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Joseph Shapiro @joseph-s-shapiro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Love the new @econimate.bsky.social video on our paper "Water Works" w @davidkeiserecon.bsky.social @bhashmazumder.bsky.social @davidmolitor.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=HkDe... US drinking water pollution fell by more than half from 2003 to 2019; Safe Drinking Water Act helped; health improved

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Safe Drinking Water in America

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David Molitor @davidmolitor.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Does cleaning up drinking water save lives? New paper: We link US federal drinking water investments to Medicare records and find they reduce mortality among older Americans, with benefit/cost ratio>20. Thread on what we did... w/ Keiser, @bhashmazumder.bsky.social , @joseph-s-shapiro.bsky.social

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NBER @nber.org · 08/06/2026

US drinking water pollution has fallen rapidly; Safe Drinking Water Act loans reduce pollution and save lives. Analyzing 266 million pollution readings, from Keiser, @bhashmazumder.bsky.social, @davidmolitor.bsky.social, and @joseph-s-shapiro.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35288

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Joseph Shapiro @joseph-s-shapiro.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

💧New Paper Water Works: Causes and Consequences of Safe Drinking Water in America 📉US drinking water pollution fell by HALF in 2003-2019 💰Safe Drinking Water Act $ helped ❤️Investments reduce mortality, benefit/cost ratio >20 www.nber.org/papers/w35288 👇

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Ludovica Gazze @ludogazze.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Heya, this is the correct link: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

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PostDoctoral Associate

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Ludovica Gazze @ludogazze.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Hey JMCs, I know the waiting can be stressful. Good news: @billingsecon.bsky.social, @schnepel.bsky.social, & I are hiring a postdoc on our project funded by Arnold VentureS 📢 Apply here: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail… #EconSky 📈📉

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 26/01/2026

My eldest just donated a fifth of their savings to DHH Church and I'm verklempt. It's a lot of $ -- a lot of hours of earning -- for them and a lot of safety for Minnesota families. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

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Despensas/ Food Drive

Join our Community Food Drive to support those in need while nurturing faith and fellowship. With your help, we can extend a helping hand and foster a sense of community.Your contribution will go towa...

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Thor Berger @thorberger.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Everyone talks about the "credibility revolution", but I think one of the most valuable shifts in econ over the last decade has been the rise of rigorous descriptive historical work like this in top journals:

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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

New post on Substack open.substack.com/pub/davebrad...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

The Minneapolis resident who wrote this post pointed to three ways you can help: *Contact your elected official - make clear what is happening in Minneapolis is unacceptable *Donate - they suggested www.standwithminnesota.com *Communicate - let ppl in the Twin Cities know they are not alone

First, if you live in a politically “red” or “purple” state, call your elected (especially Republican) officials and tell them to oppose mass ICE raids. Tell them you will not tolerate what is happening in Minnesota anywhere in your country and that their lack of action to protect U.S. citizens and other legal residents will heavily influence your vote in November.

Second, send money. Pick a reputable (non-government) immigrant rights organization, public school PTA or support organization, or (non-government) social service agency. Send them as much money as you are comfortable sending; they need it desperately (mainly to feed people and provide legal assistance, but there are many other needs).

Third, directly reach out to your friends or family members in the Twin Cities … every day. Like me, they need to know that the world is aware of what is happening here and cares.

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Bhash Mazumder @bhashmazumder.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Went to a conference on inequality at the Harris School last week where @wrigleyfield.bsky.social gave the most moving academic talk I have ever been to, highlighting the many profound and largely unexplored human costs of the Black-white mortality gap across many dimensions

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NBER @nber.org · 31/10/2025

Surveying the evidence on intergenerational mobility studies that use alternative measures with a focus on health, consumption and life satisfaction, from Jonathan Davis, Nathan Deutscher, and @bhashmazumder.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34407

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NBER @nber.org · 04/07/2025

Open call for papers, Gender in the Economy: Structural Transformation and Women's Time-Use. Conference to be held in Cambridge, MA on March 27, 2026. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on Decem... www.nber.org/calls-papers-and-propo…

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Intergenerational mobility into doctoral education across Europe: higher in the Nordics, lower in Eastern Europe, but overall, European PhDs are socioeconomically diverse. doi.org/10.1162/euso...

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Intergenerational mobility into doctoral education across Europe

Abstract. Despite increasing concerns over socioeconomic barriers in access to doctoral education, relatively little is known about the degree to which PhDs are selected in terms of their social backg...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Midnight, June 7 is the deadline to comment on the revised Schedule F, Trump's plan to politicize the civil servants by converting them into at-will appointees that can be fired for the mildest pushback against illegal actions. It's easy - here is how: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/last-day-t...

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Last day to weigh in on Trump's plan to politicize the civil service

Trump has already shown us how he would use Schedule F powers

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Florencia Torche @ftorche.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

New paper: Wives with more education than husband are *more* likely to take his name than education-equal marriages. As women outpace men in education & increasingly keep their names, name-taking provides symbolic way to compensate for her status superiority www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Doing gender and the surname choices of married women

Marital surname choices reflect deeply embedded, often unspoken gender norms. According to the marital exchange/bargaining approach, women are more li…

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Bhash Mazumder @bhashmazumder.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Looking for a postdoc opportunity? Want to work on intergenerational mobility? Looking to be in the land down under? Here is a great opportunity to consider working for @siminskipeter.bsky.social, @rkwilkins.bsky.social, Nathan Deutscher and myself: #econsky econjobmarket.org/positions?sh...

