Daniel Giraldo

Looked it up learned that Let Down is having a moment on tiktok. Makes sense because the last 2:30 of that song is one of the greatest moments in music.

Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called:

"How to Write a Title and Abstract"

Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on abstracts.

(The quoted thread focuses on titles.)

#EconSky #AcademicSky

NBER Retirement and Disability Research Center Winds Down Operations

After 22 years, NBER shuts its Retirement and Disability Research Center. It was funded by the Social Security Administration (SSA) through a cooperative agreement with the NBER with the goal of providing research and analysis that could inform Social Security policy. www.nber.org/brd/20251/nb...

I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on.

Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts.

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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part II: Starting at the End This is the second part of our series (I) discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage, labor, subsistence, death – of pre-modern peasants and their families. As we’ve …

This week on the blog: Death!

We continue out look at what life was like for pre-industrial peasant farmers - most humans who have ever lived - with a discussion of the mortality regime they lived and died under and why 'life expectancy' can be a deceptive statistic.

acoup.blog/2025/07/18/c...

do you have a hypothesis for its role here?

That was my theory going into the piece, but it turned out to be not only false but seemingly the opposite: the biggest employment gains young male grads have made in the past year have been in software and engineering jobs

#QJE Aug 2025, #13, “What Works and For Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across the U.S.,” by Biasi (@barbarabiasi.com), Lafortune, and Schönholzer (@davidschonholzer.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

These are great too in Total Recall

Why are they leaving money on the table. They should go to 162 like baseball.

Yup I didn’t see it either

I find it very strange that it should mean different things to different people. Does the nba give any kind of indication of what mvp means when it asks people to vote?

Sure but real madrid didn’t give him the boot and call him fat 😂

He played for them lol

Why does “num lock” exist? Just to foil me every day?

Have you tried freefillableforms? There’s a little more DIY instruction reading but if you have a general idea of what you have to do it works well

What Works and for Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across the U.S.* Abstract. This paper identifies which investments in school facilities help students and which and are valued by homeowners. Using novel data on school dis

Recently accepted by #QJE, “What Works and For Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across the U.S.,” by Biasi (@barbarabiasi.com), Lafortune, and Schönholzer (@davidschonholzer.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

FastRTC: The Real-Time Communication Library for Python We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Building real-time WebRTC and Websocket applications is very difficult to get right in Python.

Until now - Introducing FastRTC, the realtime communication library for Python ⚡️

huggingface.co/blog/fastrtc

Jason Abaluck and I are organizing the Cowles Labor and Public Economics Conference at Yale, June 2-3. Submit your papers by March 24: cowles.yale.edu/conferences/...

@jabaluck.bsky.social

You must be in a starter pack. I think I am one of your new followers from one of those.

I don’t think there’s a time limit on revocation if you got the citizenship via fraud

The CFPB has shifted banks away from fees, reduced the burden of medical debt, and stopped countless financial scams

My piece on why the CFPB has been a major force for good and why Trump’s attempt to dismantle it is bad policy and could provoke a backlash

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*new research from NEWS project*
Using linked survey, census, admin and commercial data, we aim to produce the best estimates of income & poverty in the US.

We find disposable median hhld income is 7.1% higher and SPM poverty is 2.4pp lower than 2018 survey-based estimates. (1/n)

Fed transcripts from 2019 about Trump trade wars 1.0 document great concern that his tariffs were inhibiting economic growth, forcing manufacturers and other businesses to hold back on investments & hiring. So one question is...
www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypoli...

NEW PAPER! (w/ Ed Fox) We study 1) how much the wealthy borrow, quantifying “buy-borrow-die” for the first time, and 2) how much unrealized gains impact their taxes. The results changed (some of) our thinking on how to tax those at the top.

🧵 w/ findings ⬇️

Paper is here: ssrn.com/abstract=510...

Welcome to Vichy America After the Fall

Corruption, cynicism, capitulation, and, ultimately, collaboration.
www.unpopularfront.news/p/welcome-to...

Interesting note by Krugman. But is it true that fast growing economies typically attract capital inflows and run trade deficits? A 🧵 on a recent literature challenging this notion, and on why China's trade surpluses could be a problem for global productivity growth.

How has the risk of dying from cancer changed in the United States? To understand this, we can look at national cancer death rates in the United States. The gray line shows the crude rate, which is the rate of deaths from cancer per 100,000 people. It has risen between 1950 and 1990 and has fallen slightly since then. However, cancer death rates rise sharply with age, and the age of the US population has increased since 1950, so we would expect cancer death rates to rise for that reason alone. What if we adjust for the increased age of the US population? The red line, the age-standardized rate, shows this. It shows the cancer death rate if the age structure of the US population was held constant throughout. This shows a slight rise until 1990 and then a significant decline; rates have fallen by one-third. This means Americans are now one-third less likely to die from cancer at the same ages as Americans in 1990. This comes from several factors: better screening and earlier diagnosis, medical advances in cancer treatments, and public health efforts to reduce risk factors like smoking and exposure to carcinogens.

Americans are now one-third less likely to die from cancer at the same ages as Americans in 1990

Me after I lose: My faith in the system is shaken right now

It's so awesome when ESPN+ subscriptions on ESPN dot com somehow stop working and I can't read any ESPN insider articles.