Peter Nencka 📊
@peternka.bsky.social
assistant professor of economics @ miami university
history/labor/public
shiny pokémon
nba bluesky hype person (go bucks)
www.peternencka.com
history/labor/public
shiny pokémon
nba bluesky hype person (go bucks)
www.peternencka.com
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Hi #EconSky, I'm on the #EconJobMarket!
My JMP provides the first evidence on how teacher labor market shocks affect long-run student outcomes.
I study one of the largest teacher supply shocks in US history, larger even than Covid or the Great Recession.
Let’s talk about WWII… 🧵
My JMP provides the first evidence on how teacher labor market shocks affect long-run student outcomes.
I study one of the largest teacher supply shocks in US history, larger even than Covid or the Great Recession.
Let’s talk about WWII… 🧵
November 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Hi #EconSky, I'm on the #EconJobMarket!
My JMP provides the first evidence on how teacher labor market shocks affect long-run student outcomes.
I study one of the largest teacher supply shocks in US history, larger even than Covid or the Great Recession.
Let’s talk about WWII… 🧵
My JMP provides the first evidence on how teacher labor market shocks affect long-run student outcomes.
I study one of the largest teacher supply shocks in US history, larger even than Covid or the Great Recession.
Let’s talk about WWII… 🧵
Check out this important and well-done paper! I saw it first at history SEAs sessions a few years ago and it has only gotten more interesting since then
And Danielle has more cool projects in the pipeline (I'm biased, perhaps...)
And Danielle has more cool projects in the pipeline (I'm biased, perhaps...)
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Check out this important and well-done paper! I saw it first at history SEAs sessions a few years ago and it has only gotten more interesting since then
And Danielle has more cool projects in the pipeline (I'm biased, perhaps...)
And Danielle has more cool projects in the pipeline (I'm biased, perhaps...)
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👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year!
Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:
"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"
The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.
A JMP 🧵 -->
Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:
"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"
The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.
A JMP 🧵 -->
November 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year!
Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:
"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"
The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.
A JMP 🧵 -->
Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:
"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"
The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.
A JMP 🧵 -->
excited to help push Noah's thesis forward into this new working paper! a Miami tradition! (send us your students who could benefit from an MA degree!)
🚨🚨🚨New working paper 🚨🚨🚨
We find that sleep loss due to late-night sports watching led to a significant increase in fatal car crashes in the US during the 2002 World Cup.
A 🧵... #EconSky #EconTwitter
www.iza.org/publications...
We find that sleep loss due to late-night sports watching led to a significant increase in fatal car crashes in the US during the 2002 World Cup.
A 🧵... #EconSky #EconTwitter
www.iza.org/publications...
Soccer’s Record on the Road: The Effect of Late-Night Sporting Events on Fatal Car Crashes
Sleep deprivation imposes significant public health and economic burdens. While researchers studying events like daylight saving time have quantified...
www.iza.org
August 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
excited to help push Noah's thesis forward into this new working paper! a Miami tradition! (send us your students who could benefit from an MA degree!)
“No limits” doing some worrying work here
April 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
“No limits” doing some worrying work here
1920s church collection boxes were not messing around
April 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
1920s church collection boxes were not messing around
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get me to god's country
March 31, 2025 at 2:12 PM
get me to god's country
🫥
Austin Wells vs Freddy Peralta
#RepBX
🦄 IT'S A UNICORN 🦄
Home Run (1) 💣
Exit velo: 103.7 mph
Launch angle: 23 deg
Proj. distance: 348 ft
This would have been a home run at Yankee Stadium and nowhere else.
MIL (0) @ NYY (1)
🔻 1st
#RepBX
🦄 IT'S A UNICORN 🦄
Home Run (1) 💣
Exit velo: 103.7 mph
Launch angle: 23 deg
Proj. distance: 348 ft
This would have been a home run at Yankee Stadium and nowhere else.
MIL (0) @ NYY (1)
🔻 1st
March 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
🫥
I'm helping co-organize ~5 history sessions for the SEAs again!
Submit here:
forms.gle/vpYEgEaYtCtd...
Great venue, especially for earlier stage work and for grad students. Please submit!
Submit here:
forms.gle/vpYEgEaYtCtd...
Great venue, especially for earlier stage work and for grad students. Please submit!
forms.gle
March 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I'm helping co-organize ~5 history sessions for the SEAs again!
Submit here:
forms.gle/vpYEgEaYtCtd...
Great venue, especially for earlier stage work and for grad students. Please submit!
Submit here:
forms.gle/vpYEgEaYtCtd...
Great venue, especially for earlier stage work and for grad students. Please submit!
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I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork}
www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...
www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...
February 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork}
www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...
www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...
