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jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston University | Economic History, Labor, Inequality https://jamesfeigenbaum.github.io/
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Keep an eye out for openings on your local planning and zoning boards as well. Many of them are appointed and have trouble finding enough volunteers to fill the seats! 🇺🇸

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DOGE’s gaslight accounting is getting covered from multiple outlets. A sampling from just this week: @politico.com @bloomberg.com @nytimes.com @nbcnews.com

submitted 11 hours ago • 23 comments

ffs. How is this real #mapoli agencychecklists.com/2021/11/04/r...

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

We streamlined six new DID-like estimators and created this tutorial for implementation in R. yiqingxu.org/packages/fec... Hope you no longer need to spend months figuring out what these estimators are and how to use them.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

“ Pretty much every scientist in the country is terrified at the moment. We're looking at an abyss. Every little win like this, we're breathing a sigh of relief, we are living to fight another day — but it's terrifying.”

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I know it isn't the biggest problem, but I can't believe my YIMBY and otherwise econ literate MC is in the freaking blockchain caucus #mapoli pca.st/episode/d2c1...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Fellow #mapoli yimbys, today is the deadline for comments on the MBTA Communities Act (post the Supreme Judicial Court telling Milton to go kick rocks). Tell the EOHLC how much you love density and zoning reform. @abundanthousingma.org has you covered: www.abundanthousingma.org/stand-up-for...

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John Roberts killed the Medicaid expansion funding sticks as unconstitutional coercion but EOs and DOGE BS doing the same are going to be kosher?

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Crypto fixes this.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Our own David Van Riper spoke with @kairyssdal.bsky.social for Marketplace. Democratizing access to the world’s social and economic data for current and future generations - that's core to our mission. www.marketplace.org/2025/02/20/w...

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It's simple: the point of the CFPB has always been to protect the little guy from big, predatory companies, and my office has long partnered with them to protect consumers, lower costs, alleviate student debt, and more. Today, we're filing an amicus brief to defend the CFPB.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Big fan of Paper Picnic 🧺 Every Friday night, it pulls new articles from over 60 political science & economics journals. If you sign up to the mailing list, you receive a weekly email with a list of all new papers, sorted by journal. Excellent work, @moritzmarbach.bsky.social! paper-picnic.com

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Well this looks like a totally legit text from the MassDOT:

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

submitted 4 days ago • 1052 comments

Fun vaccine denier villain origin story: "got covid despite being vaxxed and don't understand why" We are so cooked

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars… Now it appears that work is paying off. Oslo & Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.” #VisionZero #SpeedKills #Oslo #Helsinki

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Great to see "Generative AI at Work", my paper with Lindsey Raymond and Danielle Li, published in the @qjeharvard.bsky.social . We find that an LLM assistant makes customer support agents 14% more productive, improves customer satisfaction and reduces employee turnover.

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Imagining the other timeline: Biden could have spent four years exposing and prosecuting PPP fraud and let the VCs take a bath on the Silicon Valley Bank failure

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Faculty meetings, solved

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We've been trying this Rep Turco. For decades. When the housing crisis screws your own kids and you still can't see the need to real solutions...

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I know @massago.bsky.social is busy suing fascists at the federal level, but I hope the NIMBY crushing at the local level continues apace. First Milton, next Winthrop and Needham and the rest #mapoli

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was tinkering with some OCR and decided to update an old econ history OCR example. What a difference a couple of years makes: old: github.com/apoorvalal/h... new: github.com/apoorvalal/h...

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Sometimes an "economist" says something so dumb in public that I run to their Wikipedia page, hoping to find they don't, in fact, have an econ PhD. It sucks when this cope fails

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Google photos just served me an album of ten years since the Boston snowpocalypse. I think my car is under that pile to the right

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment