Protest at Point Reyes National Seashore today!!! Thanks to everyone who showed up! Protect OUR National Parks and public lands from madmen!!! These are what makes America great. Also where are the Democrats!?

This is an insane statistic from @kff.org (www.kff.org/health-infor...). Frankly, these kids, along with parents of kids who cannot be vaxed, should be suing their parents for endangering their lives and health. In another statistic 24% of republicans think risks of MMR vaccine outweigh benefits.

I should be in Whistler instead of writing referee reports 😭

so that's going to be a transportation disaster in ATL. Probably classes online tomorrow too

This looks very promising given that we're heading there on Sunday! The main goal will be to pace myself and avoid hitting bowls (i.e., likely injury) on day one!

Flu season is looking more optimistic this year and no human-to-human AH5N1 transmission yet, but stay safe and vigilant and get your jabs this year (there is still time).

Well-known among academics but clearly not well-known among the voting American (Republican) public.

I will have to miss season opening this year due to teaching and research obligations but boy this looks exciting and I hope it won't rain in Whistler until I get there in December

This looks like good news for the upcoming season! Now no rain until May please.

according to AI Robert LaLonde wrote one extra AER that he did not even know about

New WP w/ Cools, Grooms, O'Keefe, Price & @anthonywray.bsky.social : www.nber.org/papers/w3240.... Using sibling fixed effects & full census counts, we show remarkably stable first-born premiums in occupational, inergenerational, & social outcomes for 1835-1910 (male) birth cohorts.

new WP: www.nber.org/papers/w3212.... Increased penetration of charter schools improves reading (but not math) and absenteeism of children remaining in traditional public schools. Results are robust to three different ID strategies. Competition at district level matters more than at local level

Gifts arrived early this year. Happy to share that our paper (with @ajhollingsworth.bsky.social, @mthomasson.bsky.social, and @anthonywray.bsky.social) - The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality - is now conditionally accepted (subject to data replication) in the AER.

the most practical thank you note I've ever got from my undergraduate students

Also just out in EJ (w/ Autor, Figlio, Roth & Wasserman): academic.oup.com/ej/article/1.... Girls' advantage in educational and behavioral outcomes is most pronounced in the bottom half of the distribution, where family disadvantage disproportionately hurts boys relative to girls.