Alex Eble

"ICE" beating man during arrest in Santa Ana California.

Closing out the session was @avivihadar.bsky.social presenting estimates using very cool NLP/embedding data on the extent, impacts, and costs of gender bias in patent evaluations over time in the US

Next was @ashleyywong.bsky.social, estimating the impact of colleges going co-ed on the production of knowledge of faculty members

(no explanation for the 🎃🦇-themed color of the slide...that was my phone, not reality)

She was followed by Reshmaan Husaam of HBS, presenting experimental work from camps of Rohingya refugees evaluating the impacts on psychosocial wellbeing and household beliefs of offering work to either the male or female spouse in the household

Session 2 summaries!

We were started off by Arielle Bernhardt from NYU, presenting work from an RCT in India estimating the impacts on a wide range of outcomes of giving new female police officers either mentors or another incoming police officer who is also female

@draliceevans.bsky.social came next, showing part of an exciting upcoming book about the global growth of Islam and the gender sources and implications of this

Next was @martinauccioli.bsky.social, presenting work showing how layoffs for male and female household members have differential impacts on return to work and household division of labor

Leading off was Raquel Fernandez of NYU, presenting a structural model estimated on admin from Sweden showing that more paternity leave made available for men changes how much leave men and women take, partly through cultural change

Going to try my hand at one-sentence summaries (h/t to @joshua-goodman.com for doing this so deftly for other conferences!)

Teachers College, Columbia University (@teacherscollege.bsky.social) Where true change begins. https://www.tc.columbia.edu/

Co-sponsored by the Department of Education Policy and Social Analysis at teacherscollege.bsky.social and the Center for Development Economics and Policy at columbiasipa.bsky.social

Organized by Anja Benshaul-Tolonen, @conchaarriagada.bsky.social cial, Alejandra Quintana Barrera, @ashleyywong.bsky.social, and me

Happening now here at @barnardcollege.bsky.social: the second incarnation of the Gender in the Global Economy Conference.

Program attached - more updates to come!

Marco Rubio's State Dept. to ban foreigners for 'making light' of Charlie Kirk's death The State Department, under the leadership of Secretary Marco Rubio, announced that it would ban all foreigners who downplayed the death of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk."In light of yesterday's horrif...

what kind of a country even is this

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

This is super, super sad. I did not agree with the guy's politics, but no one should be murdered for their beliefs. My heart is with his family and friends. RIP. 💔

STOP Gun violence.
Praying for Charlie Kirk and family.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Pls share widely! And consider signing

Gaza City officially in famine, says global hunger monitor Gaza City and surrounding areas are officially suffering from famine, and it will likely spread, a global hunger monitor determined on Friday, an assessment that will escalate pressure on Israel to allow more aid into the Palestinian enclave.

Leading global experts just confirmed what we’ve long known: Gaza is in famine. At least half a million Palestinians are facing starvation, acute malnutrition and death. And it’s likely to spread.

The U.S. government is not a bystander to this genocide. We can end it today.

Econ PhDs who will be on the #EconJobMarket:

Next Tues Aug 19 at 1pm ET is a NABE (‪@nabe-econ.bsky.social)‬ Career Week panel on "Industry, Government, or Academia? Choosing Your Path in Applied Economics"

Register here 👉 www.nabe.com/NABE/Events/...

Just to say this plainly: what you're looking at here is a federal police force accountable only to the president rolling up to intimidate the governor of California as he announces his plan to counter a federal legislative coup out of Texas which will ensure their permanent presence in our streets

This is one of the most econ things ive ever seen (laudatory)

Zohran is not in a rent controlled unit, you doofus. He is in a rent stablized unit, and if you don't know the difference, you don't have any business running for mayor.

High School Effects on Civic Engagement Preparing young people for the rights and responsibilities of citizenship is cited as a fundamental purpose of public education, yet little is known about whether or how K-12 schools impact civic enga...

Does where you go to high school affect whether you vote as an adult? My working paper estimating high school effects on civic engagement is now posted on Annenberg: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1260.

The Columbia deal is incredibly disappointing. For those of us here--faculty and students--trying every day to do good work, it's a huge blow. But "the discourse" is also demoralizing for two reasons: it assumes the choice was simple and it seems to blame all at Columbia. 1/6

How does unreliable urban transport disproportionately limit women’s access to higher education—and can infrastructure fixes close the gap? @falbav.bsky.social , @wakeforest.bsky.social , discusses: faculti.net/transport-ba...
#economics

I've seen editors of journals say this before but being on the other side can confirm: the easiest zero-cost way to speed up the review process is to quickly turn down requests to review that you can't do.