Reposted by Isabel PastoorDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026People like to blame cell phones and social media but have you noticed that things started going to hell as tote bags became more ubiquitous? 2712910
Reposted by Isabel Pastoorcleforum.bsky.social @cleforum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Call for Papers for the 3rd Annual CLEF conference! clef.uqam.ca/conference/ Current grad students and recent Ph.D.s from Canadian universities are also eligible for the Best Paper Prize, details here: clef.uqam.ca/prize/ 024
Reposted by Isabel PastoorAtheendar Venkataramani @atheendar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In 2023, we initiated an RCT in low-income Philly neighborhoods examining how neighborhood improvements and household interventions impact #health+ wellbeing. Today at the #IAPHS conference, Evan Spencer announced how our efforts averted >1000 crimes over 2 years (2000 w/ spillovers). MVPF=♾️. 1208
Reposted by Isabel PastoorKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Just got an email from a former student who took my class a decade ago, asking me for the reading list because she enjoyed the course so much and wants to revisit the texts. And she *apologized* for making the request. Are you kidding me?static.klipy.comSad Old Man CryingALT: Sad Old Man Crying 1226409335
Reposted by Isabel PastoorJoshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 30/09/2026Our "A Few Goodmen" paper now has some serious competition, coming from the many Katherines of the world. arxiv.org/pdf/2404.00732 8658
Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The tension between “please don’t email me” and “if it’s not in an email it doesn’t exist” 030
Reposted by Isabel PastoorJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Shoutout to the 🐐GOAT🐐, respect greatness www.macfound.org/videos/2026-...macfound.orgEllora Derenoncourt - 2026 MacArthur Fellow 437978
Reposted by Isabel PastoorAlice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Interested in a PhD in historical demography/population studies at @camunicampop.bsky.social, @camunigeography.bsky.social, Cambridge University? We have 3 suggested topics (see thread): contact me to discuss, or to suggest your own idea. Apply by early December for funded places. 14548
Reposted by Isabel PastoorAndrew Bacher-Hicks @abacherhicks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026K-12 researchers! Take a look at the new Arnold Ventures RFP supporting causal research on the impacts of K-12 school policies. LOIs are due Nov. 13. Please share widely! 21315
Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026After working as an RA at IPUMS since my first year of grad school, I’m excited to be joining the team full-time as a research engagement specialist. I will continue to answer all your IPUMS data questions and work on projects to support researchers. 080
Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Needing to Ctrl + F a methods paper for the word "nonsensical" to find the part that applies to my research is a little degrading 010
Reposted by Isabel PastoorOlle Hammar @ollehammar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026🚨 The Center for Migration and Integration Research (CMIR) at Stockholm School of Economics @sthlmschoolofecon.bsky.social is looking for a postdoctoral researcher 👇hhs.varbi.comPost-doc position at the Center for Migration and Integration at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE)About the Center for Migration and Integration Research The Center for Migration and Integration Research (CMIR), housed at the SSE House of Governance and Public Policy (GaPP), aims to create a pla 011
Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“Play for us sinners now and at the hour of our death” Preschooler version is probably just as effective 000
Reposted by Isabel PastoorSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026lol lol lol lol lol lol lol 913443929
Reposted by Isabel PastoorChristian Zimmermann @czimm-economist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026We are hiring for a Federal Reserve Historian! rb.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/FRS/job/St-L...rb.wd5.myworkdayjobs.comFederal Reserve HistorianCompany Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis is a leader in bringing Federal Reserve history to the world. We are committed to preserving the history of the Federal ... 003
Reposted by Isabel PastoorMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/09/2026🚨 Obama rejects the argument that the market and lawsuits alone can keep AI companies in check: “That’s not how we treat airlines, or drug companies, or food companies.” He says there’s “no replacement” for effective government regulation. 14252781592
Reposted by Isabel PastoorPam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The plan requires all NIH awards to be directly approved by Vought. No NIH award could be made without his approval. 46740
Reposted by Isabel PastoorBård Harstad @bardharstad.bsky.social · 19/09/2026An amazing agenda with important papers is selected from a large number of submissions (apologize to most of you!) Below, you can both register and view the program: www.gsb.stanford.edu/events/polit...gsb.stanford.eduThe Political Economics of SustainabilityThis conference focuses on the politics and the economics of environmental problems and regulation. 052
