What are the best articles you have seen on how DOGE has changed or might change benefits in the US?

Maintenance workers start their shift. Planned outages.

The 2025 Economic Report of the President | CEA | The White House Today, the Council of Economic Advisers under the leadership of Chair Jared Bernstein released the 2025 Economic Report of the President, the 79th report since the establishment of CEA in 1946. The 20...

We're proud to see the work of nearly 3 dozen HCEO members cited in the 2025 Economic Report of the President: @paulgp.com & Janet Currie on effects of Medicaid expansion; @ganong.bsky.social on the impact of stimulus; E. Hanushek on cognitive skills & GDP growth; & many more. bit.ly/40cBCQ0

Striking plot of electricity outages in Senegal by Abdoulaye Cisse

Feel like this John Cochrane advice should be copy-pasted into every referee report

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nice!

That would be so helpful, thank you Lynne!

Too damn high Why does everything in the U.S. seem so expensive? Peter Ganong on the pandemic, a broken construction sector, and a steep decline in American social mobility.

From @the-signal.bsky.social I got a bunch of fascinating questions about post-pandemic affordability from Michael Bluhm. Here are my answers.

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Nice -- I just ordered it on amazon!

In terms of what type of viz we are teaching, I would say static plotting? Is that sufficiently specific? In the past I was teaching from @hadleywickham.bsky.social + coauthors R4DS textbook and was happy with that.

We have time/resources to translate whatever book we choose into Altair. Below is the table I made which led us to Altair. We are not wedded to Altair if there's something obviously better in Python.

Other: dashboards currently in Shiny and maps in geopandas-matplotlib (but open to iterating)

Thanks Alex I & Alex K! (Great to meet u Alex K!) We are teaching in Python and currently teaching Vega/Altair (which I am happy with). This year we taught from this text which was fine on learning Altair syntax but has too little conceptual material on how to do viz well idl.uw.edu/visualizatio...

Agreed! I already have it and in fact I gave it to my co-instructor today!

thank you!

I'm looking for a textbook for teaching data visualization. What are your favorite data viz books? Extra points if it has coding examples. #EconSky

Thank you Jonathan!

Was great to see alums from my lab with Pascal Noel last week and to hear many of them present on topics in development, hh finance, education, behavioral, intl trade, and public!

Alright here’s my first attempt at using #econsky for actual questions… I have seen the claim below in other places (eg ezra Klein).

What econ research, if any, provides evidence for this claim? Not now, just the idea in general that attribution works differently for wage increases and inflation?

This is fantastic, thank you!

this is super helpful, thank you Eliza!

This is a good letter


“We would like to express our gratitude to our international research network members for explicitly bringing the essence of IZA into full focus through their critical engagement.”

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Is there a paper that computes wage growth for layoffs vs quits? (Ideally admin data, ideally published, ideally well-cited) So far I have found only older papers by Bartel & Borjas and Mincer #econsky

It would be easy for an NYT reader to think that what we need to achieve housing affordability is more regulation to stop residents from combining apartments. Of course, only less regulation will actually achieve more affordable housing
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Do you own an e-bike? How do you maintain it? Will most bike shops now fix broken ebikes or do you need a specialized shop?

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Or are hashtags order-invariant on sky???

What's your favorite already-public code for estimating a continuous time income process? 📉📈

KMV 2018 is awesome, but would like to avoid learning Fortran if possible...

Econsky, this is your chance to "beat" econtwitter since I posted the exact same question there. Let's go!

Daniel Sullivan, Fiona Greig, and Chris Wheat. We hope to foster a vibrant and inclusive intellectual community. Applicants from underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.

We all use the tools from applied microeconomics to answer a wide range of questions in household finance, public finance, inequality, labor, macro, and behavioral economics.

We work in team-based environments with pre-docs and other co-authors including Damon Jones, Joe Vavra, Christina Patterson

Aspiring researchers: come work at Chicago Booth! I'm hiring pre-doctoral fellows along with Pascal Noel, Eric Zwick, and Owen Zidar.

Positions start anytime between now and summer 2024. Application

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First deadline: October 4

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Increases in housing supply lower rents. Who knew! (Seriously, great piece by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social, great data and chart work.)

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