Phil Haile
Phil Haile
@philhaile.bsky.social
Professor of Economics at Yale
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I've gotten a flurry of requests to access my slides on "Models, Measurement, and Language in Economics" (presumably thanks to the great new year's reading list from @rohitlamba.bsky.social). The file is publicly available via my web page, but here is the link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ntgkb...
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August 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Using rich multi-level data on US House elections finds that marginal voters tend to favor Democrats. State voting policies have small but sometimes key effects and district maps net favor Republicans, from Steven T. Berry, Christian Cox, and Philip Haile https://www.nber.org/papers/w34149
August 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Wishing courage and good luck to the folks at BLS. I know you will continue to make honest statistics, including revisions. I hope you get to publish honest numbers despite intimidation from the political side.
August 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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This is an attack on democracy itself.

No Democratic or Republican politician can be allowed to suppress the most basic facts that the reveal real-world effects of policy.

Facts are the only basis for accountability, and thus a firebreak against dictatorship.
Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today
August 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Okay, *now you can start to worry about data being manipulated.
Corrupt. Dangerous. Deeply deeply damaging.
August 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I force myself to get through Bret Stephens' columns to get some sense of another perspective, and his defense of his months of "I can't vote for Biden or Harris" is pathetic. But worth reading, maybe especially for those looking for signs of decency from the right.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
Opinion | Bret Stephens on Being a Trump Critic Who Resists the Resistance (Gift Article)
The columnist on the value of acknowledging the president’s wins.
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April 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I've gotten a flurry of requests to access my slides on "Models, Measurement, and Language in Economics" (presumably thanks to the great new year's reading list from @rohitlamba.bsky.social). The file is publicly available via my web page, but here is the link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ntgkb...
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January 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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IO economists, the Call for Papers for the IIOC is out. It is May 3-5 in Boston. There are special sessions to showcase the work of grad students. Submit by Jan 31.

www.indorgsociety.org/conference
International Industrial Organization Conference | Industrial Organization Society
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December 12, 2023 at 9:59 PM