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jessebruhn.bsky.social
I’m an Econ AP at Brown: www.jessebruhn.com My long term research agenda involves saying yes to everything and then repeatedly disappointing everyone who thought I’d make a good coauthor.
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Honored to be one of the recipients of the 2025 Brown Postdoctoral Excellence Awards! Huge thanks to Brown Postdoctoral Affairs for this recognition and to @linzpage.bsky.social and the Annenberg Institute for their support in advancing my research! ¡Seguimos! postdocs.brown.edu/news/2025-02...

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

How are parents affected by their kid going to college? How are they affected when their kid gets a scholarship or grant? New working paper with @palaashbhargava.bsky.social @econsandy.bsky.social @odedgurantz.bsky.social and Rob Fairlie www.nber.org/papers/w33497

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Amazing opportunity!! Send you talented undergrads / soon to be graduates this way 👇

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

"People who like to sound tough reflexively back the guys with guns over the guys in jeans with sacks of grain or the guys in suits with papers. But take it from someone who spent nearly 1,500 days downrange over the course of 20 years: USAID is worth every penny." www.thebulwark.com/p/usaid-kept...

submitted 16 days ago • 114 comments

If the president / secretary of defense really believe that eliminating DEI efforts will make things more "merit" based then they should probably eliminate the explicit veteran preferences in federal hiring too. The fact that they aren't tells you everything you need to know...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Not the banner you want seeing over this article from … checks notes … 8 days ago

submitted 29 days ago • 122 comments

Army Blackhawk helicopters are crashing into passenger planes at DCA while the Secretary of Defense is on Fox News ranting about DEI

submitted 29 days ago • 987 comments

the first fatal commercial plane crash in 16 years happened just days after Trump froze hiring of air traffic controllers that were already stretched thin

submitted 29 days ago • 193 comments

This is highly relevant today. While we can debate the merits of specific 'DEI' policies—some may indeed be misguided—it’s undeniable that racial discrimination persists in this country. The evidence is clear for those willing to engage with it! bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/cea/written-...

submitted 33 days ago • 10 comments

Props to all the academics trying to have a real world impact, but I'm not that worried about it personally. I do this work because it's cool /interesting. That's enough for me.

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

@linzpage.bsky.social is her too!! Absolutely a person you all should follow! Great researcher and overall very kind person. #edusky #highered #econsky

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

I was incredibly honored to be awarded the CSWEP Carolyn Shaw Bell Award. When I accepted the award, I talked about the importance of mentoring. The lessons I pass on are kind of obvious. But they are important, so I am going to share them yet again. (A🧵)

submitted 51 days ago • 6 comments

So a "friend" just asked chatGPT to write a first draft of a predoc mentoring plan for a grant. It's really good. Is it plagiarism/wrong to use as-is with light edits? My friend wants to do what's right but without creating busy work (i.e. there's no time pressure). Assume it will be followed.

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

The university empowers faculty... ...by giving them a thermostat with a 2 degree temperature range bandwidth.

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

Once again I am obliged to mention that I recently worked in a school district where the policy was teachers were not to accept gifts from parents worth more than $5 lest it affect our grading.

submitted 68 days ago • 104 comments

The QJE should send everyone a 2024 WRAPPED message with all their rejections

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

submitted 69 days ago • 380 comments

Any theories about what is happening with the job market this year? Wondering for my Ph.D. students... This graph makes it look like the market is going to top out well below the covid year. Data quirk? Weird timing of thanksgiving? Fear of a hiring freeze? econjobmarket.org/marketState/...

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

Interesting experimental paper on online hate by @chidiya.bsky.social treatment group gets randomized feed instead of algo-curated, exposure to toxic content (TC) drops, engagement drops, search for TC rises, sharing of TC rises relative to exposure: www.econthatmatters.com/2024/11/can-...

submitted 72 days ago • 3 comments

Family ▶️ Education ▶️ Outcomes ⬇️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ⬆️ Because family predicts education and would also likely have direct effects and indirect effects through EDU on future outcomes Family related variables, including SES would take up the Lion's share of variance by far.

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

I love that econ referees are so brutal I now semi-regularly get invited to surveys where the subtext is "do you find this result surprising?" all so the authors can write, "Our core results are surprising (see appendix table Z.17, where we prove this via a novel survey of professional economists.)"

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

I'm not sure something like "causal family fixed effect" is all that well-defined of a concept, or even could be well-defined. I think of it as coming up mostly in a "controlling for unobservables"-type application we we can conveniently side-step the definitional problems.

submitted 72 days ago • 2 comments