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Trevon Logan
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Economist. Economic Historian. Lego Nerd. Sharing thoughts.

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Trevon D'Marcus Logan is an American economist. He is the Hazel C. Youngberg Trustees Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio State University, where he was awarded the 2014 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2014, he was the youngest-ever president of the National Economic Association. In 2019, he was the inaugural North Hall Economics Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2020, he was named the inaugural director of the National Bureau of Economic Research Working Group on Race and Stratification in the Economy. His research mainly focuses on economic history, including studies of African American migration, economic analysis of illegal markets, the economics of marriage transfers, and measures of historical living standards, with an emphasis on racial disparities in the United States. .. more

Economics 34%
Political science 26%
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 5h
The globe!

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 5h
Gifted the rollercoaster and loved how it was set up in its new home!

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 5h
The rollercoaster!

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 5h
Second, the Loop Rollercoaster!

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 5h
Seeing all the holiday Lego joy made me dig through a few of my favorite Lego memories.

Up first, the typewriter!

Reposted by Trevon D. Logan, Robert C. Richards

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 5h
More generally, the right favors competition, but only if (a) the pool of competitors is restricted to the favored group; and (b) the favored group gets to define the criteria for "merit."

Reposted by Robert C. Richards

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 9h
From threats of violence to racially segregated restaurants to sundown towns, holiday travel required careful, deliberate planning from Black people. The Green Book project documents this history, and you can add your story as well: greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

Reposted by Trevon D. Logan

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Rhonda @silverarticfox.bsky.social · 21h
I am so glad he will be retiring.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1d
You will LOVE it!!

Reposted by Trevon D. Logan, Robert C. Richards, Michael Jones‐Correa

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 1d
The U.S. military is being used inside the United States. There's a lot we don't know about how, why, and under what authorities.

Lawfare's Domestic Deployments tracker and map, updated by Loren Voss, shows we know—and don’t know—about certain domestic military deployments.
Tracking Domestic Deployments of the U.S. Military
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1d
One thing I can say is that the Logans have the BEST Christmas celebrations! Such a wonderful Christmas Eve dinner tonight. Family memories surrounded us as we made new ones. This season is one to reflect, remember, and rejoice!

Merry Christmas to Everyone!

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2d
Glad to have more economists reading this!

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2d
I’m glad Ohio State has a robust and popular military history program. The courses are quite popular and offer a perspective to history most undergraduates have not encountered. I wish more departments would invest in the field. Lots of overlap with political, social, economic history as well.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2d
I know it’s time consuming to grade but it makes it so much easier in the long run. Also, reading all of the responses shows what did/did not land with students. Grading handwritten exams is also an assessment of my teaching, for better or worse.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2d
I just don’t know how you get to gauge whether a student gets income versus substitution effects unless you have them draw it up and label it. In economic history or applied courses writing out the main concepts of an idea or method are important plus I know that it’s coming from the student.

Reposted by Robert C. Richards

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2d
As a professor I have only given exams that required blue books. I have always used them because I need to see what my students know, and blue books are the best way I know to assess that.
stephenharrison.com Stephen Harrison @stephenharrison.com · 2d
Does anyone else bristle at this framing? WSJ says blue books are “torturing” students with hand cramps, and “nobody likes them.”

Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back.
Cheating with ChatGPT has become a huge problem for colleges. The solution is painfully old-school.
www.wsj.com

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2d
The demographics of Black students at elite universities bears this out. But nobody wants to talk about this, ever.

Reposted by Trevon D. Logan, Robert C. Richards

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2d
I know it doesn't matter for TCW, but empirical evidence on his most recent drivel shows the opposite of his claim. At least when it comes to college admissions, expressing Black solidarity or left commitments is harmful. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We Want Black Students, Just Not You: How White Admissions Counselors Screen Black Prospective Students - Ted Thornhill, 2019
Most historically and predominantly white institutions (HPWIs) now desire some number of black students on their campuses. However, recent theoretical scholarsh...
journals.sagepub.com

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Trevon D. Logan, Lindsay M. Tedds , and 2 more

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Stephen Harrison @stephenharrison.com · 2d
Does anyone else bristle at this framing? WSJ says blue books are “torturing” students with hand cramps, and “nobody likes them.”

Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back.
Cheating with ChatGPT has become a huge problem for colleges. The solution is painfully old-school.
www.wsj.com

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2d
It’s Christmas Eve and the Santas are getting ready to spread Christmas magic.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 3d
I think the narrative was that worker mobility— pandemic assistance easing work transitions, less lock in to existing employment, and the rise of virtual work— and increased worker power were the drivers. But this was also said to be “overpaying” workers and leading to inflation…

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 3d
I am very sympathetic to that argument, but the upending of the long term trend that was precipitated by the pandemic was very real for the bottom 10% of wage earners. The question is what narrative you’d wish to push for policy. Why did this reversal take place? What caused it?

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 3d
“I would engage you in a battle of wits but you are clearly unarmed.”
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What's an insult you'll never forget?

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 3d
A related story is that coverage of the economy seems to track high income sentiment. The deluge of bad economic news matched the relatively brief window (2022-2023) when high and low income Americans had the same opinions of the economy.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 3d
Something Herbert Hill said to me as an undergraduate always gets me: “If Black people were not even people, but subhuman as they would claim, why were they constantly having sex with them? What does that make them, according to their own racist logic? Why don’t we ever talk about that?”

Reposted by Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 3d
American universities have long accommodated racism. In athletics, it was common practice to sit Black athletes when playing segregated teams. It was easier to sideline the marginalized than take a moral stand.

Alas, universities are doing the same today.
eji.org Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 3d
On this day in 1946, the all-white University of Tennessee men's basketball team forfeited rather than play against Duquesne University's team and its one Black player.
Dec. 23, 1946 | University of TN Basketball Team Refuses to Play Team With Black Player
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 3d
Excluded units are: “physical therapy graduate program, mathematics, race and resistance studies, computer science, American Indian studies, philosophy, the School of Music, public health, special education, School of Social Work, School of Nursing and family, interiors, nutrition & apparel.”

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 3d
Something something… property rights… whiteness

Reposted by Stephen M. Walt, Anna O. Law, Nicholas A. Christakis , and 17 more

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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 3d
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…

* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M

So YES this has been a huge success.

Reposted by Trevon D. Logan

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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 3d
On this day in 1946, the all-white University of Tennessee men's basketball team forfeited rather than play against Duquesne University's team and its one Black player.
Dec. 23, 1946 | University of TN Basketball Team Refuses to Play Team With Black Player
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
calendar.eji.org