My kids made the @bostonglobe.com coverage with their lemonade stand today. Super pleased with eldest child mentioning percentages and youngest child being noted for his screeching abilities

Only one of these made it into the Ten Commandments, and it polls badly. That doesn’t mean it’s rare, however.
#econsky

Jesse Rothstein

“Researchers are taking on projects they might have otherwise passed on, and our government partners get the insights they need to improve programs and policies.” Berkeley econ professor @jrothst.bsky.social on 10 years of the California Policy Lab: https://bit.ly/4mtubyq

Version 2, with more explanations and clean-up.

paulgp.com/replication-...

Amazing conference with some of my favorite researchers all thanks to Lise Vesterlund. Also loved that my @aeacswep.bsky.social co-mentee M. Recalde was back to back with me on the program, and my CSWEP mentee S. Saccardo also presenting along with U. Gneezy who was on both our PhD committees

Had a great time discussing “raw moments” which has a very different Econ meaning than real ppl meaning with @benbushong.com while he presented work with M Rabin about how to figure out if people are Bayesian. thanks for coming to @tuftseconomics.bsky.social

Working with @olgastoddard.bsky.social and @kbuzard7.bsky.social on an audit in eldercare!

Thanks to Alex Mas for coming to @tuftseconomics.bsky.social. We all enjoyed learning about staffing issues when demand for staff is not known (aka a newsvendor problem in labor). I specifically was happy the setting was healthcare staffing in skilled nursing (a setting I’m currently working in!)

Great talk today by @joannavenator.bsky.social about contraceptive choice (eg pill vs IUD) and how it is affected by uncertainty from things like the 2016 election or individual state abortion restrictions.

Something you almost certainly won’t see in the national news is how many tiny protests are all over the Twin Cities today.

They’re at stoplights. Parks. Bridges. Just everywhere. And people walking by are joining in. The solidarity is so deep.

It’s beautiful and brave. I love this city.

The issue is that the RA labels are coarsened & neutral-by-default, while model scores are more dispersed & lean positive. Looking for guidance on validation, bias checks, and whether post-training or calibration makes sense in this setting. OR should we be trying something else?

#econsky ‼️ Seeking guidance on quantifying the tone of emails. Currently using a continuous score from RoBERTa 3-sentiment model (a transformer-based pre-trained language model) and human-RA labels.

Looks like schooling really does causally shift voters to the left. Neat looking work by @danielfiroozi.bsky.social

Trump's expanded travel ban hits Africa the hardest but reactions are muted Africa has been the hardest hit by the Trump administration's expanded travel ban that includes 20 more countries

Are there any US lawmakers fighting to protect the rights of Black/African immigrants that I/we can support? Because oof- what a dismal way to end the year/start 2026 and I've heard not a peep from any of our representatives: abcnews.go.com/Internationa... #Blacksky

All research is exploratory if you’re confused enough

Much missing data in November report on inflation, CPI.

Hard to know what really happened to prices in November.

All this due to government shutdown and refusal to allow these workers to come to work.

November jobs report weak, and shows nearly no job growth last few months
Almost all of the job growth is in health care
Large job losses in federal government

Australia launches biggest gun buyback in 30 years after Bondi beach terror attack Prime minister announces first firearm buyback since Port Arthur massacre, and designates Sunday a national day of reflection in honour of Hanukah shooting victims

"“If a bloke in Bonnyrigg needs six high-powered rifles and is able to get them under existing licensing scheme, then there’s something wrong,’ he said."

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent.

Adopting.

Babies.

What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?

Economics of Race and Stratification, Spring 2026

DEADLINE TODAY: The NBER Race and Stratification Working Group will have its annual meeting on Friday, March 27, 2026. @franciscaantman.bsky.social, Bocar Ba, Robynn Cox and I are organizing the program. Submit your paper today! @nber.org #Econsky www.nber.org/conferences/...

The Altruism Budget: Measuring and Encouraging Charitable Giving Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Such a great piece. And if Meer and I ever update this handbook chapter will try to see how we can include this www.nber.org/papers/w25938

The Case for Counterfactual Thinking in Nonprofit Fundraising When a nonprofit wins a major government contract or foundation grant, it’s cause for celebration. These wins reflect hard work and organizational strength. Yet beneath the success lies a subtle, ofte...

I argue in this piece that the nonprofit sector should be thinking more about the counterfactual when assessing fundraising success: winning a $2M competitive bid over capable peers advances the cause less than convincing someone to donate $1M they'd have spent on a yacht.

Our affiliate, Seema Jayachandran, argues in this blog post that, when fundraising, nonprofits shouldn't just care about how much they raise. They should value new funds they attract to the cause more than competitive grants they win that would have otherwise gone to an equally capable peer.

Update on JOE postings -- things are worse: paulgp.com/2025/12/10/q...

The brilliant Kate Ho has passed away.

She was an amazing economist and a genuinely kind human being. Her work shaped how we think about healthcare markets and her generosity touched everyone lucky enough to know her.

The profession and the world are poorer without her.

Devastating news. Kate was a great economist and a generous person.

Ughhh

Harald Uhlig @haralduhlig X.com Dear AEA: you imposed a lifelong ban on @LHSummers, see aeaweb.org/news/aea- state.... Please impose one on me too. I probably have sinned at some point in my life. I do not deserve to walk among such holy folks as you are. I deserve to be banned too. Last edited 2:28 PM • 12/7/25 • 68K Views

Fascinating things happening on Econ Twitter

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He is asking so politely, why not give the man what he wants?