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Matt Holian

@profholian.bsky.social
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Husband, dad of girls, economics professor, from Ohio, lives in San Francisco, camps and skis in the Sierras. www.mattholian.com

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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It was a pleasure to be in the Decode Econ podcast with Dr. A to discuss our recent article on jobs for Econ majors, and my book from few years ago. youtu.be/ZveffuoNNZg?...
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What do econ majors actually do, and how much do they earn?
YouTube video by Decode Econ
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Where do economics majors actually end up working? I made an infographic to help disseminate the findings from our recent article on jobs for economics majors. The article it's based on is still free to access, so check it out before the paywall goes up! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
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Blondie
Blondie is an American comic strip created by cartoonist Chic Young. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, the strip has been published in newspapers since September 8, 1930. The success of t…
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
“Russians go home”
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Orbán concedes defeat apnews.com/article/hung...
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán concedes defeat after 'painful' election result
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has conceded defeat after what he called a ″painful″ election result, ending 16 years in power for a powerful figure in the far-right movement allied with U.S.
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Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
If you’d like to give me a birthday gift - donate to Ukrainian air defense. It’s literally why I’m here to celebrate. Link: send.monobank.ua/jar/9gkXFCsATp If it doesn’t work, Come Back Alive’s regular page works too savelife.in.ua/donate/#dona...
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 04/04/2026
Assigned this paper on sleep loss and fatal car crashes to our data analytics undergrad lab class. Super clear, well-written, great example of research for advanced undergrad students. (And for PhD's too!)
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Before Easter, Ukrainians decorate pysanky - traditional Easter eggs that are carefully hand-decorated using wax and dyes, often featuring symbolic patterns and colors that carry deep cultural meanings. 📹 pysanka. art/Instagram, oksana_rybaruk/TikTok
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I need a recommendation for a book of Robert Frost poems that inspires the youth. Whatdtya got?
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I just love this recording of Bono reading poetry to simple piano chords. youtu.be/w8gug7d-MtI?...
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My Friendly Epistle by Taras Shevchenko // Read by Bono, U2
YouTube video by Yaroslav Kaplan
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I saw this article about a Canadian Olympian who asked her sociology professor for an extension, and then realized I am reading a book written by the professor. people.com/figure-skate...
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Tymofiy Mylovanov @mylovanov.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
From Morgan Stanley to the front line. At 22, Ukrainian Viktoriia Honcharuk had a Manhattan banking job, Midtown apartment. Two weeks later, she was evacuating wounded soldiers under Russian fire, NY Post. 1/
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Among his accomplishments was publishing The Alaska Herald, a bilingual English and Russian newspaper first published on March 1, 1868, a few months after the U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia.
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
In Hayward, California, there is a historical landmark to one of the first Ukrainian immigrants to the U.S. who arrived in 1865. KQED just published a story on Agapius Honcharenko, you can read or listen to here. www.kqed.org/news/1207143...
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How a Remarkable 19th-Century Revolutionary Priest From Ukraine Ended up in Hayward | KQED
High in the Hayward Hills, Ukraina marks the farm and grave of Ukrainian dissident priest Agapius Honcharenko, who fled Russian authorities and settled here with his wife, Albina.
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
If you get a hardcover book, what’s the first thing you do with the dust jacket?
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The need for European common defense. “War resource allocation mirrors the Colonel Blotto game – without flexible response, defense fails. It needs a single command and EU army in place” www.ifo.de/econpol/JP7
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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
A Polish museum has invited Robert De Niro to view their portrait of a local 17th-century nobleman who many have noted looks remarkably similar to the Hollywood star, right down to the moles on their cheeks.
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Polish museum invites Robert De Niro to view portrait of lookalike 17th-century "ancestor"
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
A view of the 1850 U.S. Census www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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Francis William Edmonds - Taking the Census - American - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
May this mark the end of a horrible chapter in the Middle East, and inspire peace around the world.
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
What do you notice about this map?
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
From the BITSS newsletter I received yesterday: “Over the past five years, BITSS has supported the development of free, publicly accessible platforms like the Social Science Reproduction Platform (SSRP)…with funding from the Arnold Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.”
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Actually, Trump is threatening to do something that Biden never did. The threat is about SECONDARY sanctions on Russia’s trading partners, not just more primary sanctions on Russia. This is a long overdue move. Seems Trump is finally coming around to a correct strategy. 🤞
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
That’s a hero. Give this guy a medal.
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Maksym Polyakov 🇺🇦🌻 @maksympolyakov.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
amazing!
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The not-so-subtle point: “With access to Ukraine’s military strength…Russia could transform itself from a debilitated country…into a far more dangerous adversary capable of threatening many other countries beyond Ukraine.” www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/u...
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Ukraine’s True Value
Anastassia Fedyk & Emilia Marshall warn that abandoning the country could hand Vladimir Putin the opportunity to restore Russia’s imperial status.
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I used to discourage students from using sports data in their econometrics term papers but I’m coming around to the idea. There’s some great teaching resources here: emeyers.scripts.mit.edu/emeyers/teac...
