🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Econ RA/Predoc Opportunity! Ben Feigenberg & I are looking for an RA to work with us on projects studying the impacts of restorative justice in schools. Apply here! uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External… Econ RA Listings University of Illinois Chicago Harris Policy Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (thanks, WT Grant Foundation!) #EconTwitter

Have the curiosity to start your thinking not from a slogan like the "end of work" but rather from some of its logical implications. You will produce, at least, a more interesting picture of the world you are (perhaps imperfectly) imagining. 10/

The state of play, a week into Elon's assault on USAID. USAID is in a state of suspended animation - it has been powered down, but it's not *quite* to the point where it can't be powered back on. What happens next comes down to the courts & Congress. 🧵

So excited to share new work on the social construction of race during the US Reconstruction Era, joint with Rick Hornbeck, Daniel Keniston, and Benjamin Lualdi! nber.org/papers/w33502

The spring NBER Gender meeting (theme: Women in the Digital World) is tomorrow! Program here: nber.org/conferences/ge… The conference will be live-streamed on YouTube (youtube.com/nbervideos)

Excited to share this new paper on how race was constructed along socioeconomic lines in US history, during a period of unfulfilled potential for social change between emancipation and Jim Crow segregation

Submit your work using AI in the social sciences to the annual AI in Social Science conference at The University of Chicago! Submissions due May 1! The conference will be held September 25-26 in Chicago, IL, USA. Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Harris Policy MiiE Lab bfi.uchicago.edu/events/event/c…

If you're an academic job market candidate studying causal questions related to crime/CJ policy, and you're still looking for a job for next year, could you email me? I'm trying to keep track/would love to help if I can.

MiiE Lab faculty director Anjali Adukia presenting new work at #AEFP2025! 🔥

📷 New CFP—We are excited to co-sponsor the 2025 AI in Social Science Conference with Becker Friedman Institute for Economics! Submit your paper by May 1. For more information: bfi.uchicago.edu/events/event/c…

REStat will sponsor 5 early-career researchers with the aim of broadening the set of scholars who are able to participate in the applied microeconomics research meetings at the 2025 NBER Summer Inst. Applications due May 1st: nber.org/calls-papers-a… #econtwitter Ray Fisman

Police search low-income motorists more often but are less likely to find contraband in those searches and disparities are driven, at least in part, by class-based profiling, from Benjamin Feigenberg and Conrad Miller nber.org/papers/w33629

📢Official pincode boundaries dropped yesterday! India's open-data ecosystem keeps giving. I know many people who'll have a jump in their step on the way to office today.

Great chart on Medicaid work requirements from Aella

So excited to share new work with Emileigh Harrison about the presence and portrayal of topics, values, and identities in U.S. textbooks: What we teach in our curricula is more similar across our country than political narratives might have us believe. tinyurl.com/miiebooks

1/3 New research from Anjali Adukia (Harris Policy) and Emileigh Harrison finds that public school textbooks from Texas and California contain broadly similar content, but religious school textbooks differ significantly. ow.ly/29KJ50VWEyX

Check out the interactive on BFI Data Studio here: ow.ly/29KJ50VWEyX

Call for Papers: The 4th Annual Zurich Workshop in AI+Economics to be held Dec 5-6, 2025, hosted by ETH Zurich and University of Zurich. illuminating keynote to be given by tom cunningham (OpenAI) organized with S Galletta D. Yanagizawa-Drott Joachim Voth Info:

I denounce this xenophobic, self-destructive plan. Chinese students are integral to American science. The opportunity to work with students from China remains one of the joys and most important dimensions of my research. The act of a deteriorating nation.