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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

October is shaping up to be Econ of Edtober in the @bowdoincollege.bsky.social econ department! So looking forward to both of these visits. @gideonmoore.bsky.social @joshua-goodman.com

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Sam Thau @samthau.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In a new @siepr.bsky.social WP, @gideonmoore.bsky.social, @jdlight.bsky.social and I document a small but broad shift towards more political, more liberal courses across nearly 1,000 US colleges 2000-present. We then study how students + faculty shape political content. A thread (1/N)...

$Abstract: We measure two dimensions of politics in college courses --- the amount of political content and its partisan orientation --- using course descriptions from nearly 1,000 U.S. colleges and universities over the past 25 years. Using a novel text-as-data method, we separate the amount of ``political content,'' the extent to which a course engages with topics salient to politics and public policy, from ``slant,'' the partisan direction of that content. Since 2000, the average course has 0.15 SD more political content and 0.13 SD more liberal slant. Changes are most pronounced in the tails of the distribution, particularly for slant, and are modest relative to persistent cross-field differences. Following instructors who move between institutions, we find that instructors account for 60-65\% of cross-sectional differences in course political content and slant. Using enrollment data, we find students show no preference for liberal content before the 2010s; demand for liberal content rises over the following decade, peaks in 2020, and falls slightly thereafter.$

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Gideon Moore @gideonmoore.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

1 in 5 US LinkedIn users edit job descriptions on well after leaving the position. In a new WP with @nickbloom.bsky.social, Lisa Simon, & Caelan Wilkie-Rogers, we argue this contaminates work using profiles as employment histories-but enables us to track skill demand over time. 🧵 (1/16)

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SIEPR @siepr.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

🆕 Study looks at changes job seekers make to their LinkedIn profiles to match perceived demand for skills. AI mentions are ⬆️, DEI is ⬇️. SIEPR's @nickbloom.bsky.social, @gideonmoore.bsky.social & economists at @reveliolabs.com also identify heavy users of AI for resume help: tinyurl.com/3fvhne5d

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NBER @nber.org · 06/06/2026

Examining how much fraud there is in Medicare and who commits it, from Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, Yunan Ji, @nealemahoney.bsky.social, and @gideonmoore.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35280

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Wrote about what’s behind conservatives watching movies and shows warning about the dangers of fascism and somehow coming away thinking the fascists are the good guys, and they should follow their example www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Republicans Are Confused About the Concept of Bad Guys

Some conservatives are embracing the villains in what are supposed to be cautionary tales.

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