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Jesse Bruhn @jessebruhn.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Deadline is a little over a week away. Send us your papers!!!!!!

Jesse Bruhn @jessebruhn.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Truly grateful for all the thoughtful emails / texts I've received from so many of you over the last 24 hours. When the world is dark and sad, love is the light keeps us going. Thank you for sending so much of it my way.

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Annenberg Institute @annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

📢 Call for Papers 📢 The Annenberg Institute’s 2026 Workshop on Educational Measurement—led by @jessebruhn.bsky.social—takes place May 15 at Brown. Keynotes: Matt Wiswall (JHU) & Ben Domingue (Stanford). Travel/lodging support for selected papers. Submit: buff.ly/saRAgXl

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Jesse Bruhn @jessebruhn.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Hey #econsky! I'm organizing a workshop at Brown this Spring in partnership with Eric Nielsen and Viviana Rodriguez. The topic is educational measurement. Please submit a paper/extended abstract! We'd love to consider your work. And please help us spread the word to folks who aren't on bluesky!

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Jesse Bruhn @jessebruhn.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Super cool project. Work force development is a huge issue. Glad to see this topic getting renewed focus from Econ / public policy.

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NBER @nber.org · 22/11/2025

New research finds that valuable education data is being wasted: Large gains are possible at nearly zero cost simply by better leveraging all of the test items currently collected, from @jessebruhn.bsky.social, Michael Gilraine, Jens Ludwig, and Sendhil Mullainathan www.nber.org/papers/w34484

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Annenberg Institute @annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: @jessebruhn.bsky.social, Michael Gilraine, Jens Ludwig & @sendhil.bsky.social analyze 1.31 billion student-item responses from Texas and find that item-level data contain rich, decision-relevant information that aggregate scores miss. 📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1343

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

imagine fleeing the Vietnam War and in your arms you're carrying a baby who will one day grow up to correct the US Secretary of Defense on his jeans. like bringing a football into the end zone

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Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen @andbjn.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

1/ What does the social fabric of an entire country look like? We built a nation-scale social network of Denmark — 7.2 million people, 1.4 billion ties, 14 years of data. Here’s what we found 👇 📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415... #NetworkScience #Sociology

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Unveiling the social fabric through a temporal, nation-scale social network and its characteristics - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Unveiling the social fabric through a temporal, nation-scale social network and its characteristics

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Ben Waber @bwaber.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Next was the highly recommended 1st day of the @nber.org labor studies conference, w/standout talks by M Notowidigdo (returns to permanent residency) C Miller (effects of a criminal record) & @jessebruhn.bsky.social (long-run effects of early career experience) www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5mY... (3/4)

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Labor Studies, NBER Summer Institute

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Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Y’all, I wrote a book! www.amazon.com/Science-Seco...

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

It seems pretty funny to allow the WSJ to cover a paper and then when it’s revealed to be fraudulent start crying about how it wasn’t even peer reviewed and the system worked etc. Why did our discipline tell the WSJ it was credible if it wasn’t peer reviewed then ?

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Ray Fisman @rfisman.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

A bit of personal/professional news: I'm sad to be leaving the wonderful editorial team at @restatjournal.bsky.social now that my terms are up, but excited to be joining AEJ: Applied as editor in January. www.aeaweb.org/news/member-...

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Annual Elections and Other Announcements

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John A. List @johnlist.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I finally have a publication date for my new Experimental Economics textbook: December 12. Equally as important, I am proud to have negotiated a low price for the book: $38.10...for a nearly 800 page book! You can find the book here: www.amazon.com/Experimental...

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 06/03/2025

Our BU Wheelock Education Policy Center is going to be everywhere at next week's AEFP conference! Between our current faculty and PhD students and our alums, we'll be in 20+ sessions. Here's what we're presenting: wheelockpolicycenter.org/event/associ... @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social

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a man says wherever you go there we are

ALT: a man says wherever you go there we are

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Catherine Mata @catherinematah.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Honored to be one of the recipients of the 2025 Brown Postdoctoral Excellence Awards! Huge thanks to Brown Postdoctoral Affairs for this recognition and to @linzpage.bsky.social and the Annenberg Institute for their support in advancing my research! ¡Seguimos! postdocs.brown.edu/news/2025-02...

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2025 Brown Postdoctoral Excellence Awards

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Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 24/02/2025

How are parents affected by their kid going to college? How are they affected when their kid gets a scholarship or grant? New working paper with @palaashbhargava.bsky.social @econsandy.bsky.social @odedgurantz.bsky.social and Rob Fairlie www.nber.org/papers/w33497

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Jesse Bruhn @jessebruhn.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Amazing opportunity!! Send you talented undergrads / soon to be graduates this way 👇

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

"People who like to sound tough reflexively back the guys with guns over the guys in jeans with sacks of grain or the guys in suits with papers. But take it from someone who spent nearly 1,500 days downrange over the course of 20 years: USAID is worth every penny." www.thebulwark.com/p/usaid-kept...

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USAID Kept My Troops Safe in Afghanistan

If not for American aid, we would have faced more enemies and won fewer friends.

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Jesse Bruhn @jessebruhn.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

If the president / secretary of defense really believe that eliminating DEI efforts will make things more "merit" based then they should probably eliminate the explicit veteran preferences in federal hiring too. The fact that they aren't tells you everything you need to know...

