The Guardian of the Sea! Introducing our Marvel Entertainment-created logo for Marvel Defenders of the Diamond! #milbxmarvel milb.com/events/marvel

Version 1.1 of Stata package #arcplot is now out: github.com/asjadnaqvi/sta… - A lot of bug fixes - Better label controls - Added gtools for faster reshaping. It needs network data in the form: source, destination, value and that is it! Examples 👇👇

Here in Maine we are running behind on seasonal snowfall compared to similar latitudes further west. Caribou did get its first flakes of the season this morning, but it was only a few flakes. #MEwx

2/x: C1. Olivier Blanchard, Lawrence H. Summers, Alex Domash claim match efficiency has fallen...less hires for any (V,U). This means if vacancies fall we'd move along that blue dashed curve...lots of unemployment. Jason Furman

#NEW 8% of 2022 mortgage borrowers are underwater, finds Black Knight. In Colorado Springs, that figure is +30%.

It's #FreeMapMonday! Re-tweet and follow us for a chance to win the State Map of Alaska! #USGSStore (U.S. residents only)

Child care is a significant expense for many families. A model examining costs and household incomes found that child care was least affordable in Vermont and Maine, and most affordable in Utah and Georgia in 2019 ow.ly/kcAf50MbCXR

New in JRS from Zhenhua Chen and Laurie Schintler: "Rediscovering Regional Science: Positioning the Field's Evolving Location in Science and Society", a penetrating retrospective and prospective look at the field. Check it out.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

In addition, tightness not only raises wages, it actually increases competition in the labor market by strengthening the job ladder, whereby workers climb out of poorly-paid to better-paid jobs.

NEW from John Tomase - The Red Sox have a plan, but it risks leading to irrelevance: nbcsports.com/boston/red-sox…

I am very sad to report the death of Professor John Parr, Bartlett UCL and formerly University of Glasgow He was an excellent academic in the field of regional science and regional studies who was a very good friend and mentor to many of us. A gentleman scholar he will be missed

If you want to take the road less traveled, here's a map for you. #citylabarchive trib.al/SrGk37x

New Year, New USGS Store, New #FreeMapMonday! It's #FreeMapMonday! Re-tweet and follow us for a chance to win the classic map of the Grand Canyon! Don't forget to check out the new and improved USGS Store at store.usgs.gov! #USGSStore (U.S. residents only)

Sometimes we forget, but it was a paper! This month marks 95 years of the publication of the Cobb-Douglas production function, AER March 1928, by Charles Cobb and Paul Douglas, Cobb and Douglas (1928). They have this beautiful graph comparing observations and predictions

Keynes once said: "Anything we can actually do, we can afford." I have always found this quote curious. Can this really be true? Well, turns out in an OLG-NK or HANK model it can! Angeletos, Lian, and Christian Wolf show this in a striking new paper: drive.google.com/file/d/1W78oHL…

Applications for New Businesses rise in March 2023 for both likely new employers and new nonemployers. 2nd highest March on record (highest March 2021). March 2023 50% higher than March 2019.

The tight U.S. labor market is a nationwide story, but variations across states at the end of 2022 appear to have been caused primarily by whether job openings were rising or falling. Read the analysis: ow.ly/hR0F50NMcCy

Updated with latest GDP #s: Hutchins Center Fiscal Impact Measure shows local, state, federal fiscal policy subtracted 0.2 pct points from Q1 GDP growth (which came in a 1.1%) brookings.edu/interactives/h… via The Brookings Institution

#Asksnb how do you go about playing new pitchers that you have not played before ?