💻 If you’re serious about computation in economics, you eventually need to get serious about hardware. And that includes FPGAs 🔌. ⚙️ Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) allow users to configure programmable logic blocks to execute specific algorithms, avoiding the

Be kind to your Nordic friends: explain them that the sun, lovely and warm as it is, can still harm their skin.

Väestöön liittyvät aiheet puhuttavat myös muualla kuin pohjolassa. (Yksinkertainen) Kasvukaava enteilee samalla epämukavia aikoja pidemmällä aikavälillä, jos työpanos supistuu.

The academic job market is bad and will likely get worse. Research job openings have dropped sharply, just as economists laid off from government roles are flooding the market. Current PhD students should have candid conversations with their advisors about their prospects. If

It was a great pleasure to present our paper “The Ins and Outs of Vacancies” (with Damian Osterwalder and Josef Zweimüller) at the NBER Summer Institute. One of our key findings: replacement vacancies—those posted to refill jobs after workers quit—fluctuate strongly over the

Firing the Commissioner of Labor Statistics when the BLS revises jobs numbers down (as it routinely does) threatens to destroy trust in core American institutions, and all government statistics. I can't stress how damaging this is.

“We are pleased to report from the new MAGA Patriotic Bureau of Labor Statistics that thanks to Leader Trump employment is up 10 million jobs for the month of August.”

Firing the head of a key government agency because you don’t like the numbers they report, which come from surveys using long established procedures, is what happens in authoritarian countries not democratic ones. This is surely not the most serious threat to our democracy that

Chamath Palihapitiya I worked at BLS for years and can tell you that revisions are completely legitimate. Many field-reported stats simply come in *late* after the close of the month. Would you prefer that they just ignore the newer stats that come in? In fact, as a senior BLS economist I myself led

Had an absolute blast in Gerzensee! Thanks again to Study Center Gerzensee and prof. Violante for organizing this excellent course 🏔️🇨🇭

Look at how having a child affects male and female self-reports of division of domestic work differently. What do you notice?

👀 “E.J. Antoni, the economist tapped by President Donald Trump to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, suggested suspending the agency’s closely watched monthly jobs report, arguing that its underlying methodology, economic modeling and statistical assumptions are fundamentally

Put a useful idiot in charge of economic statistics and we suddenly get a reason to suspend our most valuable and reliable measures, just as the economy is slowing. It's cooking the books by erasing inconvenient numbers. Indefensibly destructive, economically harmful, and markets

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Claudia Goldin at Jackson Hole says: You want more children, then promote gender equality. When men help out at home, women have more babies. #JacksonHole #econtwitter

Työvoimatutkimuksen lukuja odotellessa muutama huomio työnvälitystilaston aamun julkistuksesta: Viime syksyn luvut eivät ole vertailukelpoisia uusimpiin lukuihin. Katkon jälkeen nähty kasvu johtuu tiedonsiirto-ongelmien korjaantumisesta ja paikkojen määrän lasku on jatkunut.

On aina hatunnoston paikka, kun asiantuntija valitsee seistä periaatteiden takana, jopa silloin kun potkut uhkaa. On siinä oma arvonsa, että voi katsoa itseään peiliin aamulla. nytimes.com/2025/08/27/hea…