It was cool to see that Mokyr got the Nobel in economics. @antonhowes.bsky.social has a nice write up here: www.ageofinvention.xyz/p/age-of-inv...

Paper under review for 6 months at a journal

What a great day: legends of innovation economics Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt win the Nobel. Joel was a PhD advisor of mine, so need a full article! Included: good & bad explanations of the Indus Rev, Aghion's charisma, influence of Jon Hughes, French fashion houses: kevinbryanecon.com/mokyraghionh...

"Education can account for about 45% of global economic growth and 60% of pretax income growth among the world’s poorest 20% from 1980 to 2019." academic.oup.com/qje/article-... #EconSky

Levitt interviews Uri Simonsohn about his investigations of fraudulent research freakonomics.com/podcast/the-... #econsky

Have a look at cver.lse.ac.uk if you haven't already?

Write left, pretty much everything else right.

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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I don't say this often, but if you follow me, I'm asking you to read this:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Startling conclusion here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/dogs-4
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New in the JPE: RCT evidence that exercise (via a free gym card) improves academic performance www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... #EconSky

"These results suggest that should a referendum be held, making the public aware of the empirical analysis could markedly influence the outcome" Laugh-cries in Brexit 😂

Showing people in Japan empirical evidence on the negative effects of emergency clauses in the Constitution changes their opinion quite markedly against adding emergency clauses. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #econsky

Not even 9am. So far on Radio 6, the news bulletins have featured a mother saying her daughters aren't safe because of asylum seekers, a Tory politician lambasting Labour for crossing numbers & Badenoch encouraging councils to lodge legal challenges against hotels. An endless stream of hateful bile.

Ultimate dad joke last week. We were in a safari/zoo type of place and it was difficult to see the bears, as they were sleeping far away. Without missing a beat I said you could barely (get it) see them. I don't care, it made my son smile :).

Been listening to the same three Nick Cave albums for weeks now so think that's Spotify wrapped sorted...

"How the Institute for Replication is making social science more robust and reliable:" www.openphilanthropy.org/research/how...

Actually WWII was a hallucination that just got way out of control.

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Replication Crisis

xkcd.com/3117/

Listening to a 3h+ podcast on the dysfunction in Britain's government probably doesn't sound that appealing but this interview with Ian Dunt is really engaging and very interesting. My beliefs keep shifting in the direction that Britain is royally screwed though. 80000hours.org/podcast/epis...

when i was a young boy (sorry MCR pilled) law students at melb uni would tear out important pages in library books for high stakes assignments to hinder other students.

now as an academic ive seen people obviously insert needless obstacles into their replication files. it's even more sad.

This paper uses the biographies of historical figures to estimate historical GDP per capita of countries and regions: econpapers.repec.org/paper/arxpap... #econsky

This paper looks at a policy change in Egypt that decreased completed years of schooling, finding no adverse effects on health or labour market outcomes from the reduction in education: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #EconSky