Peter Nencka 📊
peternka.bsky.social
Peter Nencka 📊
@peternka.bsky.social
assistant professor of economics @ miami university
history/labor/public
shiny pokémon
nba bluesky hype person (go bucks)

www.peternencka.com
Check out this important and well-done paper! I saw it first at history SEAs sessions a few years ago and it has only gotten more interesting since then

And Danielle has more cool projects in the pipeline (I'm biased, perhaps...)
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year!

Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:

"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"

The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.

A JMP 🧵 -->
November 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
excited to help push Noah's thesis forward into this new working paper! a Miami tradition! (send us your students who could benefit from an MA degree!)
August 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
“No limits” doing some worrying work here
April 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
1920s church collection boxes were not messing around
April 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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get me to god's country
March 31, 2025 at 2:12 PM
🫥
Austin Wells vs Freddy Peralta
#RepBX

🦄 IT'S A UNICORN 🦄

Home Run (1) 💣

Exit velo: 103.7 mph
Launch angle: 23 deg
Proj. distance: 348 ft

This would have been a home run at Yankee Stadium and nowhere else.

MIL (0) @ NYY (1)
🔻 1st
March 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I'm helping co-organize ~5 history sessions for the SEAs again!

Submit here:
forms.gle/vpYEgEaYtCtd...

Great venue, especially for earlier stage work and for grad students. Please submit!
forms.gle
March 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork}

www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...
February 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Miami Econ is now part of the Bluesky world! We are excited to join! Help us spread the word!
February 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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February 19, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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was tinkering with some OCR and decided to update an old econ history OCR example. What a difference a couple of years makes:
old: github.com/apoorvalal/h...
new: github.com/apoorvalal/h...
historical_data_extraction/DocParse.ipynb at master · apoorvalal/historical_data_extraction
minimal example of layoutparser use. Contribute to apoorvalal/historical_data_extraction development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
February 17, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Duolingo accidentally killed Duo the app as well (and my productivity this afternoon)
February 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Accidentally made some art today
February 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Timely paper on some of the bad things that happen when Federal grant supported work needs to pause
January 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Woodrow Wilson’s resegregation of the federal government didn’t just harm Black civil servants, but also their descendants across generations

Peep the Aneja and Xu (triple diff with matching using census microdata) www.nber.org/system/files...
January 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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If you have to deal with (large) csv files a lot, you should give csvlens a shot. Think less for csvs.

github.com/YS-L/csvlens
GitHub - YS-L/csvlens: Command line csv viewer
Command line csv viewer. Contribute to YS-L/csvlens development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
January 4, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I had lots of questions about the amazing and confusing NBA finals scenes in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (secretly a great basketball film, it is nearly the frame of the movie)

Luckily @rodger.bsky.social did the deep work for me in 2020

www.theringer.com/2020/07/06/n...
The 2002 Knicks-Kings NBA Finals, According to ‘How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days’
The Knicks and Kings may not have actually met in the 2002 NBA Finals, but that won’t stop us from reliving Latrell Sprewell’s heroics, inexplicable lineups, and a rom-com that also functions as a lov...
www.theringer.com
January 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
What do we think Indiana Jones’ teaching load was? 1930s at a selective LAC?
December 31, 2024 at 1:35 PM
In retrospect I’m stupid, but I thought the Gideons actually stayed in lots of hotel rooms and left bibles and it was just loosely tolerated
December 28, 2024 at 2:01 AM
better than 99 percent of superbowl halftime shows
December 25, 2024 at 11:22 PM
I said it back in November
everyone always says the season doesn’t start until the nba cup.

looking forward to seeing the new-look bucks play in meaningful games
December 18, 2024 at 2:15 AM
Discovered a new feeling of dread after seeing a daycare email with the subject “next week is spirit week”
December 14, 2024 at 9:58 PM
there is an exam question in here somewhere
December 12, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Deaths by age, sex, and state (1870)

#skycharts
December 11, 2024 at 1:50 PM