Marshall Steinbaum

A good episode if I do say so myself. Listen and join our petition against the Ariel University MOU by emailing fjp.uofu@gmail.com

brilliant

They say not to use the passive voice but frankly that’s a skill issue.

Has anyone in Development Econ run an RCT where you stop doing colonialism and see whether outcomes improve in treatment villages relative to control?
#EconSky

On further reflection: the Times conflating a critique of advocacy org strategy with base transphobia has the effect of strengthening those orgs & their flawed strategy, since they can point to the Times and say “see what we’re fighting against??”

There’s a good op/ed column today about Pride post-rainbow-capitalism, but it would be nice if we had real investigative journalism about the nonprofit advocacy world, especially since they see themselves as a para-state!

I was like “I’d read a piece raking over the ashes of the last decade of LGBT+ advocacy” but three paragraphs in it was like “oh this is just the old Times transphobia.”

The New Politics of Higher Education - Boston Review Why the left’s turn from higher education has coincided with a newfound conservative appreciation for it.

“As the meritocratic model of what higher education is for comes under more and more pressure in light of its evident failures, these offerings tell us what the conservative response will be: raise the drawbridge, keep out the rabble.” @econmarshall.bsky.social

I like when people throw in "this disproves Real Business Cycle theory" to a random empirical micro paper because 1. everything disproves RBC, and 2. they're the ones who said you have to micro-found macro models, so live by the micro-foundation, die by it, etc etc.

You know since they have strict term limits there maybe I should run in the next election. Voters will assume I’m her, or at least related.

Note that the FDIC's 2023 survey of "National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households" asks crypto questions, and surprise surprise, the "banked" use crypto far more than the "unbanked".

fdic.gov/household-su...

On Voting (for Democrats in 2024) Not surprisingly there is a great deal of ~discourse~ about what those of us who care about Palestine should do in the 2024 election. I ...

I did get yelled at quite a bit, especially here, for writing this: steinbaum.blogspot.com/2024/10/on-v...

Agh googling my own name now defaults to “Sheinbaum”. A fate worse than death for an academic.

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Playing the hits.

The real problem with the Supreme Court’s expected Fed carve out is not that it lacks a principle but that the real principle isn’t articulated. The reason it will carve out the Fed is functional but it won’t say that. And its jurisprudence doesn’t leave room to ventilate the functional arg.(1/8)

I don't think any of this actually happens without the last ten years of campus panic and I've yet to see anyone even explore that question seriously.

Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever, analysis of new data @epi.org from me & Adam Reich of Columbia Labor Lab.

In data back 60 years, Americans' sentiments are both warmer toward unions & cooler towards big business than ever before.
www.epi.org/blog/america...

JUST IN: Pittsburgh voters have approved a ballot that bans the city from privatizing the local water and sewers system.

The measure passed by a very large margin.

This was one of my guide of the main races to watch today: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

I see we're still misunderstanding how to do distributional analysis.

"You know this treatment that is a hoax and highly ineffective, despite what the Liberal Media may say? We're giving it to the oldest and sickest people who need it most. But not you."

Columbia University Acting President Claire Shipman welcomed to Columbia College's graduation ceremony with sustained jeers and boos.

Minutes later, students break out in loud chants of "Free Mahmoud":

Why Is Pay Lagging? Maybe Too Many Mergers in the Heartland (Published 2018)

I would agree with you but basically my entire career depends on www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/b...

Average plutocrat-supermanager.

Lab leak is nonsense and we shouldn’t be reticent at all about saying so or gleefully mocking people who espouse anything to the contrary.

Given how many of his supporters adopt the pose of bold truth-tellers against the stifling woke dogma that afflicts the academic & research establishment,

And as @zbleemer.bsky.social has shown in other work, intra-institutional segregation in the form of selective majors & programs is an important component of the institutional segregation phenomenon.

Two things we can say:
1. "A college degree pays off" is radically oversimplified to the point of dishonest.
2. Internal intra-institutional financial aid-based transfers do not offset the macro-scale influence of institutional segregation. Few poor students attend schools w/aid progressivity.

A highly interesting finding. I look forward to reading the paper. But it looks like the critical factor is institutional segregation. Luckily, we have an ongoing project to study the interaction of institutional segregation, financial aid policies, and student indebtedness (and non-repayment).

Multiple professors just jumped up from their desks and ran downstairs to find who did this.