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)
The speed with which the political discourse moved from "we have to take migration concerns seriously" to "we have found a universally agreed upon scapegoat that we can blame all our governance shortcomings on" was incredibly fast and really deserves pushback.
This foreword to "Restoring Control Over the Immigration System" contains some outrageous statements. The migration increase was driven by student visas. Have these tuition paying students truly done "incalculable damage" to the country?
Good article on the diferences between profound and non-profound autism. Also goes into the problems for families with children with profound autism that stem from diagnosing this entire spectrum under one term. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/h...
right, so that gives us Mads Frøkjær-Jensen as a danish attacking midfielder, not quite a striker for Preston North End and Jonas Axeldal as a former swedish striker for Ipswich
How is it that the top 3 premier league clubs all have scandinavian strikers? Do they exclusively train banging balls in in the nordic youth academies?
this has long been a hobbyhorse of mine, but the estimates on health consequences of different types of air pollution coming out of different literatures over the last decade are SO BIG that there is no way that we are at optimal welfare regulation levels.
On possible welfare gains in reducing air pollution: "We compare these prices to marginal benefits of pollution reduction estimated using leading air quality models and find that, on average, marginal benefits exceed marginal costs by more than a factor of ten." www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
