Valerie Mueller

@valmuellerasu.bsky.social

8.6K followers 2.5K following 620 posts

Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies, ASU
#DevEcon #EnvironEcon #AgEcon #EnvironDemography #PoliticalEcon
Non-resident fellow at IFPRI
Livin’ it up in Spain 2025-6

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Sociology 22%

Political science 22%

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Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Valerie Mueller, Suzanne de Cheveigné , and 2 more Katharine Hayhoe, Valerie Mueller, Suzanne de Cheveigné, Beth Tellman, Clark Gray

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18h

Climate injustice:

“…in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve compared with their pre-disaster state…”

Built environment disparities are amplified during extreme weather recovery - Nature

Higher-income neighbourhoods rebuild and improve after disasters while lower-income areas do not return to pre-disaster conditions.

www.nature.com

Reposted by Hugo Mercier, Valerie Mueller, Raúl Pacheco-Vega , and 1 more Hugo Mercier, Valerie Mueller, Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Georg Weizsäcker

Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social · 22h

📣 One week left to apply to our Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences!

We have an exciting program for this year: www.tse-fr.eu/sites/defaul...

🗓️ May 26 to June 19, 2026
📍 Toulouse

Application deadline: December 15

Apply here: www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...

@tse-fr.eu @iast.fr

www.tse-fr.eu

Reposted by Valerie Mueller

John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 1d

Resolved once and for all, by the highest authority.

Akin to the U.S. Post Office resolving the reality of Santa in Miracle on 34th Street.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

die-hard | adjective | strongly or fanatically determined or devoted

Die Hard | noun | a Christmas movie

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Brendan Nyhan, Valerie Mueller , and 2 more Anna O. Law, Brendan Nyhan, Valerie Mueller, James Goodwin, Feargal Cochrane

Eladio Bobadilla @eladiobobadilla.com · 1d

Me when I cite myself:

Reposted by Shannon Vallor, Richard Price, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 9 more Shannon Vallor, Richard Price, Rosemary A. Joyce, Valerie Mueller, Aaron Sojourner, Scott A. Imberman, Todd Pugatch, Manuel Puppis, Seth Masket, David S. Tanenhaus, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Martin S. Flaherty

Moon-Watcher @bobsmyusername.bsky.social · 1d

Who has made this 🤣

Buster from the tv show ‘Arrested Development’ holding an arm full of plushies while he looks at his mother Lucille, saying, “these are my awards, mother, from FIFA.“

Reposted by Valerie Mueller, Shannon M. Monnat, Clark Gray

Brian Thiede @brianthiede.bsky.social · 2d

My program is hiring in population health, at the assistant or associate level. See below and please feel free to email me with any questions.

psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Assistant or Associate Professor of Rural Sociology

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com

Reposted by Valerie Mueller, Michael Kevane

VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 2d

Laura Juarez and Fernanda Marquez-Padilla find that, in the United States, menopause leads to large declines in women’s probability of employment and increases the probability of a woman receiving social security benefits.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky

Each graph shows the estimated average treatment effects by year, using the imputation method by Borusyak et al. (2024), with their 95% confidence intervals. The vertical dashed line indicates the reference period, two years before menopause. The reported mean dependent variable is calculated at the reference period.

The labour costs associated with the menopause transition have been largely understudied. Exploiting the individual timing of menopause, this column estimates the causal effects of the menopause transition on labour and health outcomes in the US. Menopause leads to large declines in women’s probability of employment and increases the probability of a woman receiving social security benefits. Hormone replacement therapy appears to mitigate some of the costs of menopause, but access to therapy significantly differs by race and education, underscoring the need to expand menopause-related medical care to reduce labour market gaps.

Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 3d

I've been doing this for 20 years. This feels different. Lack of authenticity.

Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 3d

I spent hours reviewing a paper that was clearly written by AI. One thing AI is really poor at is explaining the contribution of the paper. It can grab papers that are peripherally relevant, but they are usually old and do not speak to what's new about the paper.

Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 4d

All I have is Keshi and K-Pop on mine. It's a running joke with the rest of the family members who, like me, are not a fan.

Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 4d

My Christmas present to the academic community is I have been doing WAY more reviews than I should (especially on sabbatical).

Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 5d

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/b...

Top Journal Retracts Study Predicting Catastrophic Climate Toll

www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Maarten Vink, Eric Goldman, Valerie Mueller , and 1 more Maarten Vink, Eric Goldman, Valerie Mueller, Alan Richardson

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 6d

There are 75,977 people born in Somalia who are now citizens of the United States, including those specific people.

