Andy Garin
@andygarin.bsky.social
Labor economist @ Carnegie Mellon University. Fan of rail ferries, portage railways, transporter bridges, and funiculars.
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The UMaine economics department is hiring an assistant professor with expertise in applied economics. fa-ewca-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Assistant Professor of Economics
The University of Maine is a community of more than 11,900 undergraduate and graduate students, and 2,500 employees located on the Orono campus, the regional campus in Machias, and throughout the stat...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The UMaine economics department is hiring an assistant professor with expertise in applied economics. fa-ewca-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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To be useful in my government-shutdown time off, I've worked on public-use analogs to tools that have been useful at work.
jrothbaum.github.io/survey_kit/ - a package for complex survey data, handling nonrespresentative samples in surveys/polls, properly handling missing data, etc.
jrothbaum.github.io/survey_kit/ - a package for complex survey data, handling nonrespresentative samples in surveys/polls, properly handling missing data, etc.
Survey-Kit
jrothbaum.github.io
November 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
To be useful in my government-shutdown time off, I've worked on public-use analogs to tools that have been useful at work.
jrothbaum.github.io/survey_kit/ - a package for complex survey data, handling nonrespresentative samples in surveys/polls, properly handling missing data, etc.
jrothbaum.github.io/survey_kit/ - a package for complex survey data, handling nonrespresentative samples in surveys/polls, properly handling missing data, etc.
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Our group at Illinois Gies College of Business is hiring! We are especially interested in public or environmental economists. Our group includes myself, @tderyugina.bsky.social, David Molitor, Nolan Miller, Jeff Brown, Riley League, and Mackenzie Alston.
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026
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November 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Our group at Illinois Gies College of Business is hiring! We are especially interested in public or environmental economists. Our group includes myself, @tderyugina.bsky.social, David Molitor, Nolan Miller, Jeff Brown, Riley League, and Mackenzie Alston.
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
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Who did this?!
November 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Who did this?!
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Calling all applied microeconomists: we're excited to announce that CMU Heinz is hiring! Please don't hesitate to reach out with any questions!
Link to apply: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
Link to apply: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026
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October 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Calling all applied microeconomists: we're excited to announce that CMU Heinz is hiring! Please don't hesitate to reach out with any questions!
Link to apply: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
Link to apply: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
Come work with us at CMU Heinz! We have a great applied microeconomics group and we’re looking for an economist to join us. Please reach out if you have any questions!
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026
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October 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Come work with us at CMU Heinz! We have a great applied microeconomics group and we’re looking for an economist to join us. Please reach out if you have any questions!
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
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The October 2025 issue of AEJ: Applied Economics (17, 4) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/820.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Vol. 17 No. 4 October 2025
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September 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The October 2025 issue of AEJ: Applied Economics (17, 4) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/820.
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Not quite sure how to put it all in words, but I just spent an extraordinary day celebrating my dissertation adviser, Larry Katz. Feeling grateful, proud, and (re-) inspired.
Larry has raised so many extraordinary economists that being in the same room as them was overwhelming.
Larry has raised so many extraordinary economists that being in the same room as them was overwhelming.
September 20, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Not quite sure how to put it all in words, but I just spent an extraordinary day celebrating my dissertation adviser, Larry Katz. Feeling grateful, proud, and (re-) inspired.
Larry has raised so many extraordinary economists that being in the same room as them was overwhelming.
Larry has raised so many extraordinary economists that being in the same room as them was overwhelming.
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Technically speaking, blackmail is not regulation
This really is the final expression of "libertarianism" as it is practiced in the US today.
September 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Technically speaking, blackmail is not regulation
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Chief Justice Roberts (2007): “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”
Justice Kavanaugh (2025): ethnicity “can be a 'relevant factor' when considered along with other salient factors” in immigration stops.
Justice Kavanaugh (2025): ethnicity “can be a 'relevant factor' when considered along with other salient factors” in immigration stops.
September 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Chief Justice Roberts (2007): “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”
Justice Kavanaugh (2025): ethnicity “can be a 'relevant factor' when considered along with other salient factors” in immigration stops.
Justice Kavanaugh (2025): ethnicity “can be a 'relevant factor' when considered along with other salient factors” in immigration stops.
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The larger-than-usual downward revision last month was in large part driven by a negative skew in the job growth distribution among late reporting firms. That’s unusual, but it’s happened before when the pace of job growth slows rapidly. This print is more evidence that was the case
U.S. employers added 22,000 jobs in August and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.3 percent.
