📢📢We now know the Tourists and Hosts for the 2026 REStud European Tour!📢📢
The REStud European Tour recognizes the most promising graduating doctoral students in economics and finance and introduces them and their research to audiences.
Let's Meet the Hosts and the Tourists in this thread!
1/21
The most important sentence one learns being a scientist/researcher: "I do not know". Paraphrasing what one of my coauthors pointed out: LLM models have infinite arrogance and never say that.
here's one for @sweiwang.bsky.social
I think this is still at a pretty rough stage... "Front Matter" is a paper with no repository :)
Join us in congratulating Donald Andrews for being recognized as an AEA 2026 Distinguished Fellow!
His work has had a lasting influence on many topics in modern econometrics, and has repeatedly changed how econometric problems are understood.
economics.yale.edu/news/260410/...
The Confederate diaspora—small but powerful and ideologically intense—reshaped culture across the U.S. through influence, organizational mobilization, and political leverage.
New paper by Bazzi, Ferrara, Fiszbein, Pearson, and Testa:
www.restud.com/the-confeder...
#REStud
#EconSky
Grade inflation is everywhere
Two thoughtful essays about the impact of LLMs on graduate education:
ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...
economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul...
From personal experience I think the self-control problem mentioned in the first essay is very real.
Deadloch is one of the best comedy shows out there. Season 2 not quite as wild as season 1, but still extremely funny.
"G'day, G'day"
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?
How many supermarkets are there that are a pleasure to visit?
Poster for the Planet Money Book tour advertising their stop in Pittsburgh on April 22 hosted by Pittsburgh Arts and lectures. The hosts are Erika Beras and Alex Mayyasi in conversation with Kevin Zollman
I'm excited to be Planet Money's guest when they come to Pittsburgh on April 22 (@planetmoney.bsky.social, @erikaberas.bsky.social).
Come and invite your friends. (Please leave the rotten fruit at home.)
Knightian uncertainty and ambiguity anyone?
My example of an event and its complement; in this case the union is all of human knowledge
I love the delighted kids jumping up and down with excitement at the end. Science!
I suspect he's not surviving his next election cycle no matter what he does
plus, sorry, but the best gelato in the world is definitely in Sicily
Pitt three-year postdoc: primary responsibilities will be managing PEEL lab; postdoc will be an integral member of Econ dept. and join a large team of behavioral/experimental economists, attending/presenting in seminars, and pushing forward own research agenda #econsky
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
Very sad to hear of the passing of John Kagel.
He was a foundational figure in behavioral and experimental economics and his research reshaped how economists think about strategic interaction and social preferences. His teaching and mentorship influenced generations of students.
"Using the quasi-random timing of Navratri—a major Hindu festival worshipping goddesses—I find that girls born
shortly after the festival receive ~6% more birth vaccinations than girls born just before."
josuedjossou.github.io/navratri-paper.pdf
(stumbled across this, intrigued, haven't read it)
In 1905, Pittsburgh quietly changed the way the world would be entertained. On June 19, downtown at 433–435 Smithfield Street, showmen Harry Davis and John P. Harris opened the Nickelodeon, a tiny storefront theater devoted exclusively to showing moving pictures. The first of its kind. For just a
Interesting piece but if this claim is true that means students/parents don't actually care about teaching quality?
"colleges and universities have no incentive to define or measure teaching quality and have not funded serious controlled studies"
hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/teaching-q...
Check out the rest of Pitt JM candidate @jiaweilyu.bsky.social 's exciting research too: sites.google.com/view/jiaweil...
Pitt Job Market Candidates rock!
The Theory of Value by Gerard Debreu
"This fall, I presented my paper, 'More of a Comment than a Question, ' at the main conference in my field. Because the college has eliminated travel funding for faculty, I covered the cost by selling off-season Girl Scout cookies to adults having panic attacks over the election."
Part of what could also be going on with non US jobs is a decline in JOE usage versus alternative ways to post, particularly for Europe
If it's objectively insane there's nothing to axiomatize. If it's simply unlikely to succeed, then it could just be risk aversion, or lack thereof to be precise.
This is horrifying.
