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)
The speed with which the political discourse moved from "we have to take migration concerns seriously" to "we have found a universally agreed upon scapegoat that we can blame all our governance shortcomings on" was incredibly fast and really deserves pushback.
This foreword to "Restoring Control Over the Immigration System" contains some outrageous statements. The migration increase was driven by student visas. Have these tuition paying students truly done "incalculable damage" to the country?
Good article on the diferences between profound and non-profound autism. Also goes into the problems for families with children with profound autism that stem from diagnosing this entire spectrum under one term. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/h...
right, so that gives us Mads Frøkjær-Jensen as a danish attacking midfielder, not quite a striker for Preston North End and Jonas Axeldal as a former swedish striker for Ipswich
How is it that the top 3 premier league clubs all have scandinavian strikers? Do they exclusively train banging balls in in the nordic youth academies?
this has long been a hobbyhorse of mine, but the estimates on health consequences of different types of air pollution coming out of different literatures over the last decade are SO BIG that there is no way that we are at optimal welfare regulation levels.
On possible welfare gains in reducing air pollution: "We compare these prices to marginal benefits of pollution reduction estimated using leading air quality models and find that, on average, marginal benefits exceed marginal costs by more than a factor of ten." www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Study on maternal (ethnic and socioeconomic) characteristics and child mortality in the UK. The study uses linkage of the 2011 census with birth and death registrations.
Educational differences, heightened risk of unemployed & Pakistani mothers stand out.
Entry discrimination in the NBA (black players with similar characteristics being less likely than others to start after the initial draft) used to be a thing in the 1980s but disappeared since the early 2000s. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
