#  @annastansbury Anna Stansbury Anna Stansbury posts on X about in the, paper, share, thread the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::28876354/interactions)  - [--] Week [------] +180% - [--] Month [-------] +10,881% - [--] Months [-------] +14,813% - [--] Year [-------] -49% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::28876354/posts_active)  - [--] Month [--] +260% - [--] Months [--] +1,425% - [--] Year [--] +43% ### Followers: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::28876354/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0.16% - [--] Month [------] +0.84% - [--] Months [------] +3.10% - [--] Year [------] +2.10% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::28876354/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) [countries](/list/countries) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [vc firms](/list/vc-firms) [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands) [stocks](/list/stocks) **Social topic influence** [in the](/topic/in-the), [paper](/topic/paper), [share](/topic/share), [thread](/topic/thread), [social](/topic/social), [at least](/topic/at-least), [to the](/topic/to-the), [strong](/topic/strong), [health](/topic/health), [data](/topic/data) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@alexolegimas](/creator/undefined) [@mattyglesias](/creator/undefined) [@nberpubs](/creator/undefined) [@mitsloan](/creator/undefined) [@piie](/creator/undefined) [@schultzzyrun](/creator/undefined) [@samfriedmansoc](/creator/undefined) [@rthaler](/creator/undefined) [@mitiwer](/creator/undefined) [@danturnersy](/creator/undefined) [@edballs](/creator/undefined) [@rschultzzy](/creator/undefined) [@twooars](/creator/undefined) [@farmerrf](/creator/undefined) [@warwickmckibbin](/creator/undefined) [@tillvonwachter](/creator/undefined) [@arpitrage](/creator/undefined) [@mattbruenig](/creator/undefined) [@nativistconcern](/creator/undefined) [@pikagoldin](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Lagarde's not just the first female ECB president. She's one of the first *ever* ♀ CB governors in Europe. Quick Wiki trawl suggests there has never been a♀ governor in Germany France UK Italy Spain Romania Netherlands Belgium Greece Czechia Portugal Sweden Switzerland Norway Christine Lagarde is set to swap the helm of the IMF for that of the ECB becoming the first woman to run euro-area monetary policy https://t.co/WY0Z6V4wCr via @simonjkennedy #tictocnews https://t.co/WrvLYfp2bi Christine Lagarde is set to swap the helm of the IMF for that of the ECB becoming the first woman to run" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1146139228738392066) 2019-07-02T19:31Z 20.2K followers, [--] engagements "Also since I'm posting professional news: I'm absolutely thrilled to be joining @MITSloan @MIT_IWER as an Assistant Professor this Fall I'm so excited to have the chance to work with a group of scholars I greatly admire on how to make work & jobs better for more people" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1372250900845137926) 2021-03-17T18:18Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements ". would substantially increase socioeconomic diversity but would not change racial diversity. If you assume Harvard has implicit HH wealth quotas getting rid of legacy could simply lead to selection on wealth by other means. Etc" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1380048999122526210) 2021-04-08T06:44Z 19.8K followers, [--] engagements "To proxy for socioeconomic background we use the highest level of parental education. In this preliminary work we're focusing just on US-born individuals (30% of US econ PhDs) since parental education means diff't things for SES across diff't countries. (2/N)" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1458209175046078472) 2021-11-09T23:05Z 19.8K followers, [---] engagements "@_perezalan_ @PIIE @SchultzzyRun Great point. On my list to look specifically at public policy PhDs as I can imagine this being a factor" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1508851300305457152) 2022-03-29T16:59Z 19.8K followers, [--] engagements "Consistent with this being a response by firms to the law they find this big jump in managerial roles at the $455 threshold *only* in states where the FLSA threshold applies (rather than a higher state specific threshold). (3)" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1612806241537118209) 2023-01-10T13:39Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements "AND they find a bigger bunching response in states with greater firm power as proxied by unionization rates labor market tightness and right to work laws even with firm fixed effects (i.e. within firm differentials across states). (4)" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1612806244716412930) 2023-01-10T13:39Z 20.2K followers, [----] engagements "@RobAtkinsonITIF One of the four mandatory macro courses in the first year Harvard Econ PhD sequence is growth " [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1638677068387872770) 2023-03-22T23:00Z 20K followers, [----] engagements "At MIT and Chicago parental income doesn't increase your likelihood of getting in when you condition on test scores. Very different to the other "Ivy Plus" schools" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1684219027445497856) 2023-07-26T15:22Z 18.3K followers, [----] engagements "If you haven't already listened to this interview of Claudia Goldin @PikaGoldin (from Ashenfelter's podcast) now is the time -- an amazing insight into her journey from the Bronx to Harvard and her career as one of the trailblazing women in econ. https://soundcloud.com/theworkgoesonpodcast/claudia-goldin-on-her-journey-from-the-bronx-to-harvard https://soundcloud.com/theworkgoesonpodcast/claudia-goldin-on-her-journey-from-the-bronx-to-harvard" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1711394772990955624) 2023-10-09T14:54Z 20.3K followers, 29.6K engagements "@Schoefer_B @IRLEUCB @berkeleyecon Fantastic news - congratulations" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1715034278424133828) 2023-10-19T15:56Z 18.3K followers, [---] engagements "Why hasn't UK regional policy worked @DanTurnerSY @edballs Nyasha Weinberg and @ElsdenEsme interviewed over [--] top level UK politicians and policymakers (spanning six decades of experience). Dan's thread on the key lessons - & their paper - is a must read" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1716906130985881975) 2023-10-24T19:54Z 17.5K followers, [----] engagements "Fascinating analysis from @jburnmurdoch: US cities have seen graduate wage premia (mostly) rise not fall unlike UK cities outside London Building on our analysis (@DanTurnerSY @EdBalls) as well as recent work on UK cities by @resfoundation" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1718265335743135746) 2023-10-28T13:55Z 18.3K followers, 24.3K engagements "This is exactly what motivated me & @Rschultzzy to write this paper. We draw from an exceedingly narrow range of lived experiences in our profession. As a social science I think this really matters. Been thinking a lot recently about how many Economists have never had to worry about money or work a low-wage job and how this limits our ability to be good social scientists https://t.co/sbz1T5XhZw https://t.co/mGpMKM92hx Been thinking a lot recently about how many Economists have never had to worry about money or work a low-wage job and how this limits our ability to be good social scientists" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1720482781996679388) 2023-11-03T16:47Z 20.3K followers, 44.9K engagements "One of the most striking charts from our paper imo is this one: The vast majority of Economics PhDs at top-ranked programs have a parent with a *graduate* degree - particularly among the American students. That is we are drawing from an extremely narrow socioeconomic pool" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1720540812461609194) 2023-11-03T20:37Z 20.3K followers, 299.3K engagements "Really cool paper from a fantastic scholar of labor markets & monopsony A 🧵on @ihsaanbassier's #JMP. Ihsaan is a post-doc at LSE working on labor & development. He's doing amazing research on labor market institutions monopsony inequality. His JMP is very timely: collective bargaining's spillover on non-union sector. 1/ https://t.co/wneVexlNVQ https://t.co/2LZFHPmrbE A 🧵on @ihsaanbassier's #JMP. Ihsaan is a post-doc at LSE working on labor & development. He's doing amazing research on labor market institutions monopsony inequality. His JMP is very timely: collective bargaining's spillover" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1724097575987597641) 2023-11-13T16:11Z 19.8K followers, 17.8K engagements "@samthorpe__ & Dodini Willen et al in Norway find that higher firm union density counteracts the negative wage effects of concentration too. It would be very interesting to collate all these emerging examples into a collage across place market structure etc" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1750600943744487674) 2024-01-25T19:26Z 17.5K followers, [---] engagements "Yes JEP paper shows that East Germany can be spotted before it existed in a whole range of economic and social data . So you cant just look at East/west patterns now and infer the lasting effects of living under communism /DDR https://x.com/essobecker/status/1238013473948200962s=46&t=YOcKDzHgJ8LB50G5lbm3kQ Great maps. Is there a way to show a similar map but for the pre-ww2 period To make clear that this is not a long running fixed effect https://x.com/essobecker/status/1238013473948200962s=46&t=YOcKDzHgJ8LB50G5lbm3kQ Great maps. Is there a way to show a similar map but for the pre-ww2 period" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1758090425951293544) 2024-02-15T11:26Z 20.3K followers, 44.9K engagements "Do Firms Have an Incentive to Comply with the US Federal Minimum Wage A thread 🧵 w/ results from my updated WP (with newly-FOIA-ed data on liquidated damages and hot good violations for all the enforcement nerds out there). https://docs.iza.org/dp16882.pdf https://docs.iza.org/dp16882.pdf" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1780643975705014545) 2024-04-17T17:06Z 18.8K followers, 30.4K engagements "My brilliant coauthor @rjisungpark's book is out Jisung 's research & now his book bring an invaluable lens to the economics of climate change. "Park explains how climate change operates as the silent accumulation of a thousand tiny conflagrations" https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691221038/slow-burn Adding to the top of my stack Congrats @rjisungpark 👏 #econtwitter https://t.co/j4ybjWWok7 https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691221038/slow-burn Adding to the top of my stack Congrats @rjisungpark 👏 #econtwitter https://t.co/j4ybjWWok7" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1780649011306787279) 2024-04-17T17:26Z 18.8K followers, [----] engagements "Dream conference topic / team Submit below Call for papers: The Micro and Macro of Labor Markets at SITE / Stanford August 6-7 Submit your papers here: https://t.co/eI39AkC54l Deadline next week: May [--] Decisions/notifications by June [--] = quick turnaround Org: @SydneeCaldwell Gregor Jarosch Isaac Sorkin I https://t.co/koFVjK10w5 Call for papers: The Micro and Macro of Labor Markets at SITE / Stanford August 6-7 Submit your papers here: https://t.co/eI39AkC54l Deadline next week: May [--] Decisions/notifications by June [--] = quick turnaround Org: @SydneeCaldwell Gregor Jarosch Isaac Sorkin I" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1788225221138288663) 2024-05-08T15:11Z 18.9K followers, [----] engagements "Time and again studies find that labor standards violations are underreported because of fear of retaliation. This is a really helpful breakdown of WHAT kinds of retaliations people experience - we often think of firing but there's a lot that can be done within the job too. 6/8 Around half of workers who reported labor standards violations experienced some form of retaliation including reduced hours worse tasks and being denied promotion. This can lead to a chilling climate in workplaces that dissuades workers from coming forward. https://t.co/JrCHkW9WVZ 6/8 Around half of workers who" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1791240425501847802) 2024-05-16T22:52Z 19.8K followers, [----] engagements "@jhaushofer omg. Iconic 🤣" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1793327867473875121) 2024-05-22T17:07Z 18.9K followers, [---] engagements "@mattsclancy @chris_m_neill Sad I missed three body problem and the dispossessed already 🥲" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1795290166023868845) 2024-05-28T03:05Z 18.9K followers, [--] engagements "Writeup of my minimum wage compliance work @MITSloan Ideas Made To Matter A simple cost-benefit calculation would tell many firms to break the law" https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/sharper-teeth-stronger-bite-needed-us-minimum-wage-laws https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/sharper-teeth-stronger-bite-needed-us-minimum-wage-laws" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1798084752064602259) 2024-06-04T20:09Z 20.2K followers, [----] engagements "The gender pay gap around labor market entry (age 25) has been declining - but this is mostly driven by young men entering at a LOWER point in the overall pay distribution not by young women entering at a higher point" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1803800524053008437) 2024-06-20T14:42Z 20.3K followers, 64.1K engagements "Studying [----] committee deliberations for new hires in a consulting company women have much less influence than men in the final outcome (3 person committee; typically [--] woman [--] men; influence = likelihood of achieving desired hiring outcome when there is disagreement)" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1803810190728286701) 2024-06-20T15:20Z 19.1K followers, 13.8K engagements "From fascinating @ASchiprowski presentation @cepr_org labour symposium" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1803810406147719577) 2024-06-20T15:21Z 19.1K followers, [---] engagements "This seems to pose a false dichotomy between - buying clothing made in appalling conditions (child/forced labor) or - buying US made But manufacturing is a crucial path to prosperity for developing countries. Proposing buying American as the only ethical consumer choice How to fix fast fashion https://t.co/7PtrcDlHNV How to fix fast fashion https://t.co/7PtrcDlHNV" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1805660373758230752) 2024-06-25T17:52Z 19.2K followers, 20.6K engagements "A super stubborn misconception is that US workers on average are more precarious working more jobs and longer hours to make ends meet. Great thread myth busting. BUT: Why does this misconception persist Are we measuring things differently from how people perceive them❓ Conventional wisdom says that workers are more precarious and unsettled than in decades past working multiple jobs and longer hours and more prone to disruption. Is any of that true Conventional wisdom says that workers are more precarious and unsettled than in decades past working multiple jobs and longer hours and more prone" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1805677205285912680) 2024-06-25T18:59Z 19.1K followers, 20.7K engagements "And such a huge welfare loss. The economics profession is still not grappling with the magnitude of the intellectual error in underestimating full employment. I think it is worth rewinding the clock to see how badly the story was missed. The economics profession is still not grappling with the magnitude of the intellectual error in underestimating full employment. I think it is worth rewinding the clock to see how badly the story was missed" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1813282318502498414) 2024-07-16T18:39Z 20.3K followers, 86K engagements "Among all STEM and social science fields the concentration of award winners in a few institutions is highest in Economics. AND its the only field where this concentration is rising not falling. Freeman Xie Zhang and Zhou #NBERSI" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1813973056454570205) 2024-07-18T16:24Z 20.3K followers, 59.5K engagements "The graph in the prior slide shows the HHI across institutions for top prize winners over time for the social sciences. This slide shows the same for Nobel laureates" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1813973065396838823) 2024-07-18T16:24Z 19.6K followers, [----] engagements "Huge gender gap in ChatGPT adoption (20ppt WITHIN occupation) (In Denmark) Would love to hear hypotheses as to why Incredible plot from Anders Humlum (not on Twitter or has a dormant handle). Who uses ChatGPT higher income workers male workers MUCH more likely to use ChatGPT has big positive productivity effects. Will be unequally distributed. https://t.co/ITDh4qZQ4h Incredible plot from Anders Humlum (not on Twitter or has a dormant handle). Who uses ChatGPT higher income workers male workers MUCH more likely to use ChatGPT has big positive productivity effects. Will be unequally" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1815508446596534632) 2024-07-22T22:05Z 19.7K followers, 37.5K engagements "Deliberately ambiguous because I think one could operationalize this a few ways - R squared of $$-success - incremental avg causal effect of $$ on success - financial resources pre making it vs availability of resources when made it (sponsorship; national funding)" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1819302822321521057) 2024-08-02T09:22Z 19.7K followers, [----] engagements "@two_oars interesting candidate There's a certain level of $$ in terms of learning to shoot (ammo is expensive) but (1) that cost is often borne by someone else (e.g. in Dikec's case he was a police officer) and (2) beyond that cost perhaps there's not a huge impact of additional $$" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1819311322170859847) 2024-08-02T09:56Z 19.7K followers, [----] engagements "@two_oars that's an interesting point with costs of recovery and injury management (i was a competitive shooter in college so am pretty confident about the startup costs - which i was lucky to have funded by the college team)" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1819315560183673294) 2024-08-02T10:13Z 19.7K followers, [---] engagements "@two_oars yes that is probably very true on region/country of origin. isn't ammo decently expensive everywhere though unless subsidized" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1819317553245692157) 2024-08-02T10:21Z 19.7K followers, [---] engagements "@halcanary I'm not sure it's as clear that the entire shortfall since [----] is because of insufficiently tight labor markets" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1819886902767394859) 2024-08-04T00:03Z 19.8K followers, [--] engagements "#EconTwitter: We need to solve the coordination problem. See Tatyana's post to commit to move to Bluesky for at least one month starting Sep [--] IF enough others do the same (and the snapshot if you want a nudge as to why) Last call to conditionally commit to move to Bluesky for at least [--] month starting on September [--] IF enough others do the same Fill out survey here (will close end of day August 9): https://t.co/KKQJSvZapD Last call to conditionally commit to move to Bluesky for at least [--] month starting on September [--] IF enough others do the same Fill out survey here (will close end of day" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1820822027550200177) 2024-08-06T13:59Z 19.8K followers, [----] engagements "@chipsandpol No because most papers are circulated as working papers presented at conferences and seminars etc for a really long time before being sent to journals so the idea is that someone could find out the author anyway with a quick Google (or might know anyway)" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1821612301675626937) 2024-08-08T18:19Z 20.2K followers, [----] engagements "Lots of talk on grocery price inflation