Data: www.bls.gov/news.release...
Live coverage: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09... #NumbersDay
Data: www.bls.gov/news.release...
Live coverage: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09... #NumbersDay
Employment Situation Summary
- 2025 M07 Results
www.bls.gov
September 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The larger-than-usual downward revision last month was in large part driven by a negative skew in the job growth distribution among late reporting firms. That’s unusual, but it’s happened before when the pace of job growth slows rapidly. This print is more evidence that was the case
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USDA quietly said Friday it will, after a century, end the Farm Labor Survey (FLS), the only wage survey of ag employers.
FLS is a critical input to setting local minimum wages for H-2A visa workers to try to avoid harm to U.S. workers' wages.
#LaborDay #EconSky
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FLS is a critical input to setting local minimum wages for H-2A visa workers to try to avoid harm to U.S. workers' wages.
#LaborDay #EconSky
www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/Not...
August 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
USDA quietly said Friday it will, after a century, end the Farm Labor Survey (FLS), the only wage survey of ag employers.
FLS is a critical input to setting local minimum wages for H-2A visa workers to try to avoid harm to U.S. workers' wages.
#LaborDay #EconSky
www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/Not...
FLS is a critical input to setting local minimum wages for H-2A visa workers to try to avoid harm to U.S. workers' wages.
#LaborDay #EconSky
www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/Not...
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Synthetic Control Method be like
August 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Synthetic Control Method be like
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A key challenge for BLS is adequate funding for data collection and modernization. During my tenure I tried to identify the causes. One person told me, ‘your problem is that while BLS has no enemies you also have no friends’ meaning no powerful interest groups advocating for economic data.
Every business day, big capitalist institutions depend on having access to unbiased economic statistics. It's time for them to step up and help protect the B.L.S. and other statistical agencies from Trump's encroachments.
My latest column:
www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
My latest column:
www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
Big Business and Wall Street Need to Stand Up for Honest Data
In nominating an inexperienced MAGA partisan for commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Donald Trump is chipping away at an essential foundation of the American economy.
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August 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
A key challenge for BLS is adequate funding for data collection and modernization. During my tenure I tried to identify the causes. One person told me, ‘your problem is that while BLS has no enemies you also have no friends’ meaning no powerful interest groups advocating for economic data.
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Data revisions are a normal, necessary part of trying to measure a $30 trillion economy in real time. They can also be jarring, especially for people who don't obsessively scrutinize every jobs report.
So I dug into the how and why of revisions. A few big takeaways:
#EconSky
So I dug into the how and why of revisions. A few big takeaways:
#EconSky
Why the B.L.S. Regularly Revises Jobs Data
www.nytimes.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Data revisions are a normal, necessary part of trying to measure a $30 trillion economy in real time. They can also be jarring, especially for people who don't obsessively scrutinize every jobs report.
So I dug into the how and why of revisions. A few big takeaways:
#EconSky
So I dug into the how and why of revisions. A few big takeaways:
#EconSky
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During the latest PSG Consulting webinar, @geoffgarin.bsky.social and the @hartresearch.bsky.social team highlighted new research on how younger voters are more likely to see Trump as divisive and to disapprove of his othering tactics.
A few key findings from the research on young voters:
A few key findings from the research on young voters:
August 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
During the latest PSG Consulting webinar, @geoffgarin.bsky.social and the @hartresearch.bsky.social team highlighted new research on how younger voters are more likely to see Trump as divisive and to disapprove of his othering tactics.
A few key findings from the research on young voters:
A few key findings from the research on young voters:
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AEA Statement on Dismissal of BLS Comm.
"The independence of the federal statistical agencies is essential to the proper functioning of a modern economy. Accurate, timely, and impartial statistics are the foundation upon which households, businesses, and policymakers make critical decisions."
"The independence of the federal statistical agencies is essential to the proper functioning of a modern economy. Accurate, timely, and impartial statistics are the foundation upon which households, businesses, and policymakers make critical decisions."
August 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
AEA Statement on Dismissal of BLS Comm.
"The independence of the federal statistical agencies is essential to the proper functioning of a modern economy. Accurate, timely, and impartial statistics are the foundation upon which households, businesses, and policymakers make critical decisions."
"The independence of the federal statistical agencies is essential to the proper functioning of a modern economy. Accurate, timely, and impartial statistics are the foundation upon which households, businesses, and policymakers make critical decisions."
