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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The balance of public opinion is against abortion being legal in only one state, Arkansas. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

In 34 states and D.C., more people say abortion generally should be legal than say it generally should be illegal. For example, in the District of Columbia, 81% of adults say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Support for legal abortion also stands at about 75% or higher in several New England states, including Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Connecticut.

Meanwhile, people in Arkansas are more likely to say abortion should generally be illegal (57%) rather than legal (41%). Arkansas is the only state where the balance of public opinion is against abortion by a statistically significant margin.

In 15 states, the shares saying abortion should be legal and saying it should be illegal are not significantly different once the margins of sampling error in each state are taken into account.

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Nobel Prizes by country and year. The dominance of Germany is striking every time. Before 1933, that is. And the utter dominance of America (and the UK) after 1945.

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Grateful that some Republican leaders are pushing back against efforts to defund American universities: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | Funding for R&D isn’t a gift to academia

Investing in scientific research and development is vital to U.S. security.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

relatedly: bsky.app/profile/code...

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Are you ready to put away your wallet tomorrow? I’m all in!

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Catherine Eckel @eckelc.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I concur. Thanks to all who organized and attended/.

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Jeff Ely @jeffely.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

three things editors can do: (i dont think theres much hope for changing what referees do.) /3

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Nathan Nunn 🇨🇦 🇰🇷 @nathannunn.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Breaking the Cycle of Violence: How Female Leaders Curb Armed Conflict. Guest post by Francisco Eslava blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva... via the World Bank

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Breaking the Cycle of Violence: How Female Leaders Curb Armed Conflict. Guest post by Francisco Eslava

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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Update: this list has now 100 (!) women political economists to follow! 🤩 Thanks so much for the (self-)recommendations, I'm thrilled to connect and reconnect with you all here & so looking forward to learning more about your work! Still 50 spots open! 🙋 go.bsky.app/QFrdfh3

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

This map shows where the world's carbon emissions come from - population centers, flight paths, shipping lanes and high production areas. www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/mapped-ca...

This map shows where the world's carbon emissions come from. Population centers emit a large share of emissions but flight paths, shipping lanes and high production areas are also visible as sources of carbon emissions.

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Catherine Eckel @eckelc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Ryan has a new way to look at things.

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I've posted several times about the working paper, but the publication on "AER: Insights" is a good occasion to do it again: immigrants to the US have been less likely to be incarcerated for over 50 years **even without controlling for demographic characteristics.** www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap between Immigrants and the US-Born, 1870–2020†
By Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Elisa Jácome,
Santiago Pérez, and Juan David Torres*
We provide the first nationally representative long-run series (1870–2020) of incarceration rates for immigrants and the US-born. As a group, immigrants have had lower incarceration rates than the US-born for 150 years. Moreover, relative to the US-born, immigrants’ incarceration rates have declined since 1960: immigrants today are 60 percent less likely to be incarcerated (30 percent relative to US-born Whites). This relative decline occurred among immigrants from all regions and cannot be explained by changes in observable characteristics or immigration policy. Instead, the decline is part of a broader divergence of outcomes between less-educated immigrants and their US-born counterparts.

Panels plotting incarceration rates for immigrants and US-born men between 1870 and 2019. Data are restricted to males ages 18–40. Data spanning 1870–1940 are from the full-count decennial censuses. Data spanning 1950–1990 are from the largest available subsamples from the corresponding decennial censuses. Data from 2005 onward are from the annual ACS. Cross markers indicate that fewer than 10,000 immigrants were used to calculate the corresponding incarceration rate. Panel A compares US-born men to all immigrants. Panels B–F compare US-born men to immigrants from a particular country-of-origin group. “Old Europeans” are immigrants from countries in the north and west of Europe. “New Europeans” are immigrants from countries in eastern and southern Europe. The “Rest of the world” category includes immigrants from countries not included in panels B–F.
Migrants typically show lower incarceration rates

accounting for individual-level characteristics, migrants as a group or by subgroups (old Europeans, new Europeans, Chinese, Mexicans and Central Americans, or Rest of the World) are incarcerated at lower rates

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Caroline Krafft @ckrafftc.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Cool new paper! "Strength in Numbers? Gender Composition, Leadership, and Women’s Influence in Teams" by @profkarpo.bsky.social, Stephen D. O’Connell, Jessica Preece, Olga Stoddard #Econsky polisky

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Catherine Eckel @eckelc.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Texas A&M University Economics were well represented at the Southern Economic Association meetings in Washington DC. This is a great meeting for seeing folks who aren't necessarily on the fancy circuit, lots of wonderful scholars from many different schools.

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Catherine Eckel @eckelc.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Really excellent lecture by Kasey Buckles! The best thing I saw at SEA this year.

