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Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 1d

See my new blog post with Kari Williams on the @ipums.bsky.social blog about the termination of the CPS Food Security supplement and the other federal data sources available for studying food security in the U.S. #econsky

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Measuring Food Security with U.S. Federal Data – Use It for Good

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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 1d

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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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 2d

Come to Berlin

ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin @rfberlin.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 We are hiring!
📂 RFBerlin invites applications for Postdoctoral Fellow positions in Economics.
⏰ Application deadline: November 15.
More info: www.rfberlin.com/job/postdoct...
👉 Apply here or share with your network: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
#EconSky #EconJobMarket

Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics

The ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin) invites applications for postdoctoral fellow positions in economics. The initial contract is for two years, with the possibility of renewal for up to six year...

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Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 2d

Two Lecturer jobs in Quantitative Social Science at University College London

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Chris Uggen @chrisuggen.bsky.social · 2d

Jobs! ISRDI @minnpop.bsky.social is searching for 2 full-time staff for a new National Institute on Aging Demography and Economics Coordinating Center (NIA DECC).

1. DECC Coordinator, JO 370494: hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...

2. Communications Manager, JO 370497 - hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...

About the NIA DECC

Demography & Economics of Aging Coordinating Center (DECC) Contact us at [email protected] Co-Directors: Gina Rumore, Cathy Fitch, and Rob Warren We aim to increase the efficiency, productivity, and impac...

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 4d

NEW: "I don’t like sending out 'emergency' newsletters, but I’ve had my eye on the situation in Chicago all day....This moment has elevated the crisis so that it is no longer just a conflict between the federal government and a state, but between two states."
www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 4d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 4d

This is the best one

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Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 5d

I believe you mean you employed logit

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Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 5d

We’re taking the kids on vacation to Vietnam and when I search “kids activities Saigon“ I really don’t think the War Remnants Museum should pop up!

Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 8d

I really get chills when I see a politician suggest building more housing to reduce housing prices!

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Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 8d

I feel the opposite way since having kids! All my conversations with my husband are now dense information exchange with lots of comprehension checks

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 9d

"The government shutdown is expected to delay the Labor Dept. report, leaving more questions about the health of the economy.

"Labor economist [me] said the jobs report... is the 'most important economic data release in the world. Period.'”
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The government shutdown is expected to delay the Labor Department report, leaving more questions about the health of the economy.

Labor economist Aaron Sojourner said the jobs report from the government, which comes out the first Friday of each month, is the “most important economic data release in the world. Period.”

Those monthly updates on the health of the American labor market are closely watched by investors to understand how the economy is changing.

“Billions of dollars of investment sort of shift on this report,” Sojourner said. “It's not perfect. It's an estimate. It's incredibly challenging to measure the 160 million, roughly, jobs in the economy in real time.”

But he said it’s the best available information at the time it’s released.

And the shutdown-induced delay in the release of the jobs data “clouds everyone's view of the economy.”

“Everybody is making high-stakes decisions with sort of worse information, worse visibility into what's happening around them,” said Sojourner, who works for the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 9d

lol my parents flew to Minnesota to celebrate #TheDoubleTax in St. Paul so naturally we hung out with THE WALZS because why not? 🤯

A portrait of THE WALZS, Anna Gifty and her family and her friends

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Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 9d

Could have written an article about the pig who played Babe

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Howard Ramos @somardrawoh.bsky.social · 9d

JOB @westernu.ca -Sociology - Assistant Professor (Health and the Life Course or Work and the Economy). Please send widely to anyone that might be interested. Happy to answer any Qs about it if you DM or email.

csn-rec.ca/job-postings...

TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION IN HEALTH AND THE LIFE COURSE OR WORK AND THE ECONOMY - Department of Sociology, Western University

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Rafiuddin (Rafi) Najam @rnajam.bsky.social · 9d

Exciting news. We are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Public Policy. Focus areas: environmental policy, international development, or poverty.
Link:
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Submission Deadline: November 3, 2025.
Don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions.

Assistant Professor

This position is located in the Department of Public Policy within the College of Arts and Sciences. This tenure-track position includes 40% teaching, 40% research, and 20% service to the department. ...

