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Isabel Pastoor

@pastoorisabel.bsky.social
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Applied Economics PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota Research engagement specialist at IPUMS Applied microeconomist and economic demographer isabelpastoor.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
People like to blame cell phones and social media but have you noticed that things started going to hell as tote bags became more ubiquitous?
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cleforum.bsky.social @cleforum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Call 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/
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Atheendar Venkataramani @atheendar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In 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=♾️.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just 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?
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Sad Old Man Crying
ALT: Sad Old Man Crying
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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 30/09/2026
Our "A Few Goodmen" paper now has some serious competition, coming from the many Katherines of the world. arxiv.org/pdf/2404.00732
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Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The tension between “please don’t email me” and “if it’s not in an email it doesn’t exist”
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Shoutout to the 🐐GOAT🐐, respect greatness www.macfound.org/videos/2026-...
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Ellora Derenoncourt - 2026 MacArthur Fellow
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Interested 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.
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Andrew Bacher-Hicks @abacherhicks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
K-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!
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Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
After 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.
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Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Needing to Ctrl + F a methods paper for the word "nonsensical" to find the part that applies to my research is a little degrading
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Olle 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 👇
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Post-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
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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
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
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Christian Zimmermann @czimm-economist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We are hiring for a Federal Reserve Historian! rb.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/FRS/job/St-L...
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Federal Reserve Historian
Company 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 ...
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MeidasTouch @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.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The plan requires all NIH awards to be directly approved by Vought. No NIH award could be made without his approval.
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Bård Harstad @bardharstad.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
An 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...
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The Political Economics of Sustainability
This conference focuses on the politics and the economics of environmental problems and regulation.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This 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.”
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In 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.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I wrote a letter about the MPS school closure proposals.
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Readers Write: Potential closure of Minneapolis schools, Waymo
Show your work, Minneapolis Public Schools. Families don’t trust you.
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Kevin Rinz @kevinrinz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Come be my colleague! Cleveland Fed is hiring a research economist. Applied micro especially encouraged (by me) to apply: econjobmarket.org/positions/12...
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EJM - Econ Job Market
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Petra Moser @pmoser.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
When 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).
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Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
When it rains on the St. Paul campus and you can smell the manure…just applied econ department things.
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chloe gibbs @chloergibbs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Call 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...
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Upcoming Meeting
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C. Kirabo Jackson @kirabojackson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If 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/w35755
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The Macroeconomic Returns to School Finance Reforms: Micro-Calibrated Predictions Meet Causal Evidence
Founded 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...
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Julien Combe @combeju.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My answer
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
tell em terry
In short, the indiscriminate use of powerful solution-extraction tools can achieve the immediate short-term goal of solving problems at hand, but at the cost of sustaining the ecosystem for the next wave of progress, or in understanding the progress already obtained.

While it may be technically infeasible to completely prohibit the use of automated tools to perform indiscriminate solution extraction, I believe that we can still designate many classes of problems as being desirous of a careful analysis that not only solves the problem, but identifies insights from the solution process, and learn more about the difficulty landscape for nearby problems, and for which raw solutions without such analysis would be of negligible or even negative value for these purposes.  This is analogous to how a modern food donation drive no longer accepts arbitrary contributions even when they are verified to be technically edible, but instead maintains explicit and socially accepted standards on what level of contributions are actually sought. (4/4)
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Not 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
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Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Minnesotans seem to think that maximizing our summertime utility also minimizes our wintertime disutility and I’m just not buying it.
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Lloyd's Register Foundation @lr-foundation.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
We 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
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Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
BLS 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."
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026
lol loud reminder that any discourse about fertility rates is specifically about WHITE women not having enough WHITE babies.
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Big Brain Meme Gesture
Alt: Big Brain Meme Gesture
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AAUP @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 #academicsky
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Students, faculty and alumni hold protest condemning Yale's talks with Trump administration
More than 100 students, faculty and alumni called on Yale to defend itself against the Trump administration.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
CMS 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...
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Nonreporting of Race and Ethnicity in Medical Research Harms Us All
At 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...
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Heidi Schlumpf @heidischlumpf.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The long-overdue shift is noticeable, even to people outside the church. My most recent piece in Commonweal: www.commonwealmagazine.org/schlumpf-hei...
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Catholic Social Teaching Is Having a Moment
Suddenly, a lot of folks are taking the Church’s social teaching seriously. The shift is noticeable even to those outside the Church.
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Dani Sandler @dismalscientist86.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New 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...
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The Distribution and Consequences of Natural Disasters: Evidence From U.S. Wildfire Victims
This paper uses linked administrative data to study the individual level economic impact of wildfires.
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Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Studying 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/2161
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Community Participation Among Older Adults: IPUMS Time Use Data | LIFE COURSE CENTER, AN NIA CENTER ON THE DEMOGRAPHY AND ECONOMICS OF AGING
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
New, 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...
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Annie Lowrey on the Time Tax
A new book details the scale of the administrative burdens we face
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Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
How course prep is going: Googling "what does gen z like"
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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Implications 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
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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I 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...
Nightly Population Detained by ICE, National. It peaked on January 14, 2026 when more than 71,000 people were detained. It dropped in the Northern Hemisphere spring and then has increased again.
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The 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...
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Women Absorbed All of July's Job Losses. Here's What the Number Doesn't Tell You
Women 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.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
23% 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/...
Graph of visas issued to students per month in 2024 and 2025
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Trump 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.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 24/08/2026
The 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.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
How 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...
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Why is sociology the hate-piñata of the social sciences?
Accusations that it is thinly disguised socialism are wide of the mark, writes Brooke Harrington
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Isabel Pastoor @pastoorisabel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Texas 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.
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Jasmin Abdel Ghany @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
New 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...
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 16/08/2026
Because 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.
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USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying
The 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.
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