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Steve Cicala @stevecicala.bsky.social · 26d

Wow, this is fantastic.

Zach Liscow @zliscow.bsky.social · 26d

🚨NEW RESULTS (w/ Slattery & Nober)
- When gov't engineers retire, highway projects cost more: the engineers pay for themselves 6 times over
- Improving gov’t engineer quality from the 25th to 75th percentile reduces costs by 14%, equal to 3x avg. engineer pay

Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Ryu Matsuura @ryu-matsuura.bsky.social · Jul 18

Inserting @novosad.bsky.social's X post - I am still not very proficient in R, but I converted all of my Stata code to R for fun, which resulted in a very primitive version masala-merge in R (github.com/devdatalab/m...)!

#masala-merge #R #India #economics

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The Economist @economist.com · Jul 7

Young people and city-dwellers are among those most likely to see one group’s gain as another’s loss

To understand America today, study the zero-sum mindset, writes Stefanie Stantcheva

Young people and city-dwellers are among those most likely to see one group’s gain as another’s loss

econ.st

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Kevin A. Bryan @afinetheorem.bsky.social · Jun 12

Editing our writing is a common academic task. I *hate* how spell/grammar checks annoy me by thinking proper nouns or LaTeX code are misspellings (yes, I want `` ''). I also want *style* tips like a good editor would give me. Problem solved. 1/5

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · May 10

OMG is real www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · May 10

I have revise-and-resubmits older than ICE

Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · May 10

Old person here to say that ICE did not exist before 2003

We opened this door after 9/11 and can close it again

The United States Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE; /ais/»®) is a federal law
enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security. Created by U.S. president George
W. Bush in 2003 following the September 11 attacks,
ICE's stated mission is to protect the United States
from cross-border crime and illegal immigration that
threaten national security and public safety.
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Paul Novosad @novosad.bsky.social · May 7

The most marketable skill right now is having good judgment regarding how and when to use AI.

Using AI to generate your writing assignments is having bad judgment.

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grand theft eigenvalue 🔆 @akhilrao.bsky.social · May 7

every student taking the easy path here is putting a little more alpha on the table for their peers who don't

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Paul Novosad @novosad.bsky.social · May 7

It's wild to me that in 2025 there are academics advising their students to never use AI.

Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · May 7

6. NEVER USE IT YOURSELF. EVER! The most common issue I hear from students is that some of their lecturers use ChatGPT for feedback, syllabus creation, etc., so why shouldn't they? Of course I'm not the boss of you, but as soon as you use it for ANYTHING, you're giving students implicit permission.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Apr 25

Please do it less quietly, Europe. US political leadership needs to be more rattled by this!
www.politico.com/newsletters/...

How Europe is quietly stealing America’s scientists

www.politico.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Apr 24

just register for your own protection. it will be fine

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Apr 24

Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...

U.S. Texts Barnard Employees and Asks if They Are Jewish

A questionnaire from a federal commission also inquired about whether professors and other college staff members had been harassed.

www.nytimes.com

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · Apr 24

I’ve spent the better part of 20 years litigating habeas petitions and this is just totally ridiculous, even if the prisoner were the most sophisticated lawyer in the country.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Apr 24

JUST IN: In newly unsealed filings, an ICE official indicates that the government considers 24 hours to be a reasonable amount of time for an Alien Enemies Act deportee file a habeas claim before removal.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · Apr 24

fuck these fucking guys who did this slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Courage to Be Decent

The goal isn’t to police all behavior at all times. It’s to make us fearful to the point that we police our own behavior.

slate.com

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Paul Novosad @novosad.bsky.social · Apr 24

Academic creativity is underrated and technical methods are overrated.

Take this excellent paper on Zero Sum Thinking—simple in retrospect, just an excellent idea!

Graph shows rise in zero-sum thinking with Millennial and later U.S. birth cohorts.

Congrats to @s-stantcheva.bsky.social

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Paul Novosad @novosad.bsky.social · Apr 14

Parents are going to flip out when they learn that the 4th grade teacher hasn't answered all the math worksheet questions by herself.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Apr 14

Is it fair to use A.I. to grade student essays, if you’ve prohibited students from using A.I. to write them?

Teachers are increasingly using the technology in their own work, like grading essays and tutoring struggling students, even as they express profound hesitation about its ethics.

Teachers Worry About A.I. for Students. For Themselves It’s Another Matter.

Educators are increasingly using generative A.I. in their own work, even as they express profound hesitation about the ethics of student use.

www.nytimes.com

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Paul Novosad @novosad.bsky.social · Apr 10

Is EconSky dead?

Scrolling through my feed, none of the posts by real people (as opposed to social media celebrities) have any engagement.

Even "new paper alerts" getting like <20 likes.

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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · Apr 7

U.S. citizen interested in grad studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada)?

Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions.

U.S. Applicant Week:

www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

#AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool

US Applicant Week

www.grad.ubc.ca

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