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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 8h

Astonishing how many of you "montreal bagel" people think you could even get on the ballot to begin with

Nic Duquette @nicduquette.bsky.social · 8h

Now somebody needs to invent a mechanism where real estate developers can pay LA Metro to run a rapid bus past the parcels where they want to put lots of housing

Nic Duquette @nicduquette.bsky.social · 8h

Woah, SB79 is law

cayimby.org/news-events/...

Governor Newsom Signs Historic Housing Legislation. SB 79 Culminates Eight-Year Fight to Legalize Homes Near Transit.

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Senate Bill 79, a bill that will make it legal to build more homes near the highest capacity transit stops across California.

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Nic Duquette @nicduquette.bsky.social · 16h

I for one am looking forward to the first development RCTs that test for effective strategies for increasing literacy, preventing deadly childhood disease, etc. in the USA

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 17h

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 · 21h

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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 21h

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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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 21h

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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Nic Duquette @nicduquette.bsky.social · 1d

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Drake Catches Himself Singing ‘Not Like Us’ In The Shower

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

i’d say the real killer feature of EVs is basically the lack of real maintenance costs.

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Nic Duquette @nicduquette.bsky.social · 1d

Our public schools now require students to put their phones in a special locked pouch during the day to limit distraction, but they also give every child a chromebook 🧐

Nic Duquette @nicduquette.bsky.social · 2d

Eventually I'll post an updated version where the date I abandoned a project is marked with a little skull

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Nic Duquette @nicduquette.bsky.social · 2d

Anybody who wants to do this can get my code here

www.nicolasduquette.com/datacode.html

Note, I don't currently track my own work this way because I don't like the answer

Nicolas J. Duquette

www.nicolasduquette.com

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 3d

“Either this machine will be powerful enough to take your job or it’ll blow up and you’ll lose your job in a recession” is a tough outlook for white collar workers over the next few years.

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Nic Duquette @nicduquette.bsky.social · 3d

Going to be pretty annoyed if decades of effort to build a very decent urban rail system didn't increase transit ridership, but tariffing the auto industry to hell and/or an oil shock does the trick

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Nic Duquette @nicduquette.bsky.social · 3d

Wild to think that system ridership is still so far below where it was 10 years ago, especially now that the downtown connector is open

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Nic Duquette @nicduquette.bsky.social · 3d

The E line. Definitely a large chunk of the extra people are getting on/off at the connection with the K line (which goes to LAX, although they mostly don't look like they are to/from a flight)

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Nic Duquette @nicduquette.bsky.social · 3d

Huh, bus ridership is down more but train is also down slightly.

opa.metro.net/MetroRidersh...

Metro Ridership

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Nic Duquette @nicduquette.bsky.social · 3d

My train is busier than ever. I would guess that if you disaggregated by mode that train ridership would be gradually increasing and local buses are struggling

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Genevieve Kanter @profgenkanter.bsky.social · 3d

Aaand (checks notes) right on schedule...

We found that about 1/3 of FDA appointees go to industry within 2 years after their exit from the agency (rates were even higher at CDC and CMS).

www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/...

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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 3d

My colleague & friend Richard Green raises good reason to NOT sign Trump’s compact: “the president “is a person who has not kept agreements for a very long time. If we are going to sell our soul, let’s not sell it to someone who is going to pull the football away.”

www.latimes.com/california/s...

USC faculty members denounce Trump compact that would shift university to the right

The USC Academic Senate held a special meeting to discuss the Trump administration's education compact, which was presented to the school last week.

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 3d

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

Event study coefficients that show that men's earnings rise more than women's among couples following a cross-commuting zone move (left panels). The pattern is muted or reverses among single men and single women (right panels).

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 3d

(1) banger
(2) i wish non-economists would realise just how much time each economics paper takes to write (because of our norms about how thorough each paper has to be)

Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 3d

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 5d

My grand theory for why we are where we are. This is the GSS data for "Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people?"

No one trusts anyone but Republicans have moved a lot.

Partisan breakdown in responses to survey question since the 1970s. Shows that Republicans have moved a lot, Independents are the least trusting.

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Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 7d

Before I led BLS I was not as acutely aware of how many businesses, firms, and individual jobs depend on a stream of public use data. One estimate is that the $2 billion the US spends on economic data creates a $200+ billion industry of 'data-intensive' businesses. pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

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