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J-PAL North America @j-palna.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

🗣️ Let’s talk randomization! Check out these #ResearchResources to review the framework for randomization, understand different randomization methods, or see code samples.👩‍💻 www.povertyactionlab.org/resource/r…

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C. Kirabo Jackson @kirabojackson.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Know an economist who'd make a great AEA journal editor or board member? Nominate them — or yourself!

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Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

(P.S. Newbie golfers & experienced golfers are all welcome! I learned last year that the culture around golf in Scotland is that it is very much an everyman's -- and everywoman's -- game)

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Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

If you enjoy playing golf & want to present your Applied Microeconomics research, submit to this terrific conference organized by @davidajaeger.bsky.social at University of St Andrews I went last year, and I'll be attending again this year Link here: standrews.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

We use a similar formula in my new NAFTA paper, however, so I'm glad to get it right (NAFTA paper here: users.nber.org/~notom/resea...)

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Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Fortunately, the mistake does not affect any of the welfare cost calculations in our published paper since we never used the formula directly; it was only used in the paper to build intuition. All of the welfare results in our published paper come from solving our model numerically.

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Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I posted a short note correcting a mistake in an approximation formula in a recent publication of mine Publication: academic.oup.com/qje/article/... Corrigendum: users.nber.org/~notom/resea...

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Rachel Bachman, WSJ sports reporter @realbachscore.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

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WNBA Players Had an Ace Up Their Sleeve in Pay Negotiations: A Nobel Laureate

Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% raise. Starting this season, players’ average salary will top $580,000.

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Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Just noticed that @talgross.bsky.social & I are beating out von Neumann & Morgenstern! (I'm proud of our book, but it's definitely not better than vN-M) www.amazon.com/Better-Healt...

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N Sims @copyrightlibn.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

So weird: there's more than one scammy memorial site inviting donations or tree-planting in my dad's memory. We are not asking for that, but if people feel moved, donations in lieu of flowers to www.aclu-mn.org, www.aclu.org, or www.eff.org Econ folks, can you help get the word out?

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Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2011

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2011 was awarded jointly to Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims "for their empirical research on cause and effect in th...

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Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Our interpretation of the results is that the fact that the mortality effects are largest for working-age men suggests at least some role for the direct effects of job loss, but the fact that there are mortality effects for other age groups suggests that's also not the only channel.

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Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The research design assumes that the increase in deaths caused by NAFTA can be identified by geographic variation in exposure to the tariff reductions, but we don't know how much comes from the NAFTA-induced job losses directly versus other channels.

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Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Very nice article discussing my new paper studying the effects of NAFTA on mortality: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u... Full paper is here: users.nber.org/~notom/resea...

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‘A Lot of Life Years Lost’: How NAFTA Shortened American Life Spans

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Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

More details: CEAR (Georgia State), RSI & the Financial Education Lab (HEC Montréal) invite submissions of theoretical & empirical papers on household financial decision-making (incl. consumption-saving decisions, financial literacy, pensions/retirement, financial planning, & financial delinquency)

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Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Come to Montréal this Fall! Call for Papers — 7th CEAR–RSI Workshop on Household Finance (Montréal, November 13–14, 2026) Deadline: June 12, 2026 ire.hec.ca/en/cear-ire-...

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J-PAL North America @j-palna.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Are you an early-career researcher ready to take your work to the next level? 📈 Our new ARTEMIS program offers technical training, mentorship, and support to design high-quality #RCTs focused on poverty alleviation in the US. 📅 Apply by April 8, 2026! 🔗 j-p.al/ARTEMIS

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Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

At end of the day, I'll be presenting new work that we just released studying the mortality effects of NAFTA ("Trading Goods for Lives: NAFTA's Mortality Impacts and Implications") users.nber.org/~notom/resea...

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Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

The Spring 2026 Economics of Health NBER Program Meeting starts today, and it can be streamed on YouTube at the link below

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Economics of Health Program Meeting, Spring 2026

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Reuters @reuters.com · 30/01/2026

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon has been arrested, a Justice Department official said. Lemon livestreamed a demonstration that interrupted a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota, earlier this month that protested Trump's immigration crackdown in the area reut.rs/4q3X1FL

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Former CNN anchor Don Lemon arrested after church protest in Minnesota

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon has been arrested for his involvement in a protest at a church, his lawyer and a Justice Department official familiar with the situation said on Friday.

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Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Very excited to see this conference back alive! I really enjoyed the interactions between econometricians & applied micro people

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Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I have been hearing recently that many people don't know about the ability to submit to AEJ-Policy (or any of the other AEJs) after submitting to AER-Insights (following the same process that existed going from the AER to the AEJs) More details and instructions here: www.aeaweb.org/journals/pol...

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Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Great article in @theglobeandmail.com discussing my new working paper studying the Temporary Foreign Worker Program in Canada www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... Full paper is here: users.nber.org/~notom/resea...

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Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

See, e.g., the figures from my Garthwaite et al. Brookings paper using the near universe of hospitalizations in 20 states: www.brookings.edu/wp-content/u...)

