People like to blame cell phones and social media but have you noticed that things started going to hell as tote bags became more ubiquitous?
Isabel Pastoor
@pastoorisabel.bsky.social
Applied Economics PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota Research engagement specialist at IPUMS Applied microeconomist and economic demographer isabelpastoor.com
Call for Papers for the 3rd Annual CLEF conference! clef.uqam.ca/conference/ Current grad students and recent Ph.D.s from Canadian universities are also eligible for the Best Paper Prize, details here: clef.uqam.ca/prize/
Just got an email from a former student who took my class a decade ago, asking me for the reading list because she enjoyed the course so much and wants to revisit the texts. And she *apologized* for making the request. Are you kidding me?
Sad Old Man Crying
ALT: Sad Old Man Crying
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Our "A Few Goodmen" paper now has some serious competition, coming from the many Katherines of the world. arxiv.org/pdf/2404.00732
The tension between “please don’t email me” and “if it’s not in an email it doesn’t exist”
Shoutout to the 🐐GOAT🐐, respect greatness www.macfound.org/videos/2026-...
Ellora Derenoncourt - 2026 MacArthur Fellow
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Interested in a PhD in historical demography/population studies at @camunicampop.bsky.social, @camunigeography.bsky.social, Cambridge University? We have 3 suggested topics (see thread): contact me to discuss, or to suggest your own idea. Apply by early December for funded places.
K-12 researchers! Take a look at the new Arnold Ventures RFP supporting causal research on the impacts of K-12 school policies. LOIs are due Nov. 13. Please share widely!
After working as an RA at IPUMS since my first year of grad school, I’m excited to be joining the team full-time as a research engagement specialist. I will continue to answer all your IPUMS data questions and work on projects to support researchers.
Needing to Ctrl + F a methods paper for the word "nonsensical" to find the part that applies to my research is a little degrading
🚨 The Center for Migration and Integration Research (CMIR) at Stockholm School of Economics @sthlmschoolofecon.bsky.social is looking for a postdoctoral researcher 👇
Post-doc position at the Center for Migration and Integration at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE)
About the Center for Migration and Integration Research The Center for Migration and Integration Research (CMIR), housed at the SSE House of Governance and Public Policy (GaPP), aims to create a pla
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“Play for us sinners now and at the hour of our death” Preschooler version is probably just as effective
We are hiring for a Federal Reserve Historian! rb.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/FRS/job/St-L...
Federal Reserve Historian
Company Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis is a leader in bringing Federal Reserve history to the world. We are committed to preserving the history of the Federal ...
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🚨 Obama rejects the argument that the market and lawsuits alone can keep AI companies in check: “That’s not how we treat airlines, or drug companies, or food companies.” He says there’s “no replacement” for effective government regulation.
The plan requires all NIH awards to be directly approved by Vought. No NIH award could be made without his approval.
Politico@politico.com · 2w agoTrump asked budget chief to draft order bringing health research funding under his control
An amazing agenda with important papers is selected from a large number of submissions (apologize to most of you!) Below, you can both register and view the program: www.gsb.stanford.edu/events/polit...
The Political Economics of Sustainability
This conference focuses on the politics and the economics of environmental problems and regulation.
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This is heartbreaking to read: “Najya was asking what I’d accomplished by not choosing the “best” school for her. And the honest answer is, I don’t know. When it comes to the choices my husband and I have made about public education, these days I feel that I failed both my values and my child.”
In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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I wrote a letter about the MPS school closure proposals.
Readers Write: Potential closure of Minneapolis schools, Waymo
Show your work, Minneapolis Public Schools. Families don’t trust you.
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Come be my colleague! Cleveland Fed is hiring a research economist. Applied micro especially encouraged (by me) to apply: econjobmarket.org/positions/12...
EJM - Econ Job Market
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When I got tenure, I decided to use it start a new research agenda, studying US science in the 20th century, how it became dominant, what held it back, and what we can do better. Here's the first pub (with Scott Kim).
Econometrica@ecmaeditors.bsky.social · last yr.Analyzing scientists' biographies during the baby boom, we find that mothers have a unique life cycle pattern of productivity. Children reduce the productivity of mothers but not fathers, with important implications for promotions and participation. buff.ly/39WbYRH
When it rains on the St. Paul campus and you can smell the manure…just applied econ department things.
Call for papers for spring SOLE meeting (4/30-5/1 in Baltimore) now open! Last year's conference, organized by Sandy Black and Jesse Rothstein, was a huge success and I'm looking forward to serving on program committee again. Send us your great work (by 10/31): www.sole-jole.org/upcoming-mee...
Upcoming Meeting
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If spending more on schools raises the earnings of the children who benefit, does it eventually make the whole economy richer? My new NBER paper examines this using school-finance reforms. 🧵 www.nber.org/papers/w35755
The Macroeconomic Returns to School Finance Reforms: Micro-Calibrated Predictions Meet Causal Evidence
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Not only that, but if he were to actually skip it, that would immediately be used to attack him as well. This is bullshit all the way down and nobody should be giving it the time of day
Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 4w agoThis is somehow still going, and it’s not just a few random families now; it’s also a former mayor of NYC and governor of New York. There is, again, no way to reason to argue Mamdani shouldn’t attend this commemoration that isn’t fundamentally bigoted
Minnesotans seem to think that maximizing our summertime utility also minimizes our wintertime disutility and I’m just not buying it.
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