I am not saying "never use math in econ," but especially for an intro class, which is the only class most students take, building the intuition is much more important.

Graphs are fine, but I always asked "did P or Q go up or down" and never by how much. But making D and S equations and having them solve intersections doesn't build intuition, and you get swamped there instead of showing people "externalities create DWL" and "subsidies and taxes can fix things"

So many people have a bitter taste in their mouth about economics because their first class just became an algebra class. My intro prof in college had almost no math other than calculating elasticities, and focused solely on intuition. This is the way.

Having undiagnosed ADHD is finding emails you thought you sent two months ago in your drafts folder.

Only a few more days to apply, let anyone know who might be interested!

It would be even more interesting to interact that with recent cell phone policy changes at schools.

We view these positions as excellent opportunities for students to work directly with microdata, learn about the creation of cutting-edge government statistics, and potentially prepare for graduate school.

Economic Measurement and Research Internship (EMRI) Program The EMRI program seeks to hire interns in economics, accounting and related fields to support the nation’s growing demand for information.

🚨 Pre-Doc Opportunity at LEHD 🚨

Do you know graduating seniors or recent graduates in economics, math or statistics? The LEHD group at Census is hiring up to 2 positions in this category.

Apply following the instructions here: www.census.gov/about/census...

If you have questions, DM me!

Truly a wild timeline.

Augustine of Hippo be like:

If it weren't for Burnley, it would be possible for Nuno's team to escape, only at the expense of all of Nuno's old teams.

Another week, another cool data product release from LEHD and Census. This week, we released new PSEO data for schools from North Carolina and BYU-Idaho, bringing our total count of institutions to 952.

Check out the data here: lehd.ces.census.gov/applications...

One of my college classmates announced his son's birth AND his vibe-coded app to help parents decode baby cries in the same LinkedIn post and I just need to go walk into a lake.

Headline: "Nation shocked by large layoffs at paper owned by man who owns company that is famous for large layoffs."

I have been reading Incident at Vichy by Arthur Miller before bed, and man, if there were ever a time for someone to do this play, its now.

Road trips and airports, when being awake is important.

AI doesn't solve bad coffee or the lower capital costs of good coffee makers at more and more offices / homes.
The margin of substitution is not away from Starbucks to other stores - its away from stores.

Sports betting ruins the lives of gamblers and athletes. Its hard to think of a bigger lose-lose for society. Its deadweight loss all the way down.

Stay tuned for more cool ways to use this data!

Now look at each component at the NAICS6: The size of the drop in New Single Family Housing is actually offset partially by increasing employment in Residential Remodeling.

To add more to this, think about the ways in which NAICS6 gives you more detail than NAICS4 for specific industries. Here is residential housing construction (2361) in Pennsylvania:

Industry-level Detail Provides New Insights on the Growing Space Economy New data on employment and hiring for detailed national industries enable data users to explore the composition and dynamics of specialized workforces.

🚨 Really cool data alert! 🚨
Today, LEHD released Quarterly Workforce Indicators at the NAICS5/6 levels, which means you can understand hiring, separation and employment levels at detailed industries.

Check out our story, live now on the Census website

www.census.gov/library/stor...

Trying to decide if my get-rich-quick scheme should be coaching an SEC football team and getting fired or coaching Manchester United and getting fired.
I can do equally well at both jobs, in that the point is to get fired.

Just had Gemini write my README files for a project, and holy smokes, if all we can do is get rid of the drudge work, this is a huge leap.

"Out of the overflow of the hearth, the mouth speaks." (Luke 6:45)

An evergreen truth.

Sighs, time to go out to the practice field.

@wshcommanders.bsky.social, I haven't kicked in 15 years but I bet I could do pretty well.

It worked! I just got my confirmation email. Thanks again Josh.

10% of me believes that the AI hype is stoked by cloud provider firms, who are just making a killing on data centers.

I will start with Rob. Thanks Josh! Its a paper linking the PSEO data to business formation data to measure business start-up activity of graduates. I think it is a great paper, and its just about ready for the light of day.

Would I just cold-email Caroline?