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CSWEP strongly condemns Larry Summers’ behavior as revealed in the email correspondence with the late Jeffrey Epstein. While abuse of power in the economics profession is not new, rarely has the intent behind such abuse been so clearly stated.

Larry Summers Resigns From OpenAI’s Board Mr. Summers’ departure from the artificial intelligence company’s board followed revelations of his communications with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Breaking News: Larry Summers will step down from OpenAI’s board, he said, after the release of emails indicating a close relationship with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Harvard Opens New Investigation Into Summers and Epstein The university is reviewing newly released emails between convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers, among other people at the institution.

Harvard has started a new investigation into ties that former Harvard president Larry Summers and others at the university had with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the university announced Tuesday.

I am not being hyperbolic when I say that how Harvard and the economics profession respond to Larry Summers will determine who makes up the next generation of economists.

#econsky #news #harvard

I am a serious professional scientist. I am also a commissioner of climate change and have to discuss practical and pragmatic solutions with people who disagree strongly with climate action. I have a calm and optimism-driven approach to climate action.

40 inches of rain is biblically catastrophic.

🚨 @andrealanauze.bsky.social & I are organizing the 2nd women & femme-id ppl in enviro econ workshop ♀️🌱📈
#EconTwitter
Key dates: submit full paper or long abstract by Dec 3
Workshop: 9-10 April, in Venice, Italy
Thx to @cagewarwick.bsky.social for 💰 & @cepr.org for support
Link in 🧵 👇

Pink and mauve flyer titled “Women in Economics Across the Nation.” It advertises a Zoom networking event for undergraduate economics students on Wednesday, October 29, with times listed as 5 PM PT, 6 PM MT, 7 PM CT, and 8 PM ET. The left side includes a QR code for registration. The right side describes that students can join alumni breakout rooms featuring speakers from the public sector, private sector, and graduate school, who will share career advice and experiences.

#EconSky Two weeks from tomorrow, the Women in Economics Leadership Network (spearheaded by Janine Wilson at UC Davis) will host our annual virtual networking event! Please share with your students! It is open to ALL.

Register here: ucdavis.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_....

During the final week of HHM, ASHE highlights Jose Fernandez, Professor of Economics at the University of Louisville and Co-chair of CSMGEP. As a leading health economist, researcher, and mentor, he continues to advance the field and support the next generation of scholars. #ASHE_ASSA #CSMGEP

A very large brown bear walking in a field of grass.

It is Fat Bear Week in Alaska. The popular competition lets anyone vote on which of the animals is most prepared for winter. nyti.ms/3IBbucx

BREAKING: Judge Cobb *blocks* Trump's removal of Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board.

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Supplemental child poverty rates since 2021 by race and ethnicity

Disparities in income continue to leave families of color with children disproportionately vulnerable to poverty. Black & Hispanic children remain 3 times as likely as their white peers to suffer poverty. #EconSky #NumbersDay

YouTube video by Las Áñez Natalicio - LAS ÁÑEZ

A beautiful song written by Las Añez about Nata, a person who inspired so many with her happiness, wisdom, and generosity. Thanks to this music duo who make amazing music, we have this incredible tribute to a person who is with us on another dimension. Happy bday Nata ♾️💜
youtu.be/pGyruKW2rlY?...

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪

From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

Really excited for this week’s episode! We (@ajhollingsworth.bsky.social ) talk with ‪@mushfiq-econ.bsky.social‬ on how to work with large organizations and governments to implement research and policy.

The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.

Trump’s Takeover of the Fed The attempt to fire Lisa Cook, a governor at the central bank, creates more uncertainty at a critical moment for the institution.

President Trump’s attempt to fire Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve’s governing board, is his most audacious attack yet on the independence of the central bank.

Listen to "The Daily."

Just received this statement from Lisa Cook:
"President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022."

A primer on the Federal Reserve's independence : Planet Money President Donald Trump has been loudly critical of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for years now. Since January, the President has accused him of playing politics by keeping interest rates high. T...

Now’s a good time to share one of several recent @planetmoney.bsky.social episodes about the importance of Federal Reserve independence from partisan electoral politics.
www.npr.org/2025/04/23/1...