He is talking about US citizens. He is talking about *us*.

The truth is that none of us are garbage, and the job of the US president is to represent all of us.

We, the people.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."

Reposted by Valerie Mueller, Robert C. Richards

Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 6d

ECON CONFERENCE: NBER Race and Stratification Working Group will have its annual meeting Friday, March 27, 2026. @franciscaantman.bsky.social, Bocar Ba, Robynn Cox and I are organizing the program. Submit your paper by the December 11, 2025 deadline! @nber.org #Econsky www.nber.org/conferences/...

Economics of Race and Stratification, Spring 2026

www.nber.org

Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 6d

Beautiful and festive!

Reposted by Valerie Mueller, Michael Kevane, Ann Bartow , and 2 more Valerie Mueller, Michael Kevane, Ann Bartow, Daxton R. Stewart, Nicole Guenther Discenza

Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 7d

A quick thread on the academic freedom angle to the OU situation:

First, grading is part of academic freedom b/c it involves instructors applying their disciplinary expertise - both when they set assignments, and when they grade student work

Reposted by Erik Brynjolfsson, Scott L. Greer, John McLaren , and 5 more Erik Brynjolfsson, Scott L. Greer, John McLaren, Valerie Mueller, C. Kirabo Jackson, Maria Abreu, Danila Serra, Peter Bergman

Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 7d

Community college enrollment has been declining since 2009/10. The optimal policy response to this depends on the root of this decline.

I'm thrilled @nber.org today released my working paper with Harvard PhD Joe Winkelmann titled:

"Labor Market Strength and Declining Community College Enrollment"

Reposted by Valerie Mueller, Michael Scharkow

Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 7d

Happy "let's circle back in the New Year" season to all who celebrate.

Reposted by Valerie Mueller

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 7d

#EconConf

Colin Green @colinpgreen.bsky.social · 7d

IWAEE 2026 (16th) Meetings - Call for Papers now open!

Submit your papers on education economics via
iwaee.org/new/

Deadline for submissions 27th February

14th to 16th June 2026, Catanzaro, Italy

Keynotes: Esteban Aucejo, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch and @marirege.bsky.social

#EconSky

Reposted by Mark J. Brandt, Valerie Mueller

Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social · 7d

🚨Two postdoc positions @tse-fr.eu @iast.fr 🚨

We are recruiting two postdocs as part of the ANR-funded project ENFORCE.

Join me, @giuliandr.bsky.social, & @zhgarfield.com, to study punitive systems across societies.

Full time, 2 years, no teaching.

Deadline: Jan 23

www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...

Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

www.tse-fr.eu

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Dorothy Bishop, Dan Brockington , and 5 more Richard S.J. Tol, Dorothy Bishop, Dan Brockington, Navin Ramankutty, Jörg Oechssler, Valerie Mueller, Catherine J. Frieman, Ben Greiner

Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 8d

Since AI slop is again all over Scientific Reports, a thread on the economics of grey-zone publishing.

Why does slop keep getting published? What does it mean for science? How can we stop this?

Background readings:
Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r
Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy

An obviously AI-generated figure with AI slop and fake text all over it, recently published in Scientific Reports.

Reposted by James P. Collins, Valerie Mueller, Clark Gray

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 9d

Interesting paper highlight that binning can be misspecified in panel settings - this drives misinterpretation of extreme temperature shocks. #linkoftheday

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1ya6z...

Reposted by Valerie Mueller

Robert Finger @robertfinger.bsky.social · 9d

Vacancy: University of Göttingen, W1 Professorship in Machine Learning in Agricultural and Food Economics

uni-goettingen.de/en/700615.html

Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 10d

Scientific reports

Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 10d

I was thinking the same thing. Why are you making the move? I couldn't tell if the chrome search engine is horrible in Europe or just degraded in general?

Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 10d

I submitted an interdisciplinary paper to SR. Sat there 12 months. They could not find an editor. I would suggest names of editors to managing staff, listed on the webpage. They were no longer with the journal. Took me a month to formally pull the manuscript out. Would never no go there again.

Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 11d

And this is why I took a break from being an editor. When you suspect riffraff, there are no resources or support to stop and prevent it from happening again. They just transfer the slop to another journal until they find a sleepy editor!

Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 11d

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports

Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 11d

You lasted longer than I would. By 9, I’m like I need to sleep.

Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 11d

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you celebrating today! Missing my 🦃 day big time.

Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 11d

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