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After interlude, administration continues its cover ups www.startribune.com/trump-admini...

❤️ #econimate. It’s such a great resource for teaching and staying up to date on research. 🙏Thank you so much for covering our paper! @siepr.bsky.social @glaucomflecken.bsky.social #HealthEconomics #HealthPolicy

Really want a “Transgender for everybody” t-shirt

My Charlemagne this week is on the Paradox of Paris: or how France became ungovernable at home yet unstoppable in Brussels. From "strategic autonomy" to managed trade, French ideas are in the ascendant at EU level—even as Paris burns. www.economist.com/europe/2026/...

Remember when Trump claimed his cruel deportation agenda would help American workers? He couldn’t be more wrong. Watch.

“Rent control often fails those families who need it most: Of the New Yorkers living in rent-stabilized apartments, almost a third earn six figures.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/o...

Extremely excited to read this. Amazing and necessary work by @isabellamweber.bsky.social

Note: limiting Starlink to 160kph doesn’t affect strikes on refineries. Those are inside Russia where Starlink doesn’t work. So there isn’t even a wrong theory under which it lowers diesel prices. It just stops drone strikes against Russian forces in Ukraine, so Ukraine can’t defend itself.

EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : Emmanuel Macron critique l’accord entre Moscou et Washington sur le diesel russe, le qualifiant de mesure « inappropriée, inefficace »

Does arresting the wife of an enlisted man and mother of four US citizen children, a person who’s been here since she was 6 years old, make our country great again?

"Had the German people voted in March 1933 the way the Hungarians voted last spring, there would not have been a Third Reich. There would not have been a Holocaust. And Hitler would have been out of office within weeks." www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

📢 We're hiring! 3-year postdoc position, starting Feb/March 2027 We're looking for someone with: - research agenda on political representation, party competition, institutions, political economy, political behavior or related fields - ability to teach Austrian politics Please share widely!

I have a NEW WEBSITE to provide media, advocates and policymakers a summary of what's known about the economic impacts of ICE activity in the second Trump administration! Please check it out, share widely, and lmk what else would be helpful here. theiceeffect.org

For my Colorado followers -- Colorado Fiscal Institute just put out a 2-pager based on my research about the economic harms of expanding ICE presence in Colorado. coloradofiscal.org/ices-impact-...

CDC just closed offices in Angola and South Sudan. Zimbabwe is next; a dozen more may follow. CDC staff overseas support countries to find outbreaks early and stop them before they reach us. Decisions have consequences. Lives will be lost, including American lives. bit.ly/4B5n6uG

Some additional Census datasets can be found on the Census Experimental Data Products page: www.census.gov/data/experim... And data tools page: www.census.gov/programs-sur...

My favourite magazine updated the November issue today. I initially became a subscriber of The Atlantic because of @caitlindickerson.bsky.social (other staff writers also contribute great pieces). I can never finish finish Ms Dickerson’s story without bursting into tears.🥺

New working paper w/ @hannafolsz.bsky.social In 2025, Trump targeted US law firms for their political opposition Some firms resisted by suing Trump. Others folded by agreeing to support the administration w/ pro bono work Resisting firms took a short term financial hit but improved reputations

In 1987 Trump visited Moscow. Since then, "He has changed his mind about abortion and crypto, he has supported different political parties, but his dislike of America’s democratic allies and his preference for Russia have remained remarkably consistent." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

My take on the economics Nobel economist.com/finance-and-...

Félicitations à la Hongrie et vive la liberté!!!!🌈

peter hull comparing TWFE and modern DIDs & it seems TWFE is OK. people will go "YOU SEE IT DIDN'T MATTER AFTER ALL" but regardless of whether TWFE is ultimately useful or not that all DiD chaos was a net good because it clarified the estimand. tinyurl.com/twfevsdid

Great to have @gideonmoore.bsky.social (@bowdoincollege.bsky.social ‘19) present his ambitious work on the changing political content of college courses in our seminar series today! Check out all the cool stuff he’s doing here: www.gideonmoore.com. And look for him on the market next year! 👀

All the @stata.bsky.social replication files for the #30daychartchallenge2026 are now online on GitHub: github.com/asjadnaqvi/3... Please note that the dofiles might not be the cleanest since this is a sync from a local working directory. If you get stuck, just open an issue.

“The insurance industry ranked American fraternities as the sixth-worst insurance risk in the country—just ahead of toxic-waste-removal companies.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Andy Burnham is doing a weirdly good job of reversing my priors on whether a party can sustainably improve its position by swapping out an ineffective leader for a somewhat more energetic one with basically the same policies.

What if rejoining the EU is popular, easy and surprisingly sexy?

#econ_ra

I'd become a subscriber of The Atlantic because of Caitlin Dickerson.🥺

In case anyone is interested, here is a new working paper on non-binary treatments with staggered interventions. Essentially, I show under what assumptions it is valid to estimate cohort x time dose-response functions. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Thrilled to be organizing this conference with Kalena Cortes, @loismiller.bsky.social, @camilantmorales.bsky.social, & @julia-turner.bsky.social, thanks to generous support from Ascendium! Send us any & all work on CCs! Descriptive, mixed methods, & interdisciplinary research encouraged. 🥳

Firms differ in their orientation toward employee well-being. Workers who move to firms with higher well-being scores take more sickness absences, without changing healthcare usage, from Riccardo Di Francesco, @instrumenthull.bsky.social, and Seetha Menon www.nber.org/papers/w35760

It's particularly concerning that administrative burdens remove eligible people from SNAP in light of several provisions of HR 1 that increase these burdens and reduce funding for assistance to help people navigate these burdens

French-German spreads now at 100bps, the highest level since July 2012 (the month of Draghi's "whatever it takes" speech). This is NOT Greek crisis territory. But it is becoming pretty uncomfortable both politically and economically.

The @excinequality.bsky.social Zukunftskolleg 2026 Postdoctoral Fellowships call is open. These are 2-year fellowships to develop independent research in a beautiful location and strong research environment. Deadline: 12 October. www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

No, but we really do need a good article contrasting the differences. @instrumenthull.bsky.social and @borusyak.bsky.social 's nice AEA P&P has a very clean simple example discussing weighting differences in design vs. model based regression: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gfvv9...

🥳 to @peternka.bsky.social & @ezrakarger.bsky.social: amazing stewards of public goods!

Are you a disability researcher working in the FSRDC wondering where the 1980s disability variable in the CPS went? I've written a CES Technical Note describing my process of bringing in those missing data! ideas.repec.org/p/cen/tnotes...

Good news about international students

Don Trump Jr's wedding was paid for by a Russian oligarch. Then again, Barack Obama did wear a tan suit that one day.

Melenchon has a realistic plan for solving France's chronic deficit problem. He wants to default on its debt. If France does this, no one will buy any bonds it issues, and it will immediately have to implement severe austerity, slashing spending by at least 5% of GDP to get its deficit down to 0.