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Robert Metcalfe @rmetcalfe.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

Ok folks, here is the job ad for our Empirical IO Assistant Professor position and how to apply: usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange... We'll be moving fast so please encourage all of your students to apply quickly. 📈📉

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Assistant Professor of Economics at USC

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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

OK, chart time. Big picture: Job growth remains solid. The "acceleration" in November was entirely due to the return of striking workers, but even accounting for that, gains are steady, albeit down from earlier this year. #NumbersDay

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

For professional reasons I must change how I interact with social media I am getting solicitations to apply for deanships Gotta up the swearing and over-sharing

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Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

Here it is! Our new standing RFP for causal research proposals on crime/CJ! This replaces our previous practice of invite-only submissions for most research. Please share with your networks, including PhD students. craftmediabucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/Caus...

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Laura K Gee @laurakgee.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

🔥🔥🔥Are you pissed about Armin Falk heading IZA? If yes, consider reading/sharing/signing this letter. To be clear I didn’t organize this letter, and I’m so pleased that instead of me it was more senior economists (some male) who stepped up to help with this effort. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Hi Everyone! New job ⚠️ alert for UVA| Batten. We are looking for a *Full* or Associate Professor with specialty in Health Economics. Deadline: December 9, 2023 More information at apply.interfolio.com/135055 Feel free to email me questions and help me spread widely!

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Danila Serra @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

**ADOPT A PAPER Round 4** Adopt a Paper is a streamlined mentoring program aimed at giving junior faculty in Econ access to high quality feedback on a paper from a top scholar. More than 300 papers "adopted" in rounds 1-3. adoptapaper.org More info below & in thread

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Carly Urban @carlyurban.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

The FINRA Foundation has a new call for proposals for dissertation fellowships related to financial education, financial capability, financial well-being! $40k! Great mentorship! Great people!! Dissertating PhD students: APPLY!!!

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Dissertation Completion Fellowship Program | Finra Foundation

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CSWEP @aeacswep.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

@aeacswep.bsky.social will host Mentoring Breakfasts for Junior Economists at #ASSA2024 on Fri, Jan 5, from 8-10 am CST. Pre-registration is required. For more information, click the link: www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co....

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American Economic Association

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Catherine Eckel @eckelc.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

I guess I don't get why we need to melt them down. Storage seems good enough, and they are historically interesting?

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Catherine Eckel @eckelc.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Interesting to see this confirmed for economics in a new paper in the EJ. Try to catch yourself -- gender stereotypes worm their way into letters. Use words like, creative, brilliant, not words like hard-working and a pleasure to work with, for your women candidates. Please.

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Catherine Eckel @eckelc.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

And I'll just bet that women get punished when they don't perpetually appreciate others. Nice work by @johannarickne.bsky.social

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Joy Buchanan @joybuchanan.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

On the other other site (Insta) Emily Oster is absolutely killing it as a real life fashion model 📉📈 #goals

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Catherine Eckel @eckelc.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

This looks like a great study. I love it when new research confirms my priors.

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Catherine Eckel @eckelc.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Very competitive -- none of my students or colleagues have ever made it in. But keep trying!

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Heidi L. Williams @heidiwilliams.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

If you are an academic with research leave or earned sabbatical credit for academic year 2024-25, and are passionate about applying economic policy research to make the world a better place, please consider applying to the CBO’s visiting scholar program: www.cbo.gov/about/career...

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Danila Serra @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

FANTASTIC news!! Let’s remember that among the amazing things she did is also the Women in Economics (UWE) challenge, which made us start thinking of ways to increase women in economics. It was 2015 & that’s how my work in this space started. Thank you & congrats Claudia Goldin!

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Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

exposure to the Fox News channel reduces local government revenues & expenditures because Fox News improves election chances for local Republicans, alters politician campaign agendas, & shifts voter policy preferences on fiscal issues www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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How Cable News Reshaped Local Government

(October 2023) - This paper shows that partisan cable news broadcasts have a causal effect on the size and composition of budgets in US localities. Using exogenous channel positioning as an instrument...

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Asjad Naqvi @asjadnaqvi.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Making figures for academic articles? This guide (just updated) covers the basics of getting the fonts, legends, axes, dimensions, + many other aspects right: medium.com/the-stata-gu... No fancy #Stata packages, just basic fine tuning can get you very far!

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Stata graph tips for academic articles

Learn tips and tricks for optimizing Stata graphs for journal articles.

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Laura K Gee @laurakgee.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

📉📈 Posting a great opportunity for work on Race & Stratification (sorry if I missed the post on bsky) conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

Estimated gender pay gap within job (same occupation at same firm) Japan 26% S Korea 19% US 14% Germany 13% Spain 12% Israel 12% Canada 12% Norway 9% France 7% www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is a regression table estimating the size of gender differences within establishment, occupation and job.

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Laura K Gee @laurakgee.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

Do you know a job market candidate who does experiments? If yes, pls consider this great virtual job market seminar for presentation practice (w/ a Senior discussant) bgu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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