after Harris recent remarks. But does anyone know why grocery price *levels* are so high in US compared to Europe (In a static sense - this has been the case ever since I moved here in 2013). I imagine there is research on this" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1825831094119199163) 2024-08-20T09:43Z 20.2K followers, 32.4K engagements "@mattyglesias Huh That goes against my observations. Useful data. Id love to see a breakdown of prices by specific product type. Or maybe its a regional thing. Pretty much all food I buy is more expensive in Boston than London except avocados. (& I dont shop at Whole Foods 😉)" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1825834017712742749) 2024-08-20T09:55Z 20.2K followers, [----] engagements "Life satisfaction goes up temporarily for both parents following the birth of their first child and then reverts to pre child level. Interestingly there is no gender gap. (This is estimated with the same Kleven et al methodology used to estimate child penalty in earnings) @annastansbury Life satisfaction even goes up for both parents following the birth of their first child Kleven adds this caveat to the reductive child penalty term in his slides but it also raises more economic questions about lifecycle adjustments or household bargaining/specialization https://t.co/mDGGsmiSMS @annastansbury" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1831013419316645997) 2024-09-03T16:56Z 20.2K followers, [----] engagements "Ethical CEOs should care about labor law enforcement --- my new op ed in @thehill "Unscrupulous firms that break the law undermine the businesses that want to be ethical and this puts the principled businesses at risk of being out-competed"" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1836137405495079063) 2024-09-17T20:17Z 20.2K followers, [----] engagements "@farmerrf @WarwickMcKibbin @farmerrf I don't think the production function is CRS. It's nested CES with the elasticities of substitution estimated on US data. If labor & capital are gross complements removing L reduces MPK s Warwick notes" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1839466907520438314) 2024-09-27T00:47Z 20.2K followers, [---] engagements "@farmerrf @WarwickMcKibbin That makes sense but then I dont understand why youre arguing that means MPK must rise when L falls In a CES production function with CRS the sign of dMPK/dL depends on the elasticity of substitution of capital and labor" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1839481112030040189) 2024-09-27T01:44Z 20.2K followers, [---] engagements "@farmerrf @WarwickMcKibbin (Ah yes I see that I misspoke in the earlier post - it can be both CES and CRS of course)" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1839483153460637956) 2024-09-27T01:52Z 20.2K followers, [--] engagements "IMPORTANT caveat: This data is from 1900-1960s. This paper is great but it's historical - and keeps circulating around Twitter as if it's about the present There is still a big problem of elite-background academics But it does the debate no good to be using the wrong data. According to a recent paper the vast majority of academics gain their elite status the old-fashioned way they were born with rich parents. https://t.co/lZEvjCua5B According to a recent paper the vast majority of academics gain their elite status the old-fashioned way they were born with rich parents. https://t.co/lZEvjCua5B" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1874105525404877247) 2024-12-31T14:49Z 19.9K followers, 17.2K engagements "Nope - these data are from 1900-1960 Economics is the LEAST socioeconomically diverse field - even less than the humanities - and has been for the last two decades plus among PhD students https://x.com/MeganTStevenson/status/1873763562549809513 https://x.com/MeganTStevenson/status/1873763562549809513" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1874110068112974222) 2024-12-31T15:07Z 20K followers, 26.4K engagements "Nope. This paper is about US academics 1900-1960 The present looks different. Asking people to stop drawing inference from these stats as if they're about the present & asking authors to put time period in their title and abstract 🙏 Who are the hyper privileged rich academics Humanities. New paper by Ran Abramitzky and colleagues https://t.co/TvNFmPzgoA Who are the hyper privileged rich academics Humanities. New paper by Ran Abramitzky and colleagues https://t.co/TvNFmPzgoA" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1874111102122184740) 2024-12-31T15:11Z 20.3K followers, 78.8K engagements "@filpet4 I think the colors are confusing in that graph - the red least elite one is psychology. humanities are still pretty elite but more in the middle of the pack than before" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1874497300749488360) 2025-01-01T16:45Z 20K followers, [--] engagements "Excited to have put together #ASSA2025 session on *Non-employment effects of the minimum wage* Looking at - workplace injuries - job satisfaction & amenities - search effort - company wage policy - & effects of CAs $20 fast food min Tomorrow (Friday) 2.30-4.30pm Join us" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1875062022381211757) 2025-01-03T06:09Z 20K followers, [----] engagements "Superb paper by Dobbin&Zohar @ #ASSA2025 22% of intergenerational earnings persistence is accounted for by ACCESS to high paying firms (AKM firm effects). A lot of this probably due to networks/connections/discrimination Data from Israel. Lots more in the paper" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1875256644709593562) 2025-01-03T19:03Z 20K followers, [----] engagements "What happens to companies who get more powerful institutional shareholders CEO pay falls by a cumulative 60% over [--] years Top execs by 40% Striking endorsement of the view that strong shareholders help solve the principal agent problem Paper by Falato Kim & @TillvonWachter" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1876366979390754824) 2025-01-06T20:35Z 20.3K followers, 37.8K engagements "@ErikSherman @TillvonWachter Sorry could you clarify what you mean by earnings here Firm Earnings or worker earnings" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1876377840566079648) 2025-01-06T21:18Z 20K followers, [--] engagements "Recommend papers on the idea that higher inflation enables firms to raise prices by more because they get "cover" - consumers confused about relative prices everyone increasing so individual increases aren't noticed as much (aka effective price elasticity of demand falls)" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1877795052665098371) 2025-01-10T19:10Z 20K followers, [----] engagements "(This is not a dunk - both of these are seismic trends and it's hard to predict what they'll mean. but I think it's pretty interesting that they might actually interact to mitigate each other's labor market implications.) I do think this is actually as worrying as people say it is. We're not prepared for life in a world where the number of workers is about the same as the number of retirees but that's the world we're heading toward. I do think this is actually as worrying as people say it is. We're not prepared for life in a world where the number of workers is about the same as the number of" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1878948614711738510) 2025-01-13T23:33Z 20K followers, [----] engagements "@BrianCAlbrecht @geoffmanne Yes re shadow price true. Oh yes of course - I remember seeing this in your paper This inverse labor share - dynamism correlation is very interesting and one I hadn't seen before" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1882247292054642923) 2025-01-23T02:01Z 19.9K followers, [---] engagements "@oren_cass I get why you might want balanced trade in aggregate but you cant possibly believe that aiming for balanced trade with every single trading partner is a coherent or good idea" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1907789555820015720) 2025-04-03T13:37Z 19.9K followers, [---] engagements ""If a country has lots of oil it will export to countries that have no oil. There is no reason why the country importing oil would have what the exporter will want to buy. Instead the exporter would prefer to be paid in money and use it to buy what it wants from other countries"" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1907891189141119269) 2025-04-03T20:21Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements "Are there papers estimating gender and/or racial wage gaps for people from the same college and major i.e. went to same college and studied same subject (say: U Michigan Computer Science). Any country" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1956036401440371129) 2025-08-14T16:53Z 19.8K followers, [----] engagements "📢@NinaRoussille and I are hiring a full-time predoctoral researcher to work with us at MIT on labor economics research projects. IMPORTANT: this vacancy is open right now so we are particularly interested in people who could start soon. Link to apply in next tweet" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1965038530050310372) 2025-09-08T13:04Z 19.8K followers, 31.4K engagements "More info and apply here: https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_mit/external/jobDetails/jobDetail.htmljobPostId=32806&localeCode=en-us https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_mit/external/jobDetails/jobDetail.htmljobPostId=32806&localeCode=en-us" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1965038533053428186) 2025-09-08T13:04Z 19.8K followers, [---] engagements "@MaxGhenis @paulryankatz @jhaushofer (in my view)" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1365151930591318018) 2021-02-26T04:09Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements "@ToddRumson @Rachel_Lipson @sophie_e_hill @SamFriedmanSoc and @Daniel_Laurison document the role of social class background in all three of these channels in several elite occupations in detail in their excellent book the Class Ceiling" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1388193274167324674) 2021-04-30T18:07Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements "This is still work in progress - we just presented today at the Fed's diversity & inclusion conference and will be putting out a longer and more detailed working paper over coming weeks. All your comments thoughts and feedback are welcomed (/End) https://x.com/FedResearch/status/1458077296422756365 Watch live from Conference on Diversity and Inclusion in Economics Finance and Central Banking: Panel on monetary policy committees and D&I: https://t.co/07g9a2YOMZ https://t.co/ljWufR3Xuj https://x.com/FedResearch/status/1458077296422756365 Watch live from Conference on Diversity and Inclusion in" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1458209205064716288) 2021-11-09T23:05Z 19.9K followers, [---] engagements "@SamFriedmanSoc Thanks Sam Your work is much of what has inspired me on this front" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1458422417324453894) 2021-11-10T13:12Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements "But in terms of efforts purely to increase diversity -- women w/ parents w/ graduate degrees are *overrepresented* in econ PhDs relative to the general population - just not *as* overrepresented as men whose parents have graduate degrees" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1536670399244783616) 2022-06-14T11:22Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements "@arpitrage @RobinWigg In large part this increase in awareness & data collection & policy change is thanks to work by @SocialMobilityF @lindsey_mac @SamFriedmanSoc and others (Who will know more than I do about how widespread it is to collect this info in recruiting)" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1801282713275507130) 2024-06-13T15:57Z 19.9K followers, [---] engagements "@brsgr4049 @GuthmannR That is very interesting context. feels vibe wise not much like hard time to describe men of the conquered empire as falling into a life of pretentiousness and indolence Also that there had not been continuous wars. Wonder if this text was before" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1898146491367403802) 2025-03-07T22:59Z 20K followers, [---] engagements "Hannah also finds a tradeoff between schedule unpredictability and wages: when the minimum wage is increased scheduling unpredictability increases too. Another margin that firms are able to cut costs when min wages rise. (parallels with our work on workplace injuries)" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1993365265254379753) 2025-11-25T17:04Z 20K followers, [---] engagements "@Econ_Marshall Yes - and these arent gig workers so as you say its the gig-ification of employer-employee relations" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1993740425899986968) 2025-11-26T17:55Z 20K followers, [--] engagements "@Afinetheorem This is similar to the UK system - 1st is (historically) for c top 15% if you work hard and stay on top of the material you should be able to get a 2:1 and most people will get this. you can also pass with a 2:2" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1993815880980156580) 2025-11-26T22:55Z 20K followers, [---] engagements "👏MIT: no legacy admissions no preferential admissions for the rich Dartmouth: we skew our admissions towards the rich Harvard: we skew our admissions towards the rich and the poor MIT: you guys skew your admissions https://t.co/siqQfDUiyT Dartmouth: we skew our admissions towards the rich Harvard: we skew our admissions towards the rich and the poor MIT: you guys skew your admissions https://t.co/siqQfDUiyT" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1993865843403592178) 2025-11-27T02:13Z 20.1K followers, 62K engagements "@BenZaranko Whats the net-net in terms of higher inflation - higher interest rates - higher debt servicing costs vs higher inflation - bigger tax increase given frozen thresholds" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1993883756932026491) 2025-11-27T03:25Z 20K followers, [---] engagements "@ry4335127356065 How do you reconcile your view with the graph" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1994047480434958402) 2025-11-27T14:15Z 20K followers, [---] engagements "@ry4335127356065 Check out the article. The figure above shows attendance conditional on standardized tests scores. You can also filter to show attendance without conditioning on standardized tests scores" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1994049469982073153) 2025-11-27T14:23Z 20.1K followers, [--] engagements "@JohnrMDPhD MIT has about [----] undergrads so even if there are some who get in on connections its not enough to move the needle on the graph above right Its very clear that on average conditional on test score theres no admission difference by parent income" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1994222332274004220) 2025-11-28T01:50Z 20.1K followers, [--] engagements "just compensate the losers is great in theory but we rarely actually do it the Luddites broke machines because their livelihoods were being destroyed Can we actually rise to the challenge this time- harness AI productivity gains while also fully compensating those displaced Oh my how have we survived without the millions of people who used to take restaurant reservations book airline tickets operate toll booths and print folded maps How was it to hail a taxi in the Bay Area This is the anti-abundance agenda. Oh my how have we survived without the millions of people who used to take restaurant" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1994224096339480810) 2025-11-28T01:57Z 20.1K followers, 165K engagements "To be clear - not responding directly to @R_Thaler as much as to the general conversations - we should be able to argue for harnessing the huge productivity gains of AI without denigrating those concerned about the millions of people whose livelihoods will be at risk" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1994226651031392263) 2025-11-28T02:07Z 20.1K followers, [----] engagements "@alexolegimas Yes. Kaldor-Hicks efficiency became the excuse for economic analysis to separate itself from the political problem of redistributing and the political part never happened" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1994245557242515741) 2025-11-28T03:22Z 20.1K followers, [----] engagements "@R_Thaler @alexolegimas If worried about rent seeking and efficiency of such a system a first step without those problems would be a much more generous unemployment insurance plus active labor market policy - it wouldnt fully compensate but it would do a lot more to compensate than current US system" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1994261161437491216) 2025-11-28T04:24Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements "@R_Thaler @alexolegimas Re taxi and uber/lyft - with medallion owners I think the core issue was a govt failure to compensate yes. People bought the medallions in good faith as state-granted monopoly rights assets that the state just decided to no longer enforce as such" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1994261398986068143) 2025-11-28T04:25Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements "@ReviseNRetweet @conlon_chris @R_Thaler @alexolegimas Cant wait to read in detail this is so interesting" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1994616305476116730) 2025-11-29T03:56Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements "@mattyglesias I think even within the use tax and transfers school of thought theres an important distinction between (1) safety net vs (2) insurance. Safety net = dont let people fall below some poverty line. Broadly this is the logic underlying US and UK welfare systems" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1994906095912194369) 2025-11-29T23:07Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements "@mattyglesias Insurance = insure people against risk of income or job loss. Broadly this is the logic underlying European welfare systems The latter seems a much fairer way of compensating people for unpredictable events like big tech or trade shifts destroying their occupations" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1994906301114015835) 2025-11-29T23:08Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements "@Mann2609 Yeah compensate here is probably an example of economics jargon used differently. Not using taxes I think largely means it wouldnt happen though. What examples are there of at scale and effective voluntary programs to retrain and re employ tens of thousands" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1994909028112101699) 2025-11-29T23:19Z 20.1K followers, [--] engagements "@GonHuertas I see it as a form of social insurance. Should people be insured against big largely unpredictable shocks to their long term earning capacity I think thats both fair and efficient" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1994909270471475503) 2025-11-29T23:20Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements "This is a really important point. With a big disruption reallocation & generation of new jobs may be impossible in a quick enough time frame - even if it will happen in the long run How big does a disruption need to be for this to be the case The analogy with automation is similar. Automation in one (relatively) small sector can be viewed as the price of progress. Hultens theorem holds: automated labor will be redeployed to a different sector and economic output will increase. But what happens if many significant The analogy with automation is similar. Automation in one (relatively) small" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1994916554333720981) 2025-11-29T23:49Z 20.1K followers, 16.5K engagements "@MattBruenig Especially if UI were more generous of an income replacement scheme Proper insurance against unemployment or wage loss plus proper investment in active labor market policies (albeit hard to do) would go most of the way" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1994919227401072644) 