I've had a long-running thread on twitter on the real migration crisis (not enough migrants). Will start posting here... but for the earlier 1,000-plus examples, see here:

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NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all.

Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

Breaking News: The U.S. charged the Indian mogul Gautam Adani, one of the world’s richest people, with fraud over a bribery scheme.

In my undergrad teaching, a persistent task is getting students to write better essays.

I am putting together some slides on how to answer essay questions that ask students to evaluate causal questions (e.g., "Did geographic luck cause the Rise of the West?".)

Just put together this diagram.

Paper worth reading: "The Optimality of Majority Rule" by Nina Bobkova.

It offers a new perspective on why simple majority-rule may be best: it not only aggregates information but it also motivates voters to learn about what really matters.

Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1pVVE...

#polecon

This paper on the effects of middle school principals on longer-run student outcomes is important for (at least) two reasons: 1) there are big long-run impacts of principals; 2) different measures of principal quality impact different longer run student outcomes. 👇

🥳 Just out in the @jpolecon.bsky.social:

👉 RCT shows that mentoring program strongly improves labor market prospects of disadvantaged adolescents

Paper w/ Sven Resnjanskij, @jruhose.bsky.social, @simonwiederhold.bsky.social, Katharina Wedel

🔗 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...