Should brag! Congrats Isa and Alberto!!

How do you call a four alarm fire stack over several three alarm ones, a few two alarm ones and a tank or kerosene?

Also, I just found out that @xshan.bsky.social is on Bluesky :-)

University online instruction sucks, but more so for women, widening performance gender gaps. Awesome new field experiment by Backes-Gellner, Shan and @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social !!

Check out the latest version of the paper here: adegendre.github.io/papers/de_Ge...

Not balanced in your (quasi-)experiment? No idea why? No problem! Looking forward to presenting this joint work with @adegendre.bsky.social tomorrow at UWA Econ in Perth. Drop by if you have the chance!

Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called:

"How to Write a Title and Abstract"

Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles.

#EconSky #AcademicSky

Once again, Australian election results prove how awful choropleth maps are for data visualisation.
"Land doesn't vote, people do."

#rstats code to reproduce animation here: github.com/emitanaka/oz...

🚨 Just published in the Annual Review of Economics:

👉 Skills and Earnings: A Multidimensional Perspective on Human Capital 👈

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

My review of what we know so far about the role of multidimensional skills for earnings

@annualreviews.bsky.social
1/9

Very excited to present my work with @chriskarbownik.bsky.social @nsalamanca.bsky.social @yveszenou.bsky.social on the integration of minority children in the classroom using data from Taiwan at @crestumr.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social on Wednesday April 30
🔗 adegendre.github.io/papers/CEPR%...

The key chart right now:

Usually US economic pain is cushioned by falling bond yields and a strengthening dollar, which mean lower interest rates and more spending power for consumers.

This time we’re seeing the opposite, meaning the pain will be amplified.

The third-worlding of America
How to destroy 80 years of credibility in less than 3 months
(Paul Krugman)
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-third-...

I know this will surprise folks who bought cars based on promises they'll be self-driving "next year," but he's now admitting that DOGE will only deliver on 7.5% of the promised $2,000b, and even that is only coming "next year."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

Biggest mistakes I'm seeing in early reporting (thread):

1. Tariffmageddon isn't over: Lotsa tariffs to account for, but the average tariff rate is only down around one quarter. So most of the pain of Liberation Day is still with us.

will be hanging out at Uni Melbourne for the next week to do work and wrap up projects. Also presenting on Thursday work on teacher mental health with @jonasvlachos.bsky.social and others. If you're around come say hi! Thanks @adegendre.bsky.social and @nsalamanca.bsky.social for organizing this!

Very interesting interview with @sendhil.bsky.social on AI. Fresh perspective on several topics, including value of AI in education. youtu.be/z_svj3NP968

There isn’t much like ending the week with an R&R !!!! 🥂🤩🥳🥂🤩🥳

Another R&R with @nsalamanca.bsky.social @econfeld.bsky.social and @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social

What a week!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

Now heading to UNSW for ESCoE conference to present « Same-sex teacher effects in education » with @econfeld.bsky.social @nsalamanca.bsky.social @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social — paper here 👉🏽 adegendre.github.io/papers/deGen... — we even made a website with interactive effects ! www.role-model-effects.com

Wow! This implosion is almost funny to look at if it weren’t so dramatically bad for so many people

Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research

Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it

www.nber.org/system/files...

I'm thrilled to see this site building a serious community of researchers, writers and policymakers focused on education policy and economics.

Below are links to 3 Starter Packs I've made to help you connect with such folks.

Please let me know if I've missed you. The volume of requests has been 😮

It was the blurst of times

But happy to see this! When policy is this idiotic, I welcome any help in derailing it!