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POTUS: I am sending ICE to Minnesota

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📣 New @unu-wider.bsky.social working paper "How do childhood environments contribute to intergenerational economic mobility?: Evidence from 25 years of panel data in Egypt" w/Ragui Assaad and Ruotong Li! www.wider.unu.edu/publication/... #EconSky

For the first time this century, child deaths under age 5 will likely rise. Why? A dramatic drop in mortality for youngsters under age 5 has been one of the great accomplishments in global health. But estimates suggest that in 2025 child deaths will go up.

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Why child deaths under age 5 will likely rise for the first time this century : Goats and Soda

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🆕 Women’s power at home

In today's podcast, @seema.bsky.social @princetondevo.bsky.social & Alessandra Voena discuss what economic research has taught us about women’s power in the household: voxdev.org/topic/instit...

Policy Priorities for EdTech:
- Avoid hardware-first approaches
- Prioritise interventions with strong evidence of cost-effective impact
- Protect instructional quality
- Build assessment & data systems that strengthen governance
- Invest in iterative improvement

Education Technology Policy Priorities for EdTech in LMICsAvoid hardware-first approaches. These have consistently failed and are expensive.Prioritise interventions with strong evidence of cost-effective impact:Personalis...

📢 Our new VoxDevLit on EdTech is out now!

Senior Editor @singhabhi.bsky.social & Co-Editors @lnavarrosola.bsky.social @iies.su.se & Philip Oreopoulos, summarise everything you need to know about EdTech.

Read & download here: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/ed...

Follow CIDRAP News reporter @cvdall.bsky.social , who is live-tweeting #ACIP proceedings today

Academic accommodations in college more than doubled between 2011 and 2024 (4% -> 10%) and is driven by students getting accommodations for mental health conditions - job market paper by @alvinchristian.bsky.social

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I'm going to sound like a broken record by the way I keep mentioning how 95% of Somalis in the Twin Cities metro area are US citizens, but very few mainstream outlets are pointing this out.

This should be very basic stuff for any news organization.

Minnesota stands in support of its Somali community! As @sarahgollust says, they are our neighbors, students, and friends!!

Somali people are my neighbors, students, and friends. These attacks are despicable.

"Captain Gains" on Capitol Hill Shang-Jin Wei & Yifan Zhou WORKING PAPER 34524 DOI 10.3386/w34524 ISSUE DATE November 2025 Using transaction-level data on US congressional stock trades, we find that lawmakers who later ascend to leadership positions perform similarly to matched peers beforehand but outperform them by 47 percentage points annually after ascension. Leaders' superior performance arises through two mechanisms. The political influence channel is reflected in higher returns when their party controls the chamber, sales of stocks preceding regulatory actions, and purchase of stocks whose firms receiving more government contracts and favorable party support on bills. The corporate access channel is reflected in stock trades that predict subsequent corporate news and greater returns on donor-owned or home-state firms.

令 1 1 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 Year Figure 2: Estimated dynamic quasi-difference-in-differences coefficient, di, of equation(3), with vertical dashed lines representing 90 percent confidence intervals. The point estimate of the year in which the lawmaker became a congressional leader (Year 0) is normalized to zero. BHAR over the 250 days following each trade is the dependent variable and calculated using the Fama-French five-factor plus momentum as the benchmark model.

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts

www.nber.org/papers/w34524

via @florianederer.bsky.social

Larry Summers receives lifetime ban from prestigious economic association over Epstein ties | CNN Business Larry Summers has been banned for life from the American Economic Association, a professional organization for economists, with more than 17,000 members, over his ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey...

Larry Summers has been banned for life from the American Economic Association, a professional organization for economists, with more than 17,000 members, over his ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

RSF call for papers! Special issue in celebration of 25 years of the FFCWS @ffcws.bsky.social! Call open to the full range of datasets and methods in servive to studying contemporary families! www.russellsage.org/publications...

Minneapolis has the most vibrant Somali-American community in the nation. The City works every day to ensure Minneapolis is a welcoming place for all, regardless of immigration status. Read more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/news/2025/december/city-response/

America is Flying Blind on Immigration Nobody Knows How Many Immigrant Workers Have Left the US Amidst Trump's Mass Deportations. That's Incredibly Bad.

Excellent piece from the always-excellent @josephpolitano.bsky.social on why no one should be citing Current Population Data on immigration levels, and why it's a problem that we don't have better data on this crucial question. #EconSky
www.apricitas.io/p/america-is...

My bipartisan IRS MATH Act with Senator Bill Cassidy is now law.

Now, if you mess up your taxes, the IRS has to tell you where you made a mistake and how to fix it.

No more spending a fortune on lawyers or hours to find errors.

That means fewer headaches and more money in your pocket.

Alright alright alright post-Thanksgiving full November #polisky eJobs update (11/1-11/30):

November 2024: 99 total positions (50 open to assistant TT)

November 2025: 69 total positions (22 open to assistant TT)

Applications are now open for the African Peacebuilding and Developmental Dynamics (APDD) program’s fellowship awards — formerly known as the African Peacebuilding Network and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (APN and Next Gen) fellowships. Deadline: January 16, 2026, 11:59 PM EST

Applications are now open for the 2026 African Peacebuilding and Developmental Dynamics fellowships. Apply now to advance your research, strengthen your networks, and shape Africa’s peacebuilding future. Please share widely!

Deadline: Jan 16, 2026

Learn more: ssrc.org/programs/afr...

This would have been REALLY NICE today.

Municipal sidewalk snow clearing in Minneapolis (and St Paul) NOW.

Payments to Physician Practices and Incentives to Serve Different Racial and Ethnic Groups This study measures disparities across patient racial and ethnic groups in per-visit payment to physician practices from health insurers and other sources, adjusted for visit content, geographic marke...

🚨New Paper🚨 US doctors are paid very different amounts for treating different patients—even when providing identical services.

How much less are physicians paid for treating non-White patients?

In @jamahealthforum.com, we offer the 1st national estimates. (1/7)

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The Impact of Forced Displacement on Host Communities. A Review of the Empirical Literature in Economics
by Verme, Paolo & Schuettler, Kirsten (2020)

Economics of Race and Stratification, Spring 2026

The NBER Race and Stratification Working Group will have its annual meeting on Friday, March 27, 2026. @franciscaantman.bsky.social, Bocar Ba, Robynn Cox and I are organizing the program. Submit your paper by the December 11, 2025 deadline! @nber.org #Econsky www.nber.org/conferences/...

What is the impact of studying STEM vs. Humanities? We consider this in Romanian high schools, where otherwise identical kids can be assigned to STEM-focused or Humanities-focused curricula. Our key finding is that kids are malleable to what they study. This happens on 4 fronts:

Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu.

Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.

When couples receive a cash transfer, who decides how to spend it? Are budgets equal?

Today's article finds that in Nigeria, both husbands and wives divided budgets relatively equally, but women were far more likely to defer the decision to their husband.

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Subsidising healthcare for children in Mali substantially increased necessary care-seeking while generating only minimal unnecessary use.

📢 Revolutions in computing have led to the rapid development and deployment of a new set of programmes to support student learning.

At our VoxDevLit launch event on December 4, @singhabhi.bsky.social will summarise evidence on education technology.

Register➡️ cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...