2025-11-29T23:59Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements "@fuckerplank @ashdgandhi What do you mean by dozens of things that point to English mother tongue w high prob I guess I think the signals of English proficiency are (1) college or job in English (2) TOEFL and until recently (3) writing sample and personal statement" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1994921301019099385) 2025-11-30T00:07Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements "@IsaacJLiu @mattyglesias I can definitely see those argument and I think how fair it is is also a function of how progressive the tax system is. middle class people paying more in taxes to collectively insure each other seems like a sensible outcome which tackles your fairness concern" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1994949977521754607) 2025-11-30T02:01Z 20.1K followers, [--] engagements "@IsaacJLiu @mattyglesias (Assume willingness to pay taxes is some function of [--]. Expected private benefit [--]. Willigness to contribute to others Then increased insurance should increase marg willingness to pay tax since t increases 1)" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1994950174293332223) 2025-11-30T02:02Z 20.1K followers, [--] engagements "@Mann2609 @davidtbeito In my understanding they work well at insuring risks that not all members face at the same time (eg death disability) but not at insuring risks many or all face at the same time (eg coal miners cant mutually insure each other against transition to green energy)" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1994982315496182064) 2025-11-30T04:10Z 20.1K followers, [--] engagements "@arthur_spirling Hm yes. Esp for juniors redoing residency isnt as much of a deterrent" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1995316862570443183) 2025-12-01T02:19Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements "@avi_collis @alexolegimas @paulg from what I understand more like what Cambridge/Somerville used to be like a couple decades ago" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1995943661578944916) 2025-12-02T19:50Z 20.1K followers, [--] engagements "Of those who did recognize this advantage they noted they often had the benefit of being considered "professional" or "polished". The way we conceive of "excellence" in academia has a lot to do with markers of class. (harking back to @Daniel_Laurison & @SamFriedmanSoc work)" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1996658235273855203) 2025-12-04T19:09Z 20.1K followers, [----] engagements "A second key theme was **social capital** First-gen and low-income respondents discussed both having less pre-existing social capital in academia and finding it harder to build new professional relationships" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1996658240541937724) 2025-12-04T19:09Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements "A third key issue that was raised was **financial constraints** during the PhD and in the immediate years after. (Note our survey only focused on PhD and after - they obviously play an important role earlier in the educational journey)" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1996658250377580818) 2025-12-04T19:09Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements "These issues included people being in student loan or credit card debt or needing to support family financially. Financial constraints limited professional risk-taking for example limiting the ability to take longer to graduate or take several postdocs" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1996658252449513636) 2025-12-04T19:09Z 20.1K followers, 13.9K engagements "on this I've always been puzzled by the fact that it's assumed grad students can pay for expenses for travel (incl job market) and then wait a month or more to be reimbursed often for 00s or 000s of $. These issues included people being in student loan or credit card debt or needing to support family financially. Financial constraints limited professional risk-taking for example limiting the ability to take longer to graduate or take several postdocs. These issues included people being in student loan or credit card debt or needing to support family financially. Financial constraints limited" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1996658808576528713) 2025-12-04T19:12Z 20.1K followers, 12.8K engagements "@Afinetheorem @xvrmdf Agree Ill need to cut more by international on the survey specifically we havent done that. On the quant results theres a class gap within international but its smaller than the gap within US. Which would be consistent w this" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/1998414626464444776) 2025-12-09T15:29Z 20.1K followers, [--] engagements "@erinhengel Thanks for these thoughtful responses. I agree very much regarding the claim about Econ: it was so striking to me that in the Ceci et al piece they explicitly pull out Econ as the exception" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2001382227171811389) 2025-12-17T20:01Z 20.1K followers, [--] engagements "@HenricCont @VincentGeloso That is the graph for productivity against average pay. The graph for productivity against the pay of typical workers looks like the one in the first quoted tweet. (Whether you use median or avg production/nonsupervisory workers) https://www.csls.ca/ipm/41/IPM_41_Greenspon.pdf https://www.csls.ca/ipm/41/IPM_41_Greenspon.pdf" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2005274423830716879) 2025-12-28T13:47Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements "@HenricCont @VincentGeloso "whose pay" is the question and I think most people are just talking past each other here. Most people I see use the graph are focused on the pay of "ordinary" workers which is well proxied by the 80% bottom who make up the prod/nonsupervisory group as Vincent notes" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2005309422927823148) 2025-12-28T16:06Z 20.1K followers, [--] engagements "@ModeledBehavior @MattBruenig Oh agree- I mean that both dynamics are likely true for these professions- rising concentration a problem on one hand but the consolidation enabling some of these equalizing gender dynamics in the other" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2005339224254615944) 2025-12-28T18:05Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements "@ModeledBehavior @MattBruenig In my work on concentration we find health occs are likely the most affected in terms of wage suppression. Also re pharmacy consolidation in a different paper e explicitly study the cvs target merger And find wage effects https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfmabstract_id=4644895 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfmabstract_id=4644895" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2005339653784866918) 2025-12-28T18:06Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements "Superb posts on AI coming thick and fast from @alexolegimas and co. the Q of how soon well get agentic AI commerce at scale is something Ive been wondering about New post with @AndreyFradkin on the obstacles for AI agentic commerce. Imagine an AI that could optimize your credit card points across airlines and hotels to book a trip to Tokyo. The technology exists at least in theory. So why can't you use an agent to book a flight or shop New post with @AndreyFradkin on the obstacles for AI agentic commerce. Imagine an AI that could optimize your credit card points across airlines and hotels to" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2012285890819719589) 2026-01-16T22:08Z 20.1K followers, [----] engagements "@jujulemons @MeganTStevenson Would brain fog / cognitive fatigue / difficulty focusing and concentrating be classified as mental health I'm guessing not but not sure" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2015883915869692370) 2026-01-26T20:25Z 20.2K followers, [--] engagements "This gap is not just about institution type or prestige - it also shows up in earnings and job satisfaction. So it is *not* the case that first-gen college grads are trading off higher pay or better job satisfaction for jobs at lower-ranked institutions. (7/22)" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2016208706405302659) 2026-01-27T17:56Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements "The gap is *not* driven by differential selection out of academia into industry. There's no class gap in ending up tenured *anywhere* conditional on PhD - the class gap exists entirely on the intensive margin - WHERE someone is tenured. (This was surprising to us). (8/22)" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2016208708569641305) 2026-01-27T17:56Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements "This is actually the part I think is the most important - there are likely these class gaps in career progression in a lot of industries in the US. Really hard to study because theres rarely data on family background But it is doable and I hope ppl work on it more "we also find a class gap in career progression for PhDs who work in industry suggesting this phenomenon generalizes outside academia" "we also find a class gap in career progression for PhDs who work in industry suggesting this phenomenon generalizes outside academia"" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2016510884814684531) 2026-01-28T13:57Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements "@soumitrashukla9 So true" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2016567237268697372) 2026-01-28T17:41Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "@lymanstoneky Yeah fair I think this is how a lot of people think. But I think there should be finer grained definitions - it is impossible to define or discuss the problems of the middle class if it encompasses 20p-90p" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2016586112546816359) 2026-01-28T18:56Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "@lymanstoneky I dont need it to be the middle third of mass but the point of a class definition is to group people with similar material resources social status access to opportunity etc. the v broad how people think about middle class doesnt do that" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2016586380785090746) 2026-01-28T18:57Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "@ScottABeaulier @alexolegimas Thanks To be clear: unlike Morgan et al we are not focused on academic parents but on people from advantaged but non-academic backgrounds - ppl with parents w non PhD grad degrees (eg doctors lawyers businesspeople teachers)" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2016675272582373455) 2026-01-29T00:50Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "@PeterIsztin @stevehou I haven't read Becker on that I agree that it's a v hard problem" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2016996104055775453) 2026-01-29T22:05Z 20.3K followers, [--] engagements "@jujulemons Do you know what the best evidence is on how much long covid there's been in this population since [----] Surely some proportion of it is but I have no good sense of how much" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2015824228218450263) 2026-01-26T16:28Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements "❓How to measure class❓ We use PARENTAL EDUCATION🧑🎓 - first-gen college grads - parent w/ BA - parent w/ non-PhD grad degree (JD MD MBA EdM.) We're less interested in PhD parents b/c reflects academia-specific advantage not generalized socioeconomic advantage (5/22)" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2016208607633682734) 2026-01-27T17:56Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements "🚨We find a large class gap:🚨 *Conditional on PhD program attended* first-gen college grads are ➡10% less likely to end up tenured at an R1 and ➡tenured at places ranked 11% lower compared to their PhD classmates who had a parent with a (non-PhD) grad degree. (6/22)" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2016208703125442699) 2026-01-27T17:56Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements "CHOICE: do lower-SEB academics choose to work at lower-ranked schools We don't find any action on this - whether we look at financial family or location constraints institution type or self-reported preferences. It doesn't look like preferences explain the gap. (14/22)" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2016208720212975738) 2026-01-27T17:56Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements "So what does We think strong candidates are social and cultural capital. per Bourdieu: Social capital: relationships which provide useful professional resources advantages & knowledge Cultural capital: tastes ideas habits & behaviors which confer status/recognition (15/22)" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2016208721764839517) 2026-01-27T17:56Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements "We find suggestive evidence that first-gen college grads in academia - have more difficulties forming valuable professional relationships -- limited coauthorship networks - are less likely to gain recognition - NSF awards or citations - conditional on research output. (16/22)" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2016208723836887485) 2026-01-27T17:56Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements "We also ran a survey of US academics with over [----] responses. People overwhelmingly discussed factors re cultural and social capital "Middle class norms" "Dress code and speaking code" cultural knowledge and experiences mattering for small talk and networking. (17/22)" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2016208726642884860) 2026-01-27T17:56Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements "To be clear $200k in the US is also not middle class 16% of households earn $200k in US but David's broader point stands that 16% is much bigger than 2% (Table A2) https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2025/demo/p60-286.pdf This headline shows how much UK incomes have fallen behind the US. If Britain's top universities (which are easily as good as Yale) offered the same 98% of British households would get free tuition. What Yale considers "middle class" earns as much as Britain's top 2%. We need https://t.co/7S9zOosXmj https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2025/demo/p60-286.pdf" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2016557962035069132) 2026-01-28T17:04Z 20.3K followers, 22.9K engagements "Can confirm I used @RefineInk last week on my final pre submission draft It is no longer my final pre submission draft (The feedback was superb both high level and also spotting eg tiny inconsistencies between appendix table notes and paper footnotes) Writing econ papers these days: https://t.co/kTD0Cwttgz Writing econ papers these days: https://t.co/kTD0Cwttgz" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2017449594506871255) 2026-01-31T04:07Z 20.3K followers, 10.2K engagements "@alz_zyd_ @ash_craig Kaldor-Hicks is much better but also ignores whether the actual redistribution happens - which I think can easily lead to // led to in the past actual distribution concerns being overlooked more than they should have been" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2019472258440270320) 2026-02-05T18:04Z 20.3K followers, [--] engagements "This is a shame because one of the real pleasures of college is going really deep on the academics In a system where the top - say - 15% of the class get the top grade (like 1sts in UK) the incentive structure is pushes much more toward academic excellence" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2020168333635776947) 2026-02-07T16:10Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements "@arpitrage Yes - depends on the degree to which the increased negative signal value of a B outweighs the insurance value you describe. From my own experience w students a lot were making risk-averse class choice decisions based on the heuristic I described. I rarely heard the converse" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2020171434396643649) 2026-02-07T16:22Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "@nativistconcern @ubiquitousnewt Where does the 90% number come from Also note that includes all the women who've already had children by [--]. What share of childless women by [--] want children / wanted them when they were younger is a different Q" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2022065969221521907) 2026-02-12T21:51Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "Fertility does decline with age evidence suggests some women underestimate this decline and evidence suggests desired fertility realized fertility. If worried about women delaying bc they underestimate fertility the graph should focus on group 3" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2022096600454377662) 2026-02-12T23:52Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "If worried about women delaying getting married bc they underestimate fertility decline (or overestimate the quality of partners) the graph should focus on group [--] There is no reason why the graph should include the women in group 1" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2022096602379563417) 2026-02-12T23:52Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "This is a perfect example of how to mislead with data. A lot of 35y/o women who are childless don't want kids. Among heterosexual couples trying for kids: 80% of women aged 30-31 are pregnant within [--] mo 60-70% of women aged 36-37 are pregnant within 12mo Women who "reached [--] w/o starting a family had only a 52% chance of having children. Cross that threshold without children and your odds of having children fall closer to almost one-in-two." @compactmag https://t.co/Cn557QLJ0O Women who "reached [--] w/o starting a family had only a 52% chance of having children. Cross that threshold without" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2022011502207938571) 2026-02-12T18:14Z 20.3K followers, 48.8K engagements "@howlongtodeath I've seen a LOT of retweets of the original post. Most of them interpret "Cross that threshold without children and your odds of having children fall closer to almost one-in-two." to mean that it's about fertility decline. Most of that one-in-two is not about fertility decline" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2022065391795941462) 2026-02-12T21:48Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "@CptRexRepublic @salonium The trend is downward but the levels are very different Saying the odds of having a child if you start after [--] are only [--] in [--] makes it sound like its about fertility when its about much more. The actual probability matters" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2022511289613062374) 2026-02-14T03:20Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "📢New WP📢 The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia w/ Kyra Rodriguez Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations. Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia.