What are the best articles you have seen on how DOGE has changed or might change benefits in the US?

We're proud to see the work of nearly 3 dozen HCEO members cited in the 2025 Economic Report of the President: @paulgp.com & Janet Currie on effects of Medicaid expansion; @ganong.bsky.social on the impact of stimulus; E. Hanushek on cognitive skills & GDP growth; & many more. bit.ly/40cBCQ0

Striking plot of electricity outages in Senegal by Abdoulaye Cisse

Feel like this John Cochrane advice should be copy-pasted into every referee report

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From @the-signal.bsky.social I got a bunch of fascinating questions about post-pandemic affordability from Michael Bluhm. Here are my answers.

www.thesgnl.com/2024/12/affo...

I'm looking for a textbook for teaching data visualization. What are your favorite data viz books? Extra points if it has coding examples. #EconSky

Was great to see alums from my lab with Pascal Noel last week and to hear many of them present on topics in development, hh finance, education, behavioral, intl trade, and public!

Alright here’s my first attempt at using #econsky for actual questions… I have seen the claim below in other places (eg ezra Klein).

What econ research, if any, provides evidence for this claim? Not now, just the idea in general that attribution works differently for wage increases and inflation?

This is a good letter

“We would like to express our gratitude to our international research network members for explicitly bringing the essence of IZA into full focus through their critical engagement.”

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Is there a paper that computes wage growth for layoffs vs quits? (Ideally admin data, ideally published, ideally well-cited) So far I have found only older papers by Bartel & Borjas and Mincer #econsky

It would be easy for an NYT reader to think that what we need to achieve housing affordability is more regulation to stop residents from combining apartments. Of course, only less regulation will actually achieve more affordable housing
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/n... #econsky

Do you own an e-bike? How do you maintain it? Will most bike shops now fix broken ebikes or do you need a specialized shop?

Can someone explain if it matters whether you post
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Or are hashtags order-invariant on sky???

What's your favorite already-public code for estimating a continuous time income process? 📉📈

KMV 2018 is awesome, but would like to avoid learning Fortran if possible...

Econsky, this is your chance to "beat" econtwitter since I posted the exact same question there. Let's go!

Aspiring researchers: come work at Chicago Booth! I'm hiring pre-doctoral fellows along with Pascal Noel, Eric Zwick, and Owen Zidar.

Positions start anytime between now and summer 2024. Application

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First deadline: October 4

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I feel this is a fitting post for 📈📉.

Increases in housing supply lower rents. Who knew! (Seriously, great piece by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social, great data and chart work.)

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@instrumenthull.bsky.social is there a way for me to import your follow list?

TFW the other site asks you to read an article that you wrote!