Remy Levin 🌻
@remylevin.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Economics @UConn. I Study the Co-Evolution of Risk & Utility. Recovering Thru-Hiker.
https://sites.google.com/view/remy-levin
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Remy Levin 🌻
@remylevin.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Literally my most normie opinion
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Nothing like waking up to find out your colleagues have a WP out that makes you rethink the interpretation of one of your papers! We show that weaker work norms increase the likelihood of going on DI when times are tough, but worth thinking about where those norms come from:
delia-furtado.uconn.edu
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Nothing like waking up to find out your colleagues have a WP out that makes you rethink the interpretation of one of your papers! We show that weaker work norms increase the likelihood of going on DI when times are tough, but worth thinking about where those norms come from:
🦶New version of our WP “Nobody Wants to Work Anymore”🦶w/ @danielavidart.bsky.social
Headline: a major contributor to the 50-year decline in U.S. male labor force participation is changes in men's beliefs about returns to work, shaped by lifetime experiences of aggregate male labor markets.
Headline: a major contributor to the 50-year decline in U.S. male labor force participation is changes in men's beliefs about returns to work, shaped by lifetime experiences of aggregate male labor markets.
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
🦶New version of our WP “Nobody Wants to Work Anymore”🦶w/ @danielavidart.bsky.social
Headline: a major contributor to the 50-year decline in U.S. male labor force participation is changes in men's beliefs about returns to work, shaped by lifetime experiences of aggregate male labor markets.
Headline: a major contributor to the 50-year decline in U.S. male labor force participation is changes in men's beliefs about returns to work, shaped by lifetime experiences of aggregate male labor markets.
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So once they identified today's Nobel prize recipients, they couldn't quite track them down.
October 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
So once they identified today's Nobel prize recipients, they couldn't quite track them down.
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Making sports gambling open and accessible to all will be seen as the "smoking is actually good for you" of our time
"When a fan links their Prime Video profile to their FanDuel account, their active NBA bets will be displayed and updated on the screen, along with relevant progress and won/lost status, providing an exciting new way to connect plays on the court with active bets."
www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
FanDuel and Amazon Announce Exclusive Odds Provider Partnership for NBA and WNBA on Prime Video
/PRNewswire/ -- FanDuel, the premier online gaming company in North America, today announced a partnership with Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) to become the official odds...
www.prnewswire.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Making sports gambling open and accessible to all will be seen as the "smoking is actually good for you" of our time
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Whatever you're doing, STOP RIGHT THIS SECOND and watch a sperm whale gulp down a squid, I promise you will not regret it
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Whatever you're doing, STOP RIGHT THIS SECOND and watch a sperm whale gulp down a squid, I promise you will not regret it
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They are literally canceling culture
September 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
They are literally canceling culture
Ok, this is actually dope. First real solution I’ve seen to ensuring human writing in the age of LLMs.
Maybe the college essay isn’t dead after all?
youtube.com/shorts/AhA1l...
Maybe the college essay isn’t dead after all?
youtube.com/shorts/AhA1l...
Just give me the grade I know I deserve
YouTube video by Study with J
youtube.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Ok, this is actually dope. First real solution I’ve seen to ensuring human writing in the age of LLMs.
Maybe the college essay isn’t dead after all?
youtube.com/shorts/AhA1l...
Maybe the college essay isn’t dead after all?
youtube.com/shorts/AhA1l...
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Hassett prepping lies for confirmation hearing.
White House's Hassett says Fed needs to be fully independent from Trump reut.rs/4p2GBOC
White House's Hassett says Fed needs to be fully independent from Trump
A top aide to U.S. President Donald Trump who is on his short list to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve said on Sunday that the central bank should be "fully independent of political influence," including from Trump.
reut.rs
September 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Hassett prepping lies for confirmation hearing.
Could not agree more with this piece
Excellent piece by Ezra Klein: if Dems really believe that Trump is creating an authoritarian government they should not continue to fund it. The shutdown is their only leverage right now to draw attention to what is happening and maybe force change.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
www.nytimes.com
September 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Could not agree more with this piece
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Excellent piece by Ezra Klein: if Dems really believe that Trump is creating an authoritarian government they should not continue to fund it. The shutdown is their only leverage right now to draw attention to what is happening and maybe force change.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
www.nytimes.com
September 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Excellent piece by Ezra Klein: if Dems really believe that Trump is creating an authoritarian government they should not continue to fund it. The shutdown is their only leverage right now to draw attention to what is happening and maybe force change.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
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Many studies claim a steady decline of cognitive ability with age, starting from as earlier as one’s twenties.
But this research is flawed, argues Aaron Dymarskiy—more accurate research finds it does not peak until at least age 60:
buff.ly/SiVx5ve
But this research is flawed, argues Aaron Dymarskiy—more accurate research finds it does not peak until at least age 60:
buff.ly/SiVx5ve
September 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Many studies claim a steady decline of cognitive ability with age, starting from as earlier as one’s twenties.
