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👏 A 'best book of 2025,' per @economist.com: This deep dive into China's university entrance exam, the #Gaokao. Authors Hongbin Li, a SIEPR senior fellow, and Ruixue Jia @gpsucsd.bsky.social, explore how the brutal 3-day exam dominates Chinese society.
#China #Geopolitics
#China #Geopolitics
November 23, 2025 at 4:19 AM
👏 A 'best book of 2025,' per @economist.com: This deep dive into China's university entrance exam, the #Gaokao. Authors Hongbin Li, a SIEPR senior fellow, and Ruixue Jia @gpsucsd.bsky.social, explore how the brutal 3-day exam dominates Chinese society.
#China #Geopolitics
#China #Geopolitics
Brexit ➡️ stagnation: New research from SIEPR's @nickbloom.bsky.social and co-authors analyzes ~10 years of data and finds the U.K. has paid a big price for leaving the E.U.: #GDP 6-8% ⬇️, investment 12-18% ⬇️, employment and productivity each 3-4% ⬇️. Link below.
#Econsky #Brexit #EU
#Econsky #Brexit #EU
November 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Brexit ➡️ stagnation: New research from SIEPR's @nickbloom.bsky.social and co-authors analyzes ~10 years of data and finds the U.K. has paid a big price for leaving the E.U.: #GDP 6-8% ⬇️, investment 12-18% ⬇️, employment and productivity each 3-4% ⬇️. Link below.
#Econsky #Brexit #EU
#Econsky #Brexit #EU
Great example of #policyimpact: The govt's $42B rural rollout of high-speed internet will now come with a key condition — one that SIEPR's Greg Rosston and Scott Wallsten of @techpolicyinst.bsky.social proposed recently: Service providers receiving funds can't return to the trough for more 💰.
November 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Great example of #policyimpact: The govt's $42B rural rollout of high-speed internet will now come with a key condition — one that SIEPR's Greg Rosston and Scott Wallsten of @techpolicyinst.bsky.social proposed recently: Service providers receiving funds can't return to the trough for more 💰.
Congratulations to Mark Duggan, Stanford economist and former SIEPR director, on his appointment as director of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Policy @utoronto.ca, starting Sept. 1 2026! We thank him for his service to the Stanford community. He will be missed on The Farm!
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November 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Congratulations to Mark Duggan, Stanford economist and former SIEPR director, on his appointment as director of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Policy @utoronto.ca, starting Sept. 1 2026! We thank him for his service to the Stanford community. He will be missed on The Farm!
tinyurl.com/4hm4h8um
tinyurl.com/4hm4h8um
From SIEPR's Luigi Pistaferri, evidence of how parents support their children financially after a job loss. Exact response depends on whether their kids' unemployment is temporary or long-lasting. 👇
Norwegian data show that when children experience income losses, parents adjust their wealth to, either, transfer resources (when the shock is temporary) or increase savings (when the shocks are persistent).
A Fagereng, L Guiso, L Pistaferri, @mariusring.bsky.social
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#EconSky
A Fagereng, L Guiso, L Pistaferri, @mariusring.bsky.social
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
November 3, 2025 at 11:03 AM
From SIEPR's Luigi Pistaferri, evidence of how parents support their children financially after a job loss. Exact response depends on whether their kids' unemployment is temporary or long-lasting. 👇
A paper on child-care subsidies, drafted in 1988 by the late health economist Victor Fuchs, is now seeing the light of day. It’s part of a promise, says co-author @HershShefrin. Read the story ➡️ bit.ly/4hCTlrR on the enduring voice of the SIEPR fellow, @healthpolicy.stanford.edu affiliate.
#EconSky
#EconSky
October 31, 2025 at 9:08 PM
A paper on child-care subsidies, drafted in 1988 by the late health economist Victor Fuchs, is now seeing the light of day. It’s part of a promise, says co-author @HershShefrin. Read the story ➡️ bit.ly/4hCTlrR on the enduring voice of the SIEPR fellow, @healthpolicy.stanford.edu affiliate.
