Hello #econtwitter community: if any of you has been teaching any of my papers, would you mind shooting me a DM? I would hugely appreciate that 🙏 and thanks in advance!

Laureandi/laureati in Economia in cerca di esperienze di ricerca con forte impatto su politiche pubbliche: venite a lavorare all’Evaluation Lab del Fondo per la Repubblica Digitale! Dettagli qui: 👇🏼

Alessandro Tondini@aletondini.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 Stiamo cercando 1 Research Associate per un'esperienza di lavoro pre-doc all'#EvaluationLab del #FondoRepubblicaDigitale. 👉 www.fondorepubblicadigitale.it/posizioni_ap... cc: @raffasadun.bsky.social @barbarabiasi.com @francedrago.bsky.social

I'm looking forward to visiting OIGI in 2026!

Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute@oiginstitute.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to these members of the ninth cohort of Institute visiting scholars: David Altig @atlantafed.bsky.social; Shifrah Aron-Dine @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social; @barbarabiasi.com @yalesom.bsky.social; @florinbilbiie.bsky.social Cambridge University; 2/5

I've done my part to combat the trend this week!

Birthrates Languish in Record Lows, C.D.C. Reports

Despite a 1 percent increase in 2024, U.S. birthrates remained in a historic slump, a trend that worries demographers and cultural critics.

nytimes.com

A 2011 Wisconsin reform weakened teachers' unions, raised test scores, and was a political win for its main proponent, from Barbara Biasi and Wayne Aaron Sandholtz https://www.nber.org/papers/w33666

🚨🆕 In a new NBER working paper out today (tinyurl.com/2vv3vnhf), with @wsandholtz.bsky.social we ask a 🔥question: Can controversial public policies end up being political successes even when they cause lots of backlash? And if the answer is yes, what drives pol success? A thread 👇

Watching history happen. The longest filibuster ever was 24h 18m long.

Brian Tyler Cohen@briantylercohen.bsky.social · last yr.

Cory Booker is doing something incredible on the Senate floor. If you're not watching, you need to watch: www.youtube.com/live/Ej6locU...

Mississippi State Univ. is hiring a tenure-track Econ Assistant Prof w/ August start! Open field; pref. for applied micro & teaching PhD Micro I & II (Micro II this fall). Apply: MSU site & www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?JOE_ID=2025-01_111475768 Please repost—it's an off-cycle search. Thanks!

I was glad to contribute to the @aefpweb.bsky.social livehandbook.org with a chapter on Teacher compensation. Check it out!

Evidence-Based Education Policy Research | Live Handbook

Explore evidence-based education policy research at our digital hub. Access data-driven insights to improve learning outcomes and shape effective policies.

livehandbook.org

The news over the weekend and this morning have been terrifying. I'm dismayed at the total lack of action but I also have no idea how to act. I can't believe I'm watching America as I know it collapse in front of my eyes.

To be absolutely, 100% clear, THIS is something that ends in “then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out”

Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action@jfrejnyc.bsky.social · last yr.

This extreme escalation is an egregious violation of first amendment rights. Now is the moment to speak out and oppose this as fiercely and loudly as possible.

Overwhelmingly the biggest saving that Musk has delivered to the American people is that they can now buy Tesla stock much more cheaply.

Frida Ghitis@fridaghitis.bsky.social · last yr.

Tesla stock has lost one-third of its value since Trump became president and Musk became whatever he is now. The company was worth $1.35 TRILLION dollars then. It's worth $929 Billion now. That's a loss of $421 billion

Devastating news at IZA yesterday. More than 25 years of hard work, earned reputation, and valuable institutional knowledge and public good provision wiped out with a single stroke. It’s hard to find the words.

Silly me for thinking "well at least there's Europe"... This is so sad.

David A. Jaeger (econ)@davidajaeger.bsky.social · last yr.

It's a very sad day. Just notified that @iza.org is closing its doors as of 31 December 2025. At a time when labor is under attack and technological change moves at an ever-faster pace, I can't help but think that this is a short-sighted decision. My heart goes out to those folks who work there.

*Impressive* piece of work showing differences in intergenerational mobility of immigrants across countries. Finding that resonated the most w/me is importance of access to citizenship - which is still unreasonably hard in many countries, esp. my home country of Italy.

Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen@fjaellegaard.bsky.social · last yr.

1/ 🚨 New paper! 🚨 How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky

Recently accepted by #QJE, “What Works and For Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across the U.S.,” by Biasi (@barbarabiasi.com), Lafortune, and Schönholzer (@davidschonholzer.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

What Works and for Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across the U.S.*

Abstract. This paper identifies which investments in school facilities help students and which and are valued by homeowners. Using novel data on school dis

doi.org

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

What Works and for Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across the U.S.*

Abstract. This paper identifies which investments in school facilities help students and which and are valued by homeowners. Using novel data on school dis

academic.oup.com

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

A propos of nothing: this is Germany right now. apnews.com/article/germ...

Thousands in Germany protest the rise of the far right ahead of next month's election

Activists said Saturday they hoped the rally also would draw attention to other far-right parties in Europe and the new administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.

apnews.com

Useful (although sobering) summary of NAEP scores by @cedr.bsky.social‬. tl;dr: there is nothing to be happy about and tons of work to do. It's chilling to think of the harm cuts to essential K-12 federal programs may do if this is where we are today.

Dan Goldhaber@cedr.bsky.social · 2y ago

New results from "The Nation's Report Card" just dropped and they are pretty bad. I got a sneak peek as a member of IES’s Standing Committee, so I had an extra day or so to ruminate about them. A few thoughts 👇 1/n

Me after this week: man, I am in terrible need of a good news NCES: here are the 2024 NAEP scores

Just a heads up. I can only speak to education but Title IV funds, which include the Pell Grant, are currently excluded from the "freeze." This is still incredibly catastrophic (and illegal? though lol what are laws?). Just don't take this list as the final word, it's an evolving situation.

Congratulations to @barbarabiasi.com who was recognized for the AEJ Best Paper Award for Economic Policy at #ASSA2025 for the paper “The Labor Market for Teachers under Different Pay Schemes.” #econsky aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

day 6 of 1462

Vertical integration

Happening in Bari next week! Raffaele Lagravinese, @barbarabiasi.com and I have organized this workshop hoping to bring together Apulian economists around the world (there are a ton!) and researchers at University of Bari (our kind hosts). Hopefully the first of many to come.

birthday present!

Just a reminder that we're still accepting applications (and likely will for a couple more weeks!)

Barbara Biasi@barbarabiasi.com · 2y ago

🚨job alert with functioning link! Seth Zimmerman and I are looking to hire two full-time pre-doctoral RAs as part of Yale Tobin's pre-doc program. Details for application here: spinup-000d1a-wp-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com/faculty/wp-c... (thanks to The Broad Center for sponsoring us!)

We had a fantastic time in Chile! 🇨🇱 Thank you @jrodriguezo.bsky.social and everyone else at UAndes and @uchile.bsky.social for hosting us!

Jaime Arellano-Bover@jarellanobover.com · 2y ago

Leaving Chile today with a happy heart, hoping to be back ♥️🇨🇱 Thanks to many who made this week memorable and especially to @nathalyrivera.com, @jrodriguezo.bsky.social, Mariana Zerpa, and all at @uchile.bsky.social for the kind invitation.

I was liking it here but @bsky.app ignoring multiple reports about an acct mpersonating me, using my photo/info/etc to scam people w/fin advice is not really making me want to stay. There seems to be 0 control for this kind of (inevitable) things. Looks like garbage will inevitably flood the place