Does cleaning up drinking water save lives? New paper: We link US federal drinking water investments to Medicare records and find they reduce mortality among older Americans, with benefit/cost ratio>20. Thread on what we did... w/ Keiser, @bhashmazumder.bsky.social , @joseph-s-shapiro.bsky.social

US drinking water pollution has fallen rapidly; Safe Drinking Water Act loans reduce pollution and save lives. Analyzing 266 million pollution readings, from Keiser, @bhashmazumder.bsky.social, @davidmolitor.bsky.social, and @joseph-s-shapiro.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35288

💧New Paper Water Works: Causes and Consequences of Safe Drinking Water in America 📉US drinking water pollution fell by HALF in 2003-2019 💰Safe Drinking Water Act $ helped ❤️Investments reduce mortality, benefit/cost ratio >20 www.nber.org/papers/w35288 👇

Substack: Saving lives: lifting many boats or patching holes

Saving lives: lifting many boats or patching holes

Two papers in the newest issue of the Journal of Health Economics highlight an open question in research on US mortality—how should we consider tradeoffs between investing in early life and investing ...

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Heya, this is the correct link: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Ludovica Gazze @ludogazze.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hey JMCs, I know the waiting can be stressful. Good news: @billingsecon.bsky.social, @schnepel.bsky.social, & I are hiring a postdoc on our project funded by Arnold VentureS 📢 Apply here: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail… #EconSky 📈📉

Hey JMCs, I know the waiting can be stressful. Good news: @billingsecon.bsky.social, @schnepel.bsky.social, & I are hiring a postdoc on our project funded by Arnold VentureS 📢 Apply here: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail… #EconSky 📈📉

My eldest just donated a fifth of their savings to DHH Church and I'm verklempt. It's a lot of $ -- a lot of hours of earning -- for them and a lot of safety for Minnesota families. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

Despensas/ Food Drive

Join our Community Food Drive to support those in need while nurturing faith and fellowship. With your help, we can extend a helping hand and foster a sense of community.Your contribution will go towa...

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Everyone talks about the "credibility revolution", but I think one of the most valuable shifts in econ over the last decade has been the rise of rigorous descriptive historical work like this in top journals:

The Quarterly Journal of Economics@qjeharvard.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Price of Housing in the United States, 1890–2006,” by Lyons (@ronanlyons), Shertzer (@econhist-allday), Gray (@econhistoryorbust), and Agorastos: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

New post on Substack open.substack.com/pub/davebrad...

The Minneapolis resident who wrote this post pointed to three ways you can help: *Contact your elected official - make clear what is happening in Minneapolis is unacceptable *Donate - they suggested www.standwithminnesota.com *Communicate - let ppl in the Twin Cities know they are not alone

Went to a conference on inequality at the Harris School last week where @wrigleyfield.bsky.social gave the most moving academic talk I have ever been to, highlighting the many profound and largely unexplored human costs of the Black-white mortality gap across many dimensions

My paper on the consumer financial impacts of Missouri's 2005 Medicaid cut with @1armedeconomist.bsky.social and Slava Mikhed is finally out in the fall issue of AJHE: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Missouri’s Medicaid Contraction and Consumer Financial Outcomes | American Journal of Health Economics: Vol 11, No 4

Abstract In July 2005, the state of Missouri implemented a series of cuts to its Medicaid program. These cuts resulted in the elimination of the Medical Assistance for Workers with Disabilities progra...

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Surveying the evidence on intergenerational mobility studies that use alternative measures with a focus on health, consumption and life satisfaction, from Jonathan Davis, Nathan Deutscher, and @bhashmazumder.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34407

Open call for papers, Gender in the Economy: Structural Transformation and Women's Time-Use. Conference to be held in Cambridge, MA on March 27, 2026. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on Decem... https://www.nber.org/calls-papers-and-proposals/gender-economy-structural-transformation-and-womens-time-use

#Nokings in Chicago

On the L heading to No Kings

Intergenerational mobility into doctoral education across Europe: higher in the Nordics, lower in Eastern Europe, but overall, European PhDs are socioeconomically diverse. doi.org/10.1162/euso...

Intergenerational mobility into doctoral education across Europe

Abstract. Despite increasing concerns over socioeconomic barriers in access to doctoral education, relatively little is known about the degree to which PhDs are selected in terms of their social backg...

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Midnight, June 7 is the deadline to comment on the revised Schedule F, Trump's plan to politicize the civil servants by converting them into at-will appointees that can be fired for the mildest pushback against illegal actions. It's easy - here is how: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/last-day-t...

Last day to weigh in on Trump's plan to politicize the civil service

Trump has already shown us how he would use Schedule F powers

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New paper: Wives with more education than husband are *more* likely to take his name than education-equal marriages. As women outpace men in education & increasingly keep their names, name-taking provides symbolic way to compensate for her status superiority www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Doing gender and the surname choices of married women

Marital surname choices reflect deeply embedded, often unspoken gender norms. According to the marital exchange/bargaining approach, women are more li…

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Looking for a postdoc opportunity? Want to work on intergenerational mobility? Looking to be in the land down under? Here is a great opportunity to consider working for @siminskipeter.bsky.social, @rkwilkins.bsky.social, Nathan Deutscher and myself: #econsky econjobmarket.org/positions?sh...

We forget that professional sports such as baseball and football were originally integrated and then *became* segregated in response to White fans and, in some instances, White owners and White players.

Stephen West@stephenwest.bsky.social · last yr.

Frederick Douglass's youngest son, Charles, was 23 years old when he started working for the Freedmen’s Bureau in 1867. He was also a fervent baseball player and an organizer of a Black DC baseball club called the Alerts. 🗃️

The administration is moving the rule. Official public (that's us!!) comment period is open. Friends of BLS has resources making it super easy & efficient for you to: 1) submit evidence to the official record & 2) communicate to your federal reps #econsky www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...

On this podcast I tried to string together some coherent sentences about the Rosenwald schools and their long-run effects on the civil rights movement: www.educationnext.org/the-educatio...

The Education Exchange: The Largest Educational Intervention You’ve Never Heard Of

Paul E. Peterson interviews Bhash Mazumder, Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine

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As someone who has studied public accommodations discrimination, the dismantling of the Woolworth lunch counter is so disturbing. What a sad day…

Big Ol’ Mush@chadstanton.blacksky.app · last yr.

“Black Press USA has learned that Trump officials are sending back exhibit items to their rightful owners and dismantling them—starting with the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in exhibit.” blackpressusa.com/the-smithson...

🚀 Excited to share that our paper, "𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮: 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗘𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻," is now officially published in the 𝙅𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝘿𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙥𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙀𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙘𝙨 with 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴! 📚🌍 Link 👉: doi.org/10.1016/j.jd...

i could not believe this was true -- that they really stopped testing milk today -- but i looked it up and it is.

Mary Fissell@maryfissell.bsky.social · last yr.

Dr. Josephine Baker fought for milk testing in lower Manhattan over a century ago, where babies were 7 times more likely to die than WWI US soldiers in the trenches. Milk was often adulterated with chalk and germ-y water. Today the FDA stopped testing milk due to lack of staff. Shame on you, Trump.

Laguna Beach protesting too!

Academia is cool because if you're doing it right, every paper you published in the last 3 years feels inadequate now that you understand the topic better, but it'll take 3 years to get out the version where you get it more right, and you get to do that until one day you die! Isn't that cool

"Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management." snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...

The Next Terrorist Attack

And What Comes After

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Resistance with slides: when presenting scientific evidence created by federal data and/or $ tell your audience what they won’t be seeing more of Slides templates here https://sites.google.com/view/tobeclear/