Politicians who later become congressional leaders trade stocks like everyone else ... until they ascend to power. After ascension, their portfolios beat peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts.

I joined Cambridge Economics in 2011 as an assistant professor. For historical reasons, Cambridge is still a bastion of heterodox economics - not so much in the department, but definitely in the colleges. (The college structure deserves its own thread.) 1/10

Exciting news on @malengo, the NGO that helps East African students move to Europe for education: Our research team has given us a glimpse of their early findings! Here is the full writeup, joint with @richardnerland: https://t.co/onwOkKRV1U Thread follows!

Harvard Kennedy School invites applications for two open-rank positions in technology and public policy. https://t.co/FrdHIihU1K #PAJobMarket

🚨 New working paper! How well do people predict the results of studies? @sdellavi and I leverage data from the first 100 studies to have been posted on the SSPP, containing 1,482 key questions, on which over 50,000 forecasts were placed. Some surprising results below.... 🧵👇

🚨 Job Market Paper 🚨 Wealth Inequality and Labor Mobility: The Job Trap Does wealth affect workers’ ability to move to better jobs? Why do some remain stuck with low wages? My answer: The Job Security Premium Paper: https://t.co/PB3iKxtsju 1/12 #EconTwitter #EconJobMarket

I have an important update about this: we are looking to fill out 5 senior slots and 3 junior slots. Please, apply and reach out if interested! Or help me to spread out the news! @HannoLustig @luigi_bocola @JonSteinsson @IvanWerning @glviolante @JesusFerna7026 @LudvigsonSydney

🚨The Econ Department at Dartmouth, through the Society of Fellows, is looking for a two-year postdoctoral fellow specializing in economic history with connections to fields like political economy, labor, and public finance. Link: https://t.co/mtfP2XM8XH Deadline: Jan 4, 2026

👩🏽‍💻 **Short-Term Job Opportunity** Myself, Anahita Karandikar (UBC), and Jeff Weaver (USC) are hiring a Research Support Assistant/Research Consultant to help with a lab-in-the-field experiment in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. See below for details, and feel free to retweet 🙂

Princeton economist @DupasPascaline is one of the most accomplished researchers working to reduce global poverty. Her work has shaped policies across Africa, Britain’s foreign aid, the WHO, and major NGOs. #FuturePerfect25 https://t.co/YV6QeA05Pk

Harvard will open a new probe into former University President Lawrence H. Summers’ connections with convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein, a Harvard spokesperson confirmed Tuesday night. @dhruvtkpatel and @camsrivastava report. https://t.co/HVoprKIlwk

Damn, immigrants outperform everywhere, and for the same reasons. 1.2 million Orthodox Christians were forced to move from Anatolia to Greece in 1923. Their kids outperformed the old Greeks for the usual reasons: emphasis on education, esp medicine & engineering.

The last thing humanity needs is more deep relationships with AIs, even if the AIs are simulating people we loved before they died. This is sick, and this is our lonely future unless we start saying no to it now.

🆕 Can better managers save lives? Lessons from Chile’s civil service reform in public hospitals Today on VoxDev w/ @Blopa1988 (@uchile) & @cristobalotero (@Columbia_Biz):

300 French army officer cadets (EMAC) singing the 🇫🇷 anthem 'la Marseillaise' in the Douaumont Ossuary, eastern France. This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WW1 soldiers. #WW1 #France #Verdun

What happens when online job applicants start using LLMs? It ain't good. 1. Pre-LLM, cover letter quality predicts your work quality, and a good cover gets you a job 2. LLMs wipe out the signal, and employer demand falls 3. Model suggests high ability workers lose the most 1/n

WE ARE HIRING!! Up to three post docs @PPE_Center @BrownUniversity for up to two years, able to sponsor J-1 visa, if necessary. Please circulate widely, happy to answer questions about it. https://t.co/2ovStZvcry

Edward Wiles (@HarvardEcon) and I (@PrincetonEcon) are hiring RAs for work on trade policy and supply chains research using detailed administrative datasets and applied graph theory. @econ_ra Please apply and share! More info and application link:

I am super excited to share a new AI tool, Refine. Refine thoroughly studies research papers like a referee and finds issues with correctness, clarity, and consistency. In my own papers, it regularly catches problems that my coauthors and I missed. 1/

Being doxxed as a member of the Ku Klux Klan had "no statistically significant effect on any outcomes of interest". Can't wait to read this JMP