Economist, Oregon State University Professor, Oregonian. Done with this platform. Find me here: @patrickemerson.bsky.social
Portland, OR, USA
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My Intermediate Microeconomics textbook is comprehensive, open access, and free to all. open.oregonstate.education/i…
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Paper out! Big tks to @amorimfvivian, @OregonEconomics and Andre Portela Souza @fgv_clear & @EconFGVSP Short- and Longer-Term Effects of a Child Labor Ban | The World Bank Economic Review | Oxford Academic academic.oup.com/wber/advanc…
This is what happens when you have so much belief in the efficiency of markets. So grateful that the Dir. of Grad Admissions at Cornell Econ was a bit skeptical and was willing to look a bit deeper. He called it 'playing the variance.' I am a beneficiary. Thanks Rob.
This is what we call a ‘contestable market.’
I wrote about how fuchka, a Bengali snack, took over a busy corner of NYC, with eight vendors selling it there now. (The CliffsNotes: A guy opened a cart, then his employees kept leaving to open their own identical carts, hilariously, right next to his.) nytimes.com/2023/10/26/nyreg…
Stunning how much the SAT reflects income inequality in the US. If schools used household income instead of SAT & admitted the highest income kids, they would get similar results. We OK with that?: New SAT Data Highlights the Deep Inequality in Higher Ed nytimes.com/interactive/2023…
Damn, I'll miss @Dame_Lillard here in Portland, but he deserves a shot at a title and him going to my Milwaukee Bucks is dope. The second coming of Sidney Moncrief! (or Oscar Robertson for that matter, but before my time) This gonna be fun...
I wish they would actually talk to teachers themselves. Don't you think they might have an interesting perspective - not subject to admin or political bias? Maybe give it a try?? oregonlive.com/education/202…
A @TimbersFC season ticket holder since the start, I finally decided to give them up. Insular org, scandals, org took members for granted or even treated us with distain. But #1 was that 13 years later we are still playing on plastic. Such a disrespect for game itself and fans.
Interesting idea but respondents self-selected, so these data are likely biased. What I would like to see is schools host more debate-style panels than individual speakers to model what respectful debate can and should look like.
Your mileage may vary with this, but @TheFIREorg's "College Free Speech" rankings are out. It includes surveys of 50k+ students at 254 colleges and universities. Here are Oregon's rankings.
Oregon State University: 4
University of Oregon: 143
Portland State University: 232
Can you really just lose an $80 million dollar jet? Has the pentagon heard of AirTags?
Teams of civilian and military personnel were searching the area around two man-made lakes north of a South Carolina military base for the wreckage of a Marine Corps F-35B jet fighter that went missing Sunday on.wsj.com/3ZoU6vu
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Oregons poverty rate is also below the US, although up from the pandemic lows. The racial poverty gap is the smallest on record.
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While the migration story gets the headlines, there is good news in the ACS data. Household incomes are keeping up with inflation. Oregon still above the US. And unlike last decade, gains aren’t about getting people back to work but rather workers seeing faster wage growth.
Reminder that Oregon does such a terrible job educating its own children that without the robust flow of well educated young people we are kind of screwed. Luckily, as Josh says, the inflow of young (18-24) is still net positive. Phew!
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Welp, at least it’s an equal opportunity change in migration. Roughly, it’s half kids, half adults; it’s every income bracket; it’s nearly half white non Hispanic, half BIPOC; it’s married and unmarried.
Now, positive net migration among 18-24 year olds. That’s a key demographic
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Damn. Here it is. Sometimes even when you know it’s coming, once you see it, it still hits you. It’s not that people stopped moving to Oregon. It’s that many more packed up and left. First time in 2 generations. (Fwiw I’m writing up income and poverty first, migration second)