🧵" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1810766753636741140) 2024-07-09T20:03Z 20.3K followers, 471.6K engagements "One of the worst outcomes of grade inflation is that it discourages students pushing themselves taking a class that's a bit too hard for them or in a field they don't know much about. The risk of a B when so many get straight As is real - Safer to stick to what they know. I will be enthusiastically supporting faculty legislation to cap the number of A's at Harvard at 20% (plus a bit). The collective action problem that has driven grades higher & higher over time is increasingly problematic. I hope other institutions consider similar steps. https://t.co/o1jikg4Rbv I will be enthusiastically" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2020168162432426273) 2026-02-07T16:09Z 20.3K followers, 25.8K engagements "The other outcome that I've seen - when there are so many As students at the top can't distinguish themselves through classwork. Going really deep on a class and writing a truly superb paper won't change grade -- increased incentive to distinguish through extra curriculars. One of the worst outcomes of grade inflation is that it discourages students pushing themselves taking a class that's a bit too hard for them or in a field they don't know much about. The risk of a B when so many get straight As is real - Safer to stick to what they know. One of the worst outcomes of grade inflation is" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2020168240140546359) 2026-02-07T16:10Z 20.3K followers, 15.1K engagements "@CptRexRepublic @salonium I put the chances of conception by age in my post - very different levels conditional on wanting a child and being in a position to try (having a male partner) Whether your odds are 80% vs 50% is a big difference To be clear: the original graph contains [--] things 1/ selection effects: women who are childless at [--] are more likely to want to remain childless 2/ whether a woman meets a partner (declines w age conditional on being unpartnered) 3/ fertility decline with age To be clear: the original graph contains [--] things 1/ selection effects: women who are childless at" [X Link](https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2022511595784729051) 2026-02-14T03:21Z 20.3K followers, [--] engagements "📢now forthcoming in ECMA The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations. Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia.🧵" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2016208600054600096) 2026-01-27T17:56Z 20.3K followers, 217.2K engagements "a horror story in two lines (of code) This led to the overturning of the main result in a study that had found men leave their wives when they fall terminally ill The study has now been retracted" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1806776019170513201) 2024-06-28T19:45Z 20.3K followers, 917.4K engagements "📢New WP📢 The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia w/ Kyra Rodriguez Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations. Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia.🧵" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1810766753636741140) 2024-07-09T20:03Z 20.3K followers, 471.6K engagements "**How socioeconomically diverse is the economics profession** New @PIIE working paper by @SchultzzyRun & myself building on some stats I showed in an (unexpectedly viral) Twitter thread in November. [--] Key Facts - and some discussion - below: https://www.piie.com/publications/working-papers/socioeconomic-diversity-economics-phds https://www.piie.com/publications/working-papers/socioeconomic-diversity-economics-phds" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1508804229032517647) 2022-03-29T13:52Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements "We know that economics has a gender and racial diversity problem. Socioeconomic background is less often discussed. @SchultzzyRun and I use the Survey of Earned Doctorates - a census of all PhDs from US institutions - to study the socioeconomic background of econ PhDs (1/N)" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1458209170558263297) 2021-11-09T23:05Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements "I didn't know this paper. [---] people refereed the same economics paper with author listed as [--]. an early career scholar [--]. anonymous [--]. a Nobel laureate (from same university as 1) Recommendations: 65% reject for early career scholar 23% reject for Nobel laureate 😑 I'd love some help from the econtwitter crowd. I'm having trouble finding a paper about a recent experiment by a journal that sent the same manuscript out for review to tons of reviewers but only half the reviewers saw that one of the authors was a Nobel Prize winner I'd love some help from the econtwitter crowd. I'm having" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1821598770020413921) 2024-08-08T17:26Z 20.3K followers, 309.5K engagements "I'd love some help from the econtwitter crowd. I'm having trouble finding a paper about a recent experiment by a journal that sent the same manuscript out for review to tons of reviewers but only half the reviewers saw that one of the authors was a Nobel Prize winner" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1821418629381959993) 2024-08-08T05:30Z [----] followers, 211K engagements "Also since I'm posting professional news: I'm absolutely thrilled to be joining @MITSloan @MIT_IWER as an Assistant Professor this Fall I'm so excited to have the chance to work with a group of scholars I greatly admire on how to make work & jobs better for more people" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1372250900845137926) 2021-03-17T18:18Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "Key stylized fact: Amongst US-born PhDs Economics is less socioeconomically diverse than *all* the major PhD fields including math computer science physical and biological sciences and other social sciences. (3/N)" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1458209180356055046) 2021-11-09T23:05Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements "A neat reminder of just how unrepresentative an average can be: Average US income growth 1980-2014 was 1.4% per year. But almost the entire income distribution - 1st-87th percentile - had income growth below this average. Graph from @PikettyLeMonde Saez & @gabriel_zucman" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1101813359752679424) 2019-03-02T11:55Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements "@KarolusWangus My guess is its probably a question of people checking code less when the results fit with their prior which leads to mistakes going in specific directions" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1807077846197674280) 2024-06-29T15:45Z 20.3K followers, 22.3K engagements "Huh. % STEM graduates who are women is *negatively* correlated with a broad gender equality index across countries. Source: Stoet & Geary (2018): https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/content/paper/02bd2b68-en https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/content/paper/02bd2b68-en" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1522182546125205506) 2022-05-05T11:52Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "And such a huge welfare loss. The economics profession is still not grappling with the magnitude of the intellectual error in underestimating full employment. I think it is worth rewinding the clock to see how badly the story was missed. The economics profession is still not grappling with the magnitude of the intellectual error in underestimating full employment. I think it is worth rewinding the clock to see how badly the story was missed" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1813282318502498414) 2024-07-16T18:39Z 20.3K followers, 86K engagements "The economics profession is still not grappling with the magnitude of the intellectual error in underestimating full employment. I think it is worth rewinding the clock to see how badly the story was missed" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1813280032627769653) 2024-07-16T18:30Z 90.4K followers, 259.7K engagements "Thought of the day: Every member of the Harvard community should be ashamed by the fact that we openly practice affirmative action for rich white people in college admissions. (Thread based on Arcidiacono Kinsler & Ransom's forthcoming JOLE paper) 🧵 http://public.econ.duke.edu/psarcidi/legacyathlete.pdf End affirmative action for the rich http://public.econ.duke.edu/psarcidi/legacyathlete.pdf End affirmative action for the rich" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1380010599032135681) 2021-04-08T04:12Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "End affirmative action for the rich Looking again at these charts from @John_N_Friedman et al. Now what could POSSIBLY explain the over-representation (condition on ACT/SAT) of rich students into Ivy+ colleges. https://t.co/D7DcMlzjQs https://t.co/Zd3Q0zhAvM Looking again at these charts from @John_N_Friedman et al. Now what could POSSIBLY explain the over-representation (condition on ACT/SAT) of rich students into Ivy+ colleges. https://t.co/D7DcMlzjQs https://t.co/Zd3Q0zhAvM" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1379916780982792194) 2021-04-07T21:59Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "The gender pay gap around labor market entry (age 25) has been declining - but this is mostly driven by young men entering at a LOWER point in the overall pay distribution not by young women entering at a higher point" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1803800524053008437) 2024-06-20T14:42Z 20.3K followers, 64.1K engagements "One thing that particularly surprised me when researching this was seeing Econ PhD's disproportionate draw from (socioeconomically) elite undergrads: 15% of all US-born economics PhDs did their undergrad at one of [--] "Ivy Plus" schools. In the top [--] econ PhD programs 45% did" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1720511177082405259) 2023-11-03T18:40Z 20.3K followers, 324.5K engagements "How to tackle regional economic inequality in the UK With @edballs and @DanTurnerSY some ideas in a new working paper. TLDR: (1) STEM skills (2) better transport for non-London cities (3) boosts to public-funded R&D outside the South. 🧵below. https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/publications/awp/awp198 https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/publications/awp/awp198" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1632754473616437249) 2023-03-06T14:46Z 20.3K followers, 495.3K engagements "In our paper @LHSummers and I argue that the *decline in worker power* is behind many of the major trends that have shaped the American economy in recent decades 1/N (WP out w/ @nberpubs and presented at @BrookingsEcon Spring [----] BPEA. Ungated link https://scholar.harvard.edu/stansbury/research The decline of worker power in the US can explain the fall in the labor share rises in corporate profitability and market valuations and the fall in unemployment without accelerating inflation from @annastansbury and @LHSummers https://t.co/TbBs9vNY9A https://t.co/lzp5zRgoke" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1265411852923789315) 2020-05-26T22:37Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "The decline of worker power in the US can explain the fall in the labor share rises in corporate profitability and market valuations and the fall in unemployment without accelerating inflation from @annastansbury and @LHSummers https://www.nber.org/papers/w27193 https://www.nber.org/papers/w27193" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1265361517580558342) 2020-05-26T19:17Z 179.5K followers, [---] engagements "How to avoid paying overtime Make your Front Desk Clerk a "Director of First Impressions". Cohen @umitgurun & @NB_Ozel have a compelling new @nberpubs WP suggesting that mamy firms give fake managerial job titles to avoid paying overtime. (1)" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1612806236017422337) 2023-01-10T13:39Z 20.3K followers, 143.7K engagements "As an Economics undergrad at @Cambridge_Uni 2010-13 I learned a lot about Alfred Marshall. I never learned how he fiercely and actively opposed women's participation in academic life at Cambridge including that of his wife economist Mary Paley. http://www.nber.org/papers/w29481 http://www.nber.org/papers/w29481" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1460309184499617797) 2021-11-15T18:10Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "Nope. This paper is about US academics 1900-1960 The present looks different. Asking people to stop drawing inference from these stats as if they're about the present & asking authors to put time period in their title and abstract 🙏 Who are the hyper privileged rich academics Humanities. New paper by Ran Abramitzky and colleagues https://t.co/TvNFmPzgoA Who are the hyper privileged rich academics Humanities. New paper by Ran Abramitzky and colleagues https://t.co/TvNFmPzgoA" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1874111102122184740) 2024-12-31T15:11Z 20.3K followers, 78.8K engagements "Who are the hyper privileged rich academics Humanities. New paper by Ran Abramitzky and colleagues" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1873702355897839680) 2024-12-30T12:07Z 59.7K followers, 253.3K engagements "Economists: generally gifts are inefficient because people would get greater utility from cash Also economists: spend several days on Twitter debating their favorite NBER-branded piece of conference memorabilia" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1139298381736624128) 2019-06-13T22:27Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "Worth being v clear - This is not the effect of parental divorce in some absolute sense This is a very specific LATE: the average effect of the kind of parental divorce which is triggered by opportunity-induced infidelity (opportunity = meeting someone at work) Just published in @JPubEcon: "How does parental divorce affect childrens long-term outcomes" By @WFrimmel (@jku_econ) @HallaMartin (@WU_econ) @EbmerWinter (@IHS_Vienna) https://t.co/gpesU9mXMn https://t.co/PRi6Jzdp0q Just published in @JPubEcon: "How does parental divorce affect childrens long-term outcomes" By @WFrimmel (@jku_econ)" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1841189989163372870) 2024-10-01T18:54Z 20.3K followers, 176.5K engagements "Just published in @JPubEcon: "How does parental divorce affect childrens long-term outcomes" By @WFrimmel (@jku_econ) @HallaMartin (@WU_econ) @EbmerWinter (@IHS_Vienna) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272724001373 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272724001373" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1840460482240553314) 2024-09-29T18:35Z 23.6K followers, 1.1M engagements "Among all STEM and social science fields the concentration of award winners in a few institutions is highest in Economics. AND its the only field where this concentration is rising not falling. Freeman Xie Zhang and Zhou #NBERSI" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1813973056454570205) 2024-07-18T16:24Z 20.3K followers, 59.5K engagements "Recessions don't always have to mean big rises in unemployment - labor market policies matter. Incredibly striking illustration from @jasonfurman's presentation om Tuesday at Harvard macro policy seminar" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1060567029760122883) 2018-11-08T16:17Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "Online dating: one of the most underrated contributors to human wellbeing so far this century (by simple revealed preference: we all still have the option to meet our partners through friends/family/co-workers. But we're choosing not to.) "How Couples Meet" chart updated July [----] https://t.co/gz0ffsO12M https://t.co/Gjvh2ZqTqs "How Couples Meet" chart updated July [----] https://t.co/gz0ffsO12M https://t.co/Gjvh2ZqTqs" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1150010974130397184) 2019-07-13T11:55Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements ""How Couples Meet" chart updated July [----] https://web.stanford.edu/mrosenfe/Rosenfeld_et_al_Disintermediating_Friends.pdf https://web.stanford.edu/mrosenfe/Rosenfeld_et_al_Disintermediating_Friends.pdf" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1149701645070155776) 2019-07-12T15:26Z 250.8K followers, 26.9K engagements "CW: Suicidal ideation Awful. One in nine economics PhD students reported contemplating suicide or self-harm on at least several days in the last two weeks (2017/18 survey) This is 1.5x more prevalent than among average 18-25 y/os (the highest risk group in general population) Forthcoming in the JEL: "Graduate Student Mental Health: Lessons from American Economics Departments" by Valentin Bolotnyy Matthew Basilico and Paul Barreira. https://t.co/oQO3jx3G2c Forthcoming in the JEL: "Graduate Student Mental Health: Lessons from American Economics Departments" by Valentin Bolotnyy Matthew Basilico" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1370223396039000068) 2021-03-12T04:01Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "Forthcoming in the JEL: "Graduate Student Mental Health: Lessons from American Economics Departments" by Valentin Bolotnyy Matthew Basilico and Paul Barreira. https://www.aeaweb.org/articlesid=10.1257/jel.20201555&from=f https://www.aeaweb.org/articlesid=10.1257/jel.20201555&from=f" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1370078245069197320) 2021-03-11T18:24Z 83.1K followers, [---] engagements "Wow For many years now I've looked to the Upjohn Dissertation Award lists as representing exactly the kind of researcher I aspired to be. I'm incredibly honoured - and thrilled to be in the company of Natalia Emanuel & @zbleemer whose work I've learnt so much from already" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1453054207708176388) 2021-10-26T17:41Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "This is so striking it bears repeating. The only other parts of Europe that ever saw deindustrialization as rapid as the Midlands and Yorkshire did in the 80s were formerly Communist countries transitioning to capitalism Its worth emphasizing just *how steep* the UKs deindustrialisation was. The only European regions which have seen a decade of deindustrialisation as fast as the Midlands or Yorkshire did in the 1980s were formerly Communist economies in the decade transitioning to capitalism. https://t.co/lccUDDsYdL Its worth emphasizing just *how steep* the UKs deindustrialisation was. The" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1633587804964790274) 2023-03-08T21:57Z 20.3K followers, 135.3K engagements "Its worth emphasizing just *how steep* the UKs deindustrialisation was. The only European regions which have seen a decade of deindustrialisation as fast as the Midlands or Yorkshire did in the 1980s were formerly Communist economies in the decade transitioning to capitalism" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1632754484748210176) 2023-03-06T14:46Z 20.3K followers, 148.6K engagements "Recessions are almost always worse for low-wage workers than high-wage workers. But this one is off-the-charts worse for low-wage workers" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1311464289887166465) 2020-10-01T00:33Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "Great summary from @jburnmurdoch of the growing gender gap in outcomes for young people - with women much more likely to go to college and increasingly more likely to be employed Strikingly in the UK young non college women also now earn more than young non college men" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1837132135666258090) 2024-09-20T14:10Z 20.3K followers, 89.6K engagements "What happens to companies who get more powerful institutional shareholders CEO pay falls by a cumulative 60% over [--] years Top execs by 40% Striking endorsement of the view that strong shareholders help solve the principal agent problem Paper by Falato Kim & @TillvonWachter" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1876366979390754824) 2025-01-06T20:35Z 20.3K followers, 37.8K engagements "South Korea's fertility rate once again breaks (its own) world record low. Last month @KarenDynan @jacobkirkegaard and I put out a @PIIE working paper on gender dynamics in the South Korean labor market which we argue are strongly linked to what's going on with fertility. 