A sudden decline in low-skilled immigrant workers in 2020 increased the exit of manufacturing firms in Korea and decreased wages of Korean workers, from Jongkwan Lee, Giovanni Peri, and Hee-Seung Yang www.nber.org/papers/w34927
Sam Dodini
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Dallas Fed Economist, CESifo, IZA // Labor institutions, imperfect labor markets, public econ // Volleyball and music enthusiast Views my own
America's status as the top destination for global talent is being shattered. The Administration only just published (!) what happened last summer to international student visa issuances. It's grim. From the indispensable @karinfischer.bsky.social @chronicle.com —> chronicle.com/newsletter/l...
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
📣 Hot off the press 📣 We document tremendous growth in U.S. federal place-based funding, show it has disproportionately gone to areas with more nonprofits & stronger housing markets, and find a pattern of cumulative advantage in funding among high-poverty neighborhoods. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
Federal place-based policy and the geography of inequality in the United States, 1990–2019
Abstract. This paper assesses the growth and spatial distribution of federal place-based policies in the United States. Using a novel dataset of federal pl
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How should elected officials divine voters’ preferences about building more homes: through broad-based polls or the 12 people who show up at a community meeting on Tuesday night and yell for hours? Hard to say…
Jonathan Berk 🏠@berkie1.bsky.social · last yr.81% of Massachusetts voters surveyed in a recent @massincpolling.bsky.social / @abundanthousingma.org poll support "state lawmakers passing a bill to make it easier to build more homes, and a greater variety of housing options, in Massachusetts."
A strongly worded letter isn't gonna cut it.
NBC News@nbcnews.com · last yr.Sen. Susan Collins says President Trump should use a “surgical approach, not a sledgehammer,” when it comes to the cuts to the National Institutes of Health. “These actions put our leadership in biomedical innovation at real risk and must be reversed."
🚨🚨 Does labor market discrimination drive economic gaps? Can market competition eliminate discrimination like economic theory suggests? What *kind* of discrimination are we talking about. In a new paper, Alex Willen & I explore the question. #Econsky
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🚨🚨 What happens when you take a bunch of human capital out of a local economy? Is brain drain a real thing? And what are the consequences? In a new paper, we shed light on this in the context of highly developed economies: Sweden and Norway. #Econsky
As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies. The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits. Maybe it's not the judges?
"Don't Be a Sucker" by the US War Department (1947) The film follows a young American, drawn in by a speaker promising an end to jobs for minorities and removing foreigners. He encounters a Hungarian professor who explains this is how Nazis grab power for themselves. archive.org/details/Dont...
Alsupp issuing a PI from the bench. Finding that OPM engaged in sham terminations, claiming they were performance based in an attempt to avoid the procedural requirements of the Reduction in Force Act. Oh holy shit, quote in next post
Case in point that just because a private sector firm was involved does not mean it has uncovered some sort of efficiency trick.
M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray.bsky.social · last yr.We went through this with zoning, and now we're going through it with building code: trillion dollar industries depend on these things, yet a bunch of precocious bloggers can swoop in and expose these institutions as full of pseudoscience. Does nobody do their job? @aarmlovi.bsky.social
Time is running out to apply to the Chicago School in Experimental Economics (CSEE) 2025! The first school will take place at the University of Bonn, September 7-11, and the second school will take place at the University of Chicago, September 13-17.
NEW: President Trump moved Tuesday to punish a law firm for providing pro bono legal services to Jack Smith as he prepared to face a potential investigation from the Trump administration. He is stripping security clearnces and govt funding from the firm. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
The degree to which this administration is driven by revenge cannot be understated.
Matt Blackwell@mattblackwell.bsky.social · last yr.I completely missed that Republicans introduced a bill to increase the endowment tax from 1.4% to 21%. If passed, Harvard would go from paying ~$35m to $525m/yr in federal taxes (that’s 8.2% of its current operating expenses)
"Too Black for the Moment" sounds like an amazing album title.
Maxwell Frost@maxwellfrost.bsky.social · last yr.He was too Black for the moment.
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
The world is flooded by uncertainty; it now exceeds the peak hit during the pandemic in 2020. Stunning. 🥶
People tend to have a lot to say about why the Nordics have lower inequality than the US. Most of that is based on some version of "The Nordics do my favorite policy X, so, therefore, it lowers inequality." Most of that is wrong. It's PRE-distribution. openaccess.nhh.no/nhh-xmlui/ha...
NHH Brage: Income Equality in The Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons
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The latest report from US EIA finds that, thanks to tariffs & higher US production costs, solar panels in the US sell at a *190% price premium* over global spot prices: https://buff.ly/4gaTSit
My quick take is that is reflecting the death of expertise in general, even among policymakers. Yes, communication is important. But in a world of fighting over things like the usefulness of a measles vaccine for kids & PhDs in other fields wrongly stating what we do, it feels like a broader trend.
Ben Casselman@bencasselman.bsky.social · 2y agoEconomists are in the wilderness. Politicians and the public have rejected their advice on everything from trade to climate change. They held comparatively little sway under Biden, and stand to hold less under Trump. Can they find their way back to influence? #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/b...
If you're at #SEA2024 come to our session! It's going to be awesome. I'll presenting new evidence of oabory market discrimination and how competition strongly reduces it.
Probably a sign that affirmative action in college admissions, as it has been practiced, may never have delivered on one of the central aims it was initially designed to pursue (before diversity for its own sake became the central argument decades later).
Prof Dynarski@dynarski.bsky.social · 2y agoHoly crap this is an astounding piece of historical research Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it www.nber.org/system/files...
I am skeptical of this view. Low unemployment⬆️ the lowest income earners' wages, construction projects for manufacturing, union support, etc seemed to have no effect on vote shares. Harris ran a clean campaign, but few believed her move to the center. But still did better than Sanders & Warren.
Todd Tucker@toddntucker.com · 2y ago“As Democrats moved to the center on economics, they lost the support of these hardworking, higher-earning Americans,” Pancotti said. “To win them back — or to at least win back enough to swing the vote — they just need to run more-populist candidates.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
