.social
Going to be in Boston 11/17? Come see me and @mattstrassler.bsky.social talk aliens and physics!
I read @itsafronomics.bsky.social new book βThe Double Taxβ this afternoon. Itβs engaging and one of the best popular ways to bring social science to the public and policy that Iβve read in a long while. Black women are uniquely disadvantaged in our economy. π she gave Janelle James her flowers!
Saying the quiet part out loud, again.
Please join me in signing and sharing:
For Day 2 of our celebration of work using the Census Tree we highlight @lukestein.com & co's work on the gendered impacts of perceived skin tone. They find that among African Amer. sisters, women perceived to be darker-skinned were disadvantaged.
*They also cite a great QJE pub by Lisa Cook et al*
Another good place to start: www.nber.org/conferences/...
Worth a read if you don't already follow Phil. TLDR:
what gif pops up when you type your name?
Hey Luna, what do you mean when you say "i got too excited"?
Stable genius!
"Young political vigilantes" have historically been very useful to dictatorships--from Berlin to Beijing--because they gleefully engage in mass violent destruction of social institutions whose value and purpose they do not understand.
Ex: Mao's Red Guard:
www.theguardian.com/world/2023/j...
i understand the american people on average not reading history books what with the failing education system etc but what the fuck is the university leadership's excuse
πNew @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social working paper
Why are students from elite high schools much more likely to go to high ranked university courses than equally qualified students from the state sector? π€
w @opmc1.bsky.social @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social & Jo Blanden
econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...
When an English person shares how they feel about good news: "I feel, um, unnecessarily emotional about it."
from Thames Water documentary. Worth a watch.
This π
Recognising the growing difference between predicted grades and achieved grades over time, UCAS are piloting personalised reports to schools
These will show schools how their UCAS predicted grades compare to achieved results
www.ucas.com/corporate/ne...
Author of "One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps"
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Great article on school lunch debt relief
www.huffpost.com/entry/utah-s...
Yesterday, @carlbergstrom.com presented his course "Modern-day Oracles or BS Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world". Neat way to make students aware of the capacities and limitations of LLMsππ°
Recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZC0...
Course: thebullshitmachines.com
@unswbabs.bsky.social
Is it better to have standardised exams or teacher assessments?
Myself and my colleague @opmc1.bsky.social have read the literature so you don't have to. Our @iza.org world of labour summarises below #econsky