Shout out to the NIMBY neighbors who managed to kill the original proposal because they felt their aesthetic prejudices, and access to street parking, were more important than having affordable housing. Hope they enjoy the resulting even-taller building!
Good thread and article.
One factor it doesn't mention is that survey response rates have fallen a lot. The CPS (households) has gone from near 90% to <70%; the CES (estabs) from 60%+ to 42%; the JOLTS is in the low 30s. That hurts reliability and increases revisions.
www.bls.gov/osmr/respons...
Amitabh is a coauthor on arguably the best paper on high-deductible health insurance that we have (link to thread from a few months ago to follow)
Economist Alex Imas has been tracking the evidence on AI and productivity changes, and now thinks that the macro-economic data is, rather suddenly, showing the increase in productivity that we have been seeing in our micro research. aleximas.substack.com/p/what-is-th...
What does this imply for those of us who are not Christian, and who labor under the assumption that we're protected by the First Amendment?
I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.
We need candidates who fall firmly into “looks like a cinnamon roll, could actually kill you” overlap.
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Conan was our Class Day speaker at graduation and knocked it out of the park.
Given the important political role comedians and talk show hosts have played in this past year, I suspect he'll be both funny and substantive.
‘No-growth’ suburbs are hollowing themselves out & harming Massachusetts’ future.
In Marblehead, public school enrollment has fallen from 3,144 students in 2016 to 2,389 today (-24%), while the share of residents 65+ has grown from 17.9% to 22.6%.
Congratulations!
Can't believe they didn't use the Sun and Abraham estimator.
Good attempt in the title, but I think they missed a pun opportunity @joshua-goodman.com
Literal panel data!
Now if they could just get a group to discuss this at a conference, they'd have a panel on panel data on panels.
Yeah, the incentives here are not great.
Almost half of the campuses at the nation's largest public 4-yr university system have seen enrollments collapse by double digits since 2020.
Campuses lose immediate tuition revenue, exacerbating existing issues as reserves deplete.
I look at how one Cal State campus seeks to turn things around.
I have a new piece in The Argument.
We haven't (yet?) seen AI affect the labor market by increasing number of people who are unemployed - but there's reason to believe it's contributing to a stagnant labor market by making firms less willing to hire.
www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-tinder...
Believe in your work. Stop ending papers with “More research is needed” and start concluding with “No more research on this topic is needed.”
Harvard's Kennedy School does this. Obviously it's not perfect, but it's much more transparent than institutions that have no system at all. Faculty members could tell deans "I'm over-pointed" if they were being asked to do too much.
Sorry, Bluesky, but I have to say it: AI can already do social science research better than most professors with PhDs. And, for the first time in my life, I really have no idea what happens in five years.
Things are changing already, we just need to wake up.
Summer camps are expensive.
Ha. Maybe they're aiming for casual inference.
That leftmost column is bizarre.
I am jealous at how much fun you are having with this
Excited to release this policy brief exploring the college enrollment impacts of Massachusetts' recent dramatic expansions of free community college.
TLDR: The clear messaging and simple design of MassReconnect & MassEducate sparked substantial increases in community college enrollment.
Yes, it is!
I gotta be careful. There might be kids on this site.
On Wednesday, I asked a room of 150+ people a question: Do you actually believe that housing will be affordable and transit will work in Massachusetts (even if kept electing good democrats for another decade)?The silence said everything.
Given the waxing and other female-coded items, how about
"You Can't Spell `Vouchers' Without `Ouch' and `Hers'"
Oh you're really trying to get me in trouble now, aren't you? :)
