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Catherine Eckel
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I'm a behavioral/experimental economist at Texas A&M.
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conradhackett.bsky.social
The balance of public opinion is against abortion being legal in only one state, Arkansas.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
In 34 states and D.C., more people say abortion generally should be legal than say it generally should be illegal. For example, in the District of Columbia, 81% of adults say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Support for legal abortion also stands at about 75% or higher in several New England states, including Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Connecticut. Meanwhile, people in Arkansas are more likely to say abortion should generally be illegal (57%) rather than legal (41%). Arkansas is the only state where the balance of public opinion is against abortion by a statistically significant margin. In 15 states, the shares saying abortion should be legal and saying it should be illegal are not significantly different once the margins of sampling error in each state are taken into account.
July 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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codendahl.bsky.social
Nobel Prizes by country and year.

The dominance of Germany is striking every time. Before 1933, that is. And the utter dominance of America (and the UK) after 1945.
March 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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chrisbail.bsky.social
Grateful that some Republican leaders are pushing back against efforts to defund American universities: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Funding for R&D isn’t a gift to academia
Investing in scientific research and development is vital to U.S. security.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 31, 2025 at 1:17 PM
eckelc.bsky.social
Sounds like fun!
labsquare.net Lab² @labsquare.net · Mar 31
🔔 Call for Participation 🔔
Lab² is inviting researchers to take part in a multi-analyst study on the effects of having daughters on various outcomes.
Join this metascience project as a co-author and gain the opportunity to work with SOEP data!
#ManyDaughters
Many Analysts
www.manydaughters.com
March 31, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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crampell.bsky.social
relatedly: bsky.app/profile/code...
codendahl.bsky.social Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · Mar 28
Nobel Prizes by country and year.

The dominance of Germany is striking every time. Before 1933, that is. And the utter dominance of America (and the UK) after 1945.
March 31, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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petermorley.bsky.social
Are you ready to put away your wallet tomorrow? I’m all in!
February 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
eckelc.bsky.social
Go, Janet!
February 28, 2025 at 4:21 AM
eckelc.bsky.social
Oh no.
drtiffanyaflowers.bsky.social Dr. Tiffany A. Flowers @drtiffanyaflowers.bsky.social · Feb 27
This is going to effectively defund women’s sports at colleges and universities…
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Feb 12
From @theathletic.bsky.social: The Department of Education has rescinded Title IX guidance that stated NIL payments must be proportionate between a university’s male and female athletes. nyti.ms/40Z3Z4i
February 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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davebrady72.bsky.social
“Are federal workers lazy? Let’s look at the data.”

Excellent analysis by @andrewvandam.bsky.social

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Column | Are federal workers lazy? Let’s look at the data.
As Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service targets federal workers, we investigate how hard those folks have been working for their government paychecks.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
eckelc.bsky.social
I concur. Thanks to all who organized and attended/.
aviceisza.bsky.social Dr. Angelino Viceisza @aviceisza.bsky.social · Jan 26
I had a great time this weekend celebrating the life of Gary Charness. It was good to see many long-time colleagues in experimental economics, including @eckelc.bsky.social, @johnlist.bsky.social, and @lisev.bsky.social. A special thanks to #CharlesNoussair and #MartinDufwenberg for organizing!
January 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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jeffely.bsky.social
three things editors can do: (i dont think theres much hope for changing what referees do.)

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bengolub.bsky.social Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · Dec 24
In economics, editors, referees, and authors often behave as if a published paper should reflect some kind of authoritative consensus.

As a result, valuable debate happens in secret, and the resulting paper is an opaque compromise with anonymous co-authors called referees.

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December 24, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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nathannunn.bsky.social
Breaking the Cycle of Violence: How Female Leaders Curb Armed Conflict. Guest post by Francisco Eslava blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva... via the World Bank
Breaking the Cycle of Violence: How Female Leaders Curb Armed Conflict. Guest post by Francisco Eslava
blogs.worldbank.org
November 27, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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palmapolyak.bsky.social
Update: this list has now 100 (!) women political economists to follow! 🤩

Thanks so much for the (self-)recommendations, I'm thrilled to connect and reconnect with you all here & so looking forward to learning more about your work!