#EconSky
#EconSky
New in #QJE: How state-level policies inadvertently fueled the opioid epidemic, from SIEPR Senior Fellow Matthew Gentzkow and @MIT.edu coauthors. MIT news summary👇
#OpioidCrisis #PublicHealth #AddictionResearch #EconSky
#OpioidCrisis #PublicHealth #AddictionResearch #EconSky
October 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
New in #QJE: How state-level policies inadvertently fueled the opioid epidemic, from SIEPR Senior Fellow Matthew Gentzkow and @MIT.edu coauthors. MIT news summary👇
#OpioidCrisis #PublicHealth #AddictionResearch #EconSky
#OpioidCrisis #PublicHealth #AddictionResearch #EconSky
The ghost of #SiliconValleyBank returns in this must-read on fresh signs of trouble in U.S. banking and what regulators should be doing, from SIEPR Senior Fellow Amit Seru. 👇
#EconSky #FinancialCrisis
#EconSky #FinancialCrisis
Raise bank equity or keep rolling the dice—The US can keep pretending complex regulation will make thinly capitalised banks safe, or it can fix the design — by requiring much higher common equity and resolving the weak. www.ft.com/content/7e5c... Amit Seru @siepr.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
Raise bank equity or keep rolling the dice
Our regulatory reflex since 2008 has been to add complexity and discretion rather than fix the core design
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October 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The ghost of #SiliconValleyBank returns in this must-read on fresh signs of trouble in U.S. banking and what regulators should be doing, from SIEPR Senior Fellow Amit Seru. 👇
#EconSky #FinancialCrisis
#EconSky #FinancialCrisis
Study finds positive economic effects for American universities after China grew college enrollment and sent more master's students to the U.S., co-authored by Hongbin Li, director of the SIEPR-sponsored Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions.
Key takeaways 👇👇
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Key takeaways 👇👇
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The Ripple Effects of China’s College Expansion on American Universities
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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October 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Study finds positive economic effects for American universities after China grew college enrollment and sent more master's students to the U.S., co-authored by Hongbin Li, director of the SIEPR-sponsored Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions.
Key takeaways 👇👇
tinyurl.com/yedeauev
Key takeaways 👇👇
tinyurl.com/yedeauev
Important evidence 👇 in the debate over how best to address homelessness. Study by Mark Duggan, SIEPR senior fellow, and Derek Christopher, SIEPR research scholar, finds that investments in homeless shelters pay off, not just for unhoused individuals but adjacent and regional communities.
Leveraging seasonal variation in homeless shelter availability in Los Angeles County finds that temporary shelter significantly reduces crime and ER visits for psychiatric conditions, from Derek A. Christopher, Mark Duggan, and Olivia H. Martin www.nber.org/papers/w34376
October 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Important evidence 👇 in the debate over how best to address homelessness. Study by Mark Duggan, SIEPR senior fellow, and Derek Christopher, SIEPR research scholar, finds that investments in homeless shelters pay off, not just for unhoused individuals but adjacent and regional communities.
📚 Public education made America great. In a new SIEPR Policy Brief, @lalthoff.bsky.social describes what research, including his own, says about universal schooling's vital role in enabling the #AmericanDream and why renewed investment is critical.
tinyurl.com/3czmc49t
#EconSky #EduSky
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#EconSky #EduSky
October 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
📚 Public education made America great. In a new SIEPR Policy Brief, @lalthoff.bsky.social describes what research, including his own, says about universal schooling's vital role in enabling the #AmericanDream and why renewed investment is critical.
tinyurl.com/3czmc49t
#EconSky #EduSky
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#EconSky #EduSky
Is #AI the century's third speculative bubble? Yes, say SIEPR's @jaredb-econ.bsky.social and @weakinstrument.bsky.social in a @nytimes.com op-ed. They lay out the reasons and examine whether the fallout could be better or worse than the internet, housing bursts. Free link 👇
tinyurl.com/nhjcm62v
tinyurl.com/nhjcm62v
Opinion | The A.I. Bubble Looks Real
The A.I. boom is likely a speculative bubble. Like the dot-com bust and the housing crisis, its pop is going to hurt.
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October 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Is #AI the century's third speculative bubble? Yes, say SIEPR's @jaredb-econ.bsky.social and @weakinstrument.bsky.social in a @nytimes.com op-ed. They lay out the reasons and examine whether the fallout could be better or worse than the internet, housing bursts. Free link 👇
tinyurl.com/nhjcm62v
tinyurl.com/nhjcm62v
Congratulations to Adrien Auclert @aauclert.bsky.social, SIEPR senior fellow and the recipient of the San Francisco Fed's inaugural Janet Yellen Award for Monetary Research for his early-career work on monetary economics! Link 👇 on Auclert's path into economics. #MonetaryPolicy #EconSky
October 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Congratulations to Adrien Auclert @aauclert.bsky.social, SIEPR senior fellow and the recipient of the San Francisco Fed's inaugural Janet Yellen Award for Monetary Research for his early-career work on monetary economics! Link 👇 on Auclert's path into economics. #MonetaryPolicy #EconSky
Evidence 👉 Black patients in nursing homes receive ~30% lower-quality "value added" care than whites within the same facility, from SIEPR's @nealemahoney.bsky.social and Liran Einav, with @mit.edu coauthors, in a novel study of 6.2M patients across 8,000 facilities.
