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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 10d

Note the earlier than usual (official 😏) deadline for the best conference of the year 👇 get your submissions in ASAP!

AEFP @aefpweb.bsky.social · 10d

Have you submitted your proposal for #AEFP2026 yet? The deadline is TOMORROW - Monday, September 29th! Learn more here: aefpweb.org/callforp...

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 13d

Come spend the day with me at my favorite econ-meets-policy conference, the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity. #BPEA

The papers are now live online, and you can watch live on YouTube. (Wave if you see me.)
www.brookings.edu/events/bpea-...

BPEA Fall 2025 Conference | Brookings

www.brookings.edu

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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 17d

I’m really feeling for the new PhDs hitting the market this year. 😭 I don’t have much good advice, but if it would be helpful to see my materials or chat, reach out!

Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · Jun 19

They’re getting a little old at this point, but I’ve got a Dropbox full of my job market materials that I’m happy to share, esp. with econ of ed folks!

Also happy to chat about jobs that emphasize both research & teaching (R2s, LACs, etc.)

Just shoot me an email or DM! #econsky

Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · Jun 16

If we're heading into summer that means academic job market season is looming. As a reminder, my collected tips are here (along with my standing offer to set up time to chat with folks): www.paul-bruno.com/2021/07/tips...

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · Sep 3

The National Center for Education Statistics is hiring two researchers to work on NAEP, the first green shoots after DOGE came through back in February. They limit to 150 applications, so move fast if interested.

www.usajobs.gov/job/844948000

www.usajobs.gov/job/844947600

Education Research Analyst GS-1730-14 (MP)

<p>There are two positions located in the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Science in Washinton, DC. The Assessment Development Expert and the Assessment Administration Expert is respon...

www.usajobs.gov

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Royal Economic Society @resmedia.bsky.social · Aug 29

🚨 New mentoring programme for mid-career #WomeninEcon!

RES Women’s Committee & @isweconomics.bsky.social launch a pilot to support women aiming for Professor roles.
📅 Apply by 15 Sept 2025

🔗 bit.ly/40w08fV

#Mentoring #EconSky #MidCareer

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Sandy Black @econsandy.bsky.social · Aug 19

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)

mailchi.mp/sole-jole/so...

SOLE 2026 Submissions Open

mailchi.mp

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John Cawley @johncawley.bsky.social · Jul 21

The Int’l Health Econ Assn (IHEA) is searching for a health economics researcher to serve as its next Exec Director

healtheconomics.org/job-advertisem…

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Barton Willage @bartonwillage.com · Jul 5

Thanks!

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Barton Willage @bartonwillage.com · Jun 6

Oh, I saw some coverage on Yahoo.com news. Can I suggest Yahoo.com news? They are being very pissy. It's like a fever dream.

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Barton Willage @bartonwillage.com · Jun 5

what happened over there?

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Barton Willage @bartonwillage.com · May 29

Here is one of mine that I think is interesting

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Staying out of trouble? Effect of high school career counseling on crime

Human capital-based models of crime imply that increasing educational attainment will decrease crime. A growing body of empirical work has supported t…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Barton Willage @bartonwillage.com · May 29

Would love to free ride on this list, to motivate phd students to not chase stars.

John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · May 29

do you have a favorite paper with a null effect?

{putting together a list}

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · May 29

do you have a favorite paper with a null effect?

{putting together a list}

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Barton Willage @bartonwillage.com · May 29

Congrats!

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · May 28

This is a super useful tool for R users

Simon P. Couch @simonpcouch.com · May 28

Introducing acquaint, an R package that turns your R sessions into a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. This allows MCP-enabled tools like Claude Desktop and Claude Code to run #rstats code _in your active R sessions_ to explore objects, read documentation, etc.

posit-dev.github.io/acquaint/

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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · May 22

friends, I’m about to spend a LOT of time in airports/hotels the next two months. help a girl out: what are your fav places to order delivery in Chicago, DC, or SF?

(bonus points for any food recs in Missoula!)

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Health Economics @hec-wiley.bsky.social · May 21

The Editorial Boards of leading health economics journals are issuing a Joint Statement of Principles on Editorial Independence. In these troubled times some scholars worry their work might suffer ideological attack. We reaffirm our commitment to unfettered scholarship. Please repost.

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Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · May 20

New @nber.org working paper "Targeted Education Transfers Reduced Long-Run and Intergenerational Ethnic Inequality in Chile" with #PatrickMcEwan & #DavidTorresIrribarra.

Title summarizes it. More details: www.nber.org/papers/w33798

screen shot from NBER website that contains paper title, authors, and abstract: Targeted Education Transfers Reduced Long-Run and Intergenerational Ethnic Inequality in Chile
Adrienne M. Lucas, Patrick J. McEwan & David Torres Irribarra

Working Paper 33798
DOI 10.3386/w33798
Issue Date May 2025

Since 1991, Chile has provided large, renewable cash grants to indigenous children in lower-income households, conditional on school enrollment. We estimate intent-to-treat effects of grant exposure on indigenous adults and their children, leveraging variation in expected grant exposure across birth cohorts and never-treated adults, and using fixed effects to absorb unobserved variables shared by adults born in the same year and community. Cohorts with the greatest exposure had 0.6 more years of schooling, 10% more hours worked, and 22% higher labor earnings, reducing pre-treatment ethnic differences. Mothers’ exposure increased their children’s early-grade test scores and reduced second-generation grant receipt.

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APPAM @appam.bsky.social · May 18

Travel Grants for #2025APPAM in Seattle are still available! Apply through July 16th. Learn more: ow.ly/eRr950VU7nx

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Matt Harris @bigorangeecon.bsky.social · Mar 11

Call for Papers! The Annual Health Econometrics Workshop will be hosted by Edward Norton and the University of Michigan, Nov. 6-8, 2025. If you are working on methodological advancements in health economics we'd love to see your work. Please send papers to:

[email protected]

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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · May 19

STATA help: Does anybody know how to save (or estimate, idk, via bootstrapping or something) the SEs of the fixed effects in reghdfe?

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Todd Jones @toddrjones.bsky.social · May 18

Here are some ways the world has gotten better.

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Barton Willage @bartonwillage.com · May 16

My cake on a face!

Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · May 16

On reading day, graduate students present their research, and we honor outstanding faculty by putting their faces on cake— @bartonwillage.com #ThomasBridges #OlgaGorbachev. Best day of the academic year!

White sheet cake with pictures of Barton, Thomas, and Olga.

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Lauren Bauer @laurenhlb.bsky.social · May 15

ICYMI: @chloeneast.bsky.social and I updated our FAQ about SNAP and work requirements last month.

www.hamiltonproject.org/publication/...

#EconSky

A primer on SNAP work requirements - The Hamilton Project

An explainer on work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, summarizing the research on work requirements and their efficacy.

www.hamiltonproject.org

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Barton Willage @bartonwillage.com · May 15

I didn't notice, but there does seem to be less research chat and questions. I used to mostly engage with questions people posted, if I knew the answer.

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