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Rest in peace, Ed Leamer

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BBVA Foundation award to Olivier Blanchard, Jordi Gali, and Michael Woodford. Congratulations! www.frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es/noticias/fro...

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Super happy to see this accepted! academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...

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Warm welcome, to an inspiring institution!

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👋 Hi! J-PAL is now on Bluesky! 📊 We’re looking forward to bringing conversations on evidence-informed policy to this new space. Follow us for updates on the latest research, policy insights, and how rigorous evidence is helping shape a better world.

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RIP Richard Nelson.

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Hello, Bluesky! We are the Brookings Institution, one of the world’s most trusted think tanks. We’re excited to share our research here and to engage with the community. As we get started, we’d love to hear from you. Reply to let us know which policy areas most interest you!

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A🧵: In my time in administration, I’ve implored my colleagues to understand that STEM fields were particularly vulnerable to changes in federal research funding policy. Nearly every time, I was met with a cavalier attitude that political headwinds wouldn’t allow drastic changes. 1/N

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ICYMI, the AEA ad hoc Committee on the use of Social Media in Economics has released a report with details on their process, findings, and recommendations. We encourage you to read the report: www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co... #econsky

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We are seeing some impact on reproducibility efforts with the transition to the new US administration. For now, I suggest that you make backups of any data that required you to actively interact with the Federal government, as there may be a delay in response times.... #openscience

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Dick Nelson, pioneer in the economics of technical change, has died at 94. His remarkable book with Sid Winter (1982) An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change spawned many literatures. His edited the first "Rate and Direction" volume and wrote a history-based investigation of 1/2

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Check out Sandy Black's congratulatory video and her presentation at: aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...

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Submit now for CSWEP's sessions at the 2026 AEA meetings. Sessions will be on: • Economics of Gender in the Economics Profession • Gender and Climate Justice • Gender, Working from Home and Female Labor Supply • Economic Theory • Global Economy @aeacswep.bsky.social

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Submit to present at the Women in Empirical Microeconomics Conference at UChicago. Thanks to the organizers for inviting me to participate in this great event! Conference is Aug 21-22. Submission deadline is Feb 28.

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Hello #EconSky, a simple question but one where I have not yet found the answer. What should I read to get a quantitative empirical understanding of the contemporary relationship, both size and timing, between scientific discovery and productivity growth?

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Congratulations to Bronwyn H. Hall of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social who was recognized as a 2024 Distinguished Fellow by Lawrence F. Katz at the #ASSA2025 Annual Meeting. #econsky aeaweb.org/about-aea/ho...

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Just had our data access rescinded for a projected using federal microdata to study and reduce disparate impact in housing markets.

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‘He’s one of the best’: the economist shaping Rachel Reeves’s growth plans “There is no one answer,” @jdportes.bsky.social says. “There is really no substitute for doing lots of things, somewhat better.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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"Submissions of both empirical and theoretical papers, from scholars who are early in their careers, from researchers with and without NBER affiliations, and from scholars who are members of groups that are underrepresented in the economics profession, are welcome." Submit your paper!

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Apply by 6-Feb: NBER Innovation Research Boot Camp, July 11-17 With support from Open Philanthropy: - classes: Pierre Azoulay, Kevin Bryan, Ina Ganguli, Ben Jones, Chad Jones, Kyle Myers, and me - panel: Matt Clancy, Dylan Matthews, Caleb Watney - keynotes: Glenn Hubbard & Ronnie Chatterji

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The AEA ad hoc Committee on the use of Social Media in Economics has released a report with details on their process, findings, and recommendations. We encourage you to read the report: www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...

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Report from the AEA Ad Hoc Committee on the Use of Social Media in Economics is out. www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co... @belindaarch.bsky.social @florianederer.bsky.social @sarahjacobson.bsky.social @corinnelow.bsky.social & I were the committee thanks to everyone who answered survey or commented.

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#FundSocSci

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Rams staff wearing LAFD t-shirts. Makes you feel better about football, if not about LA fires.

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Firefighters from Mexico just arrived at LAX. They'll be joining 14,000+ personnel already battling the #PalisadesFire. California is immensely grateful to our neighbors' support in the fight against the wildfires in Los Angeles.

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Graduate students with interests in innovation, permitting or immigration policy who would like to work on fiscal and economic impacts -- apply now! Applications close on 1/16.

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Interesting article and thread. Another story is that the policy people have been losing influence to the politics people for generations. Economists are just one kind of policy person. The Clinton administration was an odd outlier to this long term trend, mostly because of the Pres. himself.

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Interesting discussion of economics journal practices -- e.g. QJE reviewers were too nice* -- in this data colada post. * I was never too nice when I was on the QJE editorial board. datacolada.org/122

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The 2025 Economic Report of the President is now available. There's a chapter on K12 education! www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-...

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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🧵)

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Very thankful for the hard work of the firefighters under terrible conditions, and for the firefighters coming in now from out of state.

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🗣️ Early-career and PhD-student economists studying productivity! #EconSky The deadline is January 16 to apply to this Sloan Foundation/@nberpubs.bsky.social fellowship focused on policies shaping R&D, permitting, and immigration—>

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Egg prices! Swifties! Sane Economics done with flair!

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The call for papers for the NBER Organizational Economics Working group (April 10-11 2025) is out! If you have a paper you would like considered for presentation, please upload it to this link by 11:59 pm ET on February 14, 2025: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b... Pls retweet (or reskeet?)

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R.I.P. David Lodge -- the best satyrist of academia I've ever read. Still very grateful to @upanizza.bsky.social for having introduced me to his work many years ago...

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Re-posting this call for applications targeting PhD students and early career researchers (PhDs 2014 or later) doing research on the fiscal and economic effects of three productivity policies: R&D, permitting, and immigration. Applications due at midnight on Thurs January 16.

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New RePEc feature for Bluesky! Get new paper announcements from NEP in 100 different fields. Find them all on this starter pack bsky.app/starter-pack... and soon the links to the accounts will be at nep.repec.org #RePEc #EconSky

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Graduate fellowship opportunity at NBER. Application deadline 1/16. Comes with community and mentorship. @heidiwilliams.bsky.social @mclem.org www.nber.org/graduate-fel...

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RIP economist Joel Popkin #econsky obits.levinefuneral.com/dr-joel-popkin

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