Paper: tinyurl.com/53mes36e
Paper: tinyurl.com/53mes36e
October 9, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Evidence 👉 Black patients in nursing homes receive ~30% lower-quality "value added" care than whites within the same facility, from SIEPR's @nealemahoney.bsky.social and Liran Einav, with @mit.edu coauthors, in a novel study of 6.2M patients across 8,000 facilities.
Paper: tinyurl.com/53mes36e
Paper: tinyurl.com/53mes36e
New paper from SIEPR's Jared Bernstein @jaredb-econ.bsky.social and Daniel Posthumus delves into U.S. manufacturing's slide and what to do about it. Key insights: The 2000s China Shock tells only part of the story, and Trump tariffs will only make the underlying problem worse.
tinyurl.com/bbrmb28f
tinyurl.com/bbrmb28f
October 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
New paper from SIEPR's Jared Bernstein @jaredb-econ.bsky.social and Daniel Posthumus delves into U.S. manufacturing's slide and what to do about it. Key insights: The 2000s China Shock tells only part of the story, and Trump tariffs will only make the underlying problem worse.
tinyurl.com/bbrmb28f
tinyurl.com/bbrmb28f
What’s next for Fannie and Freddie: SIEPR’s latest Policy Brief, from fmr NEC deputy director Daniel Hornung and Stanford econ PhD student Ben Sampson, looks at 3 potential reforms and introduces a framework for assessing their possible impacts on mortgage rates, homebuyers.
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tinyurl.com/35mxsnrf
September 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
What’s next for Fannie and Freddie: SIEPR’s latest Policy Brief, from fmr NEC deputy director Daniel Hornung and Stanford econ PhD student Ben Sampson, looks at 3 potential reforms and introduces a framework for assessing their possible impacts on mortgage rates, homebuyers.
tinyurl.com/35mxsnrf
tinyurl.com/35mxsnrf
How could AI transform creativity, jobs, education and public policy? SIEPR's @nealemahoney.bsky.social and @susanathey.bsky.social, and @drfeifei.bsky.social, share their insights in this special episode of the Stanford Engineering's "Future of Everything" podcast. 👇
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tinyurl.com/4wn3ekyz
The future of the innovation economy
Three experts spanning artificial intelligence and economics explore the implications of AI and how it could transform creativity, jobs, education, and public policy through the rapidly evolving “inno...
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September 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
How could AI transform creativity, jobs, education and public policy? SIEPR's @nealemahoney.bsky.social and @susanathey.bsky.social, and @drfeifei.bsky.social, share their insights in this special episode of the Stanford Engineering's "Future of Everything" podcast. 👇
tinyurl.com/4wn3ekyz
tinyurl.com/4wn3ekyz
Women and men almost always feel differently about the economy, SIEPR's @nealemahoney.bsky.social and Ryan Cummings @weakinstrument.bsky.social find in a new analysis of University of Michigan consumer sentiment data. 👇
1/ Me and @nealemahoney.bsky.social are back to analyzing the vibecession. This time, We dug into the #s on how men vs. women experience the economy and found a striking result: women tend to be 10 points less optimistic about the economy than men nealemahoney.substack.com/p/the-gender...
