Anne Fitzpatrick

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Let me know when you watch episode 1!!

me when the students have done the reading

Movie description of the B horror move Death PhD. Gawdawful movie.

Now this is a movie plot!!! Someone understands grad school.

I also posted about this and got crickets. Thank you for raising awareness of this important issue 🫡 I’m watching just for him

Attention academic friends—the Buckeye season of Love is Blind just premiered on Netflix tonight

There’s a prof from the OSU Glenn School on this season ❤️❤️❤️

folks who go over time in conference presentations is sicko stuff, and I won't allow it in my panels.

This is the rep of Dayton and Springfield, Ohio

YouTube video by Tymofiy Mylovanov Update from KSE

#EconSky: Tymofiy Mylovanov from the Kyiv School of Economics is a simply a hero.

While Trump is busy allying with Putin, Tymofiy is out in the cold working for his students and his country.

I will match all donations to KSE, up to $1K total (link below).

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Meeting in solidarity with Haitians in Springfield, Ohio now - over 600 people and still growing.

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Join our research team at Uni Copenhagen with @gandil.bsky.social, Neilson & Oosterbeek. Work with unique high-resolution admissions data, long-run outcomes, and a large-scale field experiment.

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This year's Empirical Management Conference is at Stanford, May 27-29!

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JOIN US!! It's fun, I promise!

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This is a hard year for the job market.

Dev economists: check out this available funding *if you’re open to be based in an LMIC*

It could supplement your salary + provide research funds.

Lots of research active hubs in Asia, Africa, LAC that would love to affiliate excellent global talent!

hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

Pope Leo doing what Keir Starmer won't do, criticise Trump for attacking Venezuela,

"War is back in vogue. And the zeal for war is spreading"

"The principle established after WWII that prohibited nations from using force to violate the borders of others has been completely undermined"

In a recent talk, I mentioned I’ve been working on the paper for so long— since 2022–and the room erupted into laughter about my naïveté

"U.S. farmers are facing one of the widest gaps in a decade between what they pay to produce food and what they earn from selling it." www.agriculture.com/partners-gap...

Pope Leo XIV reads his message during the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026. Photo by Alessandra Tarantino for AP.

Pope Leo XIV expressed “deep concern” with developments in Venezuela, calling for guarantees of the country’s “sovereignty” and to ensure the rule of law and respect for Venezuelans’ human and civil rights.

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Ben Casselman Ben Casselman is the chief economics correspondent for The Times. He has reported on the economy for nearly 20 years.

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Line graph showing cumulative state adoption of chiropractic boards over time

I'm John Fallon, a labor economist on the job market. My JMP uncovers something wild: when chiropractors got licensed in the early 1900s, medical boards responded by making it HARDER to become a doctor.

Why would competition lead to stricter regulations?
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Abstract of "Women's Power in the Household": We examine women's household power in low- and middle-income countries, synthesizing theoretical frameworks and empirical evidence on its measurement, determinants, and consequences. We define women's household power as their influence over household choices, distinguishing it from broader empowerment concepts. We review economic models, including unitary, collective, and bargaining frameworks, and map these to empirical approaches. We then discuss measurement methods such as structural estimation of consumption allocation, survey measures, and laboratory experiments. On the determinants of women's power, we find that some approaches, such as transfers targeted to women, show mixed results, while others, such as increasing women's control over their earnings, show clearer positive impacts. On the effects of women's power, we pay special attention to children's human capital. Few studies provide strong evidence that mothers invest more in children than fathers do, but collectively the evidence suggests such an effect. We conclude by highlighting research and methodological gaps.

New NBER working paper with Alessandra Voena on women's power in the household in LMICs.

I'd never found a review article on this topic that met my needs as a PhD class reading, so we sought to fill this gap.

NBER : www.nber.org/papers/w34605
Ungated: seemajayachandran.com/womens_power_JEL.pdf

They’re not perfect, but golly, public universities are one of the best engines of economic mobility we have

Good news: Pope Agrees:

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Recreating this legendary Peanuts scene. Yeah hoe!

Florida Catholic Bishops call for moratorium on immigration enforcement during Christmas holidays "Such a pause would show a decent regard for the humanity of these families," they said. "Now is not the time to be callous toward the suffering caused by immigration enforcement."

Catholic Bishops is Florida want a holiday moratorium on immigration enforcement so people can go to church and celebrate Christmas and New Years.

I don’t care.

People are here for the funeral of the penny

A “celebration of life” sign

People are sitting down

An obituary that reads “Rest in Pence”

Currently at the funeral for the penny, happening at the Lincoln Memorial: