We're hiring 3 pre-docs at Wharton BEPP--this is a standard Econ pre-doc, and many alums have gone on to top Econ PhD programs. You can work with me and Judd Kessler, with @bblockwood and Alex Rees-Jones, or with Arthur van Bentham and @BerkouwerS. Apply: wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...
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Bizarre is just not the word...
over the weekend X / Twitter took the @America handle from the original user who registered it the handle now belongs to Elon Musk and his Super PAC set up to support Donald Trump here's everything we know: www.disruptionist.com/p/elon-musk-...
The original @America user was a critic of both Musk and Trump.
Are you interested in political trust? Of course! And redistribution preferences? Naturally! Then do I have the paper for you, accepted @jeppjournal.bsky.socialosf.io/preprints/os...
X losing 30% of its UK users in a year (and 20% in the US) is clearly bad for its financial viability, but it has also accelerated the downward spiral of the platform into increasingly extreme content. Via @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social@jemima.bsky.social@financialtimes.comwww.ft.com/content/6596...
So most migration is the type people say they are fine with. Why can’t politicians just say this
The UK can’t have Italian levels of migration without destroying its own economy. Italy has little migration because it has a terrible labour market, the result of 30 years of economic stagnation. Much of it is transitory, by virtue of being located between migrants and the places they are going.
Keir Starmer says he wants to learn from Italy’s ‘dramatic’ statistics. But a Guardian investigation reveals that EU money goes to officers who are involved in shocking abuse, leaving people to die in the desert and colluding with smugglers www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Keir Starmer says he wants to learn from Italy’s ‘dramatic’ statistics. But a Guardian investigation reveals that EU money goes to officers who are involved in shocking abuse, leaving people to die in...
Delighted to see my paper published in SER! It studies why UK government budgets have a public sector boundary and questions deep-seated misconceptions about excessive government spending in 1960s-1970s. Check it out here: academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
OBR analysis of migrants' long-term fiscal impacts: migrants on average wages make significant positive contribution over both short & long run. Since, overall, migrants are about average (although newer migrants may do *better*), consistent with OBR/my/others earlier analysis
