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Thomas Durfee

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Visiting Instructor at Macalester College. Ph.D Candidate at U of Minnesota Dept of Applied Econ and R.A. at The Roy Wilkins Center. Labor and Public Econ, Policy Analysis, & Disparity Studies. he/him https://sites.google.com/view/thomas-durfee/home/

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Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · Nov 10

There are a whole bunch of folks joining here. Howdy!
I'm Tom, I'm wrapping up my PhD at the U of Minnesota Applied Econ department. I study exemptions to the minimum wage, search models, discrimination, and corporate social responsability.
I've been reviewer #3 this whole time. Sorry I took so long

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Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 1d

Yikes

John A. List @johnlist.bsky.social · 1d

The econ PhD market will be difficult this year. The exact same thing happened when I went on the market years ago: I sent out 150 applications...and got 1 interview! Then I wrote a paper about it! ideas.repec.org/p/feb/natura...

Both sides of the market responded. Is this happening now too?

Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 3d

Frog doesn't do as much physical damage as Crono, as much magic damage as Lucca, or heal as much as Marle, but they are still a good all around-er

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 5d

Well if you think about it, today IPUMS released 2024 CPS ASEC, so... in a way that's kind of the same thing.
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Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 8d

Edit, Cengiz switched between calling it a bunching and a stacking estimator between drafts. I'm still excited to see it applied.

Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 9d

The current lit on the minimum wage, food insecurity, and determinants of health comes from JP Leigh, William Rodgers, and Caitlin Caspi, each relying on difference and difference, usually geographic. I'm excited to see more from the bunching estimator in the lineage of Cengiz et al.

Zach Parolin @zparolin.bsky.social · 9d

New WP: We study how minimum wage increases affect poverty and food hardship in the U.S from 1981-2019. Different from recent work, we study the Supplemental Poverty Measure + two measures of food hardship, factor in cost-of-living differences, and more. www.iza.org/publications...

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Zach Parolin @zparolin.bsky.social · 9d

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Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social · 10d

John Searle, influential philosopher in the history of Analytic philosophy with works in philosophy of mind and language, has passed away. R.I.P. (1932-2025)

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Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 12d

The Houndstooth of the Baskervilles

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Borf @themikebachmann.bsky.social · 14d

Introducing my 4 y.o. daughter to Power Rangers. Halfway through the first ep she goes “I love this SO much! Are there more episodes?”

Oh, honey.

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Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 14d

Despite what some say, there's nothing wrong with merging before commit.

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Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 14d

Checkout
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6 word git love story

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Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 14d

Out of curiosity, raise your hand if you use DataFerret directly.
#EconSky

Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 14d

Ellen Jamesi-ians are LARP-ing within a LARP.
It's LARPs all the way down.

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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 15d

🚨The deadline for abstract submissions to the Harry Katz conference & special issue is coming up on October 1.

📚Guest Editors: @ilralex.bsky.social, Ariel Avgar and Danielle van Jaarsveld

📅Conference: @cornellilr.bsky.social April 11–12, 2026

🗒️For more 👉: shorturl.at/ER2XK

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Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 15d

Structural Modelling
*Dabs*

Honestly though, I think even if your paper gives an intent to treat, that is an interesting estimand if you make the case for it. We are not interested in some average treatment effects on the non-treated (my estimate suffers from an equilibrium effect? Good.)

Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 17d

Do you remember?
youtu.be/Qfi9JpgMc2U?...

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Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 17d

Nick Hut and the Bad Seeds

Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 17d

Queens of the Bronze Age

Jesse Kriss @jklabs.net · 17d

Technologically advance a band:

OLED Soundsystem

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 19d

Has anyone liked or disliked any particular training resources for machine learning in Stata? Courses, videos...

If not in Stata, then in Python or R but pitched towards people trained in econometrics?

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Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 20d

I call them my smartigans

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 20d

The @nber.org Race and Stratification in the Economy working group is seeking submissions for our upcoming Spring 2026 meeting to be held on March 27, 2026.

The submission deadline is December 11, 2025.

The call for papers is here:

www.asc.ohio-state.edu/logan.155/pd...

www.asc.ohio-state.edu

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 21d

I'm getting my updated vaccine next week. There is so much denial in the US about this situation! Thanks to Mike Hoerger PhD. #COVID #publichealth #vaccine

This map of the US shows COVID levels per state, based on CDC wastewater data and levels, as of 15 September. There are many states in the very high or high category. My own state of VA is high. Included in the very high category are FL, TX, CA, NC, SC, CT and quite a few others.

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Thomas Durfee @thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 21d

Out for 24 hours, and already about a month queue for The Double Tax from @itsafronomics.bsky.social .
You love to see it.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 23d

TODAY, I AM OFFICIALLY AN AUTHOR!!! A CHILDHOOD DREAM COME TRUE!!!!!

#TheDoubleTax is the first book I've ever written and it’s OUT EVERYWHERE TODAY. Four years. 100s of stories. Countless drafts. I woke up today as a FIRST TIME author. WOW.

Get your copy TODAY: annagifty.com #booksky #blacksky

THE DOUBLE TAX IS FINALLY OUT

Black woman in a yellow sweater in front of the Cambridge public library holding "The Double Tax" and covering her face

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 23d

Since we’re talking about political violence, know this:

“The murder rate for Black politicians in Reconstruction was 2,317 per 100,000. This rate is 20 times greater than *any* *other* demographic in the United States as of 2020, where the highest homicide rate was less than 105 per 100,000.”

Whitelashing: Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence | The Journal of Economic History | Cambridge Core

Whitelashing: Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence - Volume 83 Issue 2

www.cambridge.org

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