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Female PhD students (in economics) benefit tremendously from having female faculty around. When female professors go on leave, it decreases third-year female PhD students’ likelihood of publishing & securing academic positions. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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If you’ve got a badge and a gun but think your actions are shameful enough to need a mask, you should quit.

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Tufts University is thrilled to host the North East Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference on November 8-9, 2025! 📝 Call for Papers: Submissions start June 16, and end August 17. Submit your papers here: editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conf... More details to come! #NEUDC #NEUDC2025

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www.nber.org/papers/w33910

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Pushing the Envelope: The Effects of Salary Negotiations www.nber.org/papers/w3390... "Women responded more strongly to both interventions, helping to narrow gender gaps....The model's equilibrium analysis indicates that policies encouraging negotiation can enhance both welfare and equity."

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Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

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#NoKings protest in Philadelphia

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Philly showin' up today

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ConfWatcher, a new tool to discover economics conferences confwatcher.b2ideas.eu

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github.com/kylebutts/vs... If you are using vscode and stata, you should try out my extension. It uses interactive window which let's you write in a `.do` file but get a notebook type experience.

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If I have time I'll put together a more detailed thread tomorrow, but for now, I think this new paper about limitations of Chain-of-Thought models could be quite important. Worth a look if you're interested in these sorts of things. ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-i...

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EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn. BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS. #EconSky

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this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

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President Harker’s final public speech before he retires this month.

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🆕📢 New publication in the Journal of Refugee Studies! How does exposure to refugees shape local attitudes in the world's largest refugee-hosting country? 👇 Key findings from my article on Türkiye 🧵 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jrs/...

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Successfully submitted two papers before the kiddo finished school for the year. That month gap between my courses finishing but my kid remaining in school is super helpful for research productivity. Now to enjoy the summer (before guilt about course preps begins).

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The latest #JOLTS data on job openings, hires, quits and layoffs showed little changed between March and April 2025. Except for the federal workforce—which has suffered 31,000 layoffs since January—the private-sector so far has held steady in the face of haphazard tariffs and spending cuts. #EconSky

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Happy to share this paper. Full thread coming soon!

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Our work now published showing how better AI can improve both accuracy and diversity in hiring relative to supervised learning tools and status-quo human hiring.

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www.nber.org/papers/w33867

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Let’s go Liberty!

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Working on a piece exactly to try to refute this point International students do not generally take away slots from Americans! People’s brains have been totally cooked by SFA v. Harvard and by the obsession on undergrad admissions!

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This is terribly sad news. Stan taught a generation of economic leaders. And he was a nice human being. RIP www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Sad to hear of the passing of Stan Fischer, who was not only a great economist, but perhaps the greatest teacher of economic talent this century. (His nearest rivals may be his own dissertation advisers, Samuelson and Solow.) finance.yahoo.com/news/stanley...

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As the saying goes, "We'd rather have Stanley Fischer than a DSGE model, but we'd rather have Stanley Fischer with a DSGE model than without one." Stanley Fischer’s brilliance lay in knowing when to trust his judgment over models: he had a perfect mix of intuition and rigor. RIP.

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on.ft.com/3K3Ruxv Stan the Man

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#StanTheMan Stanley Fisher 1943-2025 #RIP An extraordinary, understated contributor to global #economics as both academic @ #MIT where he taught a whole generation of leading lights who gravitated to policymaking, & as a policymaker in #CentralBanking & #IMF. lnkd.in/d_-wp7H6 on.ft.com/4kwoMEQ

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Did you know that variables typically regarded as "slow moving", such as consumption and output, respond significantly within days & weeks to monetary policy shocks? ➡️NEW JI WP by Vasco M. Carvalho @CamEcon et al: 'The Short Lags of Monetary Policy'. Read the WP here: bit.ly/3EM0BSS

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How Does the current U.S #recovery compare to prior #recessions? #econsky

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The original comic book that started the TMNT franchise, signed by one of the creators.

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Stata users will get a kick out of this: @statacorp.bsky.social v1.0 (released January 1985) only had these 44 commands. Source: stata-journal.com/sj5-1.html

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To do this now, at the exact time of year when students are applying for visas, even if temporary (which I presume is the case) is intended to exert maximum destruction.

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I recently saw a presentation of this paper and was struck by how it flips our understanding of the very negative impact of COVID on female LFP. In the longer term, the switch to remote work drew married women into this firm. We need more evidence from other contexts, but a very intriguing result.

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Political ads don’t work www.nber.org/system/files...

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Wrote about what has proved to be a very persistent pattern since the start of the pandemic: a labor market exodus of old people and 20-somethings www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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How economics has changed

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Cultural homophily is persistent, pervasive, and consequential, even in superstar multinational teams of high-skill people with common objectives, doing well defined, interactive, not particularly culture intensive tasks. pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1... Oh, we use football data. #EconSky

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Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

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Few things are more heartbreaking than the death of a young child. For most of humanity’s past, these tragedies occurred all too frequently — half of all children died. This was true no matter where in the world a child was born, even in the richest countries.

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They're terminating OPT. Today the nominee to head USCIS stated directly: he will end Optional Practical Training, the single largest channel for high-skill immigrants to work in the US. 6 weeks ago I warned about this & summarized the research on impacts of this drastic action—> @piie.com

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