Somewhere, John Boehner is lighting up another Camel, cleaning out his ashtray and topping off his glass of Merlot without a care in the world.
I just realized that my non-work reading is almost entirely devoted to understanding why things are so fucked up right now
Yay! Incredibly deserved. Important to note that Claudia's work extended far beyond women in the labor market. Also pioneered the empirical revolution in labor economics more generally, and did important work on inequality — her Great Compression paper had a profound influence
Congrats to Claudia Goldin and happy It’s Not a Real Nobel Prize Day to all who celebrate.
So excited for Claudia and for the whole community of scholars her work has inspired!
I'm pretty much giving up on the app formerly known as Twitter. It has really been degraded as a way to keep up with informed discourse, and I don't want to be an unpaid content provide for Musk. Will start posting wonkery here, maybe also on Threads
Anyone know a source for long run data on political violence in the US WW2 to today (or at least 1960-today)? Most of what I’m finding doesn’t go back that far. Just looking for a time series
In many of my papers, the key result is shown via a table, but I make a simple bar graph to use in talks, at least to broader audiences. I wish we all made and posted these; I'm much more likely to show someone's result in a keynote or for teaching if there is a good figure.
