The Presidential Address by Pia M. Orrenius of Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and @mzavodny.bsky.social of University of North Florida explores the implications of the growing reliance on liminal status in U.S. immigration policy. #ImmigrationPolicy #TemporaryMigration #UnauthorizedImmigrants

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Jose Fernandez@uoflecon.bsky.social · last yr.

$2,000 Professional Development Grant for URM junior faculty in economics! Apply by submitting an essay on your research & its link to economic education. Details: www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co... #econsky #teachecon

Any economists out there who might be interested in writing about choosing a childfree life? I'm editing an upcoming CSWEP newsletter on fertility choices and hoping to include this perspective. Shoot me a message if you might be my person!

New macroeconomic analysis from the Dallas Fed: Mass deportation will reduce US GDP growth by 0.89 percentage points this year and 1.49 percentage points by 2027 It doesn't have to be this way. The choice isn't border chaos or vast militarized raids. The third option: lawful channels for migration

Declining immigration weighs on GDP growth, with little impact on inflation

Unauthorized immigration surged sharply in 2021–24 but has since declined abruptly with negative implications for economic growth.

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As the Dallas Fed report shows, reducing #immigration will hurt the economy. We should continue to add workers to our labor force through immigration — it is a winning strategy to stabilize and expand our workforce, boost economic growth, and bolster American competitiveness.

New research by economist @mzavodny.bsky.social: “Without immigrants, international students and the children of immigrants, the undergraduate student population in America would be almost 5 million students smaller in 2037 than 2022.” @mclem.org @douglasrivlin.bsky.social nfap.com/research/new...

New NFAP Policy Brief: The Importance of Immigrants and International Students to Higher Education in America - NFAP

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Contraceptive choice impacts of defective birth control pills New JOPE paper OPEN ACCESS (see link below). #EconSky Schoonover, P. Reacting to recalls: contraceptive choice impacts of defective birth control pills in Chile. J Popul Econ 38, 46 (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s001...

Reacting to recalls: contraceptive choice impacts of defective birth control pills in Chile - Journal of Population Economics

I examine the impact of an oral contraceptive recall and the news of resulting pregnancies in Chile on contraceptive choice among women aged 15–25. Using an event study approach, I compare changes in ...

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This is incredibly cool!

Guy Abel@guyabel.bsky.social · last yr.

The @nytopinion.nytimes.com today features a #dataviz of our new global migration flow estimates. nytimes.com/interactive/... Using privacy protected records from three billion Facebook users, we estimated country-to-country #migration flows at monthly granularity for 181 countries.

This was do much fun to work on with @mzavodny.bsky.social

Notre Dame Economics@ndecon.bsky.social · 2y ago

Next, "Finding Love Abroad: Who Marries a Migrant and What Do They Gain" from Eva Dziadula (@edziadula.bsky.social), joint with Zavodny. Published in Review of Economics of the Household. link.springer.com/article/10.1....

Seems like a good time to promote some of my research: official English laws reduce earnings of workers with limited English ability doi.org/10.1086/209965

After reports circulated Wednesday night of the State Department's intent to purchase Tesla vehicles, the document was edited, at 9:12 p.m., and now says the federal contract is for $400 million worth of "armored electric vehicles," but the word "Tesla" was removed. www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g...

Trump administration set to purchase $400 million worth of armored Teslas

That's according to a public State Department procurement document. It comes as ethics experts raise conflict of interest questions about the chief executive of Tesla, Elon Musk, who is a top White Ho...

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An unelected South African has taken control of the US Treasury and is deciding to stop payments on American obligations, in violation of numerous court orders, and admits in the Oval Office that he has done so upon incorrect information, while the President sits impotently behind the Resolute Desk.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 2y ago

Reporter: You said an example of fraud that you have cited was $50 million of condoms was sent to Gaza but after a fact-check apparently it was Gaza in Mozambique meant to protect them against HIV.  Musk: First of all, some of the things I say will be incorrect

I use these data. This is very bad for our ability to assess education.

AERA@aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 2y ago

AERA and COPAFS have issued a statement on the sudden termination of 169 contracts within IES, including those that NCES holds for the collection and reporting of education statistics. Read the full statement: www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...

8. It is difficult to overstate what a catastrophe this will be for the US research and education systems, particular in biomedical fields. It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses. The goal is destroy US universities.

This article by Pia Orrenius and me seems relevant again. We examine the fallout from meatpacking & poultry processing raids during the Bush admin, a precursor to the Trump raids in 2019 and the future (maybe) doi.org/10.1257/pand...

Put on ICE? Effects of Immigration Raids in the Animal Slaughtering and Processing Industry

(May 2022) - The animal slaughtering and processing industry was the epicenter of work site immigration raids from 2006 to 2008 that were aimed at rooting out unauthorized immigrant workers in the Uni...

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2 days remaining to submit your latest work on migration to our special volume in Research in Labor Economics. More information here 👇

Ben Elsner@benelsner.bsky.social · 3y ago

#Econsky Research in Labor Economics will have a special issue on Migration, Human Capital and the Labor Market, with keynote papers from Giovanni Peri & Mette Foged, Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Barry Chiswick, Madeline Zavodny & Pia Orrenius. Submit by October 30 here: legacy.iza.org/rle_applicat...