Sam Dodini
@microsamonomics.bsky.social
Dallas Fed Economist, CESifo, IZA // Labor institutions, imperfect labor markets, public econ // Volleyball and music enthusiast
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"I say unto you, pray for your enemies."
Not celebrating but no thoughts or prayers for him either.
My thoughts & prayers are reserved for those who want to implement common sense gun laws to protect all, especially children.
My thoughts & prayers are reserved for those who want to implement common sense gun laws to protect all, especially children.
September 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
"I say unto you, pray for your enemies."
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📣 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...
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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July 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
📣 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...
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...
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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…
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."
@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."
May 13, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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…
A strongly worded letter isn't gonna cut it.
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."
“These actions put our leadership in biomedical innovation at real risk and must be reversed."
GOP Sen. Susan Collins urges Trump administration to reverse proposed medical research cuts
Collins, the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said Trump should use a “surgical approach, not a sledgehammer” at the National Institutes of Health.
nbcnews.to
May 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
A strongly worded letter isn't gonna cut it.
🚨🚨 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
April 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🚨🚨 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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April 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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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
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
April 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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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
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
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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?
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?
March 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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?
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?
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"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...
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...
March 28, 2025 at 12:08 PM
"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...
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...
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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
Oh holy shit, quote in next post
March 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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
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.
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
March 3, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Case in point that just because a private sector firm was involved does not mean it has uncovered some sort of efficiency trick.
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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.
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.
February 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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.
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.
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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...
He is stripping security clearnces and govt funding from the firm. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
February 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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...
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.
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)
February 26, 2025 at 2:59 AM
The degree to which this administration is driven by revenge cannot be understated.
"Too Black for the Moment" sounds like an amazing album title.
February 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
"Too Black for the Moment" sounds like an amazing album title.
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
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The world is flooded by uncertainty; it now exceeds the peak hit during the pandemic in 2020. Stunning. 🥶
February 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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.
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NHH Brage: Income Equality in The Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons
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February 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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...
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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
January 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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.
Economists 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...
#EconSky
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Economists Are in the Wilderness. Can They Find a Way Back to Influence? (Gift Article)
Economists have long helped to shape policy on issues like taxes and health care. But flawed forecasts and arcane language have cost them credibility.
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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.
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.
November 23, 2024 at 12:35 PM
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.
Wut?
Spain and Portugal both get 40% of their electricity from solar and wind
November 20, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Wut?
lol Dads don't sleep.
Time spent sleeping by age, split by weekend/weekday and female/male.
November 19, 2024 at 4:28 PM
lol Dads don't sleep.
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).
Holy 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...
Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it
www.nber.org/system/files...
November 18, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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).
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.
“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...
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Column | The educational divide driving American politics to the right
It’s not “the economy, stupid;” it’s the noncollege voter. This week, we look at how Trump has solidified the educational divide that defines his era.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 16, 2024 at 2:18 AM
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.