The Gender Optimism Gap
Men are significantly and persistently more optimistic than women about the economic outlook
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September 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Women and men almost always feel differently about the economy, SIEPR's @nealemahoney.bsky.social and Ryan Cummings @weakinstrument.bsky.social find in a new analysis of University of Michigan consumer sentiment data. 👇
Please join us in celebrating Nick Bloom on his Clarivate Citation Laureate recognition for his work measuring economic uncertainty! Bloom joins a distinguished list of Stanford economists who have previously been honored, including Nobel Laureates Paul Milgrom, Robert Wilson & Paul Romer. Link ⬇️
September 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Please join us in celebrating Nick Bloom on his Clarivate Citation Laureate recognition for his work measuring economic uncertainty! Bloom joins a distinguished list of Stanford economists who have previously been honored, including Nobel Laureates Paul Milgrom, Robert Wilson & Paul Romer. Link ⬇️
🧵 The affordability squeeze in this country is real. In a new SIEPR Policy Brief, @jaredb-econ.bsky.social and @nealemahoney.bsky.social introduce a 3-legged framework for addressing the problem of rising costs for basic necessities, from health care to housing. tinyurl.com/f5hb93u5
September 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
🧵 The affordability squeeze in this country is real. In a new SIEPR Policy Brief, @jaredb-econ.bsky.social and @nealemahoney.bsky.social introduce a 3-legged framework for addressing the problem of rising costs for basic necessities, from health care to housing. tinyurl.com/f5hb93u5
Lots of ideas in this proposed research agenda for economists thinking about the effects of #AI on the #economy, including implications for #innovation and #geoeconomics. Courtesy of
@erikbryn.bsky.social, @akorinek.bsky.social and Ajay Agrawal.
tinyurl.com/ycxjx4ah
@erikbryn.bsky.social, @akorinek.bsky.social and Ajay Agrawal.
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September 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Lots of ideas in this proposed research agenda for economists thinking about the effects of #AI on the #economy, including implications for #innovation and #geoeconomics. Courtesy of
@erikbryn.bsky.social, @akorinek.bsky.social and Ajay Agrawal.
tinyurl.com/ycxjx4ah
@erikbryn.bsky.social, @akorinek.bsky.social and Ajay Agrawal.
tinyurl.com/ycxjx4ah
This is startling. The number of deaths every year tied to wildfire smoke now outnumber traffic fatalities, according to @washingtonpost.com coverage of a new @nature.com study from @marshallburke.bsky.social and others.
Excellent coverage of our study out today on climate impacts on wildfire smoke and related health impacts.
It's not your imagination: Wildfire smoke in the U.S. has dramatically worsened since 2019. According to a new study, it's already killing 41,000 people a year - and it's poised to get much worse.
new from me @johnmuyskens.bsky.social and @sadbumblebee.buzz
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
new from me @johnmuyskens.bsky.social and @sadbumblebee.buzz
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September 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
This is startling. The number of deaths every year tied to wildfire smoke now outnumber traffic fatalities, according to @washingtonpost.com coverage of a new @nature.com study from @marshallburke.bsky.social and others.
An extraordinary new tool from @marshallburke.bsky.social, SIEPR senior fellow @stanforddoerr.bsky.social, and Andrew Wilson. If you've got the evidence they're looking for, they want to hear from you. 👇
We are excited to announce the release of the Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas, an effort to map ongoing and future environmental hazards and their impacts on society, and to provide up to date evidence on what policies and interventions work to reduce impacts: adaptationatlas.org. Quick thread
Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas | ECHO Lab | Stanford University
Studying the impacts of environmental change on human health and well-being
adaptationatlas.org
September 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
An extraordinary new tool from @marshallburke.bsky.social, SIEPR senior fellow @stanforddoerr.bsky.social, and Andrew Wilson. If you've got the evidence they're looking for, they want to hear from you. 👇
This just in: @economist.com cites research by SIEPR's Chad Jones and @nickbloom.bsky.social in examining if a shrinking world really would be catastrophic and whether #AI could help with one possible downside: fewer new ideas. #innovation #globalpopulation. Gift link: tinyurl.com/3de7bf5x
A contracting population need not be a catastrophe
The economics of a shrinking world
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September 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This just in: @economist.com cites research by SIEPR's Chad Jones and @nickbloom.bsky.social in examining if a shrinking world really would be catastrophic and whether #AI could help with one possible downside: fewer new ideas. #innovation #globalpopulation. Gift link: tinyurl.com/3de7bf5x
📣 Applications open for the 2026 SIEPR Predoctoral Research Fellows Program. This is a great opportunity for college grads to learn how the economy works and explore careers in economic policy research. Deadline is Sept. 19 for a guaranteed full application review. Learn more: tinyurl.com/2p8x9nta
September 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
📣 Applications open for the 2026 SIEPR Predoctoral Research Fellows Program. This is a great opportunity for college grads to learn how the economy works and explore careers in economic policy research. Deadline is Sept. 19 for a guaranteed full application review. Learn more: tinyurl.com/2p8x9nta