Aaron Pope

Curriculum shapes more than skills as taking STEM in high school boosts tech careers—but also shifts politics as boys grow more conservative and girls more progressive, from Robert Ainsworth, Rajeev H. Dehejia, @andrei_mntn, Cristian Pop-Eleches, and Miguel Urquiola nber.org/papers/w34502

Glad this paper with @guido_imbens is out in the JEP. The LaLonde paper has had a big impact on my academic journey and continues to teach us about the challenges and possibilities of conducting credible inference using nonexperimental data. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… Many thanks to Tim for the tireless editing and suggestions. @TimothyTTaylor

This debate is entirely confused. What the NYT editorial doesn't show is that progressives basically never run in those purple districts. Of 22 Democratic incumbents who lost their seats between 2016 and 2024, 21 were moderates. From Bonica's response today (link below)

Economics Journals as Tennis Tournaments 🧵(for an extremely niche audience) Quarterly Journal of Economics = Wimbledon The oldest and most influential event, but also clubby, snobby, and elitist. To win it you must train on a very particular surface/ZIP code.

ok ohtani should be allowed to gamble

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It’s academia, every day is the weekend. :) But, we work on weekends :/

The haters said I couldn’t juggle this many deadlines. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the haters.

Every time I see radical left, I think ~radical~ 🤙

New study: Research shows liberals have worse mental health than conservatives. But what if you ask about "mood" to avoid possible conservative stigma around "mental health" issues? A: "When respondents were asked to assess their mood, the gap between liberals and conservatives disappeared. Conservatives were actually somewhat less likely than liberals to provide a highly positive rating of their overall mood."

I can highly recommend reading @nvasilenok JMP "Reading Orwell in Moscow", which is a terrifically original project on how citizens are changing their reading habits in light of the war with Ukraine. nvasilenok.github.io/pdfs/papers/Re…

[THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI] But it does have a style, crazy though it is, and style is the most difficult achievement in the movie medium. (1967)

A federal woman needs municipal man

1/ I recently uploaded a preprint on targeted sanctions against Russia’s “shadow fleet” of oil tankers. The results suggest that the most recent sanctions are working: the sanctioned fleet is still active, but in a much more limited capacity. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

eric adams says new york is already the istanbul of america but only sliwa is willing and able to make it happen

🥳🥳 Our paper Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A field Experiment on #EconTwitter has just been published in the American Economic Review: Insights. with @bruno_ferman and @PedroSant_Anna

who runs the democratic party? some people say the base, dem primary voters. some say donors. some say the electeds the answer is the people who sign up to take online surveys about the persuasiveness of various digital campaign messaging vignettes via consumer reward programs

We love an airport terminal with food described as “shockingly bad.”

Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?