🧵 South Korean fertility rates are so low that the population is expected to be cut in half by the end of this century. https://t.co/DfhROdQRpi South Korean fertility rates are so low that the population is expected to be cut in half by the end of this century. https://t.co/DfhROdQRpi" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1562420180055199744) 2022-08-24T12:42Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "South Korean fertility rates are so low that the population is expected to be cut in half by the end of this century" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1562384749498343424) 2022-08-24T10:22Z 109.8K followers, [---] engagements "Fact 1: Economics is one of the least socioeconomically diverse academic disciplines. It has the lowest share of PhD recipients who are first-generation college graduates (no parent with a BA or higher). (data throughout is from NSF SED: census of all US PhD recipients)" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1508804238348017664) 2022-03-29T13:52Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "@florianederer Incredibly jarring that this clever satire musical theater piece is. an ad for a cryptocurrency trading platform" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1988364292803236043) 2025-11-11T21:52Z 20.3K followers, 13.9K engagements "ATTN faculty: How you perceive your relationship with your PhD advisees is often *not* how they perceive it. Forthcoming in the JEL: "Graduate Student Mental Health: Lessons from American Economics Departments" by Valentin Bolotnyy Matthew Basilico and Paul Barreira. https://t.co/oQO3jx3G2c Forthcoming in the JEL: "Graduate Student Mental Health: Lessons from American Economics Departments" by Valentin Bolotnyy Matthew Basilico and Paul Barreira. https://t.co/oQO3jx3G2c" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1370230382608535553) 2021-03-12T04:29Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "This week I'm striking alongside hundreds of other Harvard grad student workers. I've been asked why we're on strike. These are a few of my (personal) reasons. @hgsuuaw #HGSUStrike" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1202632019794186241) 2019-12-05T16:53Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "I am hiring a predoc at MIT to start this summer We will work on various topics in labor economics - unions minimum wages imperfect competition etc. Please apply and share #predoc @MITSloan @MIT_IWER @econ_ra" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1890440718256156678) 2025-02-14T16:39Z 20.3K followers, 58.4K engagements "Going through slides from @lkatz42's unparalleled PhD Labor class this morning as I prep my own teaching and was reminded of this gem - Richard Freeman's [--] rules for empirical work in labor economics (inc "quarks can't speak but humans can tell you what they think is going on")" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1493627996518772736) 2022-02-15T16:47Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "Yes. We *KNOW* sexual harassment is rife in economics. Specific allegations may be a surprise - I don't know anything about them and they must be thoroughly and urgently investigated. But to anyone who has been paying attention the prevalence should not be" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1583836756142456832) 2022-10-22T15:04Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "#EconTwitter has been discussing job market interviews in hotel bedrooms. @kathrynholston and I have been thinking about this a lot over the past year and discussing with others in the profession. Here's a memo we put together in Oct & a summary (thread) https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/stansbury/files/assa_interviews_memo.pdf https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/stansbury/files/assa_interviews_memo.pdf" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1084025920044838912) 2019-01-12T09:54Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "@NielsHoven So disappointing" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1807077581360894113) 2024-06-29T15:44Z 20.3K followers, 25.9K engagements "One of the most striking charts from our paper imo is this one: The vast majority of Economics PhDs at top-ranked programs have a parent with a *graduate* degree - particularly among the American students. That is we are drawing from an extremely narrow socioeconomic pool" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1720540812461609194) 2023-11-03T20:37Z 20.3K followers, 299.3K engagements "Fascinating paper on Mexicos domestic outsourcing ban by Alejandro Estefan and coauthors In [----] Mexico banned domestic outsourcing for core business activities. This shows that in manufacturing the share of workers outsourced fell from c 20% to basically zero very rapidly" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1815812101551571139) 2024-07-23T18:11Z 20.3K followers, 34.6K engagements "🎉The final version of my paper Declining Worker Power w/ Larry Summers is out @BrookingsEcon I've learned *so* much from reading the papers comments & discussions in the BPEA series over the last years so am thrilled to now have a paper there too. https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/declining-worker-power-and-american-economic-performance/ https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/declining-worker-power-and-american-economic-performance/" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1338564789597917185) 2020-12-14T19:21Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "Economics seminar culture has many great aspects and some really bad aspects. I love questions and interaction. I love being rigorous and getting to the heart of an issue. AND it's been clear to me since I joined econ that there's a seminar culture problem (Thread) For Women in Economics the Hostility Is Out in the Open https://t.co/dudw3gkyvK For Women in Economics the Hostility Is Out in the Open https://t.co/dudw3gkyvK" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1364468537834622979) 2021-02-24T06:53Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "For Women in Economics the Hostility Is Out in the Open https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/business/economy/economics-women-gender-bias.htmlsmid=tw-share https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/business/economy/economics-women-gender-bias.htmlsmid=tw-share" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1364298653607686144) 2021-02-23T19:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Opportunity to plug one of my favourite books. In the late 1700s rapid economic progress meant that - for the first time in human history - ending poverty was conceivable. The idea that poverty no longer had to be an inevitable part of society had huge ramifications [--] yo asked when poverty first became a problem. I told him it was the default that most animal species are hungry. [--] yo asked when poverty first became a problem. I told him it was the default that most animal species are hungry" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1891688834225557920) 2025-02-18T03:18Z 20.3K followers, 25.8K engagements "12 yo asked when poverty first became a problem. I told him it was the default that most animal species are hungry" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1891146623410905561) 2025-02-16T15:24Z 2.2M followers, 603.4K engagements "This is a hugely important change: for high-school educated workers it used to pay substantially to live in a bigger city - higher wages net of housing costs now it's the opposite: urban pay is not much higher and housing costs are more - leaving you net worse off" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1514658944886755335) 2022-04-14T17:36Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"Lagarde's not just the first female ECB president. She's one of the first ever ♀ CB governors in Europe. Quick Wiki trawl suggests there has never been a♀ governor in Germany France UK Italy Spain Romania Netherlands Belgium Greece Czechia Portugal Sweden Switzerland Norway Christine Lagarde is set to swap the helm of the IMF for that of the ECB becoming the first woman to run euro-area monetary policy https://t.co/WY0Z6V4wCr via @simonjkennedy #tictocnews https://t.co/WrvLYfp2bi Christine Lagarde is set to swap the helm of the IMF for that of the ECB becoming the first woman to run"
X Link 2019-07-02T19:31Z 20.2K followers, [--] engagements
"Also since I'm posting professional news: I'm absolutely thrilled to be joining @MITSloan @MIT_IWER as an Assistant Professor this Fall I'm so excited to have the chance to work with a group of scholars I greatly admire on how to make work & jobs better for more people"
X Link 2021-03-17T18:18Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
". would substantially increase socioeconomic diversity but would not change racial diversity. If you assume Harvard has implicit HH wealth quotas getting rid of legacy could simply lead to selection on wealth by other means. Etc"
X Link 2021-04-08T06:44Z 19.8K followers, [--] engagements
"To proxy for socioeconomic background we use the highest level of parental education. In this preliminary work we're focusing just on US-born individuals (30% of US econ PhDs) since parental education means diff't things for SES across diff't countries. (2/N)"
X Link 2021-11-09T23:05Z 19.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@perezalan @PIIE @SchultzzyRun Great point. On my list to look specifically at public policy PhDs as I can imagine this being a factor"
X Link 2022-03-29T16:59Z 19.8K followers, [--] engagements
"Consistent with this being a response by firms to the law they find this big jump in managerial roles at the $455 threshold only in states where the FLSA threshold applies (rather than a higher state specific threshold). (3)"
X Link 2023-01-10T13:39Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements
"AND they find a bigger bunching response in states with greater firm power as proxied by unionization rates labor market tightness and right to work laws even with firm fixed effects (i.e. within firm differentials across states). (4)"
X Link 2023-01-10T13:39Z 20.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@RobAtkinsonITIF One of the four mandatory macro courses in the first year Harvard Econ PhD sequence is growth "
X Link 2023-03-22T23:00Z 20K followers, [----] engagements
"At MIT and Chicago parental income doesn't increase your likelihood of getting in when you condition on test scores. Very different to the other "Ivy Plus" schools"
X Link 2023-07-26T15:22Z 18.3K followers, [----] engagements
"If you haven't already listened to this interview of Claudia Goldin @PikaGoldin (from Ashenfelter's podcast) now is the time -- an amazing insight into her journey from the Bronx to Harvard and her career as one of the trailblazing women in econ. https://soundcloud.com/theworkgoesonpodcast/claudia-goldin-on-her-journey-from-the-bronx-to-harvard https://soundcloud.com/theworkgoesonpodcast/claudia-goldin-on-her-journey-from-the-bronx-to-harvard"
X Link 2023-10-09T14:54Z 20.3K followers, 29.6K engagements
"@Schoefer_B @IRLEUCB @berkeleyecon Fantastic news - congratulations"
X Link 2023-10-19T15:56Z 18.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Why hasn't UK regional policy worked @DanTurnerSY @edballs Nyasha Weinberg and @ElsdenEsme interviewed over [--] top level UK politicians and policymakers (spanning six decades of experience). Dan's thread on the key lessons - & their paper - is a must read"
X Link 2023-10-24T19:54Z 17.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Fascinating analysis from @jburnmurdoch: US cities have seen graduate wage premia (mostly) rise not fall unlike UK cities outside London Building on our analysis (@DanTurnerSY @EdBalls) as well as recent work on UK cities by @resfoundation"
X Link 2023-10-28T13:55Z 18.3K followers, 24.3K engagements
"This is exactly what motivated me & @Rschultzzy to write this paper. We draw from an exceedingly narrow range of lived experiences in our profession. As a social science I think this really matters. Been thinking a lot recently about how many Economists have never had to worry about money or work a low-wage job and how this limits our ability to be good social scientists https://t.co/sbz1T5XhZw https://t.co/mGpMKM92hx Been thinking a lot recently about how many Economists have never had to worry about money or work a low-wage job and how this limits our ability to be good social scientists"
X Link 2023-11-03T16:47Z 20.3K followers, 44.9K engagements
"One of the most striking charts from our paper imo is this one: The vast majority of Economics PhDs at top-ranked programs have a parent with a graduate degree - particularly among the American students. That is we are drawing from an extremely narrow socioeconomic pool"
X Link 2023-11-03T20:37Z 20.3K followers, 299.3K engagements
"Really cool paper from a fantastic scholar of labor markets & monopsony A 🧵on @ihsaanbassier's #JMP. Ihsaan is a post-doc at LSE working on labor & development. He's doing amazing research on labor market institutions monopsony inequality. His JMP is very timely: collective bargaining's spillover on non-union sector. 1/ https://t.co/wneVexlNVQ https://t.co/2LZFHPmrbE A 🧵on @ihsaanbassier's #JMP. Ihsaan is a post-doc at LSE working on labor & development. He's doing amazing research on labor market institutions monopsony inequality. His JMP is very timely: collective bargaining's spillover"
X Link 2023-11-13T16:11Z 19.8K followers, 17.8K engagements
"@samthorpe__ & Dodini Willen et al in Norway find that higher firm union density counteracts the negative wage effects of concentration too. It would be very interesting to collate all these emerging examples into a collage across place market structure etc"
X Link 2024-01-25T19:26Z 17.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Yes JEP paper shows that East Germany can be spotted before it existed in a whole range of economic and social data . So you cant just look at East/west patterns now and infer the lasting effects of living under communism /DDR https://x.com/essobecker/status/1238013473948200962s=46&t=YOcKDzHgJ8LB50G5lbm3kQ Great maps. Is there a way to show a similar map but for the pre-ww2 period To make clear that this is not a long running fixed effect https://x.com/essobecker/status/1238013473948200962s=46&t=YOcKDzHgJ8LB50G5lbm3kQ Great maps. Is there a way to show a similar map but for the pre-ww2 period"
X Link 2024-02-15T11:26Z 20.3K followers, 44.9K engagements
"Do Firms Have an Incentive to Comply with the US Federal Minimum Wage A thread 🧵 w/ results from my updated WP (with newly-FOIA-ed data on liquidated damages and hot good violations for all the enforcement nerds out there). https://docs.iza.org/dp16882.pdf https://docs.iza.org/dp16882.pdf"
X Link 2024-04-17T17:06Z 18.8K followers, 30.4K engagements
"My brilliant coauthor @rjisungpark's book is out Jisung 's research & now his book bring an invaluable lens to the economics of climate change. "Park explains how climate change operates as the silent accumulation of a thousand tiny conflagrations" https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691221038/slow-burn Adding to the top of my stack Congrats @rjisungpark 👏 #econtwitter https://t.co/j4ybjWWok7 https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691221038/slow-burn Adding to the top of my stack Congrats @rjisungpark 👏 #econtwitter https://t.co/j4ybjWWok7"
X Link 2024-04-17T17:26Z 18.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Dream conference topic / team Submit below Call for papers: The Micro and Macro of Labor Markets at SITE / Stanford August 6-7 Submit your papers here: https://t.co/eI39AkC54l Deadline next week: May [--] Decisions/notifications by June [--] = quick turnaround Org: @SydneeCaldwell Gregor Jarosch Isaac Sorkin I https://t.co/koFVjK10w5 Call for papers: The Micro and Macro of Labor Markets at SITE / Stanford August 6-7 Submit your papers here: https://t.co/eI39AkC54l Deadline next week: May [--] Decisions/notifications by June [--] = quick turnaround Org: @SydneeCaldwell Gregor Jarosch Isaac Sorkin I"
X Link 2024-05-08T15:11Z 18.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Time and again studies find that labor standards violations are underreported because of fear of retaliation. This is a really helpful breakdown of WHAT kinds of retaliations people experience - we often think of firing but there's a lot that can be done within the job too. 6/8 Around half of workers who reported labor standards violations experienced some form of retaliation including reduced hours worse tasks and being denied promotion. This can lead to a chilling climate in workplaces that dissuades workers from coming forward. https://t.co/JrCHkW9WVZ 6/8 Around half of workers who"
X Link 2024-05-16T22:52Z 19.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@jhaushofer omg. Iconic 🤣"
X Link 2024-05-22T17:07Z 18.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@mattsclancy @chris_m_neill Sad I missed three body problem and the dispossessed already 🥲"
X Link 2024-05-28T03:05Z 18.9K followers, [--] engagements
"Writeup of my minimum wage compliance work @MITSloan Ideas Made To Matter A simple cost-benefit calculation would tell many firms to break the law" https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/sharper-teeth-stronger-bite-needed-us-minimum-wage-laws https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/sharper-teeth-stronger-bite-needed-us-minimum-wage-laws"
X Link 2024-06-04T20:09Z 20.2K followers, [----] engagements
"The gender pay gap around labor market entry (age 25) has been declining - but this is mostly driven by young men entering at a LOWER point in the overall pay distribution not by young women entering at a higher point"
X Link 2024-06-20T14:42Z 20.3K followers, 64.1K engagements
"Studying [----] committee deliberations for new hires in a consulting company women have much less influence than men in the final outcome (3 person committee; typically [--] woman [--] men; influence = likelihood of achieving desired hiring outcome when there is disagreement)"
X Link 2024-06-20T15:20Z 19.1K followers, 13.8K engagements
"From fascinating @ASchiprowski presentation @cepr_org labour symposium"
X Link 2024-06-20T15:21Z 19.1K followers, [---] engagements
"This seems to pose a false dichotomy between - buying clothing made in appalling conditions (child/forced labor) or - buying US made But manufacturing is a crucial path to prosperity for developing countries. Proposing buying American as the only ethical consumer choice How to fix fast fashion https://t.co/7PtrcDlHNV How to fix fast fashion https://t.co/7PtrcDlHNV"
X Link 2024-06-25T17:52Z 19.2K followers, 20.6K engagements
"A super stubborn misconception is that US workers on average are more precarious working more jobs and longer hours to make ends meet. Great thread myth busting. BUT: Why does this misconception persist Are we measuring things differently from how people perceive them❓ Conventional wisdom says that workers are more precarious and unsettled than in decades past working multiple jobs and longer hours and more prone to disruption. Is any of that true Conventional wisdom says that workers are more precarious and unsettled than in decades past working multiple jobs and longer hours and more prone"
X Link 2024-06-25T18:59Z 19.1K followers, 20.7K engagements
"And such a huge welfare loss. The economics profession is still not grappling with the magnitude of the intellectual error in underestimating full employment. I think it is worth rewinding the clock to see how badly the story was missed. The economics profession is still not grappling with the magnitude of the intellectual error in underestimating full employment. I think it is worth rewinding the clock to see how badly the story was missed"
X Link 2024-07-16T18:39Z 20.3K followers, 86K engagements
"Among all STEM and social science fields the concentration of award winners in a few institutions is highest in Economics. AND its the only field where this concentration is rising not falling. Freeman Xie Zhang and Zhou #NBERSI"
X Link 2024-07-18T16:24Z 20.3K followers, 59.5K engagements
"The graph in the prior slide shows the HHI across institutions for top prize winners over time for the social sciences. This slide shows the same for Nobel laureates"
X Link 2024-07-18T16:24Z 19.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Huge gender gap in ChatGPT adoption (20ppt WITHIN occupation) (In Denmark) Would love to hear hypotheses as to why Incredible plot from Anders Humlum (not on Twitter or has a dormant handle). Who uses ChatGPT higher income workers male workers MUCH more likely to use ChatGPT has big positive productivity effects. Will be unequally distributed. https://t.co/ITDh4qZQ4h Incredible plot from Anders Humlum (not on Twitter or has a dormant handle). Who uses ChatGPT higher income workers male workers MUCH more likely to use ChatGPT has big positive productivity effects. Will be unequally"
