Amy W. Ando
awando.bsky.social
Amy W. Ando
@awando.bsky.social

Personal account only. Professor and Chair of applied econ department at Ohio State; AERE Fellow and AAEA Fellow; studies conservation, restoration, valuation. Fan of cats and nature. Former X handles: AmyEcon and AndoAW

Economics 40%
Environmental science 36%
Back-to-school resource for econ teachers 📚

I put together a list of Monday Morning Economist articles I assign in my micro class, organized by core concept. Feel free to copy my work.

If you’ve used any in class, I’d love to know which ones worked best.

www.mondayeconomist.com/p/how-i-use-...
How I Use Monday Morning Economist in Class
Below is a curated list of Monday Morning Economist articles I assign for each week in my economics courses.
www.mondayeconomist.com

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Finished teaching a new course on energy markets and the clean energy transition last month. Was a blast and have lots of thoughts for next year.

One takeaway is the value of going beyond academic journals/textbooks and incorporating media articles, podcasts, and video. Here's a few we covered... 🧵

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Tuta @tuta.com · 2d
Gmail welcoming the Gemini era?

That's it. Guide to disable Gemini everywhere: tuta.com/blog/how-to-...

Wow.

Your turn, Senate.
Breaking news: More than a dozen House Republicans joined every Democrat to pass a bill extending enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies for three years — the sharpest GOP break with party leadership yet.
House passes bill extending health care subsidies, bucking GOP leaders
Prospects for passage in the Senate are unclear. The enhanced subsidies expired at the end of 2025, driving costs up for millions.
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Breaking news: More than a dozen House Republicans joined every Democrat to pass a bill extending enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies for three years — the sharpest GOP break with party leadership yet.
House passes bill extending health care subsidies, bucking GOP leaders
Prospects for passage in the Senate are unclear. The enhanced subsidies expired at the end of 2025, driving costs up for millions.
wapo.st
These authors wanted to know whether mothers face discrimination in hiring, even when they are equally qualified as other applicants.

So they ran two experiments...

In case you are curious who they were

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Five Senate Republicans joined Democrats to vote against Trump on Venezuela. He immediately attacked them.
The 5 Republicans who voted against Trump on Venezuela
Their backing of a war powers measure represented a rare GOP willingness to check presidential authority.
www.politico.com

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stop what you're doing and let Amber Glenn take you to church #USPrevagenChamps #figureskating

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🧪 Congress drafted a spending package stabilizing science funding. NSF and NASA Science face slight reductions of 3.4% and 1.1% respectively, while the DOE Office of Science sees a 2% increase, averting deep proposed cuts.
#AcademicSky #NSF
Congress set to reject Trump’s major budget cuts to NSF, NASA, and energy science
Appropriators agree instead to keep this year’s spending nearly level
www.science.org

Truth

Respect
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s board of directors voted to dissolve the organization.

Officials chose dissolution over maintaining a dormant organization that could become manipulated by new stewards. https://wapo.st/3L3fzaZ

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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s board of directors voted to dissolve the organization.

Officials chose dissolution over maintaining a dormant organization that could become manipulated by new stewards. https://wapo.st/3L3fzaZ

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If you are submitting an NIH grant in February, you will be required to use SciENcv to prepare you biosketch.

IT IS MUCH WORSE THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE.

Set aside *at least* 4 hours just to transfer an existing an biosketch into SciENcv.
Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb.

Once upon a time, Europe was at war.

Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

The report this links to is very interesting.

Many people will lose SNAP benefits because their employers create fluctuating work schedules such that some months workers can’t get enough hours to meet the program minimum
"When people are—essentially randomly—either approved or denied for SNAP, workers who get access to SNAP work *more* over the next three years." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-volat...
When Volatile Work Schedules Meet SNAP Work Requirements
New policies put low income workers in jeopardy of losing vital supports
donmoynihan.substack.com

Wow
One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

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"When people are—essentially randomly—either approved or denied for SNAP, workers who get access to SNAP work *more* over the next three years." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-volat...
When Volatile Work Schedules Meet SNAP Work Requirements
New policies put low income workers in jeopardy of losing vital supports
donmoynihan.substack.com
One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

This will be a time for action and leadership everywhere that harness integrity, hope, compassion, and courage. I thank today's speakers for reminding us of that.

And from Zohran Mamdani: “For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty.”

By Jumaane Williams: "I choose hope - I have faith. But faith without works is dead, - I'm committing to public service.”

From the invocation by Imam Khalid Latif: "Bless him with the courage to remain grounded, the humility to keep learning, and the strength to lead with principle even when the pressure to compromise is loud."

The inauguration of Zohran Mamdani had some very inspirational moments. A few lines that stick in my mind...
A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026

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There are 22 agencies with data in the RTCI that reported 100 or more murders through October 2021. Murder is down at least 25% in all but one of them in 2025 relative to 2021 (Kansas City).

So. Cute.

Iowa isn’t that far away
Please meet fiesty little Yukon Cornelius. 5 weeks old.

Don’t be fooled by his adorable floof! He’s streetwise and tough, and is slowly learning the comforts of Being Inside.

Yukon and his sister are closely bonded. Adoptable in Feb!

#TNRsaveslives #KittensOfBluesky #CatsOfBluesky #SkyCats

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KFF @kff.org · 13d
KFF’s State Health Facts provide 800 state-level health indicators that can be mapped, ranked, and downloaded.

The latest health care coverage data from the American Community Survey (2024) are available here: https://on.kff.org/4jbHWQO
State Health Facts | KFF
More than 800 up-to-date health indicators at the state level can be mapped, ranked, and downloaded.
www.kff.org

Critical information
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.