Barton Willage
Assoc Professor at the University of Delaware. Health, public, and labor econ.
BartonWillage.com
- I organize an annual conference and am also working on a spring convening, and am adding this to my running list. 👏👏 to the Nebraska Labor Summit organizers! @btimpe.bsky.social @rebecca-jack.bsky.social @dtannenbaum.bsky.social
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- There’s this weird thing where the media keeps running profiles of different men telling me that people “hate him because he’s brilliant” and every single time I have to pause for a second to ask “wait, people think he’s brilliant”?
- AEFP is expanding our conference subsidies program to offer financial assistance to a broader membership base so that more researchers, policymakers & practitioners have the opportunity to connect at the conference. The deadline to apply is January 5, 2026 aefpweb.org/conferen...
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- If you are at the Southerns, come say hi and listen to some interesting economic history presentations! We will be in room “Edison” all day today
- Thank you @voxdev.bsky.social for inviting us to write about our research on extreme temperatures and migration in El Salvador!
- Calling all researchers working on the environment and health! 🌿🚑 #ASHEcon2026 will be in Minneapolis (June 7–10, 2026), and I’m helping organize the Environment & Health program. Looking forward to seeing your submissions (deadline is December 10)! 👉 www.ashecon.org/2026-minneap...
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- I’m really feeling for the new PhDs hitting the market this year. 😭 I don’t have much good advice, but if it would be helpful to see my materials or chat, reach out!
- They’re getting a little old at this point, but I’ve got a Dropbox full of my job market materials that I’m happy to share, esp. with econ of ed folks! Also happy to chat about jobs that emphasize both research & teaching (R2s, LACs, etc.) Just shoot me an email or DM! #econsky
- First day of teaching at my new job! (Same first day outfit as when I started my sabbatical job at Hamilton Project.)
- In case you hadn't seen my earlier posts, I'm a new Associate Professor of Economics at UC Boulder this fall! www.colorado.edu/economics/ch...
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- Introducing acquaint, an R package that turns your R sessions into a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. This allows MCP-enabled tools like Claude Desktop and Claude Code to run #rstats code _in your active R sessions_ to explore objects, read documentation, etc. posit-dev.github.io/acquaint/
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- New @nber.org working paper "Targeted Education Transfers Reduced Long-Run and Intergenerational Ethnic Inequality in Chile" with #PatrickMcEwan & #DavidTorresIrribarra. Title summarizes it. More details: www.nber.org/papers/w33798
- On reading day, graduate students present their research, and we honor outstanding faculty by putting their faces on cake— @bartonwillage.com #ThomasBridges #OlgaGorbachev. Best day of the academic year!
- Examining external demands for parental involvement in educational settings finds that mothers are 1.4 times more likely than fathers to be contacted by schools, from Kristy Buzard, Laura K. Gee, and Olga B. Stoddard nber.org/papers/w33775
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- Sure Econometrics is hard, but have you ever got out of Lower Wacker Dr. without being lost?
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- Didn't someone previously have a list/document of conference submission deadlines on here? Anyone remember that post? #EconSky
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- Agreed. Looks like it was @anne-m-burton.bsky.social and @bartonwillage.com based on the title, but maybe not a direct bluesky name translation ...
