Massachusetts State Senate's new motto: better late than never! apps.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/stor...
James Feigenbaum
@jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Economics at Boston University | Economic History, Labor, Inequality https://jamesfeigenbaum.github.io/
The North-South Rail Link will cure the male loneliness epidemic.
Darren Buck@bikepedantic.bsky.social · 2w agoI’ll be crying too when an electric Providence-bound commuter-rail train rolls up to the Alewife Quadrangle platform, we can cry and hug it out and still be men.
A conversation over several lunches last week at DAE. Does every field need or benefit from a "Using AI in {your fav subfield of economics}? Or should we just ask watch @paulgp.com on Markus Academy?
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham@paulgp.com · 2w agoI will be presenting in the NBER Household Finance Summer Institute session this Friday at 1pm on "Using AI in Household Finance Research: A Practical Guide." www.nber.org/conferences/...
I'm pretty sure (without reading) that the returns to federal spending on economics research are like $100 for every $1 spent
Alexander Berger@albrgr.bsky.social · 2w agoNew CBO paper: every $1 of federal R&D returns ~$3–$4 of GDP in present value over 30 years www.nber.org/papers/w35472
New CBO paper: every $1 of federal R&D returns ~$3–$4 of GDP in present value over 30 years www.nber.org/papers/w35472
Open access in QJE!📢 Using newly assembled archival data, we show how the AMA's nationwide campaign against national health insurance, labeling it "socialized medicine" and promoting private insurance, helped steer the U.S. away from universal health care academic.oup.com/qje/article/...
Why Doesn’t the United States Have National Health Insurance? The Political Role of the American Medical Association
Abstract. This article examines how the American Medical Association (AMA) helped shape the development of the U.S. health insurance system in the critical
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Just published in Historical Methods: Chris Minns & coauthors link Ontario marriage to historical census records to show married women & men had similar rates of intergenerational mobility 1871-1901. Unexpectedly, the inclusion of more false positive links does not bias the mobility estimates. OA
Mobility and marriage: Preliminary findings from a new longitudinal dataset of Canadian women, 1871-1901
This article develops a methodology to create a longitudinal historical database of women by linking Ontario marriage records 1859-1938 to complete count Canadian census data between 1871 and 1921....
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Elsevier introduces required interactive visualizations written in proprietary language to be placed behind a paywall
The Simpsons Monkey Paw Wish
ALT: The Simpsons Monkey Paw Wish
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John Holbein@johnholbein1.bsky.social · 3w agoIt amazes me that, in the year of our Lord 2026, academic journals still haven’t figured out how to let authors include interactive visualizations.
I think basically all local residential zoning laws should be eliminated. Build as much and as densely as you want. But also there should be a short and vetted list of historically appropriate colors you're allowed to paint your Victorian house cc my neighbors
Grant Goehring presenting on the health externalities of trade. Another proud advisor moment for me at #NBERDAE
@qlquanle.bsky.social presenting "Network Competition and Exclusive Contracts: Evidence from News Agencies" at #NBERDAE IO in economic history? Dangerous territory (for reduced form applied micro ppl like me)
Greg Niemesh presenting on elite marriage markets in the US #nberdae Excited to learn how to get rich by marrying right? Too bad: step one is be born rich to start
Proud advisor moment as @daniellecgw.bsky.social presents her work on segregation academies at #nberdae
Someone who hates children and loves sunburns: Let's turn the splash pad on at 10am
I don't have it yet, but there's an econ history paper in these transcripts or transcripts like them (that we can now turn into textual data at the cost of pennies per hour)
Daniel van Strien@danielvanstrien.bsky.social · 4w agoOpen ASR models with speaker diarization are now fast and cheap: I diarized 174 hours of Apollo 11 mission audio (the real July 1969 NASA tapes) for $9.46 with a 0.9B open model. Search it, hear any moment on the original tape: huggingface.co/spaces/davan...
Men still out-resource women on nearly everything known to predict voting: income, jobs, political interest. Except education, where women have pulled way ahead. @cohodes.bsky.social and I show how the education gap explains about half of why young women now outvote young men. 🔗 Link: bit.ly/4wwcd21
Education and the gender voting gap in U.S. presidential elections
Women in the United States have outpaced men in both voter participation and educational attainment in recent decades. Since education is closely tied…
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I'm happy to share a new working paper on remote work and AI: Same Occupations, Different Clocks: Separating Remote Work from Generative AI for Labor-Market Entrants www.joshmask.com/s/Mask2026c....
This is cool and all, but has he considered not making the buses faster and instead proposing unrealistic plans for the Orange Line that will never actually happen instead?
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 4w ago
Editors, @dandekadt.bsky.social is very available
Daniel de Kadt@dandekadt.bsky.social · 4w agoOnly issue is that a large part of this f() is out of your control -- if editors don't invite you you cannot review. (I owe a review right now, oops. But also I just get asked less than I should, probably.)
Another MA state legislative session, another abject failure to do anything about MA’s housing shortage. Down to the smallest of small ball—municipal opt-in for allowing housing on religious properties (Yes In God’s Backyard) and commercial to residential conversions.
Referee reports supplied per year should be a required line on academic CVs
John Holbein@johnholbein1.bsky.social · 4w agoI just handled a manuscript where we had to invite 17 referees to get 2 reviews. I used to wonder why peer review takes so long. Multiple factors are at play. But editors face a Herculean task of getting reviewers to accept and then deliver in the current moment.
So yes, the past is a foreign country and all that. But also... maybe it isn't? Ad from Columbia, SC in 1922 for men who are young and men who want to stay young. The solution: buy clothes
Get yourself the confidence of a Carl or Charles Anderson in Moline, IL in 1910 who doesn't use a middle initial
