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Joshua Mask

@joshuafmask.bsky.social

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Labor Economist @ Temple University I think a lot about how the economic conditions you face when you first enter the labor market affect long run outcomes. RPCV (Uganda 2011), Gold Star family member, and Philly Sports fan. http://www.joshmask.com

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 2h

New Substack post: the Nobel Prize goes to an economic historian and two economists of growth trying to answer the question, where do new technologies come from?

someunpleasant.substack.com/p/growing-th...

Growing the Field

What is the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics about?

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 5h

A new NBER working paper by @jscottclayton.bsky.social and colleagues shows that about two-thirds of the unexplained gap in post-college earnings by family income may be due to challenges in finding that first job. Family connections and resources matter.

Who Rides Out the Storm? The Immediate Post-College Transition and its Role in Socioeconomic Earnings Gaps

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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Joshua Mask @joshuafmask.bsky.social · 22h

I had to stop watching. This is just sad.

Joshua Mask @joshuafmask.bsky.social · 1d

Touchdown Temple!!!

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Sam Thorpe @samthorpe.bsky.social · 2d

It turns out that once you correct for this error, unemployment is actually rising faster for NON-degree workers - meaning that explanations in terms of AI replacing the college-educated workforce don't make much sense, and this looks a lot more like an across-the-board labor market slowdown.

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Joshua Mask @joshuafmask.bsky.social · 1d

Just saw on Elsevier that they are rolling out ScienceDirect AI? I guess every publisher is going to attempt to capitalize on a model that is trained on their own papers.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 8d

my wife is a Cal fan and apparently this week they’re putting a “59” on their football helmets to honor the 59 Nobel laureates tied to Cal in order to flex on Duke

this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 9d

Research shows:
More H-1Bs → more patents
Fewer H-1Bs → more offshoring

Your choice, America.

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David Berri @wagesofwins.bsky.social · 10d

Wrote this for the New York Times today (hope this link works!)

W.N.B.A. is doing immensely well! Time to pay the players!!

Thanks to Sara Chodosh for asking me to write this (helping with the writing) and making the cool graphics!!

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Opinion | The W.N.B.A. Is Making More Money Than Ever. Why Aren’t the Players? (Gift Article)

Other professional sports leagues give their players roughly 50 percent of the revenue, but the W.N.B.A. players get less than 10 percent.

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Joshua Mask @joshuafmask.bsky.social · 11d

Sora, make an Econ 1101 hype video.

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Joshua Mask @joshuafmask.bsky.social · 11d

Haters will say this is fake

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Scott Wolla @scwolla.bsky.social · 15d

🌟 𝗖𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗹𝘀! 🌟

Share your teaching innovations & research in economics with colleagues who care deeply about econ ed. #CTREE #EconEd #TeachEcon

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CTREE Conference 2026

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Joshua Mask @joshuafmask.bsky.social · 16d

It's official: Temple will offer Economics of AI in the Spring. I'm super excited to teach this.

Joshua Mask @joshuafmask.bsky.social · 18d

I’ve been using the Codex plugin and GitHub CoPilot with VS Code. What’s the advantage to using Cursor? It looks exactly the same as my VS code session.

Joshua Mask @joshuafmask.bsky.social · 21d

Dak Prescott’s MRPL < Dak Prescott’s salary.

Joshua Mask @joshuafmask.bsky.social · 24d

I’d personally like it if he played this season.

Joshua Mask @joshuafmask.bsky.social · 25d

I wonder which one is Miran. 😂

Joshua Mask @joshuafmask.bsky.social · 25d

I just learned from Claude that using "\begin{itemize}[<+->]" in LaTeX will automatically create a series of PDF pages, each revealing a new bullet point, one by one, for your slide.

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Brian Mills @bmmillsy.bsky.social · 25d

Time for a paper plug: We find that, going the other direction, pitchers tend to perform better on the mound after batting and particularly when they had successful at bats.

(most likely a "staying warm" effect; but some evidence for adrenaline boost after success)

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