Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The bond yield story just keeps getting starker. 48516140
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamScott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026New econometric toy alert. 1151
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 28/09/2026New post: paulgp.substack.com/p/ai-in-jour...paulgp.substack.comAI in journals, conferences, and submissionsA variety of facts about AI’s effect on economics research 2144
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamPeter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We're hiring two folks at Miami Econ this year! One health One "applied micro" Dynamic fun department in small town with big town (Cincinnati) nearby! Tell your friends and apply! www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....,aeaweb.orgAmerican Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2026 - January 31, 2027 01513
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamDavid Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Eyebrow-raising presentation at @brookings.edu BPEA conference by Columbia's Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh on the enormous scale of the data center build-out and the opaque leverage that's financing it. VIDEO (15 minutes) www.youtube.com/live/UaQDp-G...youtube.comBPEA Fall 2026 Conference Day 2: Presented by The Brookings InstitutionYouTube video by Brookings Institution 1103
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamShelly Lundberg @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Shameless self-promotion and a request. My publisher is asking me to encourage Amazon reviews, so.... If you bought How Economics Discovered Women on Amazon and like it, it would help me out if you post a short review. news.ucsb.edu/2026/022818/...news.ucsb.eduEconomist Shelly Lundberg wins prestigious Mincer Award, releases book on gender economicsLundberg's Mincer Award for lifetime achievement in economics scholarship comes as her newest book, “How Economics Discovered Women” hits the shelves. 37522
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamJohn Green @johngreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A pretty solid week as we head into the meat of the econ job market season #econsky 0184
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamEmily Moin @emilymoin.com · 25/09/2026Gift link, and some reactions herein. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Being a Doctor Will Never Be the Same After A.I. (Gift Article)I’m confident in my mastery over what doctors do — and less confident about my continued mastery of an ever-evolving universe of facts. 16330
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It is so good to see @reportermatt.bsky.social, who was in like 80% of my classes in college, become the most influential reporter in Massachusetts. He just loves the place, and you can tell in everything he does. A truly wonderful man making the whole state better. 511862320
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamMattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 24/09/2026This quote by haunts me. From Wilcox's "Introduction to Robust Estimation and Hypothesis Testing" #stats 310422
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamTania Babina @taniababina.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Might be of interest: @imarinescu.bsky.social @alminas.bsky.social @avigoldfarb.bsky.social @ygorodnichenko.bsky.social @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social @erikbryn.bsky.social @jmorenocruz.bsky.social @julianreif.bsky.social @paulgp.com @johnlist.bsky.social @johnvanreenen.bsky.social 031
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I'm reminded of one of my favorite passages in Banerjee and Duflo's "Good Economics for Hard Times". "The goal of social policy, in these times of change and anxiety, is to help people absorb the shocks that affect them without allowing those shocks to affect their sense of themselves.." 213223
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamAlexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026👀 www.forbes.com/sites/michae...forbes.comPhil And Penny Knight Donate $1 Billion To The University Of OregonNike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife Penny have donated $1 billion to the University of Oregon — its largest gift ever — to establish an engineering school in Eugene. 161
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 22/09/2026my two brainsstatic.klipy.comNaruto and Sasuke ConfrontationALT: Naruto and Sasuke Confrontation 2222
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 20/09/2026we are such fucking morons it is so unbelievable sometimes 3232
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 20/09/2026Embracing my 40s (This porch was so loud, my watch gave me 5 100db warnings and I couldn't hear myself at all)youtu.beAssistant to the Professors - Porchfest Sept 19, 2026YouTube video by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham 2333
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 19/09/2026New color palettes if folks are interested: github.com/paulgp/japan...github.comGitHub - paulgp/japanesecolorsContribute to paulgp/japanesecolors development by creating an account on GitHub. 2250
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamJohn Green @johngreen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026With apologies if someone has beaten me to the punch... I've cloned and updated the economics job market tracker from @paulgp.com to get a sense for how the market is going so far this year. Good news: better than 2025 Bad news: not by much 1114
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamPeter Nencka 📊 @peternka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026🚨 Announcing OpenCensus, a new project with @ezrakarger.bsky.social : We are transcribing the historical US censuses and releasing them as open data 2.6 million people so far in 1940, browse here: opencensus.us 25926
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory) 1003229769
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamMelissa Gentry @melissadgentry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Are you a disability researcher working in the FSRDC wondering where the 1980s disability variable in the CPS went? I've written a CES Technical Note describing my process of bringing in those missing data! ideas.repec.org/p/cen/tnotes...ideas.repec.orgRecovering Work-Limiting Disability Variables in the 1980s CDisability status has been elicited systematically in United States surveys as far back as the 1970s and was included in the March Supplement of the Current Population Survey starting in 1981. Unfortu 2136
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 16/09/2026The bitterest lesson: "Rich Sutton’s incompleteideas.net/Inc… states that compute beats algorithms. My experience is that Sutton’s bitter lesson is the tip of an iceberg of bitterer lessons: beyond compute and algorithms, there’s data and even picking the right task to do ML on."typesafe.aiThe Bitterest Lesson - TypeSafe AI BlogTypeSafe AI is an AI lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation, designed to make decisions within software. Try our first System One Model, Jev, in early access. 260
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamJohn Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026There’s a lot of doom & gloom around how AI is affecting higher education. To a certain extent, I get it. AI is making some things harder. But I’ve found that AI has in some ways greatly enhanced my teaching. For one, it’s opened up applied activities that weren’t possible before. One example: 🧵 26210
