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If you have kids in K-12, you may have noticed a "nuclear arms race" in extracurricular math. Why? And do these courses pay off? I look at it in the The Boston Globe today Boston Globe Ideas Thanks to Steven Strogatz Josh Goodman Wheelock College, Boston University Jon Star Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) bostonglobe.com/2025/05/12/opi…

🚨 We're hiring a Student Research Assistant to support our climate + development finance and financial stability workstreams within our Global Economic Governance Initiative for Summer 2025. Apply now: gdpcenter.org/3SwES57

I used to play in this arena and in a little while I’m a commencement speaker here. Thank you Boston University for this honor. (I hope I don’t put these kids to sleep…)

Congratulations to the class of 2025! 👏🎓

I was honored to be the Boston University School of Economics commencement speaker today. We need the next generation of leaders to step up, enter the public arena & serve others, now more than ever.

Check out Prof. Hassan’s feature in this segment on Walmart price hikes due to tariffs!💰

📣 Don't miss the deadline for our latest Request for Proposals on the economic impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)! Interest areas: ✅ labor market ✅ innovation & investment ✅ modeling of economic & climate policy & more! 🗓️THIS WEEK: Thursday, May 22

Thrilled to see our review paper on brain drain vs. brain gain out in Science Magazine! Very grateful for this opportunity to work with brilliant coauthors. Importantly, we point out open questions which hopefully would spur new research on effects of high-skilled emigration!

DP "The Economics of Spatial Mobility: Theory and Evidence Using Smartphone Data" by Yuhei Miyauchi Yuhei Miyauchi , Kentaro Nakajima, Stephen J. Redding rieti.go.jp/en/publication…

BU's economic department is a powerhouse, thanks in large part to the emergence of five exceptionally notable politicians and advisors. Each used critical-thinking and problem-solving skills from their time at BU to succeed in their roles 📈 Read more ⬇️ spr.ly/6012NInzg

What gives life meaning? During the Great Depression, thousands of Americans shared their stories. Now, researchers use AI to uncover what mattered most to them. 🎧 David Lagakos BU Economics & joachim_voth Economics at Zurich join Tim Phillips Talk Normal on #VoxTalks: 👉 cepr.org/multimedia/mea…

Check out Prof. Hassan's latest WCVB-TV Boston feature: "Massachusetts economic expert reacts to court ruling against Trump's tariffs" wcvb.com/article/massac…

Our paper on broadband procurement in the NBER digest.. nber.org/digest/202506/…

🎉 David Lagakos BU Economics & Joana Naritomi LSE have joined our Editorial Board 🎓 David & Joana join Martina Björkman Nyqvist, Mike Callen, Cesi Cruz, Oliver Hanney & Emaan Siddique. A huge thank you to Stefano Caria for his work as a board member over the last two years!

Congrats to our PhD candidate, Danielle Graves Williamson, who was selected as a NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellow! 👏

Congrats to our 2025 Rosenstein-Rodan Prize Winners: Grant Goehring & Plinio Bicalho! This award supports original research on development economics or a related discipline among PhD students. bu.edu/econ/2025/06/0…

We are very happy to host Kevin Lang (Boston University) in our Applied Economics Seminar today to present ongoing work on “Obsolescence Rents: Teamsters, Truckers and Impending Computerization”.

Legislators who descend from immigrants historically supported more permissive immigration policies find James Feigenbaum and Maxwell Palmer of @bu_tweets and Benjamin Schneer of Harvard Kennedy School blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2025…

Will tariffs really bring back U.S. manufacturing jobs? The answer isn’t as simple as it sounds — and the consequences could be far-reaching. larrykotlikoff.substack.com/p/will-tariffs…

On-the-job search leads to overvaluation of jobs, especially at the top of the job ladder, resulting in excess vacancy creation in the canonical search and matching model, from Masao Fukui and Toshihiko Mukoyama nber.org/papers/w33910