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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 2d

It might be hard to convey to people outside economics just how seismic this is. The Trump effect has most certainly arrived to US academia.

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 2d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Hani Mansour @hnmansour.bsky.social · 3d

Thank @kaseybuckles.bsky.social! Please submit your paper if you work on economic demography (broadly defined).

Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social · 4d

The Economic Demography Workshop will be on May 6, at the PAAs in St. Louis. See the call for papers 👇

Thanks to co-chairs @hnmansour.bsky.social & @mguldi.bsky.social !

EDW Call for Papers 2026.pdf

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Hani Mansour @hnmansour.bsky.social · 4d

Omar Yaghi, a Palestinian (born to a refugee family in Amman) is among the Nobel prize winners in Chemistry

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/s...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Architects of Metal-Organic Frameworks

www.nytimes.com

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 6d

Traveling while Black during Jim Crow was about survival as well as mobility. The Green Book Project website documents that story. Share your family’s Green Book memories and help us preserve this rich history:
greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 8d

Cautiously optimistic about the end of the Gaza war though so many details in Trump’s plan are under specified.

Unclear when Israel withdraws its forces and from what parts of Gaza.

Unclear how many Palestinian prisoners Israel will release and whom.

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Hani Mansour @hnmansour.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · Aug 31

I signed an open letter from economists supporting Fed independence & Gov. Lisa Cook. Add your name by Monday: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... |

Letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Signature page for Open Letter of Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence

By filling out the form below, you are asking your signature to be added to this open letter.

docs.google.com

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Aug 25

If you think the attack on the Fed's Lisa Cook has nothing to do with you, you're wrong — any one of us may be next paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-all...

We Are All Lisa Cook

Nobody is safe from weaponized government

paulkrugman.substack.com

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Hani Mansour @hnmansour.bsky.social · Aug 26

Wake up to awful news, end the day with terrible news. Repeat.

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Hani Mansour @hnmansour.bsky.social · Aug 19

Excited it’ll be in Denver!

Sandy Black @econsandy.bsky.social · Aug 19

Society of Labor Economists (SoLE) Annual Conference will be May 1-2, 2026 in Denver, Colorado. Submission portal is now open! Deadline for submissions is October 31--don't forget to submit! It will be a great conference! (organized by me and @jrothst.bsky.social)

mailchi.mp/sole-jole/so...

SOLE 2026 Submissions Open

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Hani Mansour @hnmansour.bsky.social · Aug 9

Important read.

Dina Pomeranz @dinapomeranz.bsky.social · Aug 9

Important speech by Tel Aviv University economics professor Ro'ee Levy at the Israel Economic Association meeting, in which he links together insights from economics research, personal experience and information about the devastating situation in Gaza: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Gaza_Conference_FullLinks

Israeli Economic Association Conference – Closing Panel Roee Levy, July 17, 2025 The topic of this panel is trends in the Israeli economy, and I am going to talk about the most important trend: the w...

docs.google.com

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Hani Mansour @hnmansour.bsky.social · Jul 29

Thank you for speaking up.

Jesse Rothstein @jrothst.bsky.social · Jul 29

This piece is very moving, and reflects how I am feeling about the Israel/Gaza calamity.

Silence in the Face of Gaza's Starvation is Absolute Betrayal of Holocaust Victims
By Orit Kamir
Originally published in Haaretz

substack.com/home/post/p-...

Thanks to @deanbaker13.bsky.social for posting it.

Column on the Responsibility of Israelis to Speak Up Against Mass Starvation in Gaza

I generally restrict my comments here to economic issues, but some things are hard to ignore.

substack.com

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Hani Mansour @hnmansour.bsky.social · Jun 14

Amen

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Hani Mansour @hnmansour.bsky.social · Jun 6

Very very bad, especially if this is the opening shot against access to other restricted data.

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Jun 6

EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn.

BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS.
#EconSky

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Johanna Rickne @johannarickne.bsky.social · May 9

9/ Based on our initial and extended replications, we wonder: how can the editor still trust the results of this paper? If this case does not meet the criteria for retraction, what does?

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Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social · May 11

Apply soon if you’re interested - we’ll start reviewing applications shortly.

Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social · Apr 26

We're hiring, part 2!

The Criminal Justice and Evidence + Evaluation teams at Arnold Ventures are actively working to embed data access and quasi-experiments into legislation we support, to ensure that we all learn about policies' impact as they are implemented at the state and federal levels.

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Caroline Krafft @ckrafftc.bsky.social · May 7

At the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies conference on Demography and Labor Markets in the MENA Region! Will be posting a thread on all the great papers presented. #EconSky
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Hani Mansour @hnmansour.bsky.social · Apr 26

For sure.

Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · Apr 26

i think frodo baggins was nonbinary

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · Apr 23

Grateful for @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social voice. Excellent piece. I no longer have the patience he has for responding to these incredulous arguments about the qualifications and aptitude of non-White people.

Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · Apr 23

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.

I hope you’ll read and share the piece.

stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.

Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

stanforddaily.com

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Hani Mansour @hnmansour.bsky.social · Apr 15

Terrifying.

Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · Apr 15

the insane meeting with Bukele should be a lot more of a big deal. super scray stuff.

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Jesse Rothstein @jrothst.bsky.social · Apr 3

Six weeks ago I predicted a very negative March jobs report. That report comes out Friday. I no longer think that we will see massive job losses in that report. I still think a recession is coming (and the markets seem finally to be coming to agree with that), but not as quickly as I first thought.

Jesse Rothstein @jrothst.bsky.social · Feb 19

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Apr 3

Goal:
Crush universities

Need a policy tool:
Civil Rights Act Title VI gives tools to stop funding to universities if they violate someone's civil rights.

Need a violation to allege:
Use the Jews!

Using us as a wedge to attack free speech & inquiry does not protect us.
bsky.app/profile/cram...

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Apr 3

And then they came for Brown. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...

Trump Administration Set to Pause $510 Million for Brown University

The administration has now targeted five schools’ federal funding as part of a pledge to combat what it considers to be antisemitism on university campuses.

www.nytimes.com

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Hani Mansour @hnmansour.bsky.social · Apr 3

This is a fantastic idea.

Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social · Apr 3

An idea I’ll float here while I figure out how to operationalize:

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Dina Pomeranz @dinapomeranz.bsky.social · Mar 24

" ‘No Other Land’ Co-Director Hamdan Ballal Beaten and Attacked, Says Yuval Abraham: ‘No Sign of Him Since’

He posted 'They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him.' "

variety.com/2025/film/ne...

‘No Other Land’ Co-Director Hamdan Ballal Beaten and Attacked, Says Yuval Abraham: ‘No Sign of Him Since’

Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," is reportedly missing, according to co-director Yuval Abraham.

variety.com

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · Mar 18

A reminder that we are hosting the webinar below on Wednesday at 12p ET. We would love if you joined us!

upenn.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Hani Mansour @hnmansour.bsky.social · Mar 9

Incredible.

Arnon Degani ארנון @arnondeg.bsky.social · Mar 9

גוש אמונים, מסמך פנימי של מפלגת העבודה, 1976

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