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Miami Econ is now part of the Bluesky world! We are excited to join! Help us spread the word!
February 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Miami Econ is now part of the Bluesky world! We are excited to join! Help us spread the word!
Reposted by Peter Nencka 📊
Reposted by Peter Nencka 📊
was tinkering with some OCR and decided to update an old econ history OCR example. What a difference a couple of years makes:
old: github.com/apoorvalal/h...
new: github.com/apoorvalal/h...
old: github.com/apoorvalal/h...
new: github.com/apoorvalal/h...
historical_data_extraction/DocParse.ipynb at master · apoorvalal/historical_data_extraction
minimal example of layoutparser use. Contribute to apoorvalal/historical_data_extraction development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
February 17, 2025 at 4:36 AM
was tinkering with some OCR and decided to update an old econ history OCR example. What a difference a couple of years makes:
old: github.com/apoorvalal/h...
new: github.com/apoorvalal/h...
old: github.com/apoorvalal/h...
new: github.com/apoorvalal/h...
Duolingo accidentally killed Duo the app as well (and my productivity this afternoon)
February 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Duolingo accidentally killed Duo the app as well (and my productivity this afternoon)
Accidentally made some art today
February 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Accidentally made some art today
Timely paper on some of the bad things that happen when Federal grant supported work needs to pause
January 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Timely paper on some of the bad things that happen when Federal grant supported work needs to pause
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Woodrow Wilson’s resegregation of the federal government didn’t just harm Black civil servants, but also their descendants across generations
Peep the Aneja and Xu (triple diff with matching using census microdata) www.nber.org/system/files...
Peep the Aneja and Xu (triple diff with matching using census microdata) www.nber.org/system/files...
January 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Woodrow Wilson’s resegregation of the federal government didn’t just harm Black civil servants, but also their descendants across generations
Peep the Aneja and Xu (triple diff with matching using census microdata) www.nber.org/system/files...
Peep the Aneja and Xu (triple diff with matching using census microdata) www.nber.org/system/files...
Reposted by Peter Nencka 📊
If you have to deal with (large) csv files a lot, you should give csvlens a shot. Think less for csvs.
github.com/YS-L/csvlens
github.com/YS-L/csvlens
GitHub - YS-L/csvlens: Command line csv viewer
Command line csv viewer. Contribute to YS-L/csvlens development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
January 4, 2025 at 11:21 PM
If you have to deal with (large) csv files a lot, you should give csvlens a shot. Think less for csvs.
github.com/YS-L/csvlens
github.com/YS-L/csvlens
I had lots of questions about the amazing and confusing NBA finals scenes in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (secretly a great basketball film, it is nearly the frame of the movie)
Luckily @rodger.bsky.social did the deep work for me in 2020
www.theringer.com/2020/07/06/n...
Luckily @rodger.bsky.social did the deep work for me in 2020
www.theringer.com/2020/07/06/n...
The 2002 Knicks-Kings NBA Finals, According to ‘How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days’
The Knicks and Kings may not have actually met in the 2002 NBA Finals, but that won’t stop us from reliving Latrell Sprewell’s heroics, inexplicable lineups, and a rom-com that also functions as a lov...
www.theringer.com
January 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
I had lots of questions about the amazing and confusing NBA finals scenes in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (secretly a great basketball film, it is nearly the frame of the movie)
Luckily @rodger.bsky.social did the deep work for me in 2020
www.theringer.com/2020/07/06/n...
Luckily @rodger.bsky.social did the deep work for me in 2020
www.theringer.com/2020/07/06/n...
What do we think Indiana Jones’ teaching load was? 1930s at a selective LAC?
December 31, 2024 at 1:35 PM
What do we think Indiana Jones’ teaching load was? 1930s at a selective LAC?
In retrospect I’m stupid, but I thought the Gideons actually stayed in lots of hotel rooms and left bibles and it was just loosely tolerated
December 28, 2024 at 2:01 AM
In retrospect I’m stupid, but I thought the Gideons actually stayed in lots of hotel rooms and left bibles and it was just loosely tolerated
better than 99 percent of superbowl halftime shows
December 25, 2024 at 11:22 PM
better than 99 percent of superbowl halftime shows
I said it back in November
everyone always says the season doesn’t start until the nba cup.
looking forward to seeing the new-look bucks play in meaningful games
looking forward to seeing the new-look bucks play in meaningful games
December 18, 2024 at 2:15 AM
I said it back in November
Discovered a new feeling of dread after seeing a daycare email with the subject “next week is spirit week”
December 14, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Discovered a new feeling of dread after seeing a daycare email with the subject “next week is spirit week”
there is an exam question in here somewhere
December 12, 2024 at 2:12 PM
there is an exam question in here somewhere