Reposted by Isabel PastoorKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is heartbreaking to read: “Najya was asking what I’d accomplished by not choosing the “best” school for her. And the honest answer is, I don’t know. When it comes to the choices my husband and I have made about public education, these days I feel that I failed both my values and my child.”nytimes.comIn Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice. 2347
Reposted by Isabel PastoorElizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I wrote a letter about the MPS school closure proposals.startribune.comReaders Write: Potential closure of Minneapolis schools, WaymoShow your work, Minneapolis Public Schools. Families don’t trust you. 14315
Reposted by Isabel PastoorKevin Rinz @kevinrinz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Come be my colleague! Cleveland Fed is hiring a research economist. Applied micro especially encouraged (by me) to apply: econjobmarket.org/positions/12...econjobmarket.orgEJM - Econ Job Market 0107
Reposted by Isabel PastoorPetra Moser @pmoser.bsky.social · 14/07/2025When I got tenure, I decided to use it start a new research agenda, studying US science in the 20th century, how it became dominant, what held it back, and what we can do better. Here's the first pub (with Scott Kim). 210518
Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026When it rains on the St. Paul campus and you can smell the manure…just applied econ department things. 050
Reposted by Isabel Pastoorchloe gibbs @chloergibbs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Call for papers for spring SOLE meeting (4/30-5/1 in Baltimore) now open! Last year's conference, organized by Sandy Black and Jesse Rothstein, was a huge success and I'm looking forward to serving on program committee again. Send us your great work (by 10/31): www.sole-jole.org/upcoming-mee...sole-jole.orgUpcoming Meeting 02411
Reposted by Isabel PastoorC. Kirabo Jackson @kirabojackson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026If spending more on schools raises the earnings of the children who benefit, does it eventually make the whole economy richer? My new NBER paper examines this using school-finance reforms. 🧵 www.nber.org/papers/w35755nber.orgThe Macroeconomic Returns to School Finance Reforms: Micro-Calibrated Predictions Meet Causal EvidenceFounded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an... 112050
Reposted by Isabel PastoorRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 09/09/2026tell em terry 410832
Reposted by Isabel PastoorAkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Not only that, but if he were to actually skip it, that would immediately be used to attack him as well. This is bullshit all the way down and nobody should be giving it the time of day 913380523
Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Minnesotans seem to think that maximizing our summertime utility also minimizes our wintertime disutility and I’m just not buying it. 000
Reposted by Isabel PastoorLloyd's Register Foundation @lr-foundation.bsky.social · 04/08/2026We are hiring! Lloyd’s Register Foundation is looking for a Senior Data and Insight Scientist to help strengthen our evidence-led approach to safety. Apply now: loom.ly/iqz8Axk 116
Reposted by Isabel PastoorMike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947." 571968817
Reposted by Isabel PastoorAnna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026lol loud reminder that any discourse about fertility rates is specifically about WHITE women not having enough WHITE babies.static.klipy.comBig Brain Meme GestureAlt: Big Brain Meme Gesture 613943
Reposted by Isabel PastoorAAUP @aaup.org · 02/09/2026“Yale should not engage in any kind of legal settlement with the Trump Department of Justice … there is no legal basis for this." @aaupyale.org #academicskyctinsider.comStudents, faculty and alumni hold protest condemning Yale's talks with Trump administrationMore than 100 students, faculty and alumni called on Yale to defend itself against the Trump administration. 07323
Reposted by Isabel PastoorJenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026CMS isn’t even collecting race and ethnicity data on the 2728 form for end stage kidney disease. That’s been a primary source of research data in ESKD. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...jamanetwork.comNonreporting of Race and Ethnicity in Medical Research Harms Us AllAt JAMA Internal Medicine, we have become increasingly aware that some US researchers are unable to report on race or ethnicity as demographic variables to describe their sample or to conduct stratifi... 28947
Reposted by Isabel PastoorHeidi Schlumpf @heidischlumpf.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The long-overdue shift is noticeable, even to people outside the church. My most recent piece in Commonweal: www.commonwealmagazine.org/schlumpf-hei...commonwealmagazine.orgCatholic Social Teaching Is Having a MomentSuddenly, a lot of folks are taking the Church’s social teaching seriously. The shift is noticeable even to those outside the Church. 1268
