It's time for the best paper prize at the CLEF conference!!

That's the way to do it!!

Please Share! The Environmental Inequality Lab is hosting it's second undergraduate research training program in environmental and energy economics this summer & it's open to all (with current U.S. work authorization)!

Full-time, funded, in-person, 10-weeks.

More details here tinyurl.com/EEE-URTP

From freezing rain in Quebec to beautiful and sunny Davis, California, I am excited to present tomorrow at #PacDev2026 @ucdavis.bsky.social joint work with Natalie Bau and Jishnu Das on the causal long-term impact of school quality!

The 2026 edition of Canada's premier labour economics conference is in Montreal on April 17-18.

Don't miss your chance to be part of it!

Early bird registration deadline is next Thursday (March 5). $200 regular and $90 students.

Conference program 👉 stonecentre.economics.ubc.ca/news-and-eve...

My mom mailed a package to our cats. It was literally their names on the package. She is the best 😹😻.

I have done this a few times... In our profession we got so much rejection and even R&Rs may focus on the negatives. Telling someone you like their paper is refreshing for the person and you too!

Hey #econsky! I'm organizing a workshop at Brown this Spring in partnership with Eric Nielsen and Viviana Rodriguez.

The topic is educational measurement. Please submit a paper/extended abstract! We'd love to consider your work.

And please help us spread the word to folks who aren't on bluesky!

Applications are OPEN for CSWEP’s 2026 CeMENT Mentoring Workshop! 🎉 Come get feedback on your research, practical advice for navigating the tenure track, and a community that will lift you up.

Details & application here 👉 www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...

@aeacswep.bsky.social #EconSky

2025 CWEC/CEDC Job Market Pitch Sessions (Online) The Canadian Women Economics Committee (CWEC) and Canadian Economics Diversity Committee (CEDC) are hosting two sessions for all current job market candidates to practice—and get feedback on—their thr...

📣 2025 CWEC/CEDC Job Market Mentoring Sessions

We are here to help you prepare, practice and succeed.

📣😀Practice Your Job Market Pitch

1️⃣ Session 1: Nov. 28, Friday Online 8:00 PM ET
2️⃣ Session 2: Dec. 1, Monday Online 8:00 PM ET

Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📣Reminder to sign up for the 2025 CWEC/CEDC Job Market Mentoring Sessions!
If you’re heading on the job market this year, don’t miss this opportunity to prepare, practice, and get personalized guidance from experienced mentors.

Be sure to check out the details below and register!

Community college enrollment has been declining since 2009/10. The optimal policy response to this depends on the root of this decline.

I'm thrilled @nber.org today released my working paper with Harvard PhD Joe Winkelmann titled:

"Labor Market Strength and Declining Community College Enrollment"

👏

New paper with @instrumenthull.bsky.social and Michal Kolesár on leniency/judge IV designs.

This article is targeted for the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and so we wrote it with the goal of being accessible to a wide range of users, including advanced undergrads!🧵

arxiv.org/abs/2511.03572

Excited to be presenting in less than an hour at #NEUDC2025!! Join our session for cool papers on policies and human capital attainment 🤓

CLEF webinar today at 1pm ET with Anastasiia Suvorova from St. Francis Xavier University. Anastasiia will talk about (Mis)perceptions about children. Join us!!

Hey la radio de RC qui met les nouvelles en plein milieu d'entrevue!...

And it’s a wrap! #SMOQK 2025 at Concordia - 5 excellent papers in development economics. What a great community we have in the Sherbrooke Montreal Ottawa Quebec and Kingston area. See you again in a year!

And another set of amazing papers for the afternoon with @cmichaudleclerc.bsky.social (Laval), Zemar Hakim (Queens), and @caitbrownecon.bsky.social (Laval) #SMOQK2025

Join us for the 2025-2026 CLEF Webinar Series!

Season opener on October 3 at 1-2pm ET. Full schedule: clef.uwaterloo.ca/webinar/.

To register, send an email to clef@uwaterloo.ca with "CLEF Webinar" in the subject line. See you soon!

A must for development economists! Thanks for such a great episode!

Fully recharged after 12 beautiful days in Iceland. Ready to get back to work 💪

With rent control in the news, it’s a good moment to recall the research of @rebeccadiamond.bsky.social and co-authors.

They show that strict rent control in San Francisco reduced the availability of rental housing, eventually *raising* rental costs.
doi.org/10.1257/aer....

Do profs respond to student evaluations?

On average? Nope.

Those who have a more positive view of their own teaching do.

But all of these responses are driven by the female teachers.

"Male teachers appear to be unresponsive to student feedback."

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called:

"How to Write a Title and Abstract"

Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles.

#EconSky #AcademicSky

Proud to have named this new seminar series designed to help education researchers navigate the new landscape we're in.

I hope the name conveys the optimism that there is a destination worth reaching on the other side of this.

Sign-up here for the first session: aefpweb.org/ev_calendar_...

Yes definitely harder to find here. I need a better algorithm haha!

Why are all the fun econ research discussions mostly on the other platform? Is it just me, or some settings on my Bluesky? Are people back there? If so, why??! 🥺😫

Amazing group of kind smart people 😍. Will see you soon!!