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Peter Ganong

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Peter Ganong @ganong.bsky.social · Mar 31

What are the best articles you have seen on how DOGE has changed or might change benefits in the US?

Peter Ganong @ganong.bsky.social · Jan 16

Maintenance workers start their shift. Planned outages.

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Human Capital HCEO - CEHD @hceconomics.bsky.social · Jan 13

We're proud to see the work of nearly 3 dozen HCEO members cited in the 2025 Economic Report of the President: @paulgp.com & Janet Currie on effects of Medicaid expansion; @ganong.bsky.social on the impact of stimulus; E. Hanushek on cognitive skills & GDP growth; & many more. bit.ly/40cBCQ0

The 2025 Economic Report of the President | CEA | The White House

Today, the Council of Economic Advisers under the leadership of Chair Jared Bernstein released the 2025 Economic Report of the President, the 79th report since the establishment of CEA in 1946. The 20...

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Peter Ganong @ganong.bsky.social · Jan 16

Striking plot of electricity outages in Senegal by Abdoulaye Cisse

Peter Ganong @ganong.bsky.social · Dec 23

Feel like this John Cochrane advice should be copy-pasted into every referee report

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Peter Ganong @ganong.bsky.social · Dec 19

nice!

Peter Ganong @ganong.bsky.social · Dec 18

That would be so helpful, thank you Lynne!

Peter Ganong @ganong.bsky.social · Dec 18

From @the-signal.bsky.social I got a bunch of fascinating questions about post-pandemic affordability from Michael Bluhm. Here are my answers.

www.thesgnl.com/2024/12/affo...

Why does everything in the U.S. seem so expensive? Peter Ganong on the pandemic, a broken construction sector, and a steep decline in American social mobility.

www.thesgnl.com

Peter Ganong @ganong.bsky.social · Dec 6

Nice -- I just ordered it on amazon!

Peter Ganong @ganong.bsky.social · Dec 6

In terms of what type of viz we are teaching, I would say static plotting? Is that sufficiently specific? In the past I was teaching from @hadleywickham.bsky.social + coauthors R4DS textbook and was happy with that.

Peter Ganong @ganong.bsky.social · Dec 6

We have time/resources to translate whatever book we choose into Altair. Below is the table I made which led us to Altair. We are not wedded to Altair if there's something obviously better in Python.

Other: dashboards currently in Shiny and maps in geopandas-matplotlib (but open to iterating)

Peter Ganong @ganong.bsky.social · Dec 6

Thanks Alex I & Alex K! (Great to meet u Alex K!) We are teaching in Python and currently teaching Vega/Altair (which I am happy with). This year we taught from this text which was fine on learning Altair syntax but has too little conceptual material on how to do viz well idl.uw.edu/visualizatio...

1. Introduction to Altair — Visualization Curriculum

Peter Ganong @ganong.bsky.social · Dec 6

Agreed! I already have it and in fact I gave it to my co-instructor today!

Peter Ganong @ganong.bsky.social · Dec 6

thank you!

Peter Ganong @ganong.bsky.social · Dec 5

I'm looking for a textbook for teaching data visualization. What are your favorite data viz books? Extra points if it has coding examples. #EconSky

Peter Ganong @ganong.bsky.social · Nov 18

Thank you Jonathan!

Peter Ganong @ganong.bsky.social · Nov 17

Was great to see alums from my lab with Pascal Noel last week and to hear many of them present on topics in development, hh finance, education, behavioral, intl trade, and public!

Peter Ganong @ganong.bsky.social · Nov 15

Alright here’s my first attempt at using #econsky for actual questions… I have seen the claim below in other places (eg ezra Klein).

What econ research, if any, provides evidence for this claim? Not now, just the idea in general that attribution works differently for wage increases and inflation?

Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Nov 12

It looks as if this place is becoming what Twitter used to be; for now, at least, we can post stuff to a sigificant audience without being overrun by trolls and bots.

For starters, here's my complete theory of the election, and probably my last word on the subject

Peter Ganong @ganong.bsky.social · Nov 20

This is fantastic, thank you!

Peter Ganong @ganong.bsky.social · Nov 20

this is super helpful, thank you Eliza!

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Nov 20

This is a good letter

“We would like to express our gratitude to our international research network members for explicitly bringing the essence of IZA into full focus through their critical engagement.”

#econsky

Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Nov 20

#Econsky

Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Nov 20

Collective action WORKS

Falk is OUT at IZA

Kudos to those who led the way

https://www.deutsche-post-stiftung.org/wc/files/DPS-IZA_20231120_en.pdf

Peter Ganong @ganong.bsky.social · Nov 16

Is there a paper that computes wage growth for layoffs vs quits? (Ideally admin data, ideally published, ideally well-cited) So far I have found only older papers by Bartel & Borjas and Mincer #econsky

Peter Ganong @ganong.bsky.social · Oct 22

It would be easy for an NYT reader to think that what we need to achieve housing affordability is more regulation to stop residents from combining apartments. Of course, only less regulation will actually achieve more affordable housing
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/n... #econsky

Peter Ganong @ganong.bsky.social · Sep 26

Do you own an e-bike? How do you maintain it? Will most bike shops now fix broken ebikes or do you need a specialized shop?

Peter Ganong @ganong.bsky.social · Sep 21

Can someone explain if it matters whether you post
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Or are hashtags order-invariant on sky???