Reposted by Isabel PastoorDani Sandler @dismalscientist86.bsky.social · 31/08/2026New Census Working Paper: "The Distribution and Consequences of Natural Disasters: Evidence From U.S. Wildfire Victims" by Patrick Baylis, Judson Boomhower, Jonathan Colmer, and John Voorheis www.census.gov/library/work...census.govThe Distribution and Consequences of Natural Disasters: Evidence From U.S. Wildfire VictimsThis paper uses linked administrative data to study the individual level economic impact of wildfires. 185
Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Studying community participation of older adults is easy using time use data from IPUMS. Here’s my overview for @umnlifecourse.bsky.social lcc.umn.edu/node/2161lcc.umn.eduCommunity Participation Among Older Adults: IPUMS Time Use Data | LIFE COURSE CENTER, AN NIA CENTER ON THE DEMOGRAPHY AND ECONOMICS OF AGING 021
Reposted by Isabel PastoorDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026New, at Can We Still Govern?: I talked to Annie Lowrey about her new book, "The Time Tax" on the administrative burdens that people encounter when they interact with the safety net. On HR1: "People are going to die. Health clinics are going to shut down." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/annie-lowr...donmoynihan.substack.comAnnie Lowrey on the Time TaxA new book details the scale of the administrative burdens we face 12567173
Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026How course prep is going: Googling "what does gen z like" 030
Reposted by Isabel PastoorChloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Implications of this is immigrants are only worth what they can produce in the labor market This is why I hate talking about the “economic/fiscal value” of immigrants separate from inherent value as humans. Working to unlearn this narrative that many economists, including myself, have fallen into 0182
Reposted by Isabel PastoorAdam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I used ICE case records data to calculate national, cumulative, and facility-by-facility detained population totals. This is an update of an analysis that I ran in April of this year. adamjsawyer.com/posts/ice-fa... 16637
Reposted by Isabel PastoorAmy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The US economy lost 23K jobs in July. But men gained 9K jobs; women lost 32K. Losses concentrated in hospitality & education (women-dominated). 165K women also left the labor force in July. Caregiving & cost of child care #1 reason women left jobs in 2025. www.inc.com/daniela-pier...inc.comWomen Absorbed All of July's Job Losses. Here's What the Number Doesn't Tell YouWomen bore all of July's job losses, and 845,000 have left the labor force since January. The numbers are a signal about what's driving women out and where they're headed. 24421
Reposted by Isabel PastoorProf Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 26/08/202623% drop in student visas to US in 2025 57% drop from India alone catastrophic for research and learning, here and abroad www.insidehighered.com/news/global/... 271255475
Reposted by Isabel PastoorJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Trump is promising to boost the U.S. economy by making it harder for Americans to trade with the rest of the world. He is also promising to destroy Iran's economy by making it harder for Iranians to trade with the rest of the world. 851635529
Reposted by Isabel PastoorMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 24/08/2026The world’s richest man calls for murdering immigrants. It is sickening and filthy and I ask everyone contributing to his disgusting financial power to reevaluate their actions. 017951
Reposted by Isabel PastoorBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 24/08/2026How did Sociology become the hate piñata of Concerned Pundits on the education beat? The past month saw calls in the press for the discipline to be "liquidated" bc it's a "scam." My theory: it's bc we expose the harms of inequality. Me in today's @economist.com:🎁 www.economist.com/by-invitatio...economist.comWhy is sociology the hate-piñata of the social sciences?Accusations that it is thinly disguised socialism are wide of the mark, writes Brooke Harrington 1222873
Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Texas family visit mantra: I will not talk about politics. I will talk about the weather. I will not talk about politics. I will talk about the weather. I will not talk about politics. I will talk about the weather. 010
Reposted by Isabel PastoorJasmin Abdel Ghany @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social · 19/08/2026New preprint ‼️ The reach of violence: We study the effects of the October 7 attacks and the ensuing onset of the 2023 Gaza War on infant health among diasporas in the United States. Does violence in the conflict zone have health consequences for distant diasporas? osf.io/preprints/so... 056
Reposted by Isabel PastoorNBC News @nbcnews.com · 16/08/2026Because of global cuts to foreign aid, the Gates Foundation has predicted that 2025 will be the first year this century where child deaths will increase.nbcnews.toUSAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dyingThe U.S. government has repeatedly insisted that no one — and, particularly, no children — have died because of its funding cuts. But the AP has documented the deaths of women and children from Myanmar to Nigeria. 44891552