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Brittany Street

@brittanystreet.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri and researcher with CJARS (pronouns: she/her, name pronounced: Brit-knee)

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Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social · 12h

The Economic Demography Workshop will be on May 6, at the PAAs in St. Louis. See the call for papers 👇

Thanks to co-chairs @hnmansour.bsky.social & @mguldi.bsky.social !

EDW Call for Papers 2026.pdf

drive.google.com

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Brittany Street @brittanystreet.bsky.social · Aug 19

Among my favorite conferences!

Note the October 31 submission deadline 👇🏽

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

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Brittany Street @brittanystreet.bsky.social · Aug 18

Excited to see this paper in print! 🙌

A huge thank you to everyone who helped improve the paper along the way, especially the editor and referees.

Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social · Aug 6

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social:

"The impact of economic opportunity on criminal behavior: Evidence from the fracking boom"

By @brittanystreet.bsky.social

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

#econsky #publiceconomics

Brittany Street @brittanystreet.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thank you-- this means a lot!

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Jul 26

No retirement or disability issues looming ahead, right?

Social Security Administration will just wing it from here, I guess.

David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · Jul 25

After 22 years, NBER shuts its Retirement and Disability Research Center. It was funded by the Social Security Administration (SSA) through a cooperative agreement with the NBER with the goal of providing research and analysis that could inform Social Security policy. www.nber.org/brd/20251/nb...

NBER Retirement and Disability Research Center Winds Down Operations

www.nber.org

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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · Jun 18

Powell says he is concerned about the impact of cuts at the statistical agencies. High-quality statistics are "a huge public good," he says. "I hate to see us cutting back on that... I would want to continue investing in that for the good of the general public."
#EconSky

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Megan Stevenson @meganstevenson.bsky.social · Mar 15

In honor of long COVID awareness day, I wanted to speak about what my experience is like, 25 months in.

I am much better but still only leave the house a couple times a week.

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Feb 19

I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork}

www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

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Brittany Street @brittanystreet.bsky.social · Nov 25

Come say hi and learn about great grant opportunities before heading out from #SEA2024

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Stephen Jinho Glauser @sglauser.bsky.social · Nov 23

Let's see if bsky has the juice.

At the southern economics association conference? Monday at 2pm, come learn about how to get funding from Russell Sage and @arnoldventures.bsky.social, with insights from grantees/reviewers @brittanystreet.bsky.social and Jamein Cunningham

conference session on getting funding from the Russell Sage Foundation and Arnold ventures at the southern economics association conference, Monday at 2pm

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · Nov 20

Hi everyone! This coming September UVA Batten will be hosting an Econ mental health conference! We have awesome speakers and please (1) share and (2) consider submitting to make it a great conference! Also (3) funding included - more details below!

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