Reposted by Daniel GiraldoThe Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Recently accepted by #QJE: “Wealth and Property Taxation in the United States,” by Dray, Landais, and Stantcheva: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...doi.orgWealth and Property Taxation in the United States*Abstract. We study the history and geography of wealth accumulation in the United States using newly collected historical property tax records from the ear 074
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoChris Vannini @chrisvannini.com · 20/07/2026The BBC's World Cup Closing Montage will give you goosebumps: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcAr...youtube.com[UHD HDR] BBC "Sweet Child O' Mine" Closing Montage Spain wins the World Cup 2026YouTube video by Manuel Alejandro 37615
Daniel Giraldo @danielgiraldopaez.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Sadly that’s a good use of VAR. it’s obviously a foul and the foul is what let them start a quick counter attack into wide open space 000
Daniel Giraldo @danielgiraldopaez.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Quansah unlucky there that his whole leg landed on the ball and lifted it up 000
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I happen to think FIFA is corrupt as hell, Trump is corrupt as hell, FIFA likely would've suspended the red card anyway regardless of Trump (for some corrupt reason), but they were right to anyway. Balogun didn't plan that, and you can see him instinctively pull away when he feels it's not grass. 4236927
Reposted by Daniel Giraldobendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 05/07/2026*Norway chant to the tune of the Beatles’ “Dr. Robert”* Oscar Robert!!! Oh oh Oscar Robert 031
Reposted by Daniel Giraldoone dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 30/06/2026 250961
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoGuy Bundestrivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 14/06/2026This half is so good 0161
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoJohn Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 12/06/2026We need to stop calling them hydration breaks. They're quarters. When FIFA mandates breaks regardless of weather conditions so that broadcasters can show commercials, we already have a name for that and there's no reason to let them keep using a euphemism for cover 10731133
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Gelman absolutely on fire on the blog statmodeling.substack.com/p/13-aspects... 69521
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoArin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Apropos of some debate on Piketty-Saez-Zucman versus Auten-Splinter brewing again on the other site, let me post my lecture notes that does a deep dive into this, looking at both pre- and post-tax income inequality. Link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4k5gj... 39924
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoJesse Rothstein @jrothst.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Great and important thread. 01711
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Proportional representation requires zero consideration of race and produces better minority representation, both partisan minorities and racial minorities, than any attempt to draw majority-minority districts ever could. 829872
Reposted by Daniel Giraldobendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 28/04/2026the long-term crime trend in NYC is remains kind of unfathomable www.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/... 022
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoMichael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 25/04/2026I really can't overstate this we saw a clear and truly absurd abuse of power from the Brooklyn Democratic Party today 210031
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoPugmane @pugmane.bsky.social · 08/04/2026music.apple.com/us/album/fix...music.apple.comFixing A Hole (2017 Mix) by The Beatles on Apple MusicSong · 1967 · Duration 2:37 253
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoMariacristina De Nardi @mdenardi.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Main result: we find less persistence and less volatility in individual productivity shocks than much of the earlier literature suggests, but more heterogeneity in ability and match quality. 131
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoMariacristina De Nardi @mdenardi.bsky.social · 07/04/2026How much of measured earnings risk is really individual-level productivity risk, and how much reflects sorting, job transitions, and heterogeneity? We show that subjective expectations data help separate these forces. 183
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoC. Kirabo Jackson @kirabojackson.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Delighted to share our revised paper (w/ @juliaturner.bsky.social & @jacobbastian.bsky.social ) showing that Universal Pre-K has broad effects on local labor markets — effects well beyond only mothers. Larger effects for full-day programs. nber.org/papers/w33767 #EconSky #EarlyChildhood #ECE 113656
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoTom Haberstroh @tomhaberstroh.bsky.social · 11/03/2026I slept on it. I had to do it. Sorry, Heat fans: Bam Adebayo’s 83-point game deserves an asterisk. 83* joins my definitive short list of 70+ scoring nights with an asterisk: sports.yahoo.com/nba/article/...sports.yahoo.comBam Adebayo's 83-point game needs an asteriskAdebayo joins an exclusive list of asterisked 70-plus scoring nights. 199011
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoNot the Guy @notnotnuanced.bsky.social · 03/03/2026music.apple.com/us/album/lov...music.apple.comLove Is Strange by Wings on Apple MusicSong · 1971 · Duration 4:51 282
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoPer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/ 21592224
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoJesse Rothstein @jrothst.bsky.social · 16/02/2026📢 Predoc Opportunity I'm hiring a full-time predoc to work with me at UC Berkeley, supporting my research on labor economics, the economics of education, and public policy. jesse-rothstein.com/rothstein_pr... Please pass on to anyone who might be interested. #econsky #econ_rajesse-rothstein.com 15543
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoNoah Williams @bellmanequation.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Carrying on with the seminar after your paper’s been torn apart 0171
Daniel Giraldo @danielgiraldopaez.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Rewatching Shaidorov’s performance, I thought it sounded like the blue opera lady from the Fifth Element. Then I looked it up and it was that song! 000
Reposted by Daniel Giraldo5 foot Home Depot skeleton @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 06/02/2026i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired 9106742666
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 05/12/2025This was a really good piece from Matt Bruenig www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/05/w... 2172