X Link 2024-07-22T22:05Z 19.7K followers, 37.5K engagements
"Deliberately ambiguous because I think one could operationalize this a few ways - R squared of $$-success - incremental avg causal effect of $$ on success - financial resources pre making it vs availability of resources when made it (sponsorship; national funding)"
X Link 2024-08-02T09:22Z 19.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@two_oars interesting candidate There's a certain level of $$ in terms of learning to shoot (ammo is expensive) but (1) that cost is often borne by someone else (e.g. in Dikec's case he was a police officer) and (2) beyond that cost perhaps there's not a huge impact of additional $$"
X Link 2024-08-02T09:56Z 19.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@two_oars that's an interesting point with costs of recovery and injury management (i was a competitive shooter in college so am pretty confident about the startup costs - which i was lucky to have funded by the college team)"
X Link 2024-08-02T10:13Z 19.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@two_oars yes that is probably very true on region/country of origin. isn't ammo decently expensive everywhere though unless subsidized"
X Link 2024-08-02T10:21Z 19.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@halcanary I'm not sure it's as clear that the entire shortfall since [----] is because of insufficiently tight labor markets"
X Link 2024-08-04T00:03Z 19.8K followers, [--] engagements
"#EconTwitter: We need to solve the coordination problem. See Tatyana's post to commit to move to Bluesky for at least one month starting Sep [--] IF enough others do the same (and the snapshot if you want a nudge as to why) Last call to conditionally commit to move to Bluesky for at least [--] month starting on September [--] IF enough others do the same Fill out survey here (will close end of day August 9): https://t.co/KKQJSvZapD Last call to conditionally commit to move to Bluesky for at least [--] month starting on September [--] IF enough others do the same Fill out survey here (will close end of day"
X Link 2024-08-06T13:59Z 19.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@chipsandpol No because most papers are circulated as working papers presented at conferences and seminars etc for a really long time before being sent to journals so the idea is that someone could find out the author anyway with a quick Google (or might know anyway)"
X Link 2024-08-08T18:19Z 20.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Lots of talk on grocery price inflation after Harris recent remarks. But does anyone know why grocery price levels are so high in US compared to Europe (In a static sense - this has been the case ever since I moved here in 2013). I imagine there is research on this"
X Link 2024-08-20T09:43Z 20.2K followers, 32.4K engagements
"@mattyglesias Huh That goes against my observations. Useful data. Id love to see a breakdown of prices by specific product type. Or maybe its a regional thing. Pretty much all food I buy is more expensive in Boston than London except avocados. (& I dont shop at Whole Foods 😉)"
X Link 2024-08-20T09:55Z 20.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Life satisfaction goes up temporarily for both parents following the birth of their first child and then reverts to pre child level. Interestingly there is no gender gap. (This is estimated with the same Kleven et al methodology used to estimate child penalty in earnings) @annastansbury Life satisfaction even goes up for both parents following the birth of their first child Kleven adds this caveat to the reductive child penalty term in his slides but it also raises more economic questions about lifecycle adjustments or household bargaining/specialization https://t.co/mDGGsmiSMS @annastansbury"
X Link 2024-09-03T16:56Z 20.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Ethical CEOs should care about labor law enforcement --- my new op ed in @thehill "Unscrupulous firms that break the law undermine the businesses that want to be ethical and this puts the principled businesses at risk of being out-competed""
X Link 2024-09-17T20:17Z 20.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@farmerrf @WarwickMcKibbin @farmerrf I don't think the production function is CRS. It's nested CES with the elasticities of substitution estimated on US data. If labor & capital are gross complements removing L reduces MPK s Warwick notes"
X Link 2024-09-27T00:47Z 20.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@farmerrf @WarwickMcKibbin That makes sense but then I dont understand why youre arguing that means MPK must rise when L falls In a CES production function with CRS the sign of dMPK/dL depends on the elasticity of substitution of capital and labor"
X Link 2024-09-27T01:44Z 20.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@farmerrf @WarwickMcKibbin (Ah yes I see that I misspoke in the earlier post - it can be both CES and CRS of course)"
X Link 2024-09-27T01:52Z 20.2K followers, [--] engagements
"IMPORTANT caveat: This data is from 1900-1960s. This paper is great but it's historical - and keeps circulating around Twitter as if it's about the present There is still a big problem of elite-background academics But it does the debate no good to be using the wrong data. According to a recent paper the vast majority of academics gain their elite status the old-fashioned way they were born with rich parents. https://t.co/lZEvjCua5B According to a recent paper the vast majority of academics gain their elite status the old-fashioned way they were born with rich parents. https://t.co/lZEvjCua5B"
X Link 2024-12-31T14:49Z 19.9K followers, 17.2K engagements
"Nope - these data are from 1900-1960 Economics is the LEAST socioeconomically diverse field - even less than the humanities - and has been for the last two decades plus among PhD students https://x.com/MeganTStevenson/status/1873763562549809513 https://x.com/MeganTStevenson/status/1873763562549809513"
X Link 2024-12-31T15:07Z 20K followers, 26.4K engagements
"Nope. This paper is about US academics 1900-1960 The present looks different. Asking people to stop drawing inference from these stats as if they're about the present & asking authors to put time period in their title and abstract 🙏 Who are the hyper privileged rich academics Humanities. New paper by Ran Abramitzky and colleagues https://t.co/TvNFmPzgoA Who are the hyper privileged rich academics Humanities. New paper by Ran Abramitzky and colleagues https://t.co/TvNFmPzgoA"
X Link 2024-12-31T15:11Z 20.3K followers, 78.8K engagements
"@filpet4 I think the colors are confusing in that graph - the red least elite one is psychology. humanities are still pretty elite but more in the middle of the pack than before"
X Link 2025-01-01T16:45Z 20K followers, [--] engagements
"Excited to have put together #ASSA2025 session on Non-employment effects of the minimum wage Looking at - workplace injuries - job satisfaction & amenities - search effort - company wage policy - & effects of CAs $20 fast food min Tomorrow (Friday) 2.30-4.30pm Join us"
X Link 2025-01-03T06:09Z 20K followers, [----] engagements
"Superb paper by Dobbin&Zohar @ #ASSA2025 22% of intergenerational earnings persistence is accounted for by ACCESS to high paying firms (AKM firm effects). A lot of this probably due to networks/connections/discrimination Data from Israel. Lots more in the paper"
X Link 2025-01-03T19:03Z 20K followers, [----] engagements
"What happens to companies who get more powerful institutional shareholders CEO pay falls by a cumulative 60% over [--] years Top execs by 40% Striking endorsement of the view that strong shareholders help solve the principal agent problem Paper by Falato Kim & @TillvonWachter"
X Link 2025-01-06T20:35Z 20.3K followers, 37.8K engagements
"@ErikSherman @TillvonWachter Sorry could you clarify what you mean by earnings here Firm Earnings or worker earnings"
X Link 2025-01-06T21:18Z 20K followers, [--] engagements
"Recommend papers on the idea that higher inflation enables firms to raise prices by more because they get "cover" - consumers confused about relative prices everyone increasing so individual increases aren't noticed as much (aka effective price elasticity of demand falls)"
X Link 2025-01-10T19:10Z 20K followers, [----] engagements
"(This is not a dunk - both of these are seismic trends and it's hard to predict what they'll mean. but I think it's pretty interesting that they might actually interact to mitigate each other's labor market implications.) I do think this is actually as worrying as people say it is. We're not prepared for life in a world where the number of workers is about the same as the number of retirees but that's the world we're heading toward. I do think this is actually as worrying as people say it is. We're not prepared for life in a world where the number of workers is about the same as the number of"
X Link 2025-01-13T23:33Z 20K followers, [----] engagements
"@BrianCAlbrecht @geoffmanne Yes re shadow price true. Oh yes of course - I remember seeing this in your paper This inverse labor share - dynamism correlation is very interesting and one I hadn't seen before"
X Link 2025-01-23T02:01Z 19.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@oren_cass I get why you might want balanced trade in aggregate but you cant possibly believe that aiming for balanced trade with every single trading partner is a coherent or good idea"
X Link 2025-04-03T13:37Z 19.9K followers, [---] engagements
""If a country has lots of oil it will export to countries that have no oil. There is no reason why the country importing oil would have what the exporter will want to buy. Instead the exporter would prefer to be paid in money and use it to buy what it wants from other countries""
X Link 2025-04-03T20:21Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Are there papers estimating gender and/or racial wage gaps for people from the same college and major i.e. went to same college and studied same subject (say: U Michigan Computer Science). Any country"
X Link 2025-08-14T16:53Z 19.8K followers, [----] engagements
"📢@NinaRoussille and I are hiring a full-time predoctoral researcher to work with us at MIT on labor economics research projects. IMPORTANT: this vacancy is open right now so we are particularly interested in people who could start soon. Link to apply in next tweet"
X Link 2025-09-08T13:04Z 19.8K followers, 31.4K engagements
"More info and apply here: https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_mit/external/jobDetails/jobDetail.htmljobPostId=32806&localeCode=en-us https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_mit/external/jobDetails/jobDetail.htmljobPostId=32806&localeCode=en-us"
X Link 2025-09-08T13:04Z 19.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@MaxGhenis @paulryankatz @jhaushofer (in my view)"
X Link 2021-02-26T04:09Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@ToddRumson @Rachel_Lipson @sophie_e_hill @SamFriedmanSoc and @Daniel_Laurison document the role of social class background in all three of these channels in several elite occupations in detail in their excellent book the Class Ceiling"
X Link 2021-04-30T18:07Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements
"This is still work in progress - we just presented today at the Fed's diversity & inclusion conference and will be putting out a longer and more detailed working paper over coming weeks. All your comments thoughts and feedback are welcomed (/End) https://x.com/FedResearch/status/1458077296422756365 Watch live from Conference on Diversity and Inclusion in Economics Finance and Central Banking: Panel on monetary policy committees and D&I: https://t.co/07g9a2YOMZ https://t.co/ljWufR3Xuj https://x.com/FedResearch/status/1458077296422756365 Watch live from Conference on Diversity and Inclusion in"
X Link 2021-11-09T23:05Z 19.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@SamFriedmanSoc Thanks Sam Your work is much of what has inspired me on this front"
X Link 2021-11-10T13:12Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements
"But in terms of efforts purely to increase diversity -- women w/ parents w/ graduate degrees are overrepresented in econ PhDs relative to the general population - just not as overrepresented as men whose parents have graduate degrees"
X Link 2022-06-14T11:22Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@arpitrage @RobinWigg In large part this increase in awareness & data collection & policy change is thanks to work by @SocialMobilityF @lindsey_mac @SamFriedmanSoc and others (Who will know more than I do about how widespread it is to collect this info in recruiting)"
X Link 2024-06-13T15:57Z 19.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@brsgr4049 @GuthmannR That is very interesting context. feels vibe wise not much like hard time to describe men of the conquered empire as falling into a life of pretentiousness and indolence Also that there had not been continuous wars. Wonder if this text was before"
X Link 2025-03-07T22:59Z 20K followers, [---] engagements
"Hannah also finds a tradeoff between schedule unpredictability and wages: when the minimum wage is increased scheduling unpredictability increases too. Another margin that firms are able to cut costs when min wages rise. (parallels with our work on workplace injuries)"
X Link 2025-11-25T17:04Z 20K followers, [---] engagements
"@Econ_Marshall Yes - and these arent gig workers so as you say its the gig-ification of employer-employee relations"
X Link 2025-11-26T17:55Z 20K followers, [--] engagements
"@Afinetheorem This is similar to the UK system - 1st is (historically) for c top 15% if you work hard and stay on top of the material you should be able to get a 2:1 and most people will get this. you can also pass with a 2:2"
X Link 2025-11-26T22:55Z 20K followers, [---] engagements
"👏MIT: no legacy admissions no preferential admissions for the rich Dartmouth: we skew our admissions towards the rich Harvard: we skew our admissions towards the rich and the poor MIT: you guys skew your admissions https://t.co/siqQfDUiyT Dartmouth: we skew our admissions towards the rich Harvard: we skew our admissions towards the rich and the poor MIT: you guys skew your admissions https://t.co/siqQfDUiyT"
X Link 2025-11-27T02:13Z 20.1K followers, 62K engagements
"@BenZaranko Whats the net-net in terms of higher inflation - higher interest rates - higher debt servicing costs vs higher inflation - bigger tax increase given frozen thresholds"
X Link 2025-11-27T03:25Z 20K followers, [---] engagements
"@ry4335127356065 How do you reconcile your view with the graph"
X Link 2025-11-27T14:15Z 20K followers, [---] engagements
"@ry4335127356065 Check out the article. The figure above shows attendance conditional on standardized tests scores. You can also filter to show attendance without conditioning on standardized tests scores"
X Link 2025-11-27T14:23Z 20.1K followers, [--] engagements
"@JohnrMDPhD MIT has about [----] undergrads so even if there are some who get in on connections its not enough to move the needle on the graph above right Its very clear that on average conditional on test score theres no admission difference by parent income"
X Link 2025-11-28T01:50Z 20.1K followers, [--] engagements
"just compensate the losers is great in theory but we rarely actually do it the Luddites broke machines because their livelihoods were being destroyed Can we actually rise to the challenge this time- harness AI productivity gains while also fully compensating those displaced Oh my how have we survived without the millions of people who used to take restaurant reservations book airline tickets operate toll booths and print folded maps How was it to hail a taxi in the Bay Area This is the anti-abundance agenda. Oh my how have we survived without the millions of people who used to take restaurant"
X Link 2025-11-28T01:57Z 20.1K followers, 165K engagements
"To be clear - not responding directly to @R_Thaler as much as to the general conversations - we should be able to argue for harnessing the huge productivity gains of AI without denigrating those concerned about the millions of people whose livelihoods will be at risk"
X Link 2025-11-28T02:07Z 20.1K followers, [----] engagements
"@alexolegimas Yes. Kaldor-Hicks efficiency became the excuse for economic analysis to separate itself from the political problem of redistributing and the political part never happened"
X Link 2025-11-28T03:22Z 20.1K followers, [----] engagements
"@R_Thaler @alexolegimas If worried about rent seeking and efficiency of such a system a first step without those problems would be a much more generous unemployment insurance plus active labor market policy - it wouldnt fully compensate but it would do a lot more to compensate than current US system"
X Link 2025-11-28T04:24Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements
"@R_Thaler @alexolegimas Re taxi and uber/lyft - with medallion owners I think the core issue was a govt failure to compensate yes. People bought the medallions in good faith as state-granted monopoly rights assets that the state just decided to no longer enforce as such"
X Link 2025-11-28T04:25Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements
"@ReviseNRetweet @conlon_chris @R_Thaler @alexolegimas Cant wait to read in detail this is so interesting"
X Link 2025-11-29T03:56Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements
"@mattyglesias I think even within the use tax and transfers school of thought theres an important distinction between (1) safety net vs (2) insurance. Safety net = dont let people fall below some poverty line. Broadly this is the logic underlying US and UK welfare systems"
X Link 2025-11-29T23:07Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements
"@mattyglesias Insurance = insure people against risk of income or job loss. Broadly this is the logic underlying European welfare systems The latter seems a much fairer way of compensating people for unpredictable events like big tech or trade shifts destroying their occupations"
X Link 2025-11-29T23:08Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements
"@Mann2609 Yeah compensate here is probably an example of economics jargon used differently. Not using taxes I think largely means it wouldnt happen though. What examples are there of at scale and effective voluntary programs to retrain and re employ tens of thousands"
X Link 2025-11-29T23:19Z 20.1K followers, [--] engagements
"@GonHuertas I see it as a form of social insurance. Should people be insured against big largely unpredictable shocks to their long term earning capacity I think thats both fair and efficient"
X Link 2025-11-29T23:20Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements
"This is a really important point. With a big disruption reallocation & generation of new jobs may be impossible in a quick enough time frame - even if it will happen in the long run How big does a disruption need to be for this to be the case The analogy with automation is similar. Automation in one (relatively) small sector can be viewed as the price of progress. Hultens theorem holds: automated labor will be redeployed to a different sector and economic output will increase. But what happens if many significant The analogy with automation is similar. Automation in one (relatively) small"
X Link 2025-11-29T23:49Z 20.1K followers, 16.5K engagements
"@MattBruenig Especially if UI were more generous of an income replacement scheme Proper insurance against unemployment or wage loss plus proper investment in active labor market policies (albeit hard to do) would go most of the way"
X Link 2025-11-29T23:59Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements
"@fuckerplank @ashdgandhi What do you mean by dozens of things that point to English mother tongue w high prob I guess I think the signals of English proficiency are (1) college or job in English (2) TOEFL and until recently (3) writing sample and personal statement"
