@sabrinapabilonia.bsky.social
Economist. Interests: Labor, Productivity, Remote Work, Time Use. Alumna of University of Washington and Smith College. The views provided herein are my own. www.sabrinapabilonia.com
International Women’s Day
08.03.2026 15:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Celebrate 'International Women's Day' by listening to our podcasts on these inspirational female economists:
Elinor Ostrom
Joan Robinson
Millicent Fawcett
Esther Duflo
Edith Penrose
Jayati Ghosh
#EconSky
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
Job seeker sitting at a desk with a cell phone and laptop open to an employment app. The state of California outlined inside the picture.
Exploring the complexities of nonstandard employment: the 2022–23 California Work and Health Survey www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/202... #BLSdata
06.03.2026 15:25 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A six image collage of women actively participating in different occupations.
Women in the labor force, 2024: occupation employment profiles of women and men by age www.bls.gov/opub/reports... #BLSdata
05.03.2026 20:38 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1Productivity increases 2.8% in Q4 2025; unit labor costs also increase 2.8% (annual rates) www.bls.gov/news.release... #Productivity #BLSdata
05.03.2026 13:32 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Workers in an assembly line.
Is manufacturing productivity recovering? Evidence from the past and present www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/202... #BLSdata
05.03.2026 00:24 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Bar chart showing the average hours per day spent reading for personal interest, annual averages, by age, 2024
It’s Read Across America Day! #BLSData #ReadAcrossAmericaDay www.bls.gov/opub/ted/202...
02.03.2026 16:16 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A graph of data center vs office construction, showing data centers basically tied with offices
The US now spends basically as much on data center construction as on office construction
27.02.2026 16:58 — 👍 95 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 4
Call for Papers for 2027 SGE@ASSA Sessions. SGE will sponsor 7 sessions at the 2027 ASSA Annual Meeting on January 3–5, 2027 in Washington DC. The submission deadline is Friday, May 1, 2026.
www.sge-econ.org/2026/02/18/c...
Looking for a way to get more involved with the Society of Government Economists? Nominations for the board of directors are being accepted through March 3rd. It’s a great group! www.sge-econ.org/about/electi...
20.02.2026 00:16 — 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0#productivity
20.02.2026 01:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's nice to have a standing desk at work. I'm trying to spend more of my day standing now.
20.02.2026 01:49 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bar chart showing labor force participation rate of civilian noninstitutional population ages 16 to 75 by presence of work-limiting health condition or difficulty and disability status, July 2024.
27.1 percent of people with a work-limiting difficulty participated in the labor force in July 2024 www.bls.gov/opub/ted/202... #BLSdata
19.02.2026 17:07 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Awesome!
09.02.2026 01:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One week left to write that abstract for the annual SGE conference.
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My manuscript "The Economics of Noncompete Clauses" is now out in the Journal of Economic Perspectives.
Few topics have garnered more debate and policy attention over the last few years. This article brings us up to speed on the debate and the current answers.
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
New Census Working Paper: "Life-Cycle Effects of Women's Education on their Careers and Children" by Na'ama Shenhav and Danielle H. Sandler
www.census.gov/library/work...
New post: What is the impact of AI on productivity?
I review all of the studies and data that I can find and try to provide a synthesis.
A disagreement emerges: micro studies find positive benefits but these benefits are yet to show up in the macro data.
aleximas.substack.com/p/what-is-th... 🧵
🆕 Free online course on private enterprise, productivity & economic growth by STEG & PEDL (@cepr.org)
Through 14 lectures, you can learn from leading researchers on one of the central questions of economic development, how to increase productivity.
Register here: cepr-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
The annual call for @nber.org nominations has been released, so if you're a researcher hoping to become affiliated, reach out to existing affiliates to get nominated.
If you're an existing affiliate, advocate for talented researchers, particularly those with networks not already full of NBER folks.
Come join us this spring 🌸🌸🌸 in DC on April 17th for the Society of Government Economists Annual Conference. All are welcome.
17.01.2026 12:18 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
I am co-organizing sessions for the 2026 Southern Economics Association Annual conference in Houston in November. Looking for Maternal & Infant Health, Fertility & Family formation, and other Health and Labor topics. Fill out the form by March 14th. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
16.01.2026 12:53 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Remarks by Janet L. Yellen on receiving the inaugural Janet L. Yellen Award for Excellence in Public Service from CSWEP www.brookings.edu/articles/rem...
13.01.2026 23:20 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I remember @mlheggeness.bsky.social telling me about the idea for this book at an AEA meeting three (?) years ago. Excited to dig in (and not *only* for the Taylor references).
12.01.2026 20:27 — 👍 37 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
The AEA has posted eight "Recent Developments" lectures exploring highly topical issues in economics, presented by the best scholars in the field:
www.aeaweb.org/conference/w...
Well worth a watch!
For accessibility please include alt text in posts with images. There's even a setting that reminds you. So tired of the inaccessible posts especially with so much going on. Is there a hashtag to get this out there?
And please stop using passive voice. #Accessibility #DisabilitySky
The Jan. 2026 issue of the @jpolecon.bsky.social should be of great interest to anyone interested in the well being of young people.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jpe/2026...
#ASSA2026 That’s a wrap! See you all in DC next year.
05.01.2026 21:01 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
#econsky - new books to read in 2026 by Misty Heggeness and Nancy Folbre
05.01.2026 16:56 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0