How we "guessed" the Pope using network science: inside the cardinal network. A study by me, Beppe Soda and Alessandro Iorio. Article: unibocconi.it/en/news/networ… Università Bocconi

Wow! Each $1 spent on Universal Pre-Kindergarten generates between $3-$20 dollars in aggregate earnings. That's enough to offset the costs of Universal Pre-Kindergarten through higher tax revenues.

Recently published in Journal of Public Economics: "Declining earnings inequality, rising income inequality: What explains discordant inequality trends in the United States?" By @zparolin, Lukas Lehner, Nathan Wilmers sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #econtwitter

Immigrants increase innovation and economic growth [full stop]

🚨 New pre-print! 🚨  “Why Academics Are Leaving Twitter for Bluesky”, joint with  Frederic Denker Prashant Garg Alexandre Bovet We track 300k scholars and find that 18 % have already switched. In this 🧵 who moved why, how contagion works, and what sustains engagement.

Members of our Manhattan, Newark, and Brooklyn locals are distributing flyers today at NYU’s Conference on Labor & Employment Law, where Acting General Counsel Cowen is speaking on “The Future of the NLRA.” The future of labor law is our Agency and our members. Save the NLRB.

Considering the political consequences of the use of artificial intelligence by online platforms engaged in social media content dissemination, entertainment, or electronic commerce, from Daron Acemoglu, Asuman Ozdaglar, and James Siderius nber.org/papers/w33892

Lowering cosmetology licensing hour requirements increases completion and reduces tuition with no effect on the labor market outcomes of cosmetologists, from Nicolas Acevedo Rebolledo, Kathryn J. Blanchard, and Stephanie Riegg Cellini nber.org/papers/w33936

Columbia University Applicant Personal Data Stolen by Hacker news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-da…

#Breaking: More than 10,000 Ontario college staff laid off, 600 programs cancelled or suspended over past year trib.al/iQJYqiM

🚨New from us: Given they are trained on human data, can you use psychological techniques that work on humans to persuade AI? Yes! Applying Cialdini's principles for human influence more than doubles the chance of GPT-4o-mini agrees to objectionable requests compared to controls

BREAKING: ChatGPT CEO Sam Altman says people share personal info with ChatGPT but don’t know chats can be used as court evidence in legal cases.

How do #fairwork ordinances work out for employees? Using Oregon as a case, Anja Gruber, PhD UWyo News shows increased employment and hours worked for men and decreased employment and hours worked for women. doi.org/10.1177/001979… Photo by Mathieu Stern on Unsplash

Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.

Thanks Seth D. Harris for sharing our research to labor peeps. I am a huge fan of Power At Work and have been following the podcast. Great venue to get updates of labor relation issues. It's a great honor to contribute to it! 🧡💙🧡 #LERve #WorkerVoice #research

Here’s Labor Action Tracker’s Johnnie Kallas (Illinois). It’s a "database of strike & labor protest activity in the U.S. & supports labor-movement activists & scholars. The tracker is a collaboration between Cornell's ILR School & U of I's LER School." monkeylink.co/a81b92

Look at what happened to divorce rates in Mexico when some areas extended the school day by 3.5 hours! Why did divorce rates go up? "The availability of childcare...translate[d] into increased bargaining power and economic independence for women."

honored to be selected as the inaugural cohort of Partnerships for Evidence-based Public Policy (PEPP) faculty fellow at #UofI, supported by Center for Social & Behavioral Science (CSBS) and U of IL Institute of Government & Public Affairs. Look forward to this new adventure! csbs.research.illinois.edu/pepp-fellowshi… #LER #research

Grateful to the C.D. Howe Institute for publishing this Intelligence Memo on the new Labour Mobility Bill and the ongoing mobility barriers faced by the regulated workforce. cdhowe.org/publication/a-…