Unofficially, I have 50% funding for a master's student this fall at Towson to study AI tutoring in Principles. If you have a student interested in Economics Education who is still looking for what do this fall please send them my way

We're putting together a special issue at the IREE on AI in teaching, assessment, and learning. If you're doing interesting work in your econ courses, we want to see it. Especially applied, replicable stuff. Submissions open Sept 1, 2026 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Got 2 requests from highschoolers looking for opportunities to do research with me. I have a tough enough time doing research with undergrad so I always say no. That said I also wish I could help my highschool aged daughter find a different econ mentor to work on her cool project idea

Development economics finally has a global professional home. Today we launch @ideadevecon.bsky.social ... Open to every development economist, everywhere. Join the community: idea.devecon.org Please share 🌍

This is a really cool paper! This was an issue in my undergraduate research guide, that had several pdfs the people created to help students. I wonder if we should start having pdf repository of websites we use journalofeconomicsteaching.org/a-guide-for-...

Jadrian Wooten@wootenomics.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New paper out in Applied Economic Letters with Dusty White! We checked every external hyperlink in the top 5 econ journals (2011–2020) and found: ➡️ 52% are dead ➡️ 25% of "working" links don't even show the original content anymore. Gift link to the paper in response ⬇️

Looking for referees for a qualitative paper on cash transfers / social protection - if you're interested, let me know!

not sure when the transition officially takes place, but now that the school year at Carleton is over: I'm moving over to the Department of Economics at St. Olaf College this fall! Excited to join @allisonluedtke.bsky.social et al.

If you publish in development this is always a super helpful overview of development journals. Wish there were more like this for other journals

David McKenzie@dmckenzie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today I have put up my 10th annual look at development journals, which works with journal editors to put together statistics on submission numbers, acceptance rates, review times, and more. This is the post that takes me the most time to do each year blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Anyone has experience with Prolific asking questions 2 or 3 weeks apart? how's the attrition?

OK shot in the dark but do any of you work at/know someone who works at the kind of investment firm that creates its own ETFs or investment vehicles?

Excited to give a talk today at the NY Fed and woke up early to jog toward the borough of my birth.

And we’re live… authors.elsevier.com/a/1n6QN5Fwqq...

I'm going to have to build new course materials from scratch for some new courses I'm teaching next year, and I might as well put in the time to make them fully ADA-compliant; anyone have suggested resources? (I'm thinking about how I prepare stuff posted to our CMS, which is Moodle, in particular)

My book (!) How Economics Discovered Women is now available for pre-order from the University of California Press. The book is a survey and critique of how the economics of gender has developed since the mid-1970s. www.ucpress.edu/books/how-ec...

How Economics Discovered Women by Shelly Lundberg - Hardcover

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

ucpress.edu

Anyone have experience transferring a submission from JEBO to JBEE or J Econ Pysch? Got good quick feedback from JEBO and I think we can address it then send on there with the reports

If you teach intro to Econ and would be interested in being part of an RCT on AI homework tutor I have a good lead on funding. Participating faculty will get $500 to $1000. DM me or email sgitter@towson.edu Please repost! Repost and I'll buy you a drink at ASSA 2027 or future conference

Proud to have "Nonbinary Gender Economics" out in JPE Micro. We document the economic experiences and preferences of nonbinary individuals—a population of 1M+ in the US that is often overlooked.

👏

Andrew Heiss@andrew.heiss.phd · 5mo ago

If you use #QuartoPub for any PDF documents for teaching and you need to meet impending PDF accessibility rules, upgrade to v1.9, add format: typst: pdf-standard: ua-1 to the YAML front matter, and it'll work!

Congrats to the @sadiecollective.bsky.social on a great conference! Was great bringing 10 Towson students and my 16 year old daughter

The Sadie Collective@sadiecollective.bsky.social · 5mo ago

#SACE2026 is officially at capacity, in person and online! Interest exceeded available seats across platforms, a strong signal of the growing community committed to reshaping economics! #Economics #Econsky

🚨 A defining moment for global health data. The termination of the #USAID-supported Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Program has wide-ranging consequences. We reflect on the collapse and argue what should come next in a new PNAS: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… 📊 9,000+ studies

I miss the old days of Econ blogging when Greg Mankiw would respond to my post about why he is shoveling snow off his roof. I think we are missing something when Ivy League profs don't interact with the rest of us as much gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2011/02/on-c...

Last call for abstracts for the Towson International Development Economics Symposium (TIDES) a one day conference 4/17. The Towson Econ department will cover registration, parking and lunch. Abstracts will be accepted through Fri Feb 28th in the link below forms.office.com/r/aDw7LwznBp

How timely! About to get on a zoom about teaching intro to Econ with AI w/ @justinwolfers.bsky.social I plan to run an RCT with an AI tutor turned on/off in Intro. If you teach multiple sections of intro and are interested in joining drop me a line (I might have stipends too)

Prof Dynarski@dynarski.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Thinking of running an RCT in postsecondary education? MDRC has created a fantastic set of resources to help you in projecting minimum effect sizes, randomizing, and processing data Proud to have helped advise this project! www.mdrc.org/the-rct

Towson will be hosting it's second one day international development conference TIDES (Towson International Development Economics Symposium) on April 17th abstracts due 2/24. No registration fee and lighting talks for grad students. Form linked below for more info forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Excited to share a new R package: 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁 🌡️ `heat` makes it easier to work with climate or other gridded data in applied research, providing a comprehensive + optimized set of tools to compute environmental exposures for admin boundaries or points from gridded/point data. github.com/echolab-stan...

GitHub - echolab-stanford/heat: R package heat: Harmonized Environmental Exposure Aggregation Tools

R package heat: Harmonized Environmental Exposure Aggregation Tools - echolab-stanford/heat

github.com

Every session and event sponsored by the National Economic Association was over capacity. The AEA must assign space appropriately in future meetings.

Noah Williams@bellmanequation.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The AEA is not what it used to be

I will be chairing a session sponsored by the AEA Committee on Economic Education on "Evolving Trends in Economics Majors: Demographic Shifts and Future Implications" on Sat, Jan 3 at 8 AM at #ASSA2026 in Philly Please reach out if you are attending the meetings. I would love to catch up!

Taking the train to Philly tomorrow for the #ASSA2026 Reach out if you want to get a coffee or drink! I’ll be on this cheery panel about the future of higher ed on Sunday