@davidajaeger.bsky.social
Professor of Economics at University of St Andrews. 🇺🇸 Born/bred, NJ/NYC Labor, education, immigration, conflict, applied econometrics. Plus some nice pictures. Posts orthogonal to my employer(s).
Kevin Hassett is an embarrassment.
03.08.2025 17:23 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Guten Tag, Monschau!
03.08.2025 11:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s been a busy summer so far…
30.07.2025 15:04 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
“Of course, if it were only some egghead economists scrambling to find work, that might be not be terribly consequential.”
The rest of the article was good, if depressing. But c’mon…
The Bull Market for Economists Is Over. It’s an Ominous Sign for the Economy. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/b...
Undeserved.
22.07.2025 21:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Good morning, Cambridge! Never get tired of that view.
21.07.2025 09:45 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of the code in the post showing how R and Stata will produce the same standard errors
PSA for those working through standard error differences between #RStats and Stata:
To match Stata's OLS robust SEs in R, use fixest::feols() with se = "HC1"
My happiest place: Weingut Kloster Marienthal an der Ahr.
13.07.2025 16:29 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Guten Abend, Königswinter!
11.07.2025 16:49 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you care about higher education in the UK, read the @britishacademy.bsky.social 's response to the Government's Immigration White Paper. It is well worth the time.
10.07.2025 12:33 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Wrapped up coediting with Astrid Kunze the @eale-office.bsky.social 2024 conference special issue for Labour Economics today. I think it will be an excellent issue -- thanks to all of the contributors!
08.07.2025 19:14 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🎉 Shout-out to the orgs & individuals making Economics more diverse & inclusive!
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The decision to emigrate to the UK is looking remarkably prescient...
03.07.2025 20:08 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 03 months, 8 conferences (3 I organized or chaired). 5 of the 8 in the last 3 weeks. Glad to be home…
03.07.2025 12:01 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I wish it were free... it may be difficult to use a paid IDE for teaching.
03.07.2025 08:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What about Spyder as an alternative to Jupyter?
02.07.2025 17:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0AI integration would be a plus.
02.07.2025 16:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Would be curious to get people‘s thoughts on the best IDE for teaching/doing econometrics with Python. Also, what’s the best GenAI for coding in Python? #EconSky
02.07.2025 15:30 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 8 📌 0
Good afternoon and good bye, Birmingham! #res2025
02.07.2025 14:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Proud advisor moment: @francescachiaradia.bsky.social on a panel on economics careers at @resmedia.bsky.social 2005!
01.07.2025 16:41 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0There‘s going to be a lot of jet lagged labor economists at the @resmedia.bsky.social annual conference today…
30.06.2025 09:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Good morning, Toronto! #SOLE/EALE/AASLE
28.06.2025 12:20 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Good evening, New York! #LFGM!
26.06.2025 21:25 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Every morning!
23.06.2025 18:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Crail, Scotland
23.06.2025 17:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
My back garden…. Ok, maybe not *the* most beautiful, but…
23.06.2025 12:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0@wineecon.bsky.social
21.06.2025 20:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hey, Paso Robles! Checking out the vines at Niner Vineyards at AAWE 2025 (with Orley Ashenfelter).
21.06.2025 20:35 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Very pleased to announce our special issue on Gender Norms, edited by @emmatominey.bsky.social and @nikkishure.bsky.social.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
16.06.2025 17:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
