Loved new piece by @lizananat.bsky.social‬ with critique of two-parent privilege hypothesis pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

"Asian example suggests...insistence [that childbearing be marital only] may not move us back to a world flush with married parents but to a future of few parents at all"

How can tax credits, paid leave, and other policies improve population health?

Join us on March 28 for our virtual seminar featuring experts Elizabeth Ananat, Bradley Hardy, Aparna Mathur, and LDI Fellow @atheendar.bsky.social.
ldi.upenn.edu/events/boost...

Please repost to get the word out! @nkgarg.bsky.social and I are excited to present a personalized feed for academics! It shows posts about papers from accounts you’re following bsky.app/profile/pape...

Very cool! Also pinning!

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NBER Immigrants and the Economy meeting is this Friday and will be live-streamed here!

www.youtube.com/channel/UC79...

Program here with an excellent lineup of papers: www.nber.org/conferences/...

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

You don’t have to have kids to have a family. You don’t have to have a family to have a personal life. You don’t have to have much of a personal life to need work-life balance.

Does ignoring work-life balance give a leg up in publishing? Maybe. But that doesn’t mean we should be encouraging it.

Been chatting with some juniors lately who were surprised to hear me recommend not working more than 40 hours a week or nights/weekends. Even during grad school.

I was appalled to hear them recount some of the advice they are getting from others.

So here is my PSA:

PSA to fellow economists- if African countries are the preferred sites for randomized experiments to place papers in top 5 economics journals, then the history, institutions, and people/scholars of African countries are more than good enough to study as "general interest" and co-authors 1/n #Econsky

Census working paper showing that more accurate weather predictions save lives www.census.gov/library/work...

And in another 10 we will have been removed from the electorate

#changebackyourname

If you are thinking of flying in or out of Reagan, just don’t. Currently trapped on a plane in ATL due to multiple consecutive groundstops at DCA. SO many recent cases where 90min flights turn in to 8hr ordeals. Trump’s grip on FAA has made DCA unusable

Excited to hear about @kaseybuckles.bsky.social work on intergenerational connections in census data at PPCW at Georgia Tech

Five alarm fire.

www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Amazon=Temu
WF=Costco
WaPo=NYT+local (e.g. ARLnow)
Kindle=Kobo

Coming to a dictatorship near you: restrictions on women voting or even traveling

jessica.substack.com/p/montana-bi...

Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access.

Republicans just dropped their first open attack on women's right to travel. jessica.substack.com/p/montana-bi...

The insatiable lust for more money and more power. That explains all of their actions perfectly.

If you can no longer stand doing nothing, consider placing these flyers on select windshields near you (because defacing private property, while tempting, is clearly wrong)

www.teslatakedown.com

What a devastating and incredibly inefficient loss