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kitdeming.bsky.social
Assistant Professor and Analyst at USAFA/OLEA. Researching entrepreneurship, labor, public policy, and regional economics. kdemingecon.com
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A staffer for Mike Johnson is on my flight. Does anyone have a message they'd like me to share?

Tenured faculty showing up in an econ seminar be like

Is Howard Lutnick preparing to meddle with the Bureau of Economic Analysis technicians who calculate GDP? apnews.com/article/trum...

Today's grading journey: 0 of 35 papers graded: procrastination & dread 2 of 35 papers graded: these aren't bad - I can get this done in no time! [1 hour passes] 3 of 35 papers graded: now I'm really on a roll! [1 hour passes] 5 of 35 papers graded: procrastination & dread [repeat...]

Not feeling good about going there next week...

For those who want to know more about what happens when a large percentage of a state's adult population loses #Medicaid enrollment all of a sudden, go read about #TennCare disenrollment: #HealthPolicy scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e...

Five things I did last week 1. I was in the corner, watching you kiss her 2. Why couldn't you see me, I'm right over here? 3. I was giving it my all 4. But I'm not the guy you were taking home 5. I kept dancing on my own

5 things that I didn't do last week: 1. Give you up 2. Let you down 3. Run around and desert you 4. Make you cry 5. Say goodbye I would never tell a lie and hurt you

1st year PhD student watching a job talk for the first time be like

The US Census Bureau didn't need to make their logo for their TIGER (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing) data so cool but they still did

Yesterday I learned that one of my students saves all of their files in "Downloads." Even new files that they create!

ATTENTION!!!! We're still accepting applications for a postdoc (1 year or multiyear) here at Ohio State! It’s not too late to apply!!! The application link is here: osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar...

ICYMI: Concern is growing over threats to public trust in the Census Bureau and its independence from political interference — and if you have information you think the public should know, I'm a @npr.org correspondent who's available on Signal at hansi.01

If I posted raw tabulations from the Numident without any disclosure avoidance review I would 100% go to jail for 10 years

The Federal Reserve is not as independent from the executive branch as we’d like to think. The NY Fed just cancelled this Thursday’s @aeacswep.bsky.social reception at #EEA2025 and withdrew from our summer fellowship program. Both support women and underrepresented groups in economics. #EconSky

The inauguration was four weeks ago.

I'm in this post and I don't like it

They don't even know that in the prisoners' dilemma they need to be in separate rooms!

This is fake. Don’t turn this place into a weird leftist version of Twitter, where bullshit rules supreme.

Amazing juxtaposition in my timeline today

Who is planning to go to #APPAM2025 and wants to put together a health insurance and coverage panel?

If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.

Trying to look up specifics of a collaborator's current programs at the VA this morning and it's 404 URL not found everywhere. Government censorship has come to America.

My heroes are the people downloading data, preserving it, and planning to make it available

Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI. I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.

If you or someone you know has had a particular research project suspended by recent actions at IES, please get in touch either by DM or by replying here. There are journalists who'd like to report on this.

How much student learning do you think a school district could gain just by better assigning its teachers to schools? Consider a quite politically-feasible change. Do not let district make any assigned teacher worse off, nor change teacher hiring, nor compensation, nor the students. New evidence!

Hear me and rejoice. The diff in diff gods continue to smile upon us. NIH indirects only unscrewed for institutions in the plaintiff states

I hope statistical agencies don't start deleting things with the word "bias"

They hate women. That’s it.

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

This is the context for which you need to understand the seemingly technical cut to NIH indirect rates for Universities.

what a fucking week.

Career Advice | The Ivy Advantage Adam Szetela asks why Ivy League Ph.D. students like him should have an advantage on the academic job market. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4hNWnZj

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

If you use two spaces after a period, what was WWI like?

AMIE is now accepting submissions for the "4th Workshop in Applied Microeconomics", for PhD students, to be held remotely on Zoom on April 28 and 29, 2025. Submission Deadline: February 27, 2025 Call for papers: econmentoring.org/wp-content/u... Please share, R/T #EconSky 1/3

Anyone who has applied for SSS to use Census data for research already knows the answer to the “experts’” question.

I've been thinking about reasons it's hard to convey the importance of the Musk/Treasury thing and maybe one factor is that people don't realize how *much* of the world is government?

Please consider signing this letter to Congress and Administration officials raising awareness about the risks facing our federal statistics. Please RT. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Just logging in again to say USDA loans/grants still seem to be not going through, and the only way to describe that is catastrophic for smaller farms Farming is capital intensive low margin business, and the cost of capital unexpectedly soared. Some projects stalling mid way

It Only Tuesday theonion.com/it-only...