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Not the banner you want seeing over this article from … checks notes … 8 days ago

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Army Blackhawk helicopters are crashing into passenger planes at DCA while the Secretary of Defense is on Fox News ranting about DEI

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

the first fatal commercial plane crash in 16 years happened just days after Trump froze hiring of air traffic controllers that were already stretched thin

TRUMP'S DANGEROUS
FREEZE OF AIR
TRAFFIC CONTROL
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Washington, D.C. — Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Rick Larsen (D-WA) and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Aviation Steve Cohen (D-TN) released the following statements after President Trump froze the hiring of Air Traffic Controllers, among other safety-critical positions.
"The bipartisan FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 directs the Administration to hire the maximum number of air traffic controllers. That's what the law says, so the Administration must rescind this ridiculous executive order," Ranking Member Larsen said. "Hiring air traffic controllers is the number one safety issue according to the entire aviation industry. Instead of working to improve aviation safety and lower costs for hardworking American families, the Administration is choosing to spread bogus DEl claims to justify this decision. I'm not surprised by the President's dangerous and divisive actions, but the Administration must reverse course. Let's get back to aviation safety and allow the FAA to do its job protecting the flying public."
"Our top priority must be the safety of the flying public so an order freezing the hiring of air traffic controllers is a misguided decision and goes against the directives of our
FAA Reauthorization bill," Ranking Member Cohen said. "The aviation community will speak with one voice in condemning this short-sighted policy and reaffirm our

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C. Kirabo Jackson @kirabojackson.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

This is highly relevant today. While we can debate the merits of specific 'DEI' policies—some may indeed be misguided—it’s undeniable that racial discrimination persists in this country. The evidence is clear for those willing to engage with it! bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/cea/written-...

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Racial Discrimination in Contemporary America | CEA | The White House

Equal opportunity is the bedrock of American democracy, and our country’s diversity is one of our greatest strengths. However, in recognition of the fact that many Americans still face systemic barrie...

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Jesse Bruhn @jessebruhn.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Props to all the academics trying to have a real world impact, but I'm not that worried about it personally. I do this work because it's cool /interesting. That's enough for me.

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Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

@linzpage.bsky.social is her too!! Absolutely a person you all should follow! Great researcher and overall very kind person. #edusky #highered #econsky

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Sandy Black @econsandy.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I was incredibly honored to be awarded the CSWEP Carolyn Shaw Bell Award. When I accepted the award, I talked about the importance of mentoring. The lessons I pass on are kind of obvious. But they are important, so I am going to share them yet again. (A🧵)

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Jesse Bruhn @jessebruhn.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

So a "friend" just asked chatGPT to write a first draft of a predoc mentoring plan for a grant. It's really good. Is it plagiarism/wrong to use as-is with light edits? My friend wants to do what's right but without creating busy work (i.e. there's no time pressure). Assume it will be followed.

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Jesse Bruhn @jessebruhn.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

The university empowers faculty... ...by giving them a thermostat with a 2 degree temperature range bandwidth.

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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

We should at a minimum do what Nature does, in which the referee comments and author responses are published along with the paper. Allows the paper itself to be an authoritative artifact while lifting the curtain on the debate that led its creation. (quoting @dholtz.bsky.social ) 4/

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Once again I am obliged to mention that I recently worked in a school district where the policy was teachers were not to accept gifts from parents worth more than $5 lest it affect our grading.

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Paul Novosad @novosad.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

The QJE should send everyone a 2024 WRAPPED message with all their rejections

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Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

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Jesse Bruhn @jessebruhn.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Any theories about what is happening with the job market this year? Wondering for my Ph.D. students... This graph makes it look like the market is going to top out well below the covid year. Data quirk? Weird timing of thanksgiving? Fear of a hiring freeze? econjobmarket.org/marketState/...

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EJM - Econ Job Market

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Rajiv Sethi @rajivsethi.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Interesting experimental paper on online hate by @chidiya.bsky.social treatment group gets randomized feed instead of algo-curated, exposure to toxic content (TC) drops, engagement drops, search for TC rises, sharing of TC rises relative to exposure: www.econthatmatters.com/2024/11/can-...

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Can Social Media Algorithms be Regulated to Prevent Online Radicalization in Developing Countries?

We are excited to launch our Job Market Paper Series blog for 2024-2025, beginning with our very first blog post by Aarushi Kalra. Aarushi Kalra is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Brown Universi…

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Isaac Opper @imopper.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

"You either play hide and seek with me now, or pay for my psychologist in 5 years. Your choice daddy."

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Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Family ▶️ Education ▶️ Outcomes ⬇️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ⬆️ Because family predicts education and would also likely have direct effects and indirect effects through EDU on future outcomes Family related variables, including SES would take up the Lion's share of variance by far.

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Jesse Bruhn @jessebruhn.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I love that econ referees are so brutal I now semi-regularly get invited to surveys where the subtext is "do you find this result surprising?" all so the authors can write, "Our core results are surprising (see appendix table Z.17, where we prove this via a novel survey of professional economists.)"

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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 18/12/2024

I'm not sure something like "causal family fixed effect" is all that well-defined of a concept, or even could be well-defined. I think of it as coming up mostly in a "controlling for unobservables"-type application we we can conveniently side-step the definitional problems.

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Jesse Bruhn @jessebruhn.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Suppose you could identify the “causal” family fixed effect and the “causal” school/education fixed effect on long run well-being (eg income, criminal justice contact, health, etc). What do you think is the ratio of the variance they explain on those same long run outcomes?

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Jesse Bruhn @jessebruhn.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Baller night with OI juniors. Nothing says merry Christmas’s like chocolate covered fireball.

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Ray Fisman @rfisman.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

My small part in trying to get people to understand why it seems like running government like a business is a good idea, when in fact it's a terrible one (1/4): www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/o...

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Opinion | If DOGE Treats Government Like a Business, It Could Be a Disaster

A lot of what the government does is hard to quantify and involves complicated tasks that inevitably require bureaucratic coordination and, yes, inefficiency.

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Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I have an op-ed in the NYT today about how to reduce crime. The key idea, based on decades of strong research evidence: focus on increasing the probability of getting caught, not the punishment. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/o...

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