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Ilona Solohub @ilonasolohub.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
@tderyugina.bsky.social argues that in response to the Middle East war the West must increase military support for Ukraine. These wars are related - there is no doubt that both Russia and China back Iran (and nukes it probably has are from Russia) voxukraine.org/en/democraci...
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Democracies should not let war in the Middle East distract them from Ukraine
As the world holds its breath to see if Israel and Iran can maintain a ceasefire, it’s worth analyzing some...
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
“On the nineteenth of the month, some 2,000 Union soldiers…marched into Galveston. From the balcony…Granger delivered the news that some 250,000 souls held in bondage were now free…it became a custom within the African-American community…to celebrate June 19, shortened, of course, to Juneteenth.”
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
“…I believe Boaz would agree with…to continue to extend support for Ukraine short of direct military intervention...Ukrainians are currently fighting against an invading aggressor…The libertarian idea…is the…right to live…as one chooses so long as they are not infringing upon that…right of others.”
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
“We then summarize the first 487 reproductions uploaded on the SSRP. The results show substantial heterogeneity in the ability to successfully reproduce empirical results in economics…approximately 30% of recent studies meeting at least a basic definition of being computationally reproducible.”
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Congratulations to the editors of the Journal of Economics, Race and Policy, on your journal’s first impact factor! For a new journal like JERP, it takes time to get established. But the strong initial numbers are exciting. I believe the journal is poised for continued growth in the years ahead.
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
What a class act.
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
A HIMARS in the Hand is Worth Two in the Bush: Measuring the Real Economic Value of U.S. Support for Ukraine. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
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A HIMARS in the Hand is Worth Two in the Bush: Measuring the Real Economic Value of U.S. Support for Ukraine
After three years of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, what is the total value of U.S. economic and military support for Ukraine? The U.S. Government on
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Not on Bluesky yet, H-Ukraine is part of the larger H-Net platform, promotes scholarly and intellectual content related to the study of Ukraine. networks.h-net.org/h-ukraine
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H-Ukraine | H-Net
H-Net's network for Ukraine studies
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
“…the term that Russia has recently introduced [for] upcoming negotiations is "memorandum." Everybody familiar with the history of post-Soviet Russo-Ukrainian relations will know that there exists already a historic security-related ‘memorandum’ signed by Moscow and Kyiv…” (1/2)
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
“Romania’s next president will not be a MAGA populist after all.” 🇷🇴🇪🇺 www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
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Romania’s next president will not be a MAGA populist after all
The liberal candidate, Nicusor Dan, pulls off an unexpected win
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
“Following the end of the 5th inning, the Pierogies take the field to run the 280-yard Great Pittsburgh Pierogy Race.” www.mlb.com/pirates/fans...
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
“Soviet and Russian histories like to start the history of World War II in 1941 when the Soviet Union was attacked by Nazi Germany. There's a good reason they gloss over the preceding years — … the Soviet Union collaborating with the Nazis in order to carve up Europe between them.”
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Paul Novosad @novosad.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
It's wild to me that in 2025 there are academics advising their students to never use AI.
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AEA Data Editor @aeadata.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
June 22-23, 2025, San Francisco 🇺🇸🐻: Reproducibility from Day 1 to Day T - two part presentation/tutorial at the @weai.bsky.social annual meeting. aeadataeditor.github.io/talks/2025-0... Also available for chats around the conference.
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Reproducibility from Day 1 to Day T
Abstract Journals require that you share your code and data in a replication package upon acceptance. However, efficient reproducibility starts at the beginning of the research project. Following som...
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Stalin engineered a famine that killed millions in 1932-33, killed thousands more during the Great Terror of 1937-38, and signed a pact with Hitler and invaded Poland in 1939. But, the Great Patriotic War, as it’s known in Russia, only started in 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union.
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
The first publications in Lifecycle Journal have appeared. Now a window opens for evaluation services to offer assessments for the authors and readers to understand the contribution, potential limitations, and opportunities to improve. Consider submitting a project of your own! lifecyclejournal.org
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
My article on using replication methods in undergrad econometrics courses is now out in The American Economist. Thanks to the editor Diego Mendez-Carbajo for leading a productive editorial process that improved the article. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Ilona Solohub @ilonasolohub.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
@profholian.bsky.social research shows that more Ukrainians living in the US started speaking Ukrainian, and more US-born people started identifying as Ukrainians after Russia's full-scale invasion voxukraine.org/en/identity-...
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Identity and the Russian-Ukrainian War: Evidence from the U.S.
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 led not only to the strengthening of Ukraine’s military, but also of Ukrainian...
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Tymofiy Mylovanov @mylovanov.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Telegraph calls this not a peace plan but a capitulation. [I disagree. The alternative is to accept Russia demands for disarmament of Ukraine and transfer of non-occupied territories — that would truly be surrender. The Trump administration is simply articulating what it's already doing.] 8/
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Matt Holian @profholian.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Very proud of my uncle, Mykhailo Holian, for conducting this concert in a filled cathedral before a riveted audience in Chicago’s Ukrainian Village. abc7chicago.com/post/chicago...
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Benefit concert for Ukraine held in Chicago's Ukrainian Village
Crowds packed Chicago's Saint Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral for a concert in a powerful show of support for Ukraine. More than three years since Russia invaded Ukraine, the message in the musi...
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