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EJM - Econ Job Market

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

We forget that professional sports such as baseball and football were originally integrated and then *became* segregated in response to White fans and, in some instances, White owners and White players.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 29/04/2025

The administration is moving the rule. Official public (that's us!!) comment period is open. Friends of BLS has resources making it super easy & efficient for you to: 1) submit evidence to the official record & 2) communicate to your federal reps #econsky www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...

Schedule Policy/Career Rule is a Threat to Federal Statistical Agencies. Take Action Today.
The Friends of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is very concerned about the potential impact on federal statistics of Schedule Policy/Career Rule, a proposed change to federal employment policy. This change, initially introduced at the end of the first Trump administration (then referred to as “Schedule F”) seeks to reclassify certain senior federal employees, making it easier to remove them from their positions. Doing this requires adoption of regulations (a “rule”) to govern its implementation. On April 23, 2025, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) opened a 30-day comment period on a rule to institute Schedule Policy/Career. OMB is accepting comments through May 23, 2025.

We urge all Friends of BLS to utilize the templates below and take action to help preserve the integrity and objectivity of the federal statistical system by:

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Bhash Mazumder @bhashmazumder.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

On this podcast I tried to string together some coherent sentences about the Rosenwald schools and their long-run effects on the civil rights movement: www.educationnext.org/the-educatio...

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The Education Exchange: The Largest Educational Intervention You’ve Never Heard Of

Paul E. Peterson interviews Bhash Mazumder, Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

As someone who has studied public accommodations discrimination, the dismantling of the Woolworth lunch counter is so disturbing. What a sad day…

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Hanchen Jiang @hanchenraphael.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

🚀 Excited to share that our paper, "𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮: 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗘𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻," is now officially published in the 𝙅𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝘿𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙥𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙀𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙘𝙨 with 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴! 📚🌍 Link 👉: doi.org/10.1016/j.jd...

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

i could not believe this was true -- that they really stopped testing milk today -- but i looked it up and it is.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Academia is cool because if you're doing it right, every paper you published in the last 3 years feels inadequate now that you understand the topic better, but it'll take 3 years to get out the version where you get it more right, and you get to do that until one day you die! Isn't that cool

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

"Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management." snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...

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The Next Terrorist Attack

And What Comes After

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Resistance with slides: when presenting scientific evidence created by federal data and/or $ tell your audience what they won’t be seeing more of Slides templates here sites.google.com/view/tobeclear

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Miles Corak @milescorak.com · 10/04/2025

Today marks 100 years since the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s #TheGreatGatsby. So #EconSky let’s celebrate by recalling how the #GreatGatsbyCurve got its name! The subtext of my post is that policy relevant research always needs a communication strategy milescorak.com/2016/12/04/h...

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How The Great Gatsby Curve got its name

On January 4th, 2012 The New York Times published an article called “Harder for Americans to Rise from Lower Rungs.” I had spent a considerable amount of time during the New Year’…

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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Where are all the macro peeps explaining the S-I=NX relation? (Serious question, if you know of a good article explaining this, please share)

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Update on measles in the US, cases and deaths, in context of vaccine introduction

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Jeffrey Wooldridge @jmwooldridge.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Checking in from the Lansing “Hands Off” rally!

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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Be part of the solution. Be loud.

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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Map at left (from HandsOff site) showing the number of protests— 24 in SoCal alone— should be on every front page. NYTimes front page is on the right; it’s a tight shot and headline that misleads about the size of protests MSM again failing to tell the truth

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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Lund University (Sweden) has opened 3 doctoral student positions in historical demography-economic history - Inequalities in health and survival /jobID:810603 - Demographic Inequality /jobID:809395 - Colonial maternal health legacies /jobID:808817 Applications are invited! 📉📈🗃🛟 #history #demography

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Work at Lund University

Job opening

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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I thought the whole point of inviting students from other countries to study in America was to showcase our liberties, freedoms, and strength in allowing dissenting views. It is a sign of a strong country to allow dissenting voices. We are supposed to be teaching American values not betraying them.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

On July 6, 1944, Lt Jackie Robinson was instructed to move to a seat farther back in the bus. Robinson refused & was court-martialed. It was thanks to his advocacy, the Black press, & army's fear of bad publicity that he was acquitted of all charges. #TeachTruth www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ja...

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July 6, 1944: Lt. Jackie Robinson Refuses to Give Up Seat on Bus

While stationed at Camp Hood in Texas, Lieutenant Jackie Robinson refused to give up his seat on the bus and was court-martialed.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Every so often I look at the paper of record to see if it is quickly communicating to readers that they are living through a constitutional crisis, and the answer consistently is "no." They are covering the topics, but in the name of journalistic balance, not conveying the alarm.

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

If you share those concerns, sign and share this open letter. We can’t change donors minds overnight, but we can show our leaders what we value and perhaps give them the resolve they need to take a stand in this moment: docs.google.com/document/u/0...

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Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education

Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education To add your name to this statement, go to https://bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEdSign We publicly affirm our commitment to the enterprise of higher educ...

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Trump is at war with the rule of law and free expression. Business and academia are the big losers. They owe it to themselves as well as society at large to speak up. My latest.

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

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Jordan Matsudaira @jdmatsudaira.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The dismantling of NCES is insane and will critically hobble progress in improving education - this agency is so important it existed more than 100 years before the creation of Department of Education.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Dems can still get D senators to clip Elon's wings. But they only have about 48 hours to do it. I lay out the terrain in this post. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/will-...

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Will Dems Pick Up Their Sword?

(Ed.Note: I go into a lot of detail below. The bottom line...

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