Love to get Reviewer 2 from "While the topic is important, the manuscript requires substantial revision in framing, clarity, structure, and positioning before it would be suitable. I recommend rejection." to "The paper is significantly improved, and I look forward to hopefully seeing it in print" :)
New at Can We Still Govern?
"I am writing as an ordinary citizen of Minneapolis/St Paul...to share with the outside world what is really going on ─ the terror being inflicted upon a U.S. city and state by our federal government."
Please read, share, help. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...
Why is the independence of the Fed so important? Here's how former chairs Bernanke and Yellen explain it in a short @brookings.edu video youtu.be/xeIAlIEzlI8?...
That's super impressive! This is one of my favorite end of year things every year. I only got 35, I am not hip with the modern pop culture apparently.
I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! I work on questions about women’s health, family, & labor.
In my #JMP I study how changes in abortion access affect infant and maternal health, finding that reductions in access harm health at birth.
Read the full manuscript here: lillyspringer.com
The Trump Administration is abandoning plans for the biggest-ever cut to Social Security Disability Insurance, which would have hit older workers hardest.
The rule would have devastated up to 1.5 million workers' financial stability, retirement security & access to health care.
wapo.st/4o48J24
Now do the people who get sick
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
Alarming news this morning that Social Security head Frank Bisignano has been named “CEO” of IRS, a move that raises 3 major concerns:
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Amazing, congrats!
The FTC is hiring Statisticians in the Bureau of Economics!
This is a great opportunity for seniors or recent grads interested in antitrust and consumer protection economics, and applied microeconomics research.
Come work with me! Happy to answer any questions.
www.usajobs.gov/job/845835200
What’s so surprising about this imo is that the change in attitude is strong across all groups - young, old, liberal, conservative, college grads, non-college grads. Just a monumental shift in attitudes.
Fed independence is critical to a functioning economy! I was proud to sign this letter- please consider and do so TODAY too
▶️ Yesterday's webinar recording and slides on "Navigating Disability Benefits: New Research on Administrative Burden and Work Incentives" now posted! Thanks to our presenters Debra Brucker w/ UNH, @michaellevere.bsky.social w/ Colgate, and Ramonia Rochester w/ NDI.
www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/nav...
Still time to sign up for this webinar this afternoon from 2-3 ET. What better way to spend your Wednesday afternoon than learning about administrative burden in disability benefits programs?? Looking forward to the conversation! www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/nav...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...
Excited to be speaking at this webinar on 8/27- sign up! Should be a great discussion.
Really enjoyed presenting at NBER SI last week about my working paper analyzing PROMISE, a large RCT trying to improve economic outcomes for disadvantaged youth with disabilities. See video here: www.youtube.com/live/tzaNRDq...
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...
Yesterday the Social Security Administration sent a highly misleading & political press release about the tax bill to my work account, where I'd signed up for SSA updates.
Then overnight I got it again, this time to my personal account. And I heard from lots of others who did, too. 🧵
Pssst . . . it costs about the same amount to shore up Social Security's finances as it does to make the Trump tax cuts permanent.
But Congressional Republicans are on the verge of shoveling trillions at the wealthiest, while leaving a shortfall in the program we ALL need and love.
They could have used this gimmick to extend the enhanced tax credits at "no cost" and prevent 4.2 million people from losing coverage.
This would be no more (or less) gimmicky than using it to extend tax breaks for the wealthy.
Female academics are much more affected by the birth of a child than are male academics.
Academic mothers are much more likely to...
◾temporarily leave the labor force
◾and, if they return, shift away from tenure-track positions.
scholar.harvard.edu/files/sdchen...
It is essential to know that the $1 BILLION of savings noted here is less than 0.1% of the total amount spent on annually Social Security -- why is the benchmark the operating budget? Can't help but think of Dr. Evil here...
OBBB's tax provisions are more regressive than the Bush tax cut deal. The latter had refundable tax credit expansions helping the bottom OBBB lacks and didn't include the top rate cut/pass-through deduction.
And the Bush tax cut deal didn't cut SNAP/Medicaid at the same time.
Once again, I find myself thinking of the press release announcing that the Social Security Administration was unilaterally cancelling funding for all Retirement and Disability Research Consortia.
It called the centers “wasteful initiatives.” All of them had a combined cost of about $15 million.
There's a lot to unpack here. But the "why do people in the developed world die from chronic diseases at higher rates than in poorer countries" is because we survive long enough to die from chronic rather than infectious disease. This is epidemiology 101. It's not a mystery.
This is why we need *public* research funding--the public has a right to know what the best evidence is on these complex topics.
The incredible value of the excellent research showing that health insurance saves lives!
New from @chloeneast.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern:
AEI cited her work to make the case for SNAP work requirements. Chloe explains that her and other research show that work requirements reduce SNAP access while doing nothing for employment outcomes.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-aei-g...
