Riley rocks! The NESCAC rocks! Riley in the NESCAC double rocks!! Congrats to Bowdoin 🐻‍❄️

I hear blue food dye and an all meat diet are the keys to longevity these days

Thank you, Mark!

Thank you!!

GitHub - peternka/academic_proofreader: An academic proofreader for Claude Code/Codex An academic proofreader for Claude Code/Codex. Contribute to peternka/academic_proofreader development by creating an account on GitHub.

I put my applied micro proofreader Claude Code skill/prompt here.

Go crazy and catch tiny errors in your writing and inconsistencies between your tables/text
github.com/peternka/aca...

Thank you for all your support this past year, Matt!!

Are y'all telling me bluesky isn't a relaxing medium that people scroll to wind down at night / on vacation?

Thank you so much, Kasey! You may have been the first "outside-my-institution" person who went out of their way to give me advice early in the PhD (at SEA) :)

Thank you!

To end on a more positive note, an unexpected highlight of the job market was the surprising amount of support of mentors and colleagues outside of my institution (with no obligation to me!) I vow to pay it forward 🫡 (4/4)

I feel very lucky to have landed a job this year, but also very frustrated by the climate that (among other things) rendered a market that has shorted so many capable people in academia and beyond. It’s really, really hard to be a recent graduate right now. (3/4)

The job market, especially this year, felt like [video below] most of the time. The support of my partner, family, friends, and committee made it bearable. (2/4)

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be starting as an assistant professor at @williamseconomics.bsky.social in July 2027 after a year at @stanfordeducation.bsky.social as a research scholar!

Some brief reflections: (1/4)

We are excited to announce the upcoming PIER 2026 conference, celebrating undergrad econ research! The conference will be May 2; submissions due Mar 20. Submit here: sites.google.com/williams.edu...
Our keynote speaker is the great @caitlinmyers.bsky.social!

The Nazis stopped Jewish doctors from practising, so thousands of them left the country (my great grandfather was one of them). So many left that this was a good natural experiment for estimating the causal effect of losing doctors on infant mortality (& thousands died)

adrftools: Estimating, Visualizing, and Testing Average Dose-Response Functions Facilitates estimating, visualizing, and testing average dose-response functions (ADRFs) for characterizing the causal effect of a continuous (i.e., non-discrete) treatment or exposure. Includes suppo...

I'm so excited to announce the first release of my newest #Rstats package, {adrftools}! This package facilitates estimation, visualization, and testing for the causal effect of a continuous (i.e., non-discrete) treatment.

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#statssky #episky #causalinference

The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford | The Segregation Tracking Project Use our visualizations to explore educational opportunity in your school & community.

VERSION 2.0 of the Segregation Tracking Project is here!

New data on racial and economic segregation between neighborhoods and schools over the last 30+ years for every school district, metro area, state, county, congressional district (new!), and more!

edopportunity.org/segregation/

The sessions are typically grouped by subject and are back to back over the course of a day and a half. People treat these sessions like a mini conference and attendance is high—we were spilling out of our room last year. There's always a nice social event. Grad student friendly! 2/2

Econ historians of bluesky! Submit your paper to the SEA econ history sessions, sponsored by Clio and EHA, by March 22: forms.gle/YomRiP8iAUYK...

Proposals due: March 22, 2026
Authors notified of acceptance of paper: March 28, 2026
Conf dates: Nov 21-23

#econconf 1/2

I am excited to be hiring two post-doctoral positions at UCLA--please share with your networks. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.....

A better Alabama government requires a bigger Alabama electorate | Alabama Reflector What Alabama voters want is not necessarily what Alabamians want. Because in state elections, most Alabamians don't vote.

My column from Monday. Alabama politicians give voters little but paranoia and niche right-wing issues, which may be why just 37% of voters turned up for the last midterm in 2022. Those politicians who truly want to make a government for Alabama have to restore Alabamians’ faith in the process.

Applications for the Economic History Association Graduate Dissertation Fellowships are due in two days (January 14)

eh.net/graduate-dis...

Welcome to the Dynamic Democracy App This app lets you manipulate, explore, and download the Dynamic Democracy datasets with information on state policies and public opinion assembled by Devin Caughey and Chris Warshaw. Click on the triangle next to each category for more details. • State Policies: This dataset includes information on approximately 200 policies in place in at least one state between 1936 and 2024. • State Policy Ideology : Measures summarizing aggregate policy outputs in each state/year between 1936-2024. • Public Opinion: Measures summarizing state publics views on approximately 80 issues, covering 1936-2024. • Mass Ideology.: Measures of state publics' economic and cultural ideological preferences, 1936-2021. • Policy Proximity.: Measures of how closely state policies match public preferences.

🚨 the best state policy & public opinion database is now online. ~200 (!!!) state policies and 80 public opinion series on abortion, labor, taxes, environment, guns, education…

dynamicdemocracy.shinyapps.io

Massive public goods provision from @devincaughey.bsky.social & @chriswarshaw.bsky.social

I wish I was clever enough for the first scheme. Though, one COULD say that, by willingly taking the apparent lack of outlets at face value, I was scheming to watch sex and the city on my (charged) ipad instead of doing work on my (conveniently dead) laptop...

We @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social are hiring a director for our Policy-Aligned Research Agenda Buildling Lab (PARABL), to help education system leaders build research roadmaps to effect change in a particular area.

More info here:

wheelockpolicycenter.org/wp-content/u...

I was gently informing my seat mate that unfortunately there are no outlets on the new Acela, yes, yes, a shame, really, and giving him the insider tip that he could go to the cafe car to plug in his computer when a very nice woman turned around and pointed them out to us. Thanks again Sue!

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...

Joining the throng of economists taking a delayed Amtrak to PHL today to present my JMP at #ASSA2026!

📍 Philadelphia Convention Center, 204-A (Elementary & Secondary Education)
⏰ Sunday, 1/4, 10:15-12:15

#EconConf

Two women pose in front of a large deep freezer

There has not been a grocery store in the small Mississippi Delta town of Drew in 11 years. The nearest grocery store is a 20-minute drive to Cleveland, forcing residents like Melinda Davis to make a 40-minute commute to access fresh food.

buff.ly/g1gSdiz

Identity and Ideology in the School Boardroom 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...

Wow, the estimated effects of the orientation of elected school board members are enormous!

Identity and Ideology in the School Boardroom www.nber.org/papers/w34590