Thanks to a $5.4 million gift from the Stone Foundation, UBC’s Vancouver School of Economics (UBC Economics) will be home to Canada’s first Stone Centre on Wealth and Income Inequality. Read more: bit.ly/3KyRgxE

CSWEP head (E. Bailey) to NBER head (M. Feldstein), 1980 "Of the 57 persons you list as officers/directors of NBER, not one is a woman...the Bureau's research on the family is being done by 10 male research associates despite the fact that many prominent women work in this area"

Our (with Oskar Burger and Ron Lee) edited volume Human Evolutionary Demography is now published by Open Book Publishers 🎉 32 chapters completely free to read, including an impressive line-up of researchers working in this area 😊

The #UMichRegents have approved the appointments of two distinguished new Ford School faculty, sociologist Pamela Herd (Pamela Herd 🐀) and political scientist Donald Moynihan (Don Moynihan). Join us in welcoming our new faculty! #FordSchoolWelcome #GoBlue myumi.ch/DryWD

Now that everyone’s home from #ASHEcon2024, I wanted to expand on a running conversation I had with a bunch of grad students who met with me. NOBODY TEACHES YOU HOW TO CONFERENCE!!! Well, let’s do a quick thread on how to conference (as a PhD student) /1

This is such a good thread. Pick a person presenting who you think is worth networking w, read their paper carefully 3x, and craft a question. Ok if it’s open-ended. If your Q has real insight they’ll be able to tell. If that have a good answer they’ll be happy you asked.

Over half of the gender gap in patents can be explained by male-female differences in response to rejection. Just Accepted new paper by Abhay Aneja (A.A.), Oren Reshef (Oren Reshef), and Gauri Subramani (Gauri Subramani). zurl.co/kqOF

The economics of gender has been left behind, and still employs a reductive framing in which gender gaps in economic outcomes are either due to discrimination or to choice. Shelly Lundberg Shelly Lundberg UC Santa Barbara discusses more and paths forward

The economics of gender has been left behind, and still employs a reductive framing in which gender gaps in economic outcomes are either due to discrimination or to choice. Shelly Lundberg Shelly Lundberg UC Santa Barbara discusses more and paths forward

You can't go wrong with a social studies teacher. Excited to have Tim Walz on the ticket. Good to have someone who knows American history.

CFP for a collection I’m co-editing with Zachary Palmer. Please consider sending us something and RT to help us spread the word.

Let's have a serious conversation about the phrase "unskilled labor". Economists have used that phrase for as long as I've studied economics. At some point I became inured to it falsely thinking it's no judgment, just trying to classify workers. That's wrong. It's horrible. 🧵

The President, First Lady kick off their Santa Barbara County vacation #presidentbiden #santaynezvalley #solvang #santabarbaracounty #buellton #santaynez kclu.org/2024-08-20/the…

Fascinating data analysis from the Economist looking at 7.5m US car crashes The chart below shows likelihood of you dying in a car crash by weight of your car (grey line) and weight of other car (red line) So it’s in our own self interest to get a heavier car (slight reduction

I'm restarting open Econometrics Office Hours this week, now from Bowdoin College, where I am visiting this year. Open to anyone anywhere needing econometrics help! Now Wednesdays 10-12 AM Eastern or by appointment.

This is a compilation of tips that could help you get the support you need to survive pregnancy + parenthood on tenure track. 💡💪🏼 Step 1: Get nationwide insurance coverage! Forget index investing, this was the best financial decision of my life. x.com/jialanw/status…

Come work with us at UCSB Sociology. We have an Asst. Prof position in quantitative methods with an open area research specialty hoping to collect someone who builds on some of our areas of strength. Consider applying and please share. recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02823

Looking for a non-technical review of the economics literature on abortion policy? I've got a new review piece forthcoming at Annual Reviews covering 50 years of abortion policy, from the Roe era until just prior to Dobbs. Here's the preprint: drive.google.com/file/d/13lnSi4…

Incredibly important piece by Jens Ludwig in the Chicago Tribune. "The most important problem in higher education that no one is talking about," including this devastating chart: chicagotribune.com/2024/09/08/opi…

My piece in The Atlantic today: Break Up Big Econ The economics profession has become insular and status-obsessed, and not focused enough on making a positive impact on the world. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…