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 9d

European unemployment rates held near the lowest levels on record in data released today, with EU unemployment steady at 5.9% and Eurozone unemployment rising to 6.3%

Spain, Finland, & Sweden have the EU's highest unemployment while Malta, Slovenia, and Czechia have its lowest

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Caroline Krafft @ckrafftc.bsky.social · 9d

Spring 2026 Fellowship on Ecuador Refugee Research at @cega-uc.bsky.social UC Berkeley (January-May 2026). Preference will be given to applicants currently based in Ecuador who have the lived experience of forced displacement, see details: #FundSocSci docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Ecuador Special Call Fellowship RFA

CEGA Fellowship: Ecuador Refugee Research Fellowship Spring 2026 Request for Applications: APPLY HERE Table of Contents TIMELINE 1 OVERVIEW OF OPPORTUNITY 1 ELIGIBILITY 3 HOW TO APPLY 4 APPENDIX A:...

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Jørgen Modalsli @modals.li · 9d

New working paper! *Female labor force participation in historical census microdata*, available at EHES: ehes.org/wp/EHES_282.... . Female labor force participation is well measured in the Norwegian 1910 Census, and the available micro data is well suited for economic analysis (with some caveats).

$Female labor force participation in historical census microdata By: Jørgen Modalsli ABSTRACT How reliable is historical microdata? Understanding historical labor force participation is crucial for assessing long-term trends in economic development and intergenerational mobility. Most existing historical studies are, however, limited to men, and little is known about how reliable quantitative historical sources are when studying labor market outcomes for women. This paper documents that the measurement of women's economic activity in the 1910 Norwegian population census had a high level of consistency. There is extensive discussion of measurement issues in historical census reports, micro data can reproduce historical census tables with a high degree of accuracy, and other contemporary reports such as industrial censuses and tax statistics confirm the results found in the census. In addition, a double-enumeration feature of the Norwegian census is leveraged to assess consistency between enumerators, finding no indication that precision in the occupational classification of women is any lower than for men. Some potential sources of downward bias are found in the historical census microdata set provided by IPUMS. Based on the results in this paper, historical census data appears well suited to study economic activity using modern econometric methods, for women as well as men. A slight upward revision of the 39\% female labor force participation in Norway in 1910 might be in order.$

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American Society of Hispanic Economists @asheassa.bsky.social · 10d

Please join us for the ASHE Virtual Seminar Series on 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟰, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝟯-𝟰𝗣𝗠 𝗘𝗧 𝘃𝗶𝗮 𝗭𝗼𝗼𝗺.

Register for free at: cuboulder.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

María Padilla-Romo (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) will be presenting “𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗘𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗥𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗢𝘂𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀.”

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Pietro Biroli @pietrobiroli.bsky.social · May 20

🧵New paper out:

“Beyond Time: Unveiling the Invisible Burden of Mental Load”

with Barigozzi, Monfardini, Montinari, @elenapisanelli.bsky.social @svevav.bsky.social

🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2505.11426

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Beyond Time: Unveiling the Invisible Burden of Mental Load

This paper introduces a novel, scalable methodology to measure individual perceptions of gaps in mental load -- the cognitive and emotional burden associated with organizing household and childcare ta...

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Wouter Leenders @leenders.bsky.social · 17d

I have just finished creating Spotify playlists for Billboard's R&B charts for the 1960s. There is such an incredible and underrated musical richness in these charts!

Take a look and stay tuned for the 1970s...!

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17d

big shoutout to Wouter Leenders, PhD candidate at Berkeley Econ, for digging in the digital crates to organize and create Spotify playlists for all the tracks on the 1958-1969 Bilboard "Hot R&B Sides" chart

check em out here: wouterleenders.eu/RB/

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Steven Van de Walle @stevenvdwalle.bsky.social · 12d

www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3550...

Assistant Professor Public Policy and Governance

Are you an enthusiastic public policy scholar with a passion for education? Do you conduct research on the Global South with an interest in the politics of policy implementation? Then we have the perf...

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Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 13d

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