The White House briefing room. Four Hs. Three of them are upside down. And it’s been that way since 2007.
Posts by Otavio Bartalotti
Hi! Since others are talking about my book, thought I'd share a little about it. The book is a love letter to women everywhere wondering why their time just isn't adding up. It turns out, it's not you! We are getting massively squeezed by structural changes! 🧵
www.amazon.com/Having-All-T...
Late addition to the market:
We are hiring a 2-year postdoctoral researcher in Behavioral, Experimental, or Applied Microeconomics for our Berlin campus to work with our incoming Professor Kai Barron.
#Econjobmarket
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My colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...
‘A landmark report, The Right to Power — Keeping First Nations' communities connected on prepayment, found nearly 9,000 households were impacted by frequent disconnections that are "undermining health, wellbeing and economic participation".’
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Yo!
🦶New version of our WP “Nobody Wants to Work Anymore”🦶w/ @danielavidart.bsky.social
Headline: a major contributor to the 50-year decline in U.S. male labor force participation is changes in men's beliefs about returns to work, shaped by lifetime experiences of aggregate male labor markets.
New data on the #EconJobMarket as of Nov 2. Based on total # of job listings on JOE, this year continues to be even weaker (by 11%) than during COVID (2020). 1/many #EconSky
Nick, I am happy to hear you will be joining us in Australia. Looking forward to seeing you in person next year!
Screen grab of the webpage for the journal article titled, Christian nationalism and ableism in the United States by Andrew Whitehead.
NEW RESEARCH
Americans who embrace Christian nationalism more likely to agree situation f/ people with disabilities is good as it is, disabled people demand too much from rest of society, & there have been enough societal efforts in favor of people w/ disabilities.
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Super excited for the inaugural summit of LGBTQ+ Economists and Allies in Asia-Pacific (LEAP)!
Come and join us in beautiful Melbourne on May 13-14, 2026!
❗𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝟏𝟒 𝐃𝐞𝐜❗
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Plot illustrating our approach (columns): training data, model predictions, and segmented polygons in three instances (rows): mines in Brazil, Mozambique, and Indonesia.
Where are mining sites actually expanding? Our new paper uses a ML model and satellite imagery to track 147k+ tropical mining sites from 2016–2024. Footprints of these sites grew by 24%, with major expansion in the Amazon, Indonesia & West Africa. doi.org/10.1038/s418...
We're hiring at the econ department at Copenhagen Business School.
Please come work with my wunderful colleagues and/or me on a tenure-track assistant professorship. All fields considered.
Apply through EJM.
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now that's a fuckin title
🆕VoxEU column: "Masculinity norms and their economic consequences"
\w @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social @vicbar.bsky.social and Ieda Matavelli @ebrd.bsky.social #econsky
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Ames, Iowa: The middle of the middle. #NoKings
🚨 WE @unswecon.bsky.social ARE HIRING! 🚨
JMC: apply and email/DM for any question!
A short 🧵 on @unswecon.bsky.social and why you want to apply and join us in Sydney👇
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🚨 We economists at @crestumr.bsky.social IPParis are hiring🚨
We have 3 positions:
1 assistant prof in econometrics (ENSAE
1 assistant prof in Digital Economics and IO (Telecom)
1 assistant or associate, all fields (Polytechnique)
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Please circulate! #econsky
come on australia let's go let's go let's go
This will make the academic job market basically non-existent for non-US citizens. And job ads in Europe are down too. This will be a tough year to be on the market for many people. I encourage everyone to keep their eyes open for jobs posted in non-traditional channels.
Nanyang Technological University is hiring:
Assistant/ Associate Professor in International Political Economy (Tenure-Track / Tenured)
We are happy to advertise the Job Market Candidates from Monash University's Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics for the 2025-26 cycle!
www.monash.edu/business/ebs...
We are happy to advertise the Job Market Candidates from Monash University's Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics for the 2025-26 cycle!
www.monash.edu/business/ebs...
This is why one should follow the dictionary account
We are hiring! Two new Lecturer (AP) positions at the University of Edinburgh School of Economics:
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#EconSky
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/876097416 https://www.jstor.org/stable/44113425
Lisa Cook documented the devastation of the end of Reconstruction. This graph, from her paper "Violence and Economic Activity," shows the effects of Jim Crow on Black patenting and newspapers. As she said on Planet Money: "1899 was the peak year for African American patents per capita. It still is."
A survey at a large German bakery chain about the value and time costs of in-store checklists, led the firm to randomly remove two of the most perceived time-consuming and low-value checklists in half of stores, from Friebel, Heinz, Hoffman, Kretschmer, and Zubanov https://www.nber.org/papers/w34122