But this research is flawed, argues Aaron Dymarskiy—more accurate research finds it does not peak until at least age 60:
buff.ly/SiVx5ve
But this research is flawed, argues Aaron Dymarskiy—more accurate research finds it does not peak until at least age 60:
buff.ly/SiVx5ve
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The biggest analytical weakness of Americans in trying to understand the current moment is that their powers of analogy begin and end with US history. The idea that something qualitatively different might be arising simply doesn’t occur to them.
September 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The biggest analytical weakness of Americans in trying to understand the current moment is that their powers of analogy begin and end with US history. The idea that something qualitatively different might be arising simply doesn’t occur to them.
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We usually rely on GDP, trade, or wages to study the past. This amazing paper flips the script.
It analyzes 630,000 paintings (1400-2000) to extract emotions and shows how art tracks living standards, wars, inequality, and even climate shocks.
(How is this economics? Everything is economics!)
It analyzes 630,000 paintings (1400-2000) to extract emotions and shows how art tracks living standards, wars, inequality, and even climate shocks.
(How is this economics? Everything is economics!)
September 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
We usually rely on GDP, trade, or wages to study the past. This amazing paper flips the script.
It analyzes 630,000 paintings (1400-2000) to extract emotions and shows how art tracks living standards, wars, inequality, and even climate shocks.
(How is this economics? Everything is economics!)
It analyzes 630,000 paintings (1400-2000) to extract emotions and shows how art tracks living standards, wars, inequality, and even climate shocks.
(How is this economics? Everything is economics!)
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About this Florida vaccine story:
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
September 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
About this Florida vaccine story:
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
I’ve got a new working paper with @danielavidart.bsky.social, hot off the press. We develop a new method for measuring the risk preferences of agents in the past, and apply it to the U.S. from 1890-1920.
Check it out! Feedback is welcome.
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/chcof...
Check it out! Feedback is welcome.
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/chcof...
August 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I’ve got a new working paper with @danielavidart.bsky.social, hot off the press. We develop a new method for measuring the risk preferences of agents in the past, and apply it to the U.S. from 1890-1920.
Check it out! Feedback is welcome.
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/chcof...
Check it out! Feedback is welcome.
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/chcof...
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Essay which clearly outlines the scientific and ethical problems with selecting embryos for polygenic traits. Scientists associating themselves with embryo selection companies, and those who’ve previously defended sociogenomics but are staying silent on these companies, come in for criticism here
August 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Essay which clearly outlines the scientific and ethical problems with selecting embryos for polygenic traits. Scientists associating themselves with embryo selection companies, and those who’ve previously defended sociogenomics but are staying silent on these companies, come in for criticism here
I think this is naive. Human curiosity isn’t going away, but science requires real resources. The US is the world’s largest economy, and US scientific output dwarfs that of any other country. A major contraction in US science means a major contraction in global science.
"If the U.S. is no longer the world’s technoscientific superpower, it will almost certainly suffer for the change. America’s technology sector might lose its creativity. But science itself, in the global sense, will be fine. The deep human curiosities that drive it do not belong to any nation-state"
Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End
America’s run as the premier techno-superpower may be over.
www.theatlantic.com
August 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I think this is naive. Human curiosity isn’t going away, but science requires real resources. The US is the world’s largest economy, and US scientific output dwarfs that of any other country. A major contraction in US science means a major contraction in global science.
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Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing
As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements
This is a big deal
As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements
This is a big deal
August 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing
As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements
This is a big deal
As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements
This is a big deal
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There are no job losses in Ba Sing Se
August 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
There are no job losses in Ba Sing Se
So when are we starting to monitor US GDP with nightlights?
Okay, *now you can start to worry about data being manipulated.
Corrupt. Dangerous. Deeply deeply damaging.
August 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
So when are we starting to monitor US GDP with nightlights?
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Okay, *now you can start to worry about data being manipulated.
August 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Okay, *now you can start to worry about data being manipulated.
I suspect we won’t see true AGI until we have quantum computing on lock
July 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I suspect we won’t see true AGI until we have quantum computing on lock
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In my time in the Senate I've never seen a Senator treated this way. @padilla.senate.gov is carrying out his constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight and defend the people he represents. Absolutely shocking and disgusting way to handle a sitting member of Congress.
Wow. California Sen. Alex Padilla is wrestled and detained by federal officers after showing up to DHS Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference in LA. (video from Bill Melugin of Fox News)
June 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
In my time in the Senate I've never seen a Senator treated this way. @padilla.senate.gov is carrying out his constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight and defend the people he represents. Absolutely shocking and disgusting way to handle a sitting member of Congress.