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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 05/10/2026

Accelerating prepared students in middle school math has positive effects in high school and college, including closing gender gaps in core STEM majors (sci/math/engineering). Put differently, failure to provide acceleration exacerbates such gaps and generates lots of lost intellectual potential.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

During the podcast, they even joked "probably now that we have said this, oil prices will spike."

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My favorite random tidbit about oil prices is that in April, the Economist thought that prices would explode, then they recovered, and at the time in the arrow, Money Talks spent the whole podcast talking about how they were wrong. Almost immediately afterwards, oil prices starting going up.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Something something Inverse Cramer Index.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Knowing him, he probably placed an even LARGER bet on polymarket about getting banned from Kalshi.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"In this paper, I use the timing of the GTA VI release, coupled with admin data from online learning systems and final grades, to identify the negative impact of video gaming on grades for males in college."

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

How are kids going to learn the 5 great lakes? HAMES is a terrible mnemonic.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

No California institutions in yet, we are always working to add new ones though.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Huge kudos to the team, including the PSEO lead, @cody-orr.bsky.social , and the dissemination team in LEHD, including @heathhayward.bsky.social and Jody Hoon-Starr. And huge thanks to everyone at PSEO Coalition and others that have helped us get to this point.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🚨 🚨 Cool new data alert 🚨 🚨 Today, Census Bureau released the newest version of the Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes data, which now covers over 1,100 institutions. Go explore the data here: lehd.ces.census.gov/applications...

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PSEO Explorer Analysis Tool | U.S. Census Bureau

PSEO Explorer provides easy access to visualizations of earnings and employment outcomes for recent college graduates

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I expect that these types of ads could find Kalshi in hot water at some point, because their whole schtik has been to say "we are just prediction markets we aren't financial instruments."

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I have been getting a lot of ads for Kalshi recently where Kalshi is the hedge (free food if Mexico wins vs bet on opposite outcome; ice cream shop betting on cool weather since business is slower when its colder) This...seems to suggest that Kalshi is pitching itself as a financial instrument.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We recently hired two new pre-docs in LEHD, and want to intentionally prepare them for graduate school in economics. What are the top 3 things you would recommend they do in the next 2 years? #EconSky

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Stephanie Mencimer @smencimer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you thought the Reflecting Pool was a disaster, just wait until Trump starts renovating this DC golf course (which he says will happen Sept. 1) www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Fore! Trump's DC golf course is already in the rough

If you thought the Reflecting Pool was a disaster, wait until they try to build this.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The difference is telling in the transfer market estimates. Mexico is worth about $185m; Argentina is over $800m.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I am convinced that Tuchel was tricked by the outcome of the Mexico game and over-rated his team's ability to sit in late. The difference is that Mexico looked devoid of ideas, and Argentina has the best player of all time and a ton of additional options. To play 11 behind the ball was madness.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

New this morning: "Value of Reliable Statistics" from Bloom, Groshen, Hobbs and Strain. Kicker quote: "Our baseline estimate implies that preserving trust in the integrity and quality of official statistics generates economic benefits of about $25 for every $1 spent on the agency’s budget."

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The Value of Reliable Statistics

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The sound you can hear is economists yelling into the void that posted prices do not reflect market clearing prices. These tickets are still on the website *because they aren't sold*

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

We can't agree on much in this country, but we can agree that Costco rotisserie chicken slaps.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I am not saying "never use math in econ," but especially for an intro class, which is the only class most students take, building the intuition is much more important.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Graphs are fine, but I always asked "did P or Q go up or down" and never by how much. But making D and S equations and having them solve intersections doesn't build intuition, and you get swamped there instead of showing people "externalities create DWL" and "subsidies and taxes can fix things"

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

So many people have a bitter taste in their mouth about economics because their first class just became an algebra class. My intro prof in college had almost no math other than calculating elasticities, and focused solely on intuition. This is the way.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Having undiagnosed ADHD is finding emails you thought you sent two months ago in your drafts folder.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Only a few more days to apply, let anyone know who might be interested!

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

It would be even more interesting to interact that with recent cell phone policy changes at schools.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

We view these positions as excellent opportunities for students to work directly with microdata, learn about the creation of cutting-edge government statistics, and potentially prepare for graduate school.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

🚨 Pre-Doc Opportunity at LEHD 🚨 Do you know graduating seniors or recent graduates in economics, math or statistics? The LEHD group at Census is hiring up to 2 positions in this category. Apply following the instructions here: www.census.gov/about/census... If you have questions, DM me!

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Economic Measurement and Research Internship (EMRI) Program

The EMRI program seeks to hire interns in economics, accounting and related fields to support the nation’s growing demand for information.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

If it weren't for Burnley, it would be possible for Nuno's team to escape, only at the expense of all of Nuno's old teams.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Another week, another cool data product release from LEHD and Census. This week, we released new PSEO data for schools from North Carolina and BYU-Idaho, bringing our total count of institutions to 952. Check out the data here: lehd.ces.census.gov/applications...

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PSEO Explorer - Census Bureau

Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) Explorer: Earnings and employment outcomes for college and university graduates

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

One of my college classmates announced his son's birth AND his vibe-coded app to help parents decode baby cries in the same LinkedIn post and I just need to go walk into a lake.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Headline: "Nation shocked by large layoffs at paper owned by man who owns company that is famous for large layoffs."

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I have been reading Incident at Vichy by Arthur Miller before bed, and man, if there were ever a time for someone to do this play, its now.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Road trips and airports, when being awake is important.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

AI doesn't solve bad coffee or the lower capital costs of good coffee makers at more and more offices / homes. The margin of substitution is not away from Starbucks to other stores - its away from stores.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Sports betting ruins the lives of gamblers and athletes. Its hard to think of a bigger lose-lose for society. Its deadweight loss all the way down.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Stay tuned for more cool ways to use this data!

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Now look at each component at the NAICS6: The size of the drop in New Single Family Housing is actually offset partially by increasing employment in Residential Remodeling.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

To add more to this, think about the ways in which NAICS6 gives you more detail than NAICS4 for specific industries. Here is residential housing construction (2361) in Pennsylvania:

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

🚨 Really cool data alert! 🚨 Today, LEHD released Quarterly Workforce Indicators at the NAICS5/6 levels, which means you can understand hiring, separation and employment levels at detailed industries. Check out our story, live now on the Census website www.census.gov/library/stor...

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Industry-level Detail Provides New Insights on the Growing Space Economy

New data on employment and hiring for detailed national industries enable data users to explore the composition and dynamics of specialized workforces.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Trying to decide if my get-rich-quick scheme should be coaching an SEC football team and getting fired or coaching Manchester United and getting fired. I can do equally well at both jobs, in that the point is to get fired.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Just had Gemini write my README files for a project, and holy smokes, if all we can do is get rid of the drudge work, this is a huge leap.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

"Out of the overflow of the hearth, the mouth speaks." (Luke 6:45) An evergreen truth.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Sighs, time to go out to the practice field. @wshcommanders.bsky.social, I haven't kicked in 15 years but I bet I could do pretty well.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

It worked! I just got my confirmation email. Thanks again Josh.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

10% of me believes that the AI hype is stoked by cloud provider firms, who are just making a killing on data centers.

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Andrew Foote @afoote-econ.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I will start with Rob. Thanks Josh! Its a paper linking the PSEO data to business formation data to measure business start-up activity of graduates. I think it is a great paper, and its just about ready for the light of day.

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