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 15/09/2026New post reviewing Zidar and Zwick's new book, which I loved. paulgp.substack.com/p/who-is-ric...paulgp.substack.comWho is rich in America, and why?A review of “The Everywhere Millionaire” by Zidar and Zwick 59117
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 14/09/2026Come see our band this weekend at East Rock's Porch Fest at 4pm 080
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 11/09/2026Made a little VS Code package in the spirit of only using LLMs for editorial comments: github.com/paulgp/margingithub.comGitHub - paulgp/margin: Source-first, comment-only writing review for Markdown, Typst, and LaTeXSource-first, comment-only writing review for Markdown, Typst, and LaTeX - paulgp/margin 1152
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 10/09/2026Nothing quite like the joy of dropping $$ on new band gear (in ear monitors for the vocalists so we're no longer hostage to the lead guitarist) 0120
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamMax Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Really good - and helpful - stuff from @paulgp.com #EconSky 📉📈 paulgp.substack.com/p/how-do-we-...paulgp.substack.comHow do we know if writing is AI?Some initial analyses of AI’s impact on economics writing 2157
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamYale Department of Economics @yaleeconomics.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Xiaohong Chen, a renowned scholar who has made fundamental contributions to econometric methods, has been named the Tjalling C. Koopmans Professor of Economics. Read the full announcement here: news.yale.edu/2026/09/08/x... 1103
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 10/09/2026New post on AI in (economics) writing paulgp.substack.com/p/how-do-we-...paulgp.substack.comHow do we know if writing is AI?Some initial analyses of AI’s impact on economics writing 24213
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamTania Babina @taniababina.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I am new to this platform! Friends and colleagues, please support by re-tweeting and following! @arpitrage.bsky.social @paulgp.com @avigoldfarb.bsky.social @erikbryn.bsky.social @akorinek.bsky.social @antonio-coppola.bsky.social 3156
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamAnna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 31/08/2026*When unions increase wages, who pays?* It's normally hard to answer this Q: unions don't behave randomly, they respond to firm conditions, & firm data is hard to get. Our setting in Norway tackles both... 🧵on our paper (@microsamonomics.bsky.social Alex Willen) academic.oup.com/qje/advance-... 19729
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamJamin Speer @jaminspeer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026***NEWLY ACCEPTED PAPER*** I have a new short paper with Margaret Leighton We use decades of data (HERI) on incoming college freshmen to show that students' life goals have changed dramatically over time. Students really are very different than they were in the past! Here are the key findings: 24013
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 31/08/2026August 31st or, as it is conventionally known amongst academics, À la recherche du temps perdu 729656
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamJoshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 31/08/2026🚨New working paper alert!🚨 Private tutoring chains like Kumon and Sylvan have grown rapidly. Who uses them? Do they improve kids' skills? BU econ PhD student Samuel Nitkin and I provide answers in: "Kumon Up: Private Tutoring Centers and Student Achievement" www.nber.org/papers/w35671 1/? 1516150
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamShelly Lundberg @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026www.socialsciences.ucsb.edu/news/ucsb-ec...socialsciences.ucsb.eduUCSB Economist Shelly Lundberg Honored with Mincer Award, Releases Book on Gender Economics | Division of Social SciencesRenowned economist and demographer Shelly Lundberg, Distinguished Professor of Economics and Leonard Broom Professor of Demography at UC Santa Barbara, has been named a recipient of the prestigious 20... 96816
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamMC Stan @mc-stan.org · 18/08/2026There is now StanCon 2026 Uppsala playlist www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... At the moment talks by @mjskay.com, @aseyboldt.bsky.social, @paulbuerkner.com, @charlesm993.bsky.social are up, and we'll keep uploading more during the weekyoutube.comStanCon 2026 Uppsala - YouTube 23717
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13/08/2026🚨🚨🚨 We're hiring a junior professor in Policy Analysis/Public Administration/Public Management here at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy 🚨🚨🚨 aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05497aprecruit.berkeley.eduAssistant Professor - General Public Policy and Administration: Policy Analysis, Public Administration and Management - Goldman School of Public PolicyUniversity of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now! 09456
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamMickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D. @mickael.canouil.fr · 14/08/2026Work in progress ... (Gribouille integration) #Typst 2101
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamErzo F.P. Luttmer @erzoluttmer.bsky.social · 09/08/20261/5 AEA journals have run a pilot using Refine, and author reactions were overwhelmingly positive: >90% favored incorporating Refine into the editorial process. Think of Refine not as a referee, but as a detailed technical proofreader. @aeajournals.bsky.social #EconSky 23818
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 07/08/2026Profound insights and practical ideas to manage the new world of coding, from Geoffrey Litt. HT @paulgp.comgeoffreylitt.comUnderstanding is the new bottleneckAgents can write code faster than we can absorb it. Here's why it still matters for humans to understand what they build — and some techniques for doing that efficiently: explainer docs, quizzes, micr... 0166
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamAndrew Avitabile @andrewavit.bsky.social · 01/08/2026That’s easy to do in Stata, you just need to access an invisible, cryptically-named matrix that requires learning a different programming language to view 0756
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamDirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com · 01/08/2026Second attempt at bread from 'Four Water Salt Yeast' by Ken Forkish, but now with reduced hydration and again a pure sourdough / levain variant. Getting there. #breadsky 4312
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamArXiv Paperboy (Econ.GN + Econ.TH) @arxivecongnbot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026arXiv📈🤖 Consuming Values By Conway, Boxell 021
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 30/07/2026substack.com/@paulgp/note...substack.comPaul Goldsmith-Pinkham (@paulgp)Interesting to compare this to the stock age of homeowners: 050
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-PinkhamDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/07/2026The unsung hero of public EV-charger buildout is [checks notes] Wal-Mart?bloomberg.comWalmart Leapfrogs EV Charging Competitors With Rapid BuildoutIn a matter of months, the retailer has become a major player in the business of fueling electric cars. 50591107