Paul Novosad
@novosad.bsky.social
Econ prof @dartmouth, founder devdatalab.org r2: a morass of disjointed streams of consciousness 🤷♂️
📢Apply for the 25th Summer School in International and #Development #Economics: Economic Development in the Age of Big Data and #AI ⌛Deadline: 4 May 📆1-4 September |📍Tuscany, Italy Lecturers: @samasher.bsky.social & @novosad.bsky.social ow.ly/55T650Yyvse #EconSky
Econ PhD Chess is happening this Thursday Jan 22 at 10pm ET! 1 hour of 3+2 blitz against fellow econ enthusiasts, all skill levels welcome! If you're not in the lichess group, fill our Google Form to get invited: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... More details in 🧵
Congrats to Weiliang Tan "amateur_nonmaster", AP at Claremont McKenna, winner of the first Econ PhD Chess Arena! 2nd and 3rd to Nahim Bin Zahur and @avivcaspi.bsky.social. We're playing monthly, all levels welcome. Fill the form below for a chance to get schooled by one of these monsters.
Last chance to sign up for Econ PhD Chess tomorrow! We're sending arena invites today, please register by the form below ASAP if you want to be on our list or play on Sunday.
Paul Novosad@novosad.bsky.social · 8mo ago♟️♟️ Phd Econ Chess Arena! Organized by me and @michaelstepner.bsky.social, all skill levels welcome, come play an hour of bullet/blitz, once a month on lichess. First date Dec 28 12pm ET. If at all interested, please answer our Google Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
♟️♟️ Phd Econ Chess Arena! Organized by me and @michaelstepner.bsky.social, all skill levels welcome, come play an hour of bullet/blitz, once a month on lichess. First date Dec 28 12pm ET. If at all interested, please answer our Google Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Adaptive persistence of elite families despite regime change, alongside lasting regional scarring, highlighting the role of cultural transmission for social mobility, from Carol H. Shiue and Wolfgang Keller www.nber.org/papers/w34451
Wow, this is fantastic.
Zach Liscow@zliscow.bsky.social · 11mo ago🚨NEW RESULTS (w/ Slattery & Nober) - When gov't engineers retire, highway projects cost more: the engineers pay for themselves 6 times over - Improving gov’t engineer quality from the 25th to 75th percentile reduces costs by 14%, equal to 3x avg. engineer pay Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Inserting @novosad.bsky.social's X post - I am still not very proficient in R, but I converted all of my Stata code to R for fun, which resulted in a very primitive version masala-merge in R (github.com/devdatalab/m...)! #masala-merge #R #India #economics
Young people and city-dwellers are among those most likely to see one group’s gain as another’s loss
To understand America today, study the zero-sum mindset, writes Stefanie Stantcheva
Young people and city-dwellers are among those most likely to see one group’s gain as another’s loss
econ.st
Editing our writing is a common academic task. I *hate* how spell/grammar checks annoy me by thinking proper nouns or LaTeX code are misspellings (yes, I want `` ''). I also want *style* tips like a good editor would give me. Problem solved. 1/5
It's wild to me that in 2025 there are academics advising their students to never use AI.
Dan Hassler-Forest@danhf.bsky.social · last yr.6. NEVER USE IT YOURSELF. EVER! The most common issue I hear from students is that some of their lecturers use ChatGPT for feedback, syllabus creation, etc., so why shouldn't they? Of course I'm not the boss of you, but as soon as you use it for ANYTHING, you're giving students implicit permission.
Please do it less quietly, Europe. US political leadership needs to be more rattled by this! www.politico.com/newsletters/...
How Europe is quietly stealing America’s scientists
politico.com
just register for your own protection. it will be fine
Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...
U.S. Texts Barnard Employees and Asks if They Are Jewish
A questionnaire from a federal commission also inquired about whether professors and other college staff members had been harassed.
nytimes.com
Academic creativity is underrated and technical methods are overrated. Take this excellent paper on Zero Sum Thinking—simple in retrospect, just an excellent idea! Graph shows rise in zero-sum thinking with Millennial and later U.S. birth cohorts. Congrats to @s-stantcheva.bsky.social
Parents are going to flip out when they learn that the 4th grade teacher hasn't answered all the math worksheet questions by herself.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.Is it fair to use A.I. to grade student essays, if you’ve prohibited students from using A.I. to write them? Teachers are increasingly using the technology in their own work, like grading essays and tutoring struggling students, even as they express profound hesitation about its ethics.
Is EconSky dead? Scrolling through my feed, none of the posts by real people (as opposed to social media celebrities) have any engagement. Even "new paper alerts" getting like <20 likes.
U.S. citizen interested in grad studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada)? Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions. U.S. Applicant Week: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool
US Applicant Week
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Our paper on ingroup bias in the Indian judiciary — we didn't find any — is finally out! This paper has one of the two best graphs I've ever made — on publication bias in the judicial bias literature. Black circles are prior studies on ingroup bias. Explanation in 🧵👇🏻
Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.
the internet starting to re-fragment into having Actual Websites again as centralized social media self-destructs is unironically one of the absolute best, most positive things happening rn
Seriously disturbing. Look at the prisoners standing at attention, being required to take part in this US propaganda video
Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · last yr.Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
