Please give me examples of great papers using the IPUMS-DHS data to inspire my MSc students! (Also any tips for working with these data as an instructor…)

How Financial Liquidity Helps Farms Perform in Tough Times - farmdoc daily Francesco Franciosi and Joe Janzen - Joe Janzen - After a period of high crop prices, US corn and soybean farmers now face challenging economic conditions. This study of Illinois grain farms offers…

Every year, my grad students take some part of their research and describe it for non-academic audiences. It's often the useful insight that isn't yet a full-blown research paper. I take them, edit, and share them with the world over the holidays on @farmdocdaily.

What a great movie!

Terrazzo Editions An independent publisher founded by Gina Nutt. We're making a mosaic.

Some sad literary news on my feed today (Ligeia Magazine and Akin Akinwumi closing up shop) but in happier news my friend Gina Nutt in Ithaca just launched a new small press and literary magazine. Welcome to the world, Terrazzo Editions!

The evening tradition at my brother’s Thanksgiving is gathering round the TV and taking turns picking music videos. I just got to introduce my 4 year old niece to OK Go videos. What a great time.

From ERS Charts of Note:

(Happy Thanksgiving!)

I prioritized apple, but ultimately took the stance of “let’s have all the pies” 🤣

It was sort of informal and that’s exactly what I did- all of the above!! 🥧🥧🥧

He nominated it but people were jazzed about cherry! I mean, I’m jazzed about cherry, so I get it, but still. Curveball.

It was a phone poll and he wanted to go for two pies, couldn’t drop pumpkin, wanted me to break the tie between apple and cherry.

My innovation: let’s do three pies!

🤣

Pumpkin, apple, and (here’s the curveball) cherry.

He almost dropped the apple (!!) but my vote saved it.

Okay, intro time! I'm Riley. 👋

I'm an assistant professor in the econ 📈📉 department at Miami University (yes, yes, that one in Ohio).

I research the economics of education, especially higher ed. I also like teaching & thinking about how we educate the next generation of economists!

He almost passed on apple!! 😱

My dad called me three times and left two voicemails in the span of six hours. The emergency? He was planning the pie portfolio for Thursday and wanted to make sure my vote got counted. 🥧

I have an episode of the great podcast Gastropod for you: gastropod.com/transcript-e...

Trying to convince my spouse that economists have a word for the phenomenon “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” and that word is “garbitrage.”

Economics Conferences (Compiled by Anne M. Burton and Barton Willage)

Quick econ tip: here's a list of over 100 economics conferences: docs.google.com/spreadsheets.... Curated by @anne-m-burton.bsky.social and @bartonwillage.com.

Thank you!

From ERS Charts of Note:

U.S. farm establishments received 15.9 cents per dollar spent on domestically produced food in 2023 as compensation for farm commodity production.

Very cool!

Sure thing! Thanks for the signal boost!

From ERS Charts of Note: As income increases, the share of income spent on food falls.

(I think about this chart a lot.)

Another relevant chart on the topic of food away from home.

Yup, and the data comes from the Food Expenditure Series which reports nominal food expenditures.

Important chart. Food expenditures as a % of disposable income did go up in the US between 2020-2023, although it was still lower in 2023 than in the 1980s.

Looks like it didn’t load properly! Is this better?

Bumping this once again if people need to be added.

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From ERS Charts of Note:

U.S. consumers spent 11.2 percent of disposable personal income on food in 2023. See historic trends in food expenditures here:

I’d like to be added! Thanks!

Prof. Katherine Michelmore of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy wins the 2024 David N. Kershaw Award & Prize! We discussed expanding tax credits to benefit family well-being: www.mathematica.org/blogs/kersha... #EconSky