David A. Jaeger (econ)

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This is just awful. Something is wrong somewhere (Stearns, Mendoza, Cohen's willingness to invest, Soto, whoever). Time to fix it.

And now he's your closer. Thanks for nothing.

@lindseymacmillan.bsky.social , @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social, and I are the programme committee.

More info here: applied-microecon.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/sane-worksho...

Submissions here: www.tinyurl.com/FifthSaneSub...

Why not take a break from marking and submit a paper to the Fifth Annual SaNE Conference in Applied Microeconomics?
5-7 May 26 at Crieff Hydro in Perthshire. Prof Steve Machin will give the keynote.

Submissions are welcome from everywhere, and the deadline is 31 January 2026 (but why wait?)

Sign me up!

Liebe Grüße aus Bonn! Mit Prof Prof Dr @alisonibeach.bsky.social …

Bonjour, La Defense!

Larry Summers banned from the American Economics Association conferences and journals. Can't referee or be an editor for AEA journals.

National Bureau of Economic Research, your turn.

Eh…

Guten Tag, liebe Bonn!

Liebe Grüße aus Cölle!

Glückwünsche!!

Oh Happy Day! I finally figured out how to delete GBNews from the channel line up on my television.

🤣

The world could use less artificial intelligence and more plain intelligence right about now.

Good afternoon, beautiful Elie.

Ausschreibung

www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb... Unser Fachbereich hat eine unbefristete Stelle E13 in der VWL-Lehre zu besetzen. Gerne retweeten und bis 30.11. bewerben.

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.

Was just at UNAM last week… a great institution!

To my students: Lean into skills AI amplifies, not ones it bulldozes. Frame good questions, scope problems, interpret messy data, apply judgment, explain clearly. The bot can autocomplete; you bring curiosity, context, and ethics.

Good instruments are hard to find in the absence of explicit randomization. I think the diff-in-diff literature is about where IV was in 1996 or so. But evolving quickly.

Fair.

I don’t think the Democrats have the fortitude… at least not the current leadership.

The Economic Impact of Brexit Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

The Brits have many nice understatements for really poor decisions ("a bit ill-advised", etc.) that this paper may bring out. In plain words: an economic disaster.

www.nber.org/papers/w34459

Jesus…

The most important results should always go in Table 3. I thought everybody knew that…

So refreshing not to see a bunch of old white guys winning elections...

Liberal arts colleges for the (big) win!