Still 50 spots open! 🙋
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November 27, 2024 at 1:40 PM
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conradhackett.bsky.social
This map shows where the world's carbon emissions come from - population centers, flight paths, shipping lanes and high production areas.
www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/mapped-ca...
This map shows where the world's carbon emissions come from. Population centers emit a large share of emissions but flight paths, shipping lanes and high production areas are also visible as sources of carbon emissions.
December 2, 2024 at 12:37 AM
eckelc.bsky.social
Just the facts.
conradhackett.bsky.social Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Dec 1
Americans killed annually by
All Islamic jihadist terrorists 9
Armed toddlers 21
Lightning 31
Lawnmowers 69
Busses 264
Falling out of bed 737
Being shot by another American 11,737

2017 estimates. The Royal Statistical Society gave this compilation its International Statistic of the Year award.
Chart compiling statistics on the number of Americans killed annually various causes. Includes source notes.
December 2, 2024 at 12:49 AM
eckelc.bsky.social
Ryan has a new way to look at things.
December 2, 2024 at 12:46 AM
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alvarolaparra.bsky.social
I've posted several times about the working paper, but the publication on "AER: Insights" is a good occasion to do it again: immigrants to the US have been less likely to be incarcerated for over 50 years **even without controlling for demographic characteristics.**
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap between Immigrants and the US-Born, 1870–2020† By Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Elisa Jácome, Santiago Pérez, and Juan David Torres* We provide the first nationally representative long-run series (1870–2020) of incarceration rates for immigrants and the US-born. As a group, immigrants have had lower incarceration rates than the US-born for 150 years. Moreover, relative to the US-born, immigrants’ incarceration rates have declined since 1960: immigrants today are 60 percent less likely to be incarcerated (30 percent relative to US-born Whites). This relative decline occurred among immigrants from all regions and cannot be explained by changes in observable characteristics or immigration policy. Instead, the decline is part of a broader divergence of outcomes between less-educated immigrants and their US-born counterparts. Panels plotting incarceration rates for immigrants and US-born men between 1870 and 2019. Data are restricted to males ages 18–40. Data spanning 1870–1940 are from the full-count decennial censuses. Data spanning 1950–1990 are from the largest available subsamples from the corresponding decennial censuses. Data from 2005 onward are from the annual ACS. Cross markers indicate that fewer than 10,000 immigrants were used to calculate the corresponding incarceration rate. Panel A compares US-born men to all immigrants. Panels B–F compare US-born men to immigrants from a particular country-of-origin group. “Old Europeans” are immigrants from countries in the north and west of Europe. “New Europeans” are immigrants from countries in eastern and southern Europe. The “Rest of the world” category includes immigrants from countries not included in panels B–F. Migrants typically show lower incarceration rates accounting for individual-level characteristics, migrants as a group or by subgroups (old Europeans, new Europeans, Chinese, Mexicans and Central Americans, or Rest of the World) are incarcerated at lower rates
December 1, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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ckrafftc.bsky.social
Cool new paper! "Strength in Numbers? Gender Composition, Leadership, and Women’s Influence in Teams" by @profkarpo.bsky.social, Stephen D. O’Connell, Jessica Preece, Olga Stoddard #Econsky polisky
October 12, 2023 at 9:55 PM
eckelc.bsky.social
Texas A&M University Economics were well represented at the Southern Economic Association meetings in Washington DC. This is a great meeting for seeing folks who aren't necessarily on the fancy circuit, lots of wonderful scholars from many different schools.
November 27, 2024 at 6:49 PM
eckelc.bsky.social
Really excellent lecture by Kasey Buckles! The best thing I saw at SEA this year.
lisagennetian.bsky.social Lisa A. Gennetian @lisagennetian.bsky.social · Nov 25
Congrats to Dr. Kasey Buckles on a fantastic lecture “How our families shape us” at #2024SEA
…and the wealth of data to be available w/ the curation of family linkages across censuses.
November 26, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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rmetcalfe.bsky.social
Ok folks, here is the job ad for our Empirical IO Assistant Professor position and how to apply: usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

We'll be moving fast so please encourage all of your students to apply quickly.

📈📉
January 11, 2024 at 7:09 PM
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bencasselman.bsky.social
OK, chart time. Big picture: Job growth remains solid. The "acceleration" in November was entirely due to the return of striking workers, but even accounting for that, gains are steady, albeit down from earlier this year. #NumbersDay
December 8, 2023 at 1:52 PM
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dynarski.bsky.social
For professional reasons I must change how I interact with social media

I am getting solicitations to apply for deanships

Gotta up the swearing and over-sharing
December 8, 2023 at 4:49 PM
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jenniferdoleac.bsky.social
Here it is! Our new standing RFP for causal research proposals on crime/CJ! This replaces our previous practice of invite-only submissions for most research.

Please share with your networks, including PhD students.

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December 8, 2023 at 4:15 PM
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laurakgee.bsky.social
🔥🔥🔥Are you pissed about Armin Falk heading IZA? If yes, consider reading/sharing/signing this letter. To be clear I didn’t organize this letter, and I’m so pleased that instead of me it was more senior economists (some male) who stepped up to help with this effort. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
November 14, 2023 at 1:30 PM