Ethan Ellis
@ethanjellis.bsky.social
He/Him | UMN Public Affairs PhD Candidate | Labor Economicsy Things | Carleton ‘19 | Formerly FDIC and PC🇺🇦 | All views expressed are my own
Good evening to be in Seattle!
November 13, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Good evening to be in Seattle!
Folks going to APPAM, I'll be presenting/discussing 3 times! Would love to get feedback and talk shop with folks. Here's where you'll be able to find me:
-Thursday 1:45-3:15pm, presenting The Effects of Occupational Licensing on Racial Wage and Employment Gaps (V preliminary, would love a couauthor)
-Thursday 1:45-3:15pm, presenting The Effects of Occupational Licensing on Racial Wage and Employment Gaps (V preliminary, would love a couauthor)
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Folks going to APPAM, I'll be presenting/discussing 3 times! Would love to get feedback and talk shop with folks. Here's where you'll be able to find me:
-Thursday 1:45-3:15pm, presenting The Effects of Occupational Licensing on Racial Wage and Employment Gaps (V preliminary, would love a couauthor)
-Thursday 1:45-3:15pm, presenting The Effects of Occupational Licensing on Racial Wage and Employment Gaps (V preliminary, would love a couauthor)
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Paperwork burden, stigma and stress are common for SNAP and increase food insecurity. Many (most) recipients are children, disabled or older, while many already work, if they can. Not letting people go hungry should be a fundamental function of government.
It is incredible — the blind spots you develop when you’ve never, ever been poor.
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Paperwork burden, stigma and stress are common for SNAP and increase food insecurity. Many (most) recipients are children, disabled or older, while many already work, if they can. Not letting people go hungry should be a fundamental function of government.
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
So proud of Alan for this work — I often bring this up to non-academics as clear proof of the existence of gender-based discrimination and need for DEI
Forthcoming in the AER: "“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap" by Alan Benson, Danielle Li, and Kelly Shue. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap
(Forthcoming Article) - We show that subjective assessments of employee “potential” contribute to gender gaps
in promotion and pay. Using data on 29,809 management-track employees from a
large retail ...
www.aeaweb.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
So proud of Alan for this work — I often bring this up to non-academics as clear proof of the existence of gender-based discrimination and need for DEI
It's great to root for a functional baseball franchise like the White Sox
November 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
It's great to root for a functional baseball franchise like the White Sox
Anyone have any papers they like on how capital constraints contribute to racial educational attainment gaps?
November 5, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Anyone have any papers they like on how capital constraints contribute to racial educational attainment gaps?
Reminding myself to avoid doing double threshold workouts on lecture days. Legs were sore and brain lacked the oxygen to coherently answer hyper-specific model specification questions about 2xT diff-in-diff.
November 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Reminding myself to avoid doing double threshold workouts on lecture days. Legs were sore and brain lacked the oxygen to coherently answer hyper-specific model specification questions about 2xT diff-in-diff.
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BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election.
DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.
His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...
DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.
His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...
Democrat Johnny DuPree Flips Republican-Held Mississippi Senate District in Forrest County
Johnny DuPree, a Democrat who served as the mayor of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for 16 years, has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate seat.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election.
DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.
His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...
DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.
His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...
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How does employer access to prisoners’ labor through work release impact the well-being of those workers & of free workers?
New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL
#EconSky
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL
#EconSky
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
November 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
How does employer access to prisoners’ labor through work release impact the well-being of those workers & of free workers?
New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL
#EconSky
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL
#EconSky
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Pop off Minnesota distance running: Joel Reichow top American male, Annie Frisbie 2nd American female at NYC
November 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Pop off Minnesota distance running: Joel Reichow top American male, Annie Frisbie 2nd American female at NYC
GF and I finally finished Twin Peaks, so I officially cancelled our Paramount+ subscription and left a cathartic cancellation note for Bari Weiss and David Ellison
October 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
GF and I finally finished Twin Peaks, so I officially cancelled our Paramount+ subscription and left a cathartic cancellation note for Bari Weiss and David Ellison
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I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?
October 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?
Fox really should have played Neverender during last night's game
October 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Fox really should have played Neverender during last night's game
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Quite a world when a federal judge has to call in a federal official to specifically tell him he can't use tear gas on children in Halloween costumes
October 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Quite a world when a federal judge has to call in a federal official to specifically tell him he can't use tear gas on children in Halloween costumes
Go Blue Jays, but also hell yeah Will Klein
Will Klein in a "Rapinoe/Kaepernick 2020" shirt
October 28, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Go Blue Jays, but also hell yeah Will Klein
I stayed up until 1:53am watching a baseball game between two teams I don't care about only for Freddie Freeman to hit a home run as soon as I took my dog out to pee
October 28, 2025 at 6:54 AM
I stayed up until 1:53am watching a baseball game between two teams I don't care about only for Freddie Freeman to hit a home run as soon as I took my dog out to pee
Fox playing Lil Boo Thang to end the inning is giving me throwbacks to Companion
October 28, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Fox playing Lil Boo Thang to end the inning is giving me throwbacks to Companion
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RIP david lynch you would have loved a baseball stadium full of people slowly losing their minds
October 28, 2025 at 5:29 AM
RIP david lynch you would have loved a baseball stadium full of people slowly losing their minds
Twin Cities folks, Kristi Noem is coming to town. Come join us in telling her and ICE that they are not welcome.
October 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Twin Cities folks, Kristi Noem is coming to town. Come join us in telling her and ICE that they are not welcome.
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Takeaways from the @startribune.com CEO Steve Grove interview at the Westminster Town Hall Forum tonight.
October 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Takeaways from the @startribune.com CEO Steve Grove interview at the Westminster Town Hall Forum tonight.
Reading this as I sit in on a meeting about SNAP running out on Nov 1
October 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Reading this as I sit in on a meeting about SNAP running out on Nov 1
Welp, spent a month trying to develop my own bespoke DiD estimator only to give up and use Callaway-Sant’Anna a week and a half before this working paper is due
October 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Welp, spent a month trying to develop my own bespoke DiD estimator only to give up and use Callaway-Sant’Anna a week and a half before this working paper is due
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A fun byproduct of unitary executive theory—if the president controls everyone under him, he can demand they transfer hundreds of millions in tax dollars into his bank account
Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X
October 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
A fun byproduct of unitary executive theory—if the president controls everyone under him, he can demand they transfer hundreds of millions in tax dollars into his bank account
What a series. Heartbroken for Seattle, but elated for Canada.
October 21, 2025 at 3:02 AM
What a series. Heartbroken for Seattle, but elated for Canada.