X Link 2025-11-30T00:07Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements
"@IsaacJLiu @mattyglesias I can definitely see those argument and I think how fair it is is also a function of how progressive the tax system is. middle class people paying more in taxes to collectively insure each other seems like a sensible outcome which tackles your fairness concern"
X Link 2025-11-30T02:01Z 20.1K followers, [--] engagements
"@IsaacJLiu @mattyglesias (Assume willingness to pay taxes is some function of [--]. Expected private benefit [--]. Willigness to contribute to others Then increased insurance should increase marg willingness to pay tax since t increases 1)"
X Link 2025-11-30T02:02Z 20.1K followers, [--] engagements
"@Mann2609 @davidtbeito In my understanding they work well at insuring risks that not all members face at the same time (eg death disability) but not at insuring risks many or all face at the same time (eg coal miners cant mutually insure each other against transition to green energy)"
X Link 2025-11-30T04:10Z 20.1K followers, [--] engagements
"@arthur_spirling Hm yes. Esp for juniors redoing residency isnt as much of a deterrent"
X Link 2025-12-01T02:19Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements
"@avi_collis @alexolegimas @paulg from what I understand more like what Cambridge/Somerville used to be like a couple decades ago"
X Link 2025-12-02T19:50Z 20.1K followers, [--] engagements
"Of those who did recognize this advantage they noted they often had the benefit of being considered "professional" or "polished". The way we conceive of "excellence" in academia has a lot to do with markers of class. (harking back to @Daniel_Laurison & @SamFriedmanSoc work)"
X Link 2025-12-04T19:09Z 20.1K followers, [----] engagements
"A second key theme was social capital First-gen and low-income respondents discussed both having less pre-existing social capital in academia and finding it harder to build new professional relationships"
X Link 2025-12-04T19:09Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements
"A third key issue that was raised was financial constraints during the PhD and in the immediate years after. (Note our survey only focused on PhD and after - they obviously play an important role earlier in the educational journey)"
X Link 2025-12-04T19:09Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements
"These issues included people being in student loan or credit card debt or needing to support family financially. Financial constraints limited professional risk-taking for example limiting the ability to take longer to graduate or take several postdocs"
X Link 2025-12-04T19:09Z 20.1K followers, 13.9K engagements
"on this I've always been puzzled by the fact that it's assumed grad students can pay for expenses for travel (incl job market) and then wait a month or more to be reimbursed often for 00s or 000s of $. These issues included people being in student loan or credit card debt or needing to support family financially. Financial constraints limited professional risk-taking for example limiting the ability to take longer to graduate or take several postdocs. These issues included people being in student loan or credit card debt or needing to support family financially. Financial constraints limited"
X Link 2025-12-04T19:12Z 20.1K followers, 12.8K engagements
"@Afinetheorem @xvrmdf Agree Ill need to cut more by international on the survey specifically we havent done that. On the quant results theres a class gap within international but its smaller than the gap within US. Which would be consistent w this"
X Link 2025-12-09T15:29Z 20.1K followers, [--] engagements
"@erinhengel Thanks for these thoughtful responses. I agree very much regarding the claim about Econ: it was so striking to me that in the Ceci et al piece they explicitly pull out Econ as the exception"
X Link 2025-12-17T20:01Z 20.1K followers, [--] engagements
"@HenricCont @VincentGeloso That is the graph for productivity against average pay. The graph for productivity against the pay of typical workers looks like the one in the first quoted tweet. (Whether you use median or avg production/nonsupervisory workers) https://www.csls.ca/ipm/41/IPM_41_Greenspon.pdf https://www.csls.ca/ipm/41/IPM_41_Greenspon.pdf"
X Link 2025-12-28T13:47Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements
"@HenricCont @VincentGeloso "whose pay" is the question and I think most people are just talking past each other here. Most people I see use the graph are focused on the pay of "ordinary" workers which is well proxied by the 80% bottom who make up the prod/nonsupervisory group as Vincent notes"
X Link 2025-12-28T16:06Z 20.1K followers, [--] engagements
"@ModeledBehavior @MattBruenig Oh agree- I mean that both dynamics are likely true for these professions- rising concentration a problem on one hand but the consolidation enabling some of these equalizing gender dynamics in the other"
X Link 2025-12-28T18:05Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements
"@ModeledBehavior @MattBruenig In my work on concentration we find health occs are likely the most affected in terms of wage suppression. Also re pharmacy consolidation in a different paper e explicitly study the cvs target merger And find wage effects https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfmabstract_id=4644895 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfmabstract_id=4644895"
X Link 2025-12-28T18:06Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Superb posts on AI coming thick and fast from @alexolegimas and co. the Q of how soon well get agentic AI commerce at scale is something Ive been wondering about New post with @AndreyFradkin on the obstacles for AI agentic commerce. Imagine an AI that could optimize your credit card points across airlines and hotels to book a trip to Tokyo. The technology exists at least in theory. So why can't you use an agent to book a flight or shop New post with @AndreyFradkin on the obstacles for AI agentic commerce. Imagine an AI that could optimize your credit card points across airlines and hotels to"
X Link 2026-01-16T22:08Z 20.1K followers, [----] engagements
"@jujulemons @MeganTStevenson Would brain fog / cognitive fatigue / difficulty focusing and concentrating be classified as mental health I'm guessing not but not sure"
X Link 2026-01-26T20:25Z 20.2K followers, [--] engagements
"This gap is not just about institution type or prestige - it also shows up in earnings and job satisfaction. So it is not the case that first-gen college grads are trading off higher pay or better job satisfaction for jobs at lower-ranked institutions. (7/22)"
X Link 2026-01-27T17:56Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements
"The gap is not driven by differential selection out of academia into industry. There's no class gap in ending up tenured anywhere conditional on PhD - the class gap exists entirely on the intensive margin - WHERE someone is tenured. (This was surprising to us). (8/22)"
X Link 2026-01-27T17:56Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements
"This is actually the part I think is the most important - there are likely these class gaps in career progression in a lot of industries in the US. Really hard to study because theres rarely data on family background But it is doable and I hope ppl work on it more "we also find a class gap in career progression for PhDs who work in industry suggesting this phenomenon generalizes outside academia" "we also find a class gap in career progression for PhDs who work in industry suggesting this phenomenon generalizes outside academia""
X Link 2026-01-28T13:57Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@soumitrashukla9 So true"
X Link 2026-01-28T17:41Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@lymanstoneky Yeah fair I think this is how a lot of people think. But I think there should be finer grained definitions - it is impossible to define or discuss the problems of the middle class if it encompasses 20p-90p"
X Link 2026-01-28T18:56Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@lymanstoneky I dont need it to be the middle third of mass but the point of a class definition is to group people with similar material resources social status access to opportunity etc. the v broad how people think about middle class doesnt do that"
X Link 2026-01-28T18:57Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@ScottABeaulier @alexolegimas Thanks To be clear: unlike Morgan et al we are not focused on academic parents but on people from advantaged but non-academic backgrounds - ppl with parents w non PhD grad degrees (eg doctors lawyers businesspeople teachers)"
X Link 2026-01-29T00:50Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@PeterIsztin @stevehou I haven't read Becker on that I agree that it's a v hard problem"
X Link 2026-01-29T22:05Z 20.3K followers, [--] engagements
"@jujulemons Do you know what the best evidence is on how much long covid there's been in this population since [----] Surely some proportion of it is but I have no good sense of how much"
X Link 2026-01-26T16:28Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements
"❓How to measure class❓ We use PARENTAL EDUCATION🧑🎓 - first-gen college grads - parent w/ BA - parent w/ non-PhD grad degree (JD MD MBA EdM.) We're less interested in PhD parents b/c reflects academia-specific advantage not generalized socioeconomic advantage (5/22)"
X Link 2026-01-27T17:56Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements
"🚨We find a large class gap:🚨 Conditional on PhD program attended first-gen college grads are ➡10% less likely to end up tenured at an R1 and ➡tenured at places ranked 11% lower compared to their PhD classmates who had a parent with a (non-PhD) grad degree. (6/22)"
X Link 2026-01-27T17:56Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements
"CHOICE: do lower-SEB academics choose to work at lower-ranked schools We don't find any action on this - whether we look at financial family or location constraints institution type or self-reported preferences. It doesn't look like preferences explain the gap. (14/22)"
X Link 2026-01-27T17:56Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements
"So what does We think strong candidates are social and cultural capital. per Bourdieu: Social capital: relationships which provide useful professional resources advantages & knowledge Cultural capital: tastes ideas habits & behaviors which confer status/recognition (15/22)"
X Link 2026-01-27T17:56Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements
"We find suggestive evidence that first-gen college grads in academia - have more difficulties forming valuable professional relationships -- limited coauthorship networks - are less likely to gain recognition - NSF awards or citations - conditional on research output. (16/22)"
X Link 2026-01-27T17:56Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements
"We also ran a survey of US academics with over [----] responses. People overwhelmingly discussed factors re cultural and social capital "Middle class norms" "Dress code and speaking code" cultural knowledge and experiences mattering for small talk and networking. (17/22)"
X Link 2026-01-27T17:56Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements
"To be clear $200k in the US is also not middle class 16% of households earn $200k in US but David's broader point stands that 16% is much bigger than 2% (Table A2) https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2025/demo/p60-286.pdf This headline shows how much UK incomes have fallen behind the US. If Britain's top universities (which are easily as good as Yale) offered the same 98% of British households would get free tuition. What Yale considers "middle class" earns as much as Britain's top 2%. We need https://t.co/7S9zOosXmj https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2025/demo/p60-286.pdf"
X Link 2026-01-28T17:04Z 20.3K followers, 22.9K engagements
"Can confirm I used @RefineInk last week on my final pre submission draft It is no longer my final pre submission draft (The feedback was superb both high level and also spotting eg tiny inconsistencies between appendix table notes and paper footnotes) Writing econ papers these days: https://t.co/kTD0Cwttgz Writing econ papers these days: https://t.co/kTD0Cwttgz"
X Link 2026-01-31T04:07Z 20.3K followers, 10.2K engagements
"@alz_zyd_ @ash_craig Kaldor-Hicks is much better but also ignores whether the actual redistribution happens - which I think can easily lead to // led to in the past actual distribution concerns being overlooked more than they should have been"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:04Z 20.3K followers, [--] engagements
"This is a shame because one of the real pleasures of college is going really deep on the academics In a system where the top - say - 15% of the class get the top grade (like 1sts in UK) the incentive structure is pushes much more toward academic excellence"
X Link 2026-02-07T16:10Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@arpitrage Yes - depends on the degree to which the increased negative signal value of a B outweighs the insurance value you describe. From my own experience w students a lot were making risk-averse class choice decisions based on the heuristic I described. I rarely heard the converse"
X Link 2026-02-07T16:22Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@nativistconcern @ubiquitousnewt Where does the 90% number come from Also note that includes all the women who've already had children by [--]. What share of childless women by [--] want children / wanted them when they were younger is a different Q"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:51Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Fertility does decline with age evidence suggests some women underestimate this decline and evidence suggests desired fertility realized fertility. If worried about women delaying bc they underestimate fertility the graph should focus on group 3"
X Link 2026-02-12T23:52Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"If worried about women delaying getting married bc they underestimate fertility decline (or overestimate the quality of partners) the graph should focus on group [--] There is no reason why the graph should include the women in group 1"
X Link 2026-02-12T23:52Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"This is a perfect example of how to mislead with data. A lot of 35y/o women who are childless don't want kids. Among heterosexual couples trying for kids: 80% of women aged 30-31 are pregnant within [--] mo 60-70% of women aged 36-37 are pregnant within 12mo Women who "reached [--] w/o starting a family had only a 52% chance of having children. Cross that threshold without children and your odds of having children fall closer to almost one-in-two." @compactmag https://t.co/Cn557QLJ0O Women who "reached [--] w/o starting a family had only a 52% chance of having children. Cross that threshold without"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:14Z 20.3K followers, 48.8K engagements
"@howlongtodeath I've seen a LOT of retweets of the original post. Most of them interpret "Cross that threshold without children and your odds of having children fall closer to almost one-in-two." to mean that it's about fertility decline. Most of that one-in-two is not about fertility decline"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:48Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@CptRexRepublic @salonium The trend is downward but the levels are very different Saying the odds of having a child if you start after [--] are only [--] in [--] makes it sound like its about fertility when its about much more. The actual probability matters"
X Link 2026-02-14T03:20Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"📢New WP📢 The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia w/ Kyra Rodriguez Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations. Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia.🧵"
X Link 2024-07-09T20:03Z 20.3K followers, 471.6K engagements
"One of the worst outcomes of grade inflation is that it discourages students pushing themselves taking a class that's a bit too hard for them or in a field they don't know much about. The risk of a B when so many get straight As is real - Safer to stick to what they know. I will be enthusiastically supporting faculty legislation to cap the number of A's at Harvard at 20% (plus a bit). The collective action problem that has driven grades higher & higher over time is increasingly problematic. I hope other institutions consider similar steps. https://t.co/o1jikg4Rbv I will be enthusiastically"
X Link 2026-02-07T16:09Z 20.3K followers, 25.8K engagements
"The other outcome that I've seen - when there are so many As students at the top can't distinguish themselves through classwork. Going really deep on a class and writing a truly superb paper won't change grade -- increased incentive to distinguish through extra curriculars. One of the worst outcomes of grade inflation is that it discourages students pushing themselves taking a class that's a bit too hard for them or in a field they don't know much about. The risk of a B when so many get straight As is real - Safer to stick to what they know. One of the worst outcomes of grade inflation is"
X Link 2026-02-07T16:10Z 20.3K followers, 15.1K engagements
"@CptRexRepublic @salonium I put the chances of conception by age in my post - very different levels conditional on wanting a child and being in a position to try (having a male partner) Whether your odds are 80% vs 50% is a big difference To be clear: the original graph contains [--] things 1/ selection effects: women who are childless at [--] are more likely to want to remain childless 2/ whether a woman meets a partner (declines w age conditional on being unpartnered) 3/ fertility decline with age To be clear: the original graph contains [--] things 1/ selection effects: women who are childless at"
X Link 2026-02-14T03:21Z 20.3K followers, [--] engagements
"📢now forthcoming in ECMA The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations. Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia.🧵"
X Link 2026-01-27T17:56Z 20.3K followers, 217.2K engagements
"a horror story in two lines (of code) This led to the overturning of the main result in a study that had found men leave their wives when they fall terminally ill The study has now been retracted"
X Link 2024-06-28T19:45Z 20.3K followers, 917.4K engagements
"📢New WP📢 The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia w/ Kyra Rodriguez Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations. Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia.🧵"
X Link 2024-07-09T20:03Z 20.3K followers, 471.6K engagements
"How socioeconomically diverse is the economics profession New @PIIE working paper by @SchultzzyRun & myself building on some stats I showed in an (unexpectedly viral) Twitter thread in November. [--] Key Facts - and some discussion - below: https://www.piie.com/publications/working-papers/socioeconomic-diversity-economics-phds https://www.piie.com/publications/working-papers/socioeconomic-diversity-economics-phds"
X Link 2022-03-29T13:52Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements
"We know that economics has a gender and racial diversity problem. Socioeconomic background is less often discussed. @SchultzzyRun and I use the Survey of Earned Doctorates - a census of all PhDs from US institutions - to study the socioeconomic background of econ PhDs (1/N)"
X Link 2021-11-09T23:05Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements
"I didn't know this paper. [---] people refereed the same economics paper with author listed as [--]. an early career scholar [--]. anonymous [--]. a Nobel laureate (from same university as 1) Recommendations: 65% reject for early career scholar 23% reject for Nobel laureate 😑 I'd love some help from the econtwitter crowd. I'm having trouble finding a paper about a recent experiment by a journal that sent the same manuscript out for review to tons of reviewers but only half the reviewers saw that one of the authors was a Nobel Prize winner I'd love some help from the econtwitter crowd. I'm having"