It’s not the revision that got her fired. It’s the weak job growth.

Environmental Valuation with Discrete Choice Experiments in R This open access book offers advice and practical guidance for conducting discrete choice experiments (DCEs) in environmental valuation.

This book is a free download, get on it
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Announcing Our New $120M Abundance And Growth Fund | Open Philanthropy We are excited to announce the launch of our new Abundance and Growth Fund, which will spend at least $120 million over the next three years to accelerate economic growth and boost scientific and tech...

The Abundance and Growth Fund at Open Philanthropy is hiring! We’re looking for 2-4 people to help expand this new $120+ million program to accelerate economic growth and reduce the cost of living through strategic grantmaking and research. (1/4) www.openphilanthropy.org/research/ann...

Caitlin Clark smiles in a white Fever jersey. A quote attributed to an WNBA source reads: "It's hard to believe she's not worth close to a billion to the league."

From @theathletic.bsky.social: “We had Muhammad Ali, we had Michael Jordan, we had Tiger Woods, and to me, it’s early, but we have Caitlin Clark,” former ESPN exec John Kosner says. However, she’s unlikely to ever be paid even close to what she is worth. trib.al/6TgO1hD

Over one in four (27%) physicians and surgeons at U.S. hospitals, rising to one in three in FL (37%), CA (33%), NY (33%), and TX (31%), are immigrants. Policies aimed at restricting immigration could negatively impact the health and well-being of Americans.
@kff.org
www.kff.org/racial-equit...

Female PhD students (in economics) benefit tremendously from having female faculty around.

When female professors go on leave, it decreases third-year female PhD students’ likelihood of publishing & securing academic positions.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Here is my latest publication with students and engineering faculty at Manhattan University + key stakeholders.

Insights From 15 Years of New York City's Drinking Water Quality Complaints
doi.org/10.1002/awwa...
We used @nyc311.bsky.social open data.
#opendata #nycopendata #waterquality

The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality, Second edition is an excellent teaching text about research design, specifically concerning research that uses observational data to make ...

The second edition of The Effect has been delayed a bit... because there were so many orders they had to switch to a bigger print run! Thank you everyone for your support, and check out the second edition here: www.routledge.com/The-Effect-A...

Are you a graduate student attending #AERE2025? 🤗 Join us bright and early on Friday (5/30) morning at 7:15 am for a special breakfast session on mentoring and networking!

#EconSky

Opinions on using AI to draft different sections of a research paper. (The majority of respondents felt it was inappropriate for all but the abstract and introduction)

"...Nature posed a variety of scenarios to some 5,000 academics around the world, to understand which uses of #AI are considered ethically acceptable..."

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What’s changed since the toll began? Cars on the street Fewer Traffic speeds Faster Peak commute times Faster still Local buses Faster, less delayed Traffic outside the zone Not worse New Jersey commutes Faster Transit ridership Up, up, up Yellow taxi trips Up Citi Bike trips Up in and out of the zone Car crash injuries Down Parking violations Down Traffic noise complaints Down Fire response times Slightly down School bus delays Fewer Visitors to the zone Up Restaurants, Broadway Holding up Pollution Too soon to say Lower-income commuters Too soon to say Public opinion Not great, but improving

Congestion pricing in NYC has been a runaway success, with a speed and depth that has surprised even its diehard advocates. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Congestion pricing has improved life in New York City by: reducing cars on the street, speeding traffic (especially at peak hours), speeding buses and making them more reliable, expanding transit ridership, reducing car crashes, reducing noise complaints, and increasing the number of visitors.

Fire response times fell in the NYC congestion zone, even as they increased in the rest of the city.

Car crashes with injuries fell citywide, but they fell especially dramatically in the congestion pricing zone from 2024 to 2025

Local buses have sped up dramatically in the congestion pricing zone.

NYC’s congestion pricing is a policy miracle: Less traffic, less noise, faster transit, more business sales, more transit revenue. And it hasn’t produced the negative effects outside the cordon zone we were afraid of.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...