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Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I think it's more about the risks of using Census/ACS/CPS survey samples than state-level designs, per se (+ the usual concerns with weak instruments). For example, the state-level Medicaid expansion natural experiment seems to work perfectly well IMO.

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Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Putting together the list of papers and posters that I want to see at the ASSA Annual Meeting, and this poster session project (by @michaelbriskin.bsky.social) looks interesting Paper is here: mbbriskin.github.io/files/Briski...

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

If you're at the ASSA mtgs and are interested in gender gaps in the labor market, please join this session Monday 8 am. To draw out the links between the papers, there will be one discussant, a nice idea suggested by @profnoto.bsky.social; Camille Landais is generously playing this role.

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Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

This is such a bizarre talking point; I've thankfully never had to use most of the types of insurance that I have for me and my family This is a good excuse to share my WSJ letter to the editor explaining that "not filing a claim doesn’t mean you didn’t need insurance" www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

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Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Useful background: "Child care centers were previously protected under a 'sensitive locations' directive that advised ICE to not conduct enforcement in places like schools and day cares. But President Donald Trump removed that protection on his first day in office."

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Daniel Tannenbaum @dtannenbaum.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Hello #econsky, the Nebraska Labor Summit will be held Friday, March 13, 2026. It's a really fun, junior-centric, research conference in labor and related applied micro fields. Martha Bailey and Alex Mas will give the keynotes. Deadline for submissions is Nov. 1! forms.gle/JC5tN5cT1R2i4ZUJA

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Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I'm impressed, too! Just used it for a paper before our first submission, and most of the issues that the tool flagged were worth investigating. I think it's definitely worth $30 before each submission (and resubmission).

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Becker Friedman Institute for Economics @beckerfriedman.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

When couples move for work, whose career benefits—and whose stalls? UChicago economist @profnoto.bsky.social joins @tessvigeland.bsky.social on The Pie to discuss how relocation impacts men’s and women’s earnings differently. 🎧 Listen/watch now: bfi.uchicago.edu/insights/mov...

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

"The boy, who is Hispanic and African American, was held in a garage for five hours “without informing his family, stating any charges, or allowing him to call an attorney,” the statement said. He is a U.S. citizen, as is his entire immediate family, the release said."

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Feds ram SUV after chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd

The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Two men being pursued were arrested as were two bystanders. The crash drew dozens of neighbors who...

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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

‘ICE Goes Masked for a Single Reason’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

“ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence,” a federal judge, William Young, wrote in a blistering 161-page First Amendment ruling handed down last week. “In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police,” he continued. The judge, a Reagan appointee, compared immigration agents to “cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan” and declared that federal efforts to deport outspoken protesters amounted to a “full-throated assault” on freedom of speech. “Carrying on in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it.”

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving." Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

Event study coefficients that show that men's earnings rise more than women's among couples following a cross-commuting zone move (left panels). The pattern is muted or reverses among single men and single women (right panels).

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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

"Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this." The latest from former U.S. surgeons general Jerome Adams, Richard Carmona, Joycelyn Elders, Vivek Murthy, Antonia Novello and David Satcher:

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Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

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Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Super clear and well-written, so I can only assume that my former Booth colleague John Cochrane wrote at least some of this

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 24/09/2025

Jonathan Clements, a longtime WSJ columnist who penned more than 1,000 personal-finance columns and was a favorite of readers, has died. He was 62. 🔗: on.wsj.com/4mzzDy1

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Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

"At a minimum, the conduct at issue exhibits the sort of gross negligence in financial transactions that calls into question your competence and trustworthiness as the [chief financial officer of the federal government of the United States]" [ Revision of www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... ]

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Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I enjoyed this conversation; here's the summary of what we talked about:

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Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

In related news, TPS benefits end today for the thousands of immigrants from Honduras & Nicaragua who have been living in the US legally for more than *26 years*, so there are going to be many more stories like the one above www.uscis.gov/humanitarian...

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Temporary Protected Status Designated Country: Honduras | USCIS

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 27/08/2025

Call for papers - due 11/1/2025 #EconConf #EconSky "UNebraska Dept of Economics will host the 2026 Nebraska Labor Summit at the College of Business in Lincoln, Nebraska, on 3/13/2026... focus on empirical research in labor economics and closely related fields..." docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Leaders of American Economic Association call on elected officials "to respect and preserve" the independence of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after Trump fires the BLS commissioner.

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Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

We see this paper as the start of a research agenda that uses the FFCRA as a natural experiment to study the downstream effects of reductions in insurance churn on health outcomes -- so stay tuned for more of our work on insurance churn next year!

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Matt Notowidigdo @profnoto.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Comparing our results to the recent Einav-Finkelstein PNAS paper that studied the Affordable Care Act, we conclude that "the FFCRA succeeded in a way that the ACA did not — significantly decreasing the probability of losing health insurance coverage" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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The risk of losing health insurance in the United States is large, and remained so after the Affordable Care Act | PNAS

Health insurance coverage in the United States is highly uncertain. In the post-Affordable Care Act (ACA), pre-COVID United States, we estimate tha...

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