X Link 2024-08-08T17:26Z 20.3K followers, 309.5K engagements
"I'd love some help from the econtwitter crowd. I'm having trouble finding a paper about a recent experiment by a journal that sent the same manuscript out for review to tons of reviewers but only half the reviewers saw that one of the authors was a Nobel Prize winner"
X Link 2024-08-08T05:30Z [----] followers, 211K engagements
"Also since I'm posting professional news: I'm absolutely thrilled to be joining @MITSloan @MIT_IWER as an Assistant Professor this Fall I'm so excited to have the chance to work with a group of scholars I greatly admire on how to make work & jobs better for more people"
X Link 2021-03-17T18:18Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Key stylized fact: Amongst US-born PhDs Economics is less socioeconomically diverse than all the major PhD fields including math computer science physical and biological sciences and other social sciences. (3/N)"
X Link 2021-11-09T23:05Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements
"A neat reminder of just how unrepresentative an average can be: Average US income growth 1980-2014 was 1.4% per year. But almost the entire income distribution - 1st-87th percentile - had income growth below this average. Graph from @PikettyLeMonde Saez & @gabriel_zucman"
X Link 2019-03-02T11:55Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@KarolusWangus My guess is its probably a question of people checking code less when the results fit with their prior which leads to mistakes going in specific directions"
X Link 2024-06-29T15:45Z 20.3K followers, 22.3K engagements
"Huh. % STEM graduates who are women is negatively correlated with a broad gender equality index across countries. Source: Stoet & Geary (2018): https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/content/paper/02bd2b68-en https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/content/paper/02bd2b68-en"
X Link 2022-05-05T11:52Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"And such a huge welfare loss. The economics profession is still not grappling with the magnitude of the intellectual error in underestimating full employment. I think it is worth rewinding the clock to see how badly the story was missed. The economics profession is still not grappling with the magnitude of the intellectual error in underestimating full employment. I think it is worth rewinding the clock to see how badly the story was missed"
X Link 2024-07-16T18:39Z 20.3K followers, 86K engagements
"The economics profession is still not grappling with the magnitude of the intellectual error in underestimating full employment. I think it is worth rewinding the clock to see how badly the story was missed"
X Link 2024-07-16T18:30Z 90.4K followers, 259.7K engagements
"Thought of the day: Every member of the Harvard community should be ashamed by the fact that we openly practice affirmative action for rich white people in college admissions. (Thread based on Arcidiacono Kinsler & Ransom's forthcoming JOLE paper) 🧵 http://public.econ.duke.edu/psarcidi/legacyathlete.pdf End affirmative action for the rich http://public.econ.duke.edu/psarcidi/legacyathlete.pdf End affirmative action for the rich"
X Link 2021-04-08T04:12Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"End affirmative action for the rich Looking again at these charts from @John_N_Friedman et al. Now what could POSSIBLY explain the over-representation (condition on ACT/SAT) of rich students into Ivy+ colleges. https://t.co/D7DcMlzjQs https://t.co/Zd3Q0zhAvM Looking again at these charts from @John_N_Friedman et al. Now what could POSSIBLY explain the over-representation (condition on ACT/SAT) of rich students into Ivy+ colleges. https://t.co/D7DcMlzjQs https://t.co/Zd3Q0zhAvM"
X Link 2021-04-07T21:59Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"The gender pay gap around labor market entry (age 25) has been declining - but this is mostly driven by young men entering at a LOWER point in the overall pay distribution not by young women entering at a higher point"
X Link 2024-06-20T14:42Z 20.3K followers, 64.1K engagements
"One thing that particularly surprised me when researching this was seeing Econ PhD's disproportionate draw from (socioeconomically) elite undergrads: 15% of all US-born economics PhDs did their undergrad at one of [--] "Ivy Plus" schools. In the top [--] econ PhD programs 45% did"
X Link 2023-11-03T18:40Z 20.3K followers, 324.5K engagements
"How to tackle regional economic inequality in the UK With @edballs and @DanTurnerSY some ideas in a new working paper. TLDR: (1) STEM skills (2) better transport for non-London cities (3) boosts to public-funded R&D outside the South. 🧵below. https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/publications/awp/awp198 https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/publications/awp/awp198"
X Link 2023-03-06T14:46Z 20.3K followers, 495.3K engagements
"In our paper @LHSummers and I argue that the decline in worker power is behind many of the major trends that have shaped the American economy in recent decades 1/N (WP out w/ @nberpubs and presented at @BrookingsEcon Spring [----] BPEA. Ungated link https://scholar.harvard.edu/stansbury/research The decline of worker power in the US can explain the fall in the labor share rises in corporate profitability and market valuations and the fall in unemployment without accelerating inflation from @annastansbury and @LHSummers https://t.co/TbBs9vNY9A https://t.co/lzp5zRgoke"
X Link 2020-05-26T22:37Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"The decline of worker power in the US can explain the fall in the labor share rises in corporate profitability and market valuations and the fall in unemployment without accelerating inflation from @annastansbury and @LHSummers https://www.nber.org/papers/w27193 https://www.nber.org/papers/w27193"
X Link 2020-05-26T19:17Z 179.5K followers, [---] engagements
"How to avoid paying overtime Make your Front Desk Clerk a "Director of First Impressions". Cohen @umitgurun & @NB_Ozel have a compelling new @nberpubs WP suggesting that mamy firms give fake managerial job titles to avoid paying overtime. (1)"
X Link 2023-01-10T13:39Z 20.3K followers, 143.7K engagements
"As an Economics undergrad at @Cambridge_Uni 2010-13 I learned a lot about Alfred Marshall. I never learned how he fiercely and actively opposed women's participation in academic life at Cambridge including that of his wife economist Mary Paley. http://www.nber.org/papers/w29481 http://www.nber.org/papers/w29481"
X Link 2021-11-15T18:10Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Nope. This paper is about US academics 1900-1960 The present looks different. Asking people to stop drawing inference from these stats as if they're about the present & asking authors to put time period in their title and abstract 🙏 Who are the hyper privileged rich academics Humanities. New paper by Ran Abramitzky and colleagues https://t.co/TvNFmPzgoA Who are the hyper privileged rich academics Humanities. New paper by Ran Abramitzky and colleagues https://t.co/TvNFmPzgoA"
X Link 2024-12-31T15:11Z 20.3K followers, 78.8K engagements
"Who are the hyper privileged rich academics Humanities. New paper by Ran Abramitzky and colleagues"
X Link 2024-12-30T12:07Z 59.7K followers, 253.3K engagements
"Economists: generally gifts are inefficient because people would get greater utility from cash Also economists: spend several days on Twitter debating their favorite NBER-branded piece of conference memorabilia"
X Link 2019-06-13T22:27Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Worth being v clear - This is not the effect of parental divorce in some absolute sense This is a very specific LATE: the average effect of the kind of parental divorce which is triggered by opportunity-induced infidelity (opportunity = meeting someone at work) Just published in @JPubEcon: "How does parental divorce affect childrens long-term outcomes" By @WFrimmel (@jku_econ) @HallaMartin (@WU_econ) @EbmerWinter (@IHS_Vienna) https://t.co/gpesU9mXMn https://t.co/PRi6Jzdp0q Just published in @JPubEcon: "How does parental divorce affect childrens long-term outcomes" By @WFrimmel (@jku_econ)"
X Link 2024-10-01T18:54Z 20.3K followers, 176.5K engagements
"Just published in @JPubEcon: "How does parental divorce affect childrens long-term outcomes" By @WFrimmel (@jku_econ) @HallaMartin (@WU_econ) @EbmerWinter (@IHS_Vienna) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272724001373 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272724001373"
X Link 2024-09-29T18:35Z 23.6K followers, 1.1M engagements
"Among all STEM and social science fields the concentration of award winners in a few institutions is highest in Economics. AND its the only field where this concentration is rising not falling. Freeman Xie Zhang and Zhou #NBERSI"
X Link 2024-07-18T16:24Z 20.3K followers, 59.5K engagements
"Recessions don't always have to mean big rises in unemployment - labor market policies matter. Incredibly striking illustration from @jasonfurman's presentation om Tuesday at Harvard macro policy seminar"
X Link 2018-11-08T16:17Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Online dating: one of the most underrated contributors to human wellbeing so far this century (by simple revealed preference: we all still have the option to meet our partners through friends/family/co-workers. But we're choosing not to.) "How Couples Meet" chart updated July [----] https://t.co/gz0ffsO12M https://t.co/Gjvh2ZqTqs "How Couples Meet" chart updated July [----] https://t.co/gz0ffsO12M https://t.co/Gjvh2ZqTqs"
X Link 2019-07-13T11:55Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
""How Couples Meet" chart updated July [----] https://web.stanford.edu/mrosenfe/Rosenfeld_et_al_Disintermediating_Friends.pdf https://web.stanford.edu/mrosenfe/Rosenfeld_et_al_Disintermediating_Friends.pdf"
X Link 2019-07-12T15:26Z 250.8K followers, 26.9K engagements
"CW: Suicidal ideation Awful. One in nine economics PhD students reported contemplating suicide or self-harm on at least several days in the last two weeks (2017/18 survey) This is 1.5x more prevalent than among average 18-25 y/os (the highest risk group in general population) Forthcoming in the JEL: "Graduate Student Mental Health: Lessons from American Economics Departments" by Valentin Bolotnyy Matthew Basilico and Paul Barreira. https://t.co/oQO3jx3G2c Forthcoming in the JEL: "Graduate Student Mental Health: Lessons from American Economics Departments" by Valentin Bolotnyy Matthew Basilico"
X Link 2021-03-12T04:01Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Forthcoming in the JEL: "Graduate Student Mental Health: Lessons from American Economics Departments" by Valentin Bolotnyy Matthew Basilico and Paul Barreira. https://www.aeaweb.org/articlesid=10.1257/jel.20201555&from=f https://www.aeaweb.org/articlesid=10.1257/jel.20201555&from=f"
X Link 2021-03-11T18:24Z 83.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Wow For many years now I've looked to the Upjohn Dissertation Award lists as representing exactly the kind of researcher I aspired to be. I'm incredibly honoured - and thrilled to be in the company of Natalia Emanuel & @zbleemer whose work I've learnt so much from already"
X Link 2021-10-26T17:41Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"This is so striking it bears repeating. The only other parts of Europe that ever saw deindustrialization as rapid as the Midlands and Yorkshire did in the 80s were formerly Communist countries transitioning to capitalism Its worth emphasizing just how steep the UKs deindustrialisation was. The only European regions which have seen a decade of deindustrialisation as fast as the Midlands or Yorkshire did in the 1980s were formerly Communist economies in the decade transitioning to capitalism. https://t.co/lccUDDsYdL Its worth emphasizing just how steep the UKs deindustrialisation was. The"
X Link 2023-03-08T21:57Z 20.3K followers, 135.3K engagements
"Its worth emphasizing just how steep the UKs deindustrialisation was. The only European regions which have seen a decade of deindustrialisation as fast as the Midlands or Yorkshire did in the 1980s were formerly Communist economies in the decade transitioning to capitalism"
X Link 2023-03-06T14:46Z 20.3K followers, 148.6K engagements
"Recessions are almost always worse for low-wage workers than high-wage workers. But this one is off-the-charts worse for low-wage workers"
X Link 2020-10-01T00:33Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Great summary from @jburnmurdoch of the growing gender gap in outcomes for young people - with women much more likely to go to college and increasingly more likely to be employed Strikingly in the UK young non college women also now earn more than young non college men"
X Link 2024-09-20T14:10Z 20.3K followers, 89.6K engagements
"What happens to companies who get more powerful institutional shareholders CEO pay falls by a cumulative 60% over [--] years Top execs by 40% Striking endorsement of the view that strong shareholders help solve the principal agent problem Paper by Falato Kim & @TillvonWachter"
X Link 2025-01-06T20:35Z 20.3K followers, 37.8K engagements
"South Korea's fertility rate once again breaks (its own) world record low. Last month @KarenDynan @jacobkirkegaard and I put out a @PIIE working paper on gender dynamics in the South Korean labor market which we argue are strongly linked to what's going on with fertility. 🧵 South Korean fertility rates are so low that the population is expected to be cut in half by the end of this century. https://t.co/DfhROdQRpi South Korean fertility rates are so low that the population is expected to be cut in half by the end of this century. https://t.co/DfhROdQRpi"
X Link 2022-08-24T12:42Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"South Korean fertility rates are so low that the population is expected to be cut in half by the end of this century"
X Link 2022-08-24T10:22Z 109.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Fact 1: Economics is one of the least socioeconomically diverse academic disciplines. It has the lowest share of PhD recipients who are first-generation college graduates (no parent with a BA or higher). (data throughout is from NSF SED: census of all US PhD recipients)"
X Link 2022-03-29T13:52Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@florianederer Incredibly jarring that this clever satire musical theater piece is. an ad for a cryptocurrency trading platform"
X Link 2025-11-11T21:52Z 20.3K followers, 13.9K engagements
"ATTN faculty: How you perceive your relationship with your PhD advisees is often not how they perceive it. Forthcoming in the JEL: "Graduate Student Mental Health: Lessons from American Economics Departments" by Valentin Bolotnyy Matthew Basilico and Paul Barreira. https://t.co/oQO3jx3G2c Forthcoming in the JEL: "Graduate Student Mental Health: Lessons from American Economics Departments" by Valentin Bolotnyy Matthew Basilico and Paul Barreira. https://t.co/oQO3jx3G2c"
X Link 2021-03-12T04:29Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"This week I'm striking alongside hundreds of other Harvard grad student workers. I've been asked why we're on strike. These are a few of my (personal) reasons. @hgsuuaw #HGSUStrike"
X Link 2019-12-05T16:53Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"I am hiring a predoc at MIT to start this summer We will work on various topics in labor economics - unions minimum wages imperfect competition etc. Please apply and share #predoc @MITSloan @MIT_IWER @econ_ra"
X Link 2025-02-14T16:39Z 20.3K followers, 58.4K engagements
"Going through slides from @lkatz42's unparalleled PhD Labor class this morning as I prep my own teaching and was reminded of this gem - Richard Freeman's [--] rules for empirical work in labor economics (inc "quarks can't speak but humans can tell you what they think is going on")"
X Link 2022-02-15T16:47Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Yes. We KNOW sexual harassment is rife in economics. Specific allegations may be a surprise - I don't know anything about them and they must be thoroughly and urgently investigated. But to anyone who has been paying attention the prevalence should not be"
X Link 2022-10-22T15:04Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"#EconTwitter has been discussing job market interviews in hotel bedrooms. @kathrynholston and I have been thinking about this a lot over the past year and discussing with others in the profession. Here's a memo we put together in Oct & a summary (thread) https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/stansbury/files/assa_interviews_memo.pdf https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/stansbury/files/assa_interviews_memo.pdf"
X Link 2019-01-12T09:54Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@NielsHoven So disappointing"
X Link 2024-06-29T15:44Z 20.3K followers, 25.9K engagements
"One of the most striking charts from our paper imo is this one: The vast majority of Economics PhDs at top-ranked programs have a parent with a graduate degree - particularly among the American students. That is we are drawing from an extremely narrow socioeconomic pool"
X Link 2023-11-03T20:37Z 20.3K followers, 299.3K engagements
"Fascinating paper on Mexicos domestic outsourcing ban by Alejandro Estefan and coauthors In [----] Mexico banned domestic outsourcing for core business activities. This shows that in manufacturing the share of workers outsourced fell from c 20% to basically zero very rapidly"
X Link 2024-07-23T18:11Z 20.3K followers, 34.6K engagements
"🎉The final version of my paper Declining Worker Power w/ Larry Summers is out @BrookingsEcon I've learned so much from reading the papers comments & discussions in the BPEA series over the last years so am thrilled to now have a paper there too. https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/declining-worker-power-and-american-economic-performance/ https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/declining-worker-power-and-american-economic-performance/"
X Link 2020-12-14T19:21Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Economics seminar culture has many great aspects and some really bad aspects. I love questions and interaction. I love being rigorous and getting to the heart of an issue. AND it's been clear to me since I joined econ that there's a seminar culture problem (Thread) For Women in Economics the Hostility Is Out in the Open https://t.co/dudw3gkyvK For Women in Economics the Hostility Is Out in the Open https://t.co/dudw3gkyvK"
X Link 2021-02-24T06:53Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"For Women in Economics the Hostility Is Out in the Open https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/business/economy/economics-women-gender-bias.htmlsmid=tw-share https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/business/economy/economics-women-gender-bias.htmlsmid=tw-share"
X Link 2021-02-23T19:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Opportunity to plug one of my favourite books. In the late 1700s rapid economic progress meant that - for the first time in human history - ending poverty was conceivable. The idea that poverty no longer had to be an inevitable part of society had huge ramifications [--] yo asked when poverty first became a problem. I told him it was the default that most animal species are hungry. [--] yo asked when poverty first became a problem. I told him it was the default that most animal species are hungry"
X Link 2025-02-18T03:18Z 20.3K followers, 25.8K engagements
"12 yo asked when poverty first became a problem. I told him it was the default that most animal species are hungry"
X Link 2025-02-16T15:24Z 2.2M followers, 603.4K engagements
"This is a hugely important change: for high-school educated workers it used to pay substantially to live in a bigger city - higher wages net of housing costs now it's the opposite: urban pay is not much higher and housing costs are more - leaving you net worse off"
X Link 2022-04-14T17:36Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
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