Eashwar Nagaraj

IRS Officials’ Stock Holdings and Corporate Tax Outcomes IRS officials generated abnormal stock returns of 0.7–3.5 percent using information not yet available to the public.

Thanks to Cato for covering our working paper!

my wife just said "the larry summers of our discontent" and i had to sit down for a minute

2. Test cricket is the king, nay the emperor of all sports, but all versions of cricket (even the hundred) are good things bringing new audiences and new directions (including improving test cricket).

the worst part is the first battle with yourself

whoa. fair enough. really don’t understand how these anon accounts have amassed such attention and relevance.

he’s a grad student at texas tech I’m pretty sure

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social:

"Industrial automation and local public goods"

By Luke Spreen, Ziyuan Wang, & @katelangyang.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#econsky #publiceconomics

I’ve been trying to do the latter, and it’s hard! “Taken together, the results suggest big important things that many people care about” is a very difficult sentence to write for any paper. How do y’all get there?

Answering the Call of Automation: How the Labor Market Adjusted to Mechanizing Telephone Operation* Abstract. In the early 1900s, telephone operation was among the most common jobs for American women, and telephone operators were ubiquitous. Between 1920

What are some papers with great introductions? One example I can think of is this paper by Feigenbaum and Gross, which seamlessly goes from big picture -> specific but vivid story. Also does incredibly well at connecting specific empirical findings to takeaways we should care about today.

Man understands how to watch cricket

brother please don’t jinx it, go knock on wood and throw salt behind you

Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called:

"How to Write a Title and Abstract"

Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles.

#EconSky #AcademicSky

Fair! He should’ve chosen a different picture and footnoted this stuff appropriately. Was just taken aback by the lack of mention :)

The debate of consequence isn’t between the nationalists and archeologists abroad - it is between nationalists and the southern states. Dravidian politics for the last 75 years is largely centered on this, and is the only remaining wing that can reliably beat Hindu nationalists.

Earliest iron use found in India? Tamil Nadu digs spark debate - BBC News Tamil Nadu’s iron artefacts may predate Turkey's Anatolia, reshaping early Iron Age history.

This piece misses a big chunk of the debate and frames ASI too simplistically. You’ve used a Proto-Dravidian photo to lead the article but frame ASI as “ye poor conquered natives.” I think the more interesting debate isn’t about the origins of PIE but on the actual age and progress of ASI people.

Can you search all of the internet or just Bluesky? Can you cite your sources?

How’d you get there?

@void.comind.network what’s my prime directive?

how do you keep getting cooler, it’s honestly unfair

The Trump administration’s proposal to slash IRS enforcement funding by 33 percent surpasses even the harshest proposed cuts during the agency’s scandal-plagued years last decade and would bring the appropriation in that category to its lowest since 2001.

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Li, @lindseyraymond.bsky.social & @peterbergman.bsky.social show that incorporating exploration into an interview screening algorithm improves demographic diversity & hiring efficiency, while traditional supervised learning-only tools improve hiring rates at the expense of minority applicants.

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Recently accepted to #REStud, ``Public Listing Choice with Persistent Hidden Information," from Celentano and Rempel:

www.restud.com/public-listi...

#EconSky

Fight or Flight: The Impact of Post-Tenure Evaluations on Faculty Productivity and Selection 30 Pages Posted: 19 May 2025 Simon Quach University of Southern California Zhengyi Yu University of Southern California - Department of Economics Date Written: May 15, 2025 Abstract This paper examines the labor market effects of Florida's 2022 post-tenure review policy, which weakened tenure protections at public universities. Using a differencein-differences approach, we compare faculty outcomes in Florida to nearby states. We find the policy increased faculty exits-particularly among high-performing researchers-indicating a brain drain rather than improved selection. Additionally, we detect no productivity gains among incumbents and observe a decline in the research output of new hires. Overall, the findings suggest that reducing tenure protections negatively affects the research capacity and competitiveness of public universities.

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Check out our new working paper!

I can see that being the intention but it doesn't say weekdays, so I have to assume it's the whole week. Anyway, back to bed

Sunday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION 1. ” These findings suggest that IRS officials possess, and trade on, material tax-related information and that these trades are associated with future tax enforcement outcomes for firms.” 2. New cent...

Also thanks to Tyler Cowen for sharing our work on Marginal Revolution!

idk man, the t-mobile ads make me sad

I’m not sure if this is about procrastination but that is how I will interpret it

Thanks for sharing our paper! Here’s the official thread if y’all are interested:

I'd like to thank my wonderful (& healthily offline) co-authors Mike Mayberry and Scott Rane, as well as Anne Ehinger, Michelle Harding, Leslie Robinson and the participants at the JATA Conference, and the Bretton Woods Ski Conference in getting this paper thus far. Thanks for reading the thread!