In France, if you want to build a home above a certain size, you’re legally required to use a licensed architect.

Can you guess what that size is

yes, this is only recent

Got it. I'm just saying that the AEA is pretty exacting about requiring a repository if there are exhibits that use data. (I have a JEL paper with one motivating scatterplot, we can't post the underlying data, but we have a pro forma repository.) So no repository = repository n/a, to first approx.

Thanks for doing this. How are you treating theory papers? I’m guessing most papers w/o repositories don’t need them — the AEA is pretty good about making sure there is a repository for all empirical papers, even if it’s just code w/o (restricted) data. Stats | has a repository seem more relevant.

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

the three dudes who show up when you type beard into the emoji keyboard

ladies and gentlemen the bee gees

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working."

The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

Don't even bother trying to come up with April Fools' jokes this year

New in the American Economic Review: migration doesn't hollow out the home economy — it builds it up.

More than 75% of the long-run income gains from migration are domestic. The home economy itself grows.

Here's what we found: 🧵

In what world is it okay for the Defense Secretary to make multi-million dollar investments in defense companies:
a) Ever;
b) In the run-up to starting a war in the Middle East

FT has the scoop: www.ft.com/content/744e...

In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.

homothetic preferences in the wild

Headline that says "Quadruple amputee professional cornhole player jailed on murder charges."

this is out of Mad Libs

It’s a Princeton thing Luckily I think IT may have hit the kill switch on the thread when they got into the office. I doubt I’m the only one who sent an email to them requesting that.

I’m caught in a reply-all email storm. AMA.

The words of an authoritarian

TIL Card and Krueger employed an undergrad's grandmother to carry out their survey. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

A conversation with RPDE Visiting Faculty Elisa Macchi During the 2025-2026 academic year, RPDE is hosting a new set of visiting scholars, bringing a wide range of interests and expertise into the halls of JRR, Princeton’s economics building. We’ll be tal...

We've been lucky to have Elisa Macchi from Brown University visiting the @princetondevo.bsky.social group this academic year.

Read about Elisa's approach to research, including starting with very simple questions and seeing what emerges.

March 18, 2026 Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:

96-year old Dolores Huerta made a gutting confession today. She deserves to be heard in her own words.

Even the most righteous movements find ways to make space for misogyny. medium.com/@dolores_hue...

Please please accept or decline requests to review papers immediately upon seeing the request. It's simple.

Most people don't have a good reason for being slow (though I realize a few might). It's crazy how many people are slow. They slow down the whole process for no good reason.

just plainly evil.

This whole administration continues to be an object lesson in the catastrophic folly of letting unserious people have authority over serious things

Trump Admin Drops the Olive Branch from U.S. Seal on New Dime Coins, Keeps the Arrows A new dime coin entering circulation in 2026 is sparking conversation after eagle-eyed Americans noticed a small but significant detail in its design

I had assumed the headline was a joke. But no.

people.com/new-dime-coi...

"We started a war of aggression for no reason & commenced it by accidentally bombing an elementary school & killing over 100 kids."

That simple fact is so horrific that it's just kind of bouncing on the surface of our collective consciousness. We can't absorb its full implications & significance.

Where do PhD economists land? Comprehensive placement data from 40 top economics departments spanning 30+ years. Explore 8,000+ placements by name, field, and department.

Wow, potentially useful tool for those considering offers rn: www.econphdplacements.com

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

Parents' life satisfaction after having a son versus a daughter sheds light on gender preferences, showing that in matrilineal parts of Malawi, mothers prefer daughters, from Anna Barbeta-Margarit, @seema.bsky.social, and Suanna Oh www.nber.org/papers/w34830

Not sure!

Using Life Satisfaction Data to Measure Parents' Child Gender Preferences by Anna Barbeta-Margarit, Seema Jayachandran & Suanna Oh. Abstract: Can questions about life satisfaction be used to measure parental preferences for daughters versus sons? Daughter preference has rarely been documented in the literature, even in matrilineal settings. One possible reason is that the commonly used measures of parental gender preference, such as fertility-stopping rules and sex ratio at birth, are ill-suited to high-fertility settings. We instead assess maternal preferences in Malawi by examining the life satisfaction of women who currently have one child, comparing those with a daughter to those with a son. We find that in matrilineal (but not patrilineal) households, having a daughter increases mothers' life satisfaction, relative to having a son.

The usual measures of parents' son or daughter preference (stopping rules, sex selection) don't do well at high fertility . As an alternative, we use life satisfaction and document daughter preference among matrilineal women in Malawi.

Our new NBER paper: seemajayachandran.com/life_satisfa...

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