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoJoshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 04/12/2025Next, Zhengren Zhu presents: "A Coherence Measure for the Quality of Students' Course Selections and (Late) College Dropout" He studies the impact of the "coherence" of college students' course selection, the extent to which the set of courses they choose fulfills the requirements of a major. 141
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoPaul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 26/11/2025Any algorithmic decision-making has both a prediction/inference AND a preference function over errors -- new NBER wp highlights how preference alignment can be too narrow within a given setting #linkoftheday www.nber.org/system/files... 2225
Reposted by Daniel Giraldobendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 24/11/2025people who say confiscitatory top marginal tax rates depress top-earners’ productivity have clearly never listened to Exile on Main St. 132
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoSaloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 01/10/2025Most graphs of the fertility rate depict the 'period fertility rate', which is based on a single year's data and doesn't necessarily reflect how many children women actually have across their lifetimes. I've used data from the Human Fertility Database to show the cumulative number instead: 313932
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoPablo Torre @pablo.show · 18/09/2025Good morning. youtu.be/4_ow9i3obDE?...youtu.beExclusive: Kawhi and Aspiration Needed Cash. Ballmer and the Clippers Sent $118M in 18 Months | PTFOYouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2931963
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoZach Liscow @zliscow.bsky.social · 12/09/2025🚨NEW RESULTS (w/ Slattery & Nober) - When gov't engineers retire, highway projects cost more: the engineers pay for themselves 6 times over - Improving gov’t engineer quality from the 25th to 75th percentile reduces costs by 14%, equal to 3x avg. engineer pay Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 2305109
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoAnna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 08/09/2025📢Nina Roussille and I are hiring a full-time predoctoral researcher to work with us at MIT on labor economics research projects. IMPORTANT: this vacancy is open right now, so we are particularly interested in people who could start soon. Link to apply: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...careers.peopleclick.comPredoctoral ResearcherMIT - Predoctoral Researcher - Cambridge MA 02139 0713
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoJohn Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 04/08/2025There's a narrative that because the bivariate correlation between education spending and student test scores is small/null, education spending doesn't matter. But causal research has begun to show that this simple association is probably biased downward. Education spending matters a lot. 12811
Daniel Giraldo @danielgiraldopaez.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Looked it up learned that Let Down is having a moment on tiktok. Makes sense because the last 2:30 of that song is one of the greatest moments in music. 010
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoJoshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 12/06/2025Re-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 abstracts. (The quoted thread focuses on titles.) #EconSky #AcademicSky 44818
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoDavid Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 25/07/2025After 22 years, NBER shuts its Retirement and Disability Research Center. It was funded by the Social Security Administration (SSA) through a cooperative agreement with the NBER with the goal of providing research and analysis that could inform Social Security policy. www.nber.org/brd/20251/nb...nber.orgNBER Retirement and Disability Research Center Winds Down Operations 26140
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoBen Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · 24/07/2025I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on. Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts. 1/ 2732187
Reposted by Daniel Giraldo"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 19/07/2025This week on the blog: Death! We continue out look at what life was like for pre-industrial peasant farmers - most humans who have ever lived - with a discussion of the mortality regime they lived and died under and why 'life expectancy' can be a deceptive statistic. acoup.blog/2025/07/18/c...acoup.blogCollections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part II: Starting at the EndThis is the second part of our series (I) discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage, labor, subsistence, death – of pre-modern peasants and their families. As we’ve … 2735780
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoJohn Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 18/07/2025That was my theory going into the piece, but it turned out to be not only false but seemingly the opposite: the biggest employment gains young male grads have made in the past year have been in software and engineering jobs 310216
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoThe Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 14/07/2025#QJE Aug 2025, #13, “What Works and For Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across the U.S.,” by Biasi (@barbarabiasi.com), Lafortune, and Schönholzer (@davidschonholzer.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...doi.orgValidate User 122
Daniel Giraldo @danielgiraldopaez.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Why does “num lock” exist? Just to foil me every day? 010
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoThe Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Recently accepted by #QJE, “What Works and For Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across the U.S.,” by Biasi (@barbarabiasi.com), Lafortune, and Schönholzer (@davidschonholzer.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...doi.orgWhat Works and for Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across the U.S.*Abstract. This paper identifies which investments in school facilities help students and which and are valued by homeowners. Using novel data on school dis 1275
Reposted by Daniel Giraldofreddyaboulton.bsky.social @freddyaboulton.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Building real-time WebRTC and Websocket applications is very difficult to get right in Python. Until now - Introducing FastRTC, the realtime communication library for Python ⚡️ huggingface.co/blog/fastrtchuggingface.coFastRTC: The Real-Time Communication Library for PythonWe’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science. 1499
Reposted by Daniel GiraldoJohn Eric Humphries @johneric.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Jason Abaluck and I are organizing the Cowles Labor and Public Economics Conference at Yale, June 2-3. Submit your papers by March 24: cowles.yale.edu/conferences/... @jabaluck.bsky.socialcowles.yale.eduCowles Summer Conference Paper Submission Form 0199