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For months, people have been asking me whether I still trusted gov’t data. My answer was always the same: The stats agencies faced longstanding challenges, some of which Trump was making worse. But there was no sign of political meddling.
I can’t say that anymore.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...
I can’t say that anymore.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...
Trump, Claiming Weak Jobs Numbers Were ‘Rigged,’ Fires Labor Official
www.nytimes.com
August 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM
For months, people have been asking me whether I still trusted gov’t data. My answer was always the same: The stats agencies faced longstanding challenges, some of which Trump was making worse. But there was no sign of political meddling.
I can’t say that anymore.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...
I can’t say that anymore.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...
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For six months, I've said that threats to economic data have been more collateral damage than intentional harm.
No longer.
Firing the head of the BLS is five-alarm intentional harm to the integrity of US economic data and the entire statistical system.
No longer.
Firing the head of the BLS is five-alarm intentional harm to the integrity of US economic data and the entire statistical system.
August 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
For six months, I've said that threats to economic data have been more collateral damage than intentional harm.
No longer.
Firing the head of the BLS is five-alarm intentional harm to the integrity of US economic data and the entire statistical system.
No longer.
Firing the head of the BLS is five-alarm intentional harm to the integrity of US economic data and the entire statistical system.
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Our friends at the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities are hiring a senior research program manager. They're seeking someone with a Master’s or PhD in economics, public policy, or a related field, and solid experience managing applied research projects. careers.nd.edu/search-caree...
3743990008647846 - Senior Research Program Manager | LEO
Make a difference at Notre Dame! Contribute to groundbreaking research, shape young minds, and create a supportive campus. Your work matters.
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July 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Our friends at the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities are hiring a senior research program manager. They're seeking someone with a Master’s or PhD in economics, public policy, or a related field, and solid experience managing applied research projects. careers.nd.edu/search-caree...
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1/ New working paper with Trevor Bakker, @stefanie-deluca.bsky.social, Eric English, Jamie Fogel, and Nathan Hendren: We use newly linked Census, IRS, and credit bureau data to explore differences in credit access by race, class, and hometown.
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July 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
1/ New working paper with Trevor Bakker, @stefanie-deluca.bsky.social, Eric English, Jamie Fogel, and Nathan Hendren: We use newly linked Census, IRS, and credit bureau data to explore differences in credit access by race, class, and hometown.
djh1202.github.io/website/cre...
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djh1202.github.io/website/cre...
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How much would you need to be paid to stay in a job that became more risky? @koenig-felix.bsky.social and @massimo-anelli.bsky.social
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People value workplace safety more than traditionally believed - LSE Business Review
During COVID some workers chose to forgo earnings to protect themselves, avoiding exposure to the virus. People value workplace safety highly. .
blogs.lse.ac.uk
July 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
How much would you need to be paid to stay in a job that became more risky? @koenig-felix.bsky.social and @massimo-anelli.bsky.social
#economics
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I've been teaching at Princeton over the same period and the drop-off in reading stamina has been staggering.
I'm not sure of the cause -- some blame K-12 shifts to "chunk reading" while others pin it on COVID -- but it's undeniable.
I'm not sure of the cause -- some blame K-12 shifts to "chunk reading" while others pin it on COVID -- but it's undeniable.
July 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I've been teaching at Princeton over the same period and the drop-off in reading stamina has been staggering.
I'm not sure of the cause -- some blame K-12 shifts to "chunk reading" while others pin it on COVID -- but it's undeniable.
I'm not sure of the cause -- some blame K-12 shifts to "chunk reading" while others pin it on COVID -- but it's undeniable.
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New research from the NEWS project on income and poverty from 2016-2021
Using survey, census, admin and commercial data, we show that survey estimates understate income and overstate poverty.
Release at www.census.gov/data/experim..., interactive plots at jrothbaum.github.io/news.html
Using survey, census, admin and commercial data, we show that survey estimates understate income and overstate poverty.
Release at www.census.gov/data/experim..., interactive plots at jrothbaum.github.io/news.html
July 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
New research from the NEWS project on income and poverty from 2016-2021
Using survey, census, admin and commercial data, we show that survey estimates understate income and overstate poverty.
Release at www.census.gov/data/experim..., interactive plots at jrothbaum.github.io/news.html
Using survey, census, admin and commercial data, we show that survey estimates understate income and overstate poverty.
Release at www.census.gov/data/experim..., interactive plots at jrothbaum.github.io/news.html