🚨1/N Really excited to announce a new working paper, “Interviews” 🚨 We demonstrate that interviews allow workers to screen firms and preview whether the job is a good match for them—using ~500k Glassdoor reports + a randomized field experiment. 🧵

Important evidence on the first order importance of Asian immigration to the US economy, and by implication, the madness of efforts to truncate this extraordinarily productive flow of talent. Must read.

Parents streaming Ben’s fantastic discussion of our paper at NBER from 8k miles away (via YouTube!)

Heterodox Orthodoxy and the Lillian Hellman fallacy. quillette.com/2025/11/14/het…

I highly encourage econ to not go down the road many parts of the sciences have gone down, being seen as political actors. People trust us on economic topics *because* we don't do things like this. (Also global individual level inequality has been falling straight for 35 yrs...)

"A fascinating take on a profound yet little-understood aspect of the psyche." First review (in Publishers Weekly) of Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's Rebecca Newberger Goldstein The Mattering Instinct. publishersweekly.com/9781324096856

I interviewed for a bunch of roles right after undergrad that had brain teasers/ math olympiad style questions. I failed all of them and didn't get a single job. So I founded a start up and got funding which paid my salary, which ended up being pretty fun.

Agree completely. The profession has not gone that way (that much, yet, at least) - but a few economists have - including some really top ones. This is a great disservice to the profession - a negative externality these economists impose. If an insider reads the names of

The reporting below comes from CNBC. If I’m counting correctly, that makes at least five Federal Reserve officials who have been accused of financial irregularities since 2020—some confirmed, others not. You see why I include the culture of compliance among the areas in urgent

I agree with Kevin A. Bryan. Public trust in universities is already extremely low, largely because of missteps by administrators. Econ faculty should be wary of signing on to politically motivated statements that risk further eroding that trust.

If Google really wanted to accelerate science, it should make Deep Research (and Gemini in general) have better retrieval from Google Scholar and Google Books. These are unique repositories that contain a remarkable amount of the world’s academic knowledge in hard-to-access form.

Latest installment in an extraordinarily interesting research program on inequality in Imperial China, one replete with insights on meritocracy, elite reproduction, and other topics with great current salience.

This is why everybody hates economists … because we do not let people make claims like this … at least not without laughing Btw, no, this is not political, at all: we laugh hard at the Mamdani crowd as well … bad economic logic has no color … or better, it has both color!

Claude Code / Codex are emerging platforms for AI-first software. The skills features in CC (for example) are a way to extend capabilities for users (subsidy side) and connect to products (marginalize side). Same platform business model can work.

Simply hoisting the "independence" flag while Fed governors violate trading rules is not a stable status quo --- this just gives more fuel to